Caroline Cole

Privacy Policy

At Caroline Cole, we recognize the importance of privacy to visitors of our Web site. This privacy policy explains what type of information is collected from you when you visit our Web site and how that information may be used.

Gathering of Information

CAROLINE COLE, INC. collects personally-identifying information (such as your name, e-mail address, address, telephone number and/or credit card information) from the CAROLINE COLE, INC. Web site only if you choose to provide that information to us.

CAROLINE COLE, INC. may ask visitors to provide certain personal information when they register for the CAROLINE COLE, INC. when they make a purchase from the CAROLINE COLE, INC. Online Shop, and when they register for any online contests. CAROLINE COLE, INC. also may ask visitors to provide personal information in other limited circumstances specified at the time the information is gathered.

Like all other Web servers, CAROLINE COLE, INC.'s Web server automatically creates log files for each visitor who accesses our site. These "access logs" allow us to make our site more useful to our visitors. The access logs do NOT record a visitor's name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, or any other personally-identifying information. Rather, they contain some or all of the following information:

• The Internet Protocol Address (IP Address) of the machine which accessed our Web site.
• The date of the visit.
• The time of the visit.
• The path taken through our Web site.
• The browser being used.
• A list of files downloaded or viewed.
• The amount of time spent listening to RealAudio or Windows Media files.
• Any errors encountered.

Cookies

CAROLINE COLE, INC. also uses 'cookies' to collect information. A cookie is a string of characters that can be written to a file on the user's hard drive when the user visits a Web site. Only the Web site that set the cookie can read it, and it can only be used as a record keeping device to store information that the site already has. It cannot, for example, be used to read other information from the user's hard drive.

CAROLINE COLE, INC. uses cookies to track users' activity through the site in order to improve the site's architecture, to offer the user interactive features that would not be possible without them, and to recall specific information to save the user time during subsequent visits to the site. If you wish to prevent certain or all cookies from being set to your hard drive you may disable them in your browser's preferences, although your browser might then be unable to accommodate certain functionalities on CAROLINE COLE, INC..com.

Use of Information

Personally-identifying information collected by CAROLINE COLE, INC. is not provided to outside parties except CAROLINE COLE, INC.'s email list manager), and other third parties when the user specifically consents to such distribution. In these circumstances, the information is provided for the sole purpose of -- and only to the extent necessary for -- delivering the requested communications from BACKYARD to users who have 'opted in' to the receipt of these communications, or serving other internal CAROLINE COLE, INC. purposes.

CAROLINE COLE, INC. also may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law or with legal process, (b) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the CAROLINE COLE, INC. Web site, or (c) protect the personal safety or property of CAROLINE COLE, INC. Web site users, the public or CAROLINE COLE, INC. and its employees.

If you do not want your personally-identifying information to be collected or used for any of these purposes, you can simply 'opt out' according to the process described below.

Security

CAROLINE COLE, INC. has in place what we believe to be appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Credit card information provided to the CAROLINE COLE, INC. Online Shop is protected against unauthorized use by 128-bit encryption and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security features, which scramble your personal information so that only your web browser and our Web site's server can decipher it.