Privacy, Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting & You

Privacy Policy

We believe it is our responsibility to protect our customers' privacy. We do not sell, rent or trade any lists of our customers. You never have to worry that your personal information will be used for anything except processing and delivering your order to you.

Security Policy

Our Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Encryption software is rated among the industry standard and among the best software available today for secure online commerce transactions. It encrypts all of your personal information, including credit card number, name, and address, so that it cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet.

Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting (dba www.HooperCreek.com) has put in place the following Online Privacy Policy. This policy covers Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting and its subsidiaries. Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting will continue to protect customer information collected from its website, and e-mail consistent with federal laws and with federal regulations issued by the Federal Communications Commission.

• Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting' Online Privacy Policy

• How Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting Protects Your Privacy Online

• Additional Privacy Protections for Children Using the Internet

Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting's Online Privacy Policy

Protecting privacy is not a new endeavor for Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting. Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting has a long-standing tradition of recognizing and protecting the privacy of customers who use its services. The company maintains strict customer information privacy policies and uses state of the art technologies to safeguard customer information and communications from unauthorized intrusions.

Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting recognizes that the growth of online services, including Internet services, has created additional privacy concerns, particularly for consumers.

Online privacy concerns focus primarily on the protection of "customer identifiable" information which an individual or other customer reasonably expects to be kept private. As the term suggests, "customer identifiable" information is information that, when associated with an individual identifies that individual, for example, a customer's name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address.

Some Internet users may also wish to know who can learn about what they do on the Internet, even when that online behavior is not directly linked to any information that identifies an individual. For example, advertisers may observe whether visitors to a Web site see or respond to online advertising without knowing who those visitors are.

It is common practice and often a necessity for companies, governments, or other organizations to collect customer identifiable information in order to conduct business and offer services. For example, a telecommunications provider may collect customer identifiable information, such as name, address, telephone number, and a variety of other information in the course of billing and providing telephone service to a customer.

Some activities on the Internet follow very familiar patterns. Consumers signing up for an Internet access service, for example, are usually asked to provide name, address, telephone number and credit card and other information that is typical when the consumer orders a product or service. Similarly, business Web sites may ask visitors to supply information about themselves, particularly when information, services or merchandise are requested, but often simply to be able to better target the company's services to the customer's interests and requirements.
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How Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting Protects Your Privacy Online

Collection and Use: Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting will collect and use customer identifiable information for billing purposes, to provide and change service, to anticipate and resolve problems with your service, or to create and inform you of products and services that better meet your needs. This means that Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting may use your customer identifiable information, in conjunction with information available from other sources, to market new services to you that we think will be of interest to you, but we will not disclose your customer identifiable information to third parties who want to market products to you.

When you access the Internet, the computers that host Web sites you visit (Web servers) automatically receive some anonymous information. This "usage data" may include a record of which pages a Web browser has visited. Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting servers receive usage data when customers visit the Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting Web site. Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting may use usage data to provide advertising about goods and services that may be of interest to Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting customers, or to provide customized features and services. Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting will not use information about your activities on the Internet together with any information that identifies you without your consent.

Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting and its advertisers may use various kinds of software devices to collect information about Internet use. Small files called "cookies" may be attached to your Web browser. These files identify your browser and save information such as passwords so that Web sites can recognize you. You can set your browser to disable cookies, but the Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting Web site (and other Web sites) may not work properly if you do this. For more information about cookies, click here.

In addition, on some Web sites, Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting and its advertisers may use small bits of code called "one-pixel gifs," or "clear gifs" embedded in some Web pages, to make cookies more effective. Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting will not associate the information these software devices collect with your name or email address.

Disclosure: Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting will not sell, trade, or disclose to third parties any customer identifiable information derived from the registration for or use of an Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting online service -- including customer names and addresses -- without the consent of the customer (except as required by subpoena, search warrant, or other legal process or in the case of imminent physical harm to the customer or others). When Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting uses other agents, contractors or companies to perform services on its behalf, Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting will ensure that the company protects your customer identifiable information consistent with this Policy. If Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting includes your name and any other customer identifiable information in a directory that Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting creates from information we receive as an online service provider, the company will give you the opportunity to have your information excluded from that directory. Business directories that Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting creates may, however, contain information obtained from other sources.

Security: Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting has implemented technology and security features and strict policy guidelines to safeguard the privacy of your customer identifiable information from unauthorized access or improper use, and we will continue to enhance our security procedures as new technology becomes available.

E-mail Contents: The company will not read or disclose to third parties private e-mail communications that are transmitted using Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting services except as required to operate the service or as otherwise authorized by law.

Improper Conduct: Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting may also use customer identifiable information to investigate and help prevent potentially unlawful activity or activity that threatens the network or otherwise violates the customer agreement for that service.

Account Information: Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting honors requests from customers to review all customer identifiable information maintained in reasonably retrievable form, which currently consists of your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number and/or billing information, and will correct any such information which may be inaccurate. Customers may verify that appropriate corrections have been made.

Customer Concerns: If you are a consumer, or business customer with concerns about the Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting online privacy policy or its implementation you may contact us at 888-801-2988.

Changes in Practices: Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting will keep this Policy current. The company will post any changes that we make.
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Additional Privacy Protections for Children Using the Internet

Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting joins the industry in recognizing that children, including young teens, may not be able to make informed choices about personal information requested online.

Accordingly, Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting does not target children or teenagers (younger than eighteen years of age) for collection of information online. Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting does not solicit or collect customer identifiable information targeted at children and teenagers under eighteen and does not allow anyone else to do so on the Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting Web site. In addition, the editorial content of the Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting Web site designed for children will not knowingly promote or link to any third party Web site that collects customer identifiable information unless that Web site publishes a privacy policy that is easily accessible.

In addition, on the Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting Web site, Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting will encourage children to seek the consent of their parents before providing any information about themselves or their households to anyone on the Internet.

Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting encourages parents to take an active role to protect the privacy and security of their children and to prevent the inappropriate use of information about their children. Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting supports the development of technologies that help parents to control the collection and use of personal information from children who use online services in their households.

Finally, Hooper Creek Sewing & Quilting complies with all Federal laws and regulations, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires the consent of a parent or guardian for the collection of personally identifiable information from children under 13 without the consent of a parent or guardian.

(To learn more about COPPA, click here)
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