Why We Collect InformationACQ uses your information to customize the
advertising and editorial content you see to fulfil your
requests for certain products and services and to contact you
about specials and new products.
Personally Identifiable Information
ACQ collects
personally identifiable information when you sign up for our
mailings, when you purchase certain ACQ
products, when you visit australiancountryquilts.com web
pages, and when you enter an ACQ
promotion. ACQ may also receive
personally identifiable information from our business partners.
When you register, we ask for your name, email address, age,
gender, zip code, occupation, and personal interests. Once you
place an order with us,
you are no longer anonymous to us.
ACQ
automatically receives and records information on our server
logs from your browser including your IP address. Your IP
address is a number that is used by computers connected to the
Internet to identify your computer so that data (such as the web
pages you request) can be sent to you. Your IP address does not
tell us who you are.
Security
ACQ is fully committed to data security. To prevent
unauthorized access to our data, maintain data
accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of
information, we have put in place physical and
electronic procedures to safeguard and secure the
information you provide to us online. We limit
access to your personally identifiable information
to those who need the information in order to do
their jobs. They are prohibited from using the
information for any purpose other than to carry out
the services they are providing for the
ACQ business.
While we strive to protect your personal
information, we cannot guarantee the security of the
information you transmit to us. In this regard, we
urge you to take every precaution to protect your
personal data while you are on the Internet.
We maintain our website and
information databases in Australia. When you
voluntarily provide your information to us via our
website, you agree to the privacy terms outlined in
the Privacy Statement, regardless of your country of
origin.
ACQ takes appropriate steps to communicate our
Privacy Statement to all ACQ employees.
The personally identifiable information we
collect is securely stored within our database and we use
standard, industry-wide procedures such as encryption,
firewalls, and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to protect your
information. However, as effective as encryption technology is,
no security system is fool proof. We cannot guarantee the
security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information
you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us
over the Internet.
How Your Information Will Be Used
The personal information that ACQ
collects online is that which you voluntarily
provide to us during visits to
australiancountryquilts.com. At times we ask for the
following information: name, e-mail address, postal
address, city, state,
post code, etc.
You provide us with information, for
example, when you Contact Us via email to give us
feedback or send inquiries to our staff. You may
also, at times, voluntarily provide us with personal
information when filling out ACQ online surveys;
entering contests, purchasing products; or
participating in other ACQ events and promotions
online. We make every effort to request only the
information that is necessary to carry out our
event, offering or promotion.
E-Mail Addresses
It is ACQ policy to maintain a strictly
opt-in e-mail list, meaning we only send "From
ACQ" e-mails to those who have requested to
receive information from ACQ. It is also
Australian Country Quilts
policy not to share
our list of e-mail addresses with anyone
outside the ACQ business, unless we
obtain your permission in advance. We use the
e-mail address you voluntarily provide to us to
let you know about ACQ products,
services, contests, events, surveys, etc., or to
respond to your inquiries.
We examine aggregate
(overall) so that we can
learn from our customers' preferences in order
to provide the most relevant, informative and
entertaining messages possible.
Updating Personal
Information or Opting Out: You may
update your information . Or you
may contact ACQ Studio via e-mail or phone (see
"Contact Information" below) and request to be
taken off the e-mail list.
Postal Addresses
We may use the postal address you
voluntarily provide to us in order to let you know
about Australian Country Quilts products, services,
contests, events, surveys, etc., or to respond to
your inquiries.
ACQ may also occasionally
hire other companies to provide limited services
on our behalf, including packaging, mailing and
delivering purchases, answering customer questions
about products or services, distributing postal
mail or e-mail, and processing event registration.
We provide those companies the information they
need to deliver the service, and they are
prohibited from using that information for any
other purpose. We will not provide these companies
with your e-mail address.
To make your online experience more useful and
enjoyable, our site periodically includes links to other
websites and provides access to products and services offered by
third parties. We reserve the right to share with these third
parties such information as is necessary to provide the products
or services offered.
We may occasionally release information about
our visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law, or
to protect the rights, property, or safety of visitors to our
site, the public, or Australian Country Quilts.
As our business grows, we may buy or sell
various assets. In the unlikely event that ACQ
should sell some or all of its assets or is acquired by another
company, information on our visitors would be among the
transferred assets.
