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Thank you for visiting clothingvault.com (Clothing Vault LLC). We strive to protect your privacy and provide a safe online environment for all of our users and subscribers. This privacy policy notice details how we gather, disclose and use the information you provide to us. Please read this privacy policy to understand how we use your personal information.

As we expand our services, this policy may be updated. We recommend that you check the policy when you visit our site. This policy is effective February 13, 2006.

Information Collection (Voluntary and Automated) Clothingvault.com collects personally identifiable information submitted by the user such as name, mailing address, e-mail address, date of birth, gender, and credit card information. You can view or update your information at any time.

There can be instances where you will have an opportunity to provide information about other people. For example, you might submit a person’s name and e-mail address to send an electronic invite for them to set up their own virtual closet. The types of personally identifiable information that we may collect about other people at these pages include recipient’s name, e-mail address, date of birth, and gender.

We may also collect non-personally identifying information (generic information that does not identify you personally). This information can include the type of browser you are using, operating system, Internet service provider, and IP address.

Disclosure of Information Collected

We will use the personal information you provided for the reasons you have requested such as updates, newsletters, or news. For example, if you have requested to receive our e-newsletter, your information will be used to customize the e-newsletter. The information can also be used to customize content on our website that is relevant to you including features, promotional material, survey and other updates to our users and subscribers.

We may produce reports using anonymous information for our partners (advertisers, sponsors, and vendors). This information can include information such as demographic, age and online usage information. This will allow us to further provide content and information that is relevant to your needs. We do not disclose any personally identifiable information about our users in these reports.

Sharing Information Collected

Clothing Vault will not share or disclose personal information unless we believe it is necessary: (1) to conform and comply with legal requirements (such as responding to a subpoena, search warrant, court order, law enforcement agency request or other legal process whether or not response is required by applicable law); (2) to protect the safety of our users and the public; (3) to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches of the law; (4) to protect the integrity and property of Clothing Vault; (5) to fulfill your requests; (6) with your consent; and/or (7) with other persons or companies with whom we contract with in order to carry our internal company operations or our business activities.

With your consent, we may share certain personal information you provided to us with third party companies not affiliated with us. These third party companies may market their products or services to you. If you consent to receive information and communications from these third party companies and wish to no longer receive communications from them or need to change you data, you may need to contact the companies directly. We cannot guarantee how these non-affiliated companies will use your personal information.

We share anonymous information with other companies including our business partners, advertisers, sponsors, promotional partners, and non-affiliated (third party) companies to improve the design and content of our site in order provide a customized online experience. No personally identifiable information will be disclosed. We may also use this information to analyze how our site is used and to provide you with products and services we feel are relevant to you.

In the case that Clothing Vault is sold, merged or transferred, we reserve the right to transfer all assets, including personally identifiable information, to the successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale, merger, or transfer of Clothing Vault.

Children’s Privacy

Although Clothingvault.com is not directed towards children under the age of 13, some features or material may be appealing to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of 13. We have taken reasonable steps in order to restrict the use of this site to those who are at least 13 years old. Our site contains features such as chat rooms or bulletin boards which may contain content unsuitable for children under 13.These chat rooms/ bulletin boards may not be monitored.

Note for Concerned Parents

Parents are encouraged to discuss online safety with their children and monitor their child’s use of the Internet. If you have questions or concerns about this site or its services, or believe your child under 13 has gained access and wish to cancel your child’s membership, please contact us at info@clothingvault.com.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Some of our web pages may use “cookies”. We use cookies as a convenient feature to save you time and to understand how our site is used in order to improve our offerings and content on our site. Cookies store data on your computer by our web server to store your preferences. Although cookies themselves do not tell us any personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide us with this information, once you choose to provide us with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. You can opt to have your browser reject cookies [please note that you may need to re-register with us every time you visit our site in order to participate in certain promotions]. Companies that advertise on our website may use their own cookies. Please read thee companies’ own policies as to how they use this information as it is not covered in this policy.

Web beacons (single-pixel gifs) may also be on some of our web pages. These images enable us to count users who have visited specific pages and to deliver co-branded messages or services. Web beacons may also be included in promotional e-mail messages or e-newsletters in order to monitor which messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons do not access your personally identifiable information but they are used to compile aggregate statistics about our website usage. Our advertising partners may also place web beacons to help us determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

Clickstream Data

“Clickstream” data, a trail of electronic information left at each website you visit, can be collected and stored by a website’s server. This data can tell us the type of computer and web browsing software you use as well as the address of the website from which you linked from. We may use clickstream data as a way to collect non-personally identifiable information and will be used to only to improve our site. Information collected will be anonymous and aggregate.

