Privacy Policy Effective: 4.6.09
The Costume City Inc. is a Participant in
the TRUSTe Privacy Seal Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization
whose mission is to advance privacy and trust in the networked world.
As this Web site (www.costumecity.com) wants to demonstrate its commitment
to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices
and have its privacy practices monitored for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this
statement, you should first contact us at service@costumecity.com.
If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry, or if your inquiry
has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe
at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will
then serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve your concerns.
At Costume City, we are committed to protecting your privacy. We use
the information we collect about you to process orders and to provide
a more personalized shopping experience. Please read on for more details
about our privacy policy.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell
a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name
and email address. Our server will automatically send your friend a
one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site.
You may also send an email to a third party via the
located on each page of the site. This widget allows a user to type
in an email address and provides the capability to send a link with
a message. Costume City Inc. does not harvest emails given and they
are discarded when the user closes their browser session.
Reviews
If you post a review on this site, you should
be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there
can be read, collected, or used by other readers of these reviews, and
could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible
for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in
these forums.
What Information Do We Collect? How Do We Use It?
When you order, we need to know your
name, e-mail address, mailing address, credit-card number and expiration
date. This allows us to process and fulfill your orders and to notify
you of your order status.
You may voluntarily sign up to be informed
about certain offers. For this service we need only an e-mail
address, which we use to send the information you requested.
When you enter a contest or other promotional
feature, we may ask for your name, address and e-mail address,
so we can administer the contest and notify winners.
We personalize your shopping experience by
using your purchases to shape our recommendations about other
merchandise that might be of interest to you. We also monitor
customer traffic patterns and site usage to help us develop the
design and layout of the store.
We may also use the information we collect to occasionally
notify you about important changes to the Web site, new Costume City
services and special offers we think you'll find valuable. If you would
rather not receive this information, please notify us. Make sure to
notify us for each account or e-mail address you have left with us.
Service Providers
Credit card transactions are facilitated via
Yahoo Store and PayPal. Costume City is the owner of the data entered
on the Yahoo Store pages and this information is subject to the privacy
policies of www.costumecity.com. If you wish to use PayPal to purchase
a product on our Site, you will be taken to the PayPal Site to complete
your transaction. We use a third party shipping service to send orders
to customers and Live Chat to handle online customer service requests.
How
Does Costume City Protect Customer Information?
We have taken every precaution
to make your transactions secure. When you use your credit card
to shop at CostumeCity.Com, the transaction is safe and will be stored on our secure server up to 30 days to process payments and/or refunds only.
Our servers
use industry-standard security measures, including SSL (Secure
Sockets Layer), an advanced encryption technology. This technology
safeguards your personal information and guarantees privacy.
Legal Disclosure
We reserve the right to disclose your personally
identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that
disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial
proceeding, warrant, subpoena, court order, or legal process served
on our Web site.
Access
to your personal information
If you wish to change, update or delete any of the information you have
knowingly provided to the site, please email us Ops@CostumeCity.Com
and we will facilitate your request.
Will
Costume City Disclose the Information it Collects to Outside Parties?
Costume City does not sell, trade or
rent your personal information to others. We may choose to do so in
the future with trustworthy third parties, but you can tell us not to
by sending a blank e-mail message to ops@CostumeCity.Com. (If you
use more than one e-mail address to shop with us, send this message
from each e-mail account you use.)
Also, Costume City may provide aggregate statistics
about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information
to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics are purely aggregate
in nature and will not include personally identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored
on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies
on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to
any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site,
but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or
surveys, will be limited.
We use a third-party tracking service that uses
cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors
to our site in the aggregate
In Summary
We are committed to protecting your privacy.
We use the information we collect on the site to make shopping at CostumeCity.Com
possible and to enhance your overall shopping experience.
Links
to Other Sites
This web site contains links to other sites
that are not owned or controlled by CostumeCity.Com. Please be aware
that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other
sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read
the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information
collected by this Web site.
Your
Consent
By using our Web site, you consent to
the collection and use of this information by CostumeCity.Com. If we
decide to make material changes to our privacy policy, we will post
those changes on this page and prominently on the homepage so you are
always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under
what circumstances we disclose it.
Tell
Us What You Think
CostumeCity.Com welcomes your questions
and comments about privacy.
Please e-mail us at Ops@CostumeCity.Com.
CostumeCity.Com
374 Upland Dr.
Tukwila WA 98188