Others’ Privacy Policies
We may provide links to other websites and
provide access to products and services offered by third parties
whose privacy policies we do not control. When you access
another website or purchase products or services or conduct
other transactions through our website, use of any information
you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of
the site you are visiting, or the provider of such products or
services, not ACQ.
When you provide information in the course of
obtaining products or services through our site, use of any
information you provide may be governed by the privacy policy of
the provider of those products or services, even if it appears
that you are on our site throughout the transaction. The
provider’s privacy policy may differ from ours. If you cannot
find the privacy policy of any of our provider partners via a
link either from the site’s homepage or from the pages on which
the products or services are offered, you should contact the
provider directly for more information.
Contests and Promotions
Promotions that are hosted on
australiancountryquilts.com
may be sponsored by ACQ, may be
co-sponsored by ACQ and another
company, or may be sponsored by companies other than ACQ,
such as marketing or advertising partners. If you choose to
participate in one of these contests or promotions, you will
have to provide some information about yourself (such as name,
address, and e-mail address). We may share this information with
co-sponsors of the contest or other promotional partners, but we
will always identify the other parties involved (in the contest
rules, for example). Should you choose to take part in a ACQ-sponsored or hosted promotion, your
participation is subject to the official rules of the promotion.
Cookies
Persistent cookies may be used on this website.
These are pieces of information or data sent to your
browser from a web server and stored on your
computer's hard drive for record-keeping purposes.
For example, if we offered e-commerce, we would use
cookies so that you would not have to re-enter all
of your personal information each time you made a
purchase from our website.
If you prefer not to accept
cookies, you can reset your browser to notify you
when you've received a cookie or to block all
cookies altogether. Please note, however, that
rejecting cookies while visiting this website my
result in certain parts of the website not operating
correctly or as efficiently as if they were allowed.
However, if
you do not accept cookies, you will not be able to take
advantage of some of the features on our site that are available
to other visitors.
How to Correct or Update Your Information
ACQ believes
strongly in providing you with the ability to access and edit
the personal information that you have provided to us. To update
your personal profile, please visit the Contact Us section
and tells us about your details.
Unsubscribe
If you no longer wish to receive e-mail
newsletters or product and promotional offerings, please visit
the unsubscribe here.
Children Under 14
Australian
Country Quilts cares about
the safety of children. ACQ encourages parents and guardians to spend time
online with their children and to participate in the
interactive activities offered on the sites their
children visit. We do not knowingly collect personal
information from anyone under the age of 13. For
more information about protecting your child's
privacy online, visit the
Federal Trade Commission. Children under 14 should not register
with our website as they are exempt from any marketing and
promotional activities. We will not knowingly allow anyone under
14 to provide us with any personally identifying information.
We encourage all children to get
permission from their parents before sending any information
about themselves over the Internet–to
us or to anyone else.
Other
If you change your e-mail address, it will be
necessary to unsubscribe and re-subscribe if you wish to
continue receiving our e-mail updates and promotional offers.
We reserve the right to periodically update
the australiancountryquilts.com privacy policy.
Protecting your online
privacy is a priority at Australian Country Quilts (ACQ)
companies. We hope the
following Privacy Statement will help you understand
ACQ online information practices so that you can
make informed choices about the information you
provide to us online. By using our website, you
signify that you accept the policies outlined in
this statement.
You will find a link to the ACQ Privacy
Statement at the bottom of each of our web pages.
Collection and Use of
Non-Personal Information
We do gather generic information automatically
from your web browser, such as: the name of
the domain and host from which you access the
Internet (for example, aol.com or bigpond.com);
the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer
you are using; the browser software you use and your
operating system; and the date and time you access
our website.
We review these kinds of computer statistics in
aggregate (overall) form. That is, we look at it on
a collective basis, as a summary of how our website
is being accessed, not on an individual basis. We do
not link this information to your personal
information. These statistics help us to improve our
website and make your visits more appealing.
Notice of changes to Privacy
Statement
This Australian Country Quilts Privacy Statement is subject to
change at any time. If we make material changes in
our privacy practices that do not affect personally
identifiable information already stored in our
database, we will post those changes here in the
Privacy Statement area of our website. If we ever
wish to use any of your personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated
at the time of collection, we will do so only with
your permission, and we will request that permission
in advance.
Links to other Websites
ACQ may have
web pages contain links to other websites that may
have online information practices different than
ours. ACQ is not responsible for the privacy and
security practices of those websites, and we
encourage our visitors to learn about the privacy
and security practices of those websites.
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