Forums and Community Tools

We may have public forums, message boards, chat rooms, news groups and other community and social networking tools available on our site. Please take note that all information you post in these areas becomes public information for others to view and use. We may use content you write (including name or screen name if you post it) for promotional purposes, in e-mail, e-newsletters or elsewhere, and by using clothingvault.com and/or these community tools, you agree that we may do so. Please take caution disclosing any personal information as any may use publicly posted information.

International Users

Please take note that if you are visiting clothingvault.com from an area outside of the United States, the connection will be through and to a server located in the United States. Our websites and servers are located in the United States. Your orders placed through clothingvault.com will be fully processed from the United States and all information you provide will be processed and maintained in our web servers and internal systems located within the United States. By visiting and submitting information to clothingvault.com you authorize the transfer of information to the United States. The laws of the United States will govern all matters relating to this website including this policy and legal obligations.

Security

Clothingvault.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. With the use of reasonable measures, we believe we have in place the appropriate precautions to insure that member account information is kept private in order to protect member information that is stored within our database. We strongly restrict access to member information to those employees to who need access in order to perform their job functions (such as customer service and technical staff). Please be advised that due to unauthorized entry, hardware or software failure or other factors that may compromise the security of member information, we cannot guarantee the security of member account information.

Sweepstakes, Contests and Special Offers

We may offer sweepstakes, contests and/or special offers through clothingvault.com that may require registration. If you wish to enter the sweepstakes, contests and/or special offers, your personal information may be disclosed and shared with third parties in connection with the sweepstake, contest and/or special offer. Your information may also be disclosed in connection with any prize fulfillment, as required by law, and things such as the winners list. By entering any sweepstakes, contests and/or special offers through clothingvault.com, you agree to the official rules and regulations of the sweepstakes, contests and/or special offers. Please be sure to carefully read the rules and regulations of any sweepstakes, contests and/or special offers you enter for important additional information and complete details.

Credit Card

Clothing Vault is committed to protecting the safety of your credit card information. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect your credit card information as it is transmitted to us. SSL allows the credit card information you send to us to be encrypted as it travels from your computer to our servers. SSL is the standard in Internet encryption technology. To ensure you are accessing our secure server, you will see either an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending on your browser), or look at the URL and the first characters of the address should change to “https” from “http”. This lets you know that SSL is active. Your credit card company will have information about the name of the vendor, item(s) purchased, and date and total cost, as with any credit card transaction. Clothing Vault will not provide any personal data to your credit card company.

Advertisers, Sponsors, Business Partners and Third Party Advertisers

Ads appearing on clothingvault.com may be delivered to users by Clothing Vault or one of our web advertising partners. Our advertising partners may set cookies which allow the ad server to recognize your computer. These ad servers may compile information about where you or others are using your computer, track which advertisements you saw and which ads were clicked on. This information allows us and advertisers to deliver targeted advertisement messages that we/they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy notice covers the use of cookies used by clothingvault.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Your e-mail address will not be shared with third parties not affiliated with Clothing Vault unless you opt-in to receive information from third party companies. If you decide to accept these offers, we will provide your contact information to the third party. We encourage visitors to carefully review the privacy policy of these firms.

We may extend e-mail offers to users or subscribers on behalf of our business partners about a particular product or service that we feel may be of interest to you. We will only send you these offers if you have opted-in and indicated that you would like to receive these offers. You may opt-out of receiving these offers at any time. Your e-mail address will not be shared with our business partner as we will send you the information on their behalf so that your personal information is never shared with any outside party. As a result, Clothing Vault may receive a fee from our business partners for providing this service.

Links

There may be links to or from other websites within clothingvault.com in order for you to conveniently visit our vendors and advertisers or locate other content likely to be of interest to you. Clothing Vault is not responsible for the practices, policies, or content of these third party websites. We encourage you to inquire and read the privacy policy stated on that site before providing any personally identifiable information. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on clothingvault.com.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may make changes to our privacy policy as needed to protect our users and comply with a changing environment. We recommend that you check the policy when you visit our site to ensure you understand and are updated with our current policy. If changes to this policy are made, we will make users aware of what the changes are. If changes are made to how we collect, use and disclose personally identifiable information, we will post such changes prior to implementing that change.

Contact Info
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site please contact us at info@clothingvault.com
Or you can contact us by mail at:
Clothing Vault LLC
Attn: Privacy
303 Broadway, Suite 104-24
Laguna Beach, CA 99999

Last updated February 13, 2006.