Privacy Policy & Terms and Conditions

Since Schuck Jewelers Ltd. is committed to presenting a rich Internet experience, we have prepared this Privacy Policy to disclose our information collection, utilization, and dissemination practices for this web site. Any questions or comments about this policy should be directed to our Webmaster at webmaster@schuckjewelers.com.

The last update or change to this Privacy Policy was made on 07 October 2009.

Introduction

We want to build on the loyal relationship Schuck Jewelers Ltd. has with its visitors and customers. Our commitment to you begins with respecting your privacy. As you choose to share your interests and preferences with us, we will be able to make your online experience with us more enjoyable and rewarding.

  • If you choose to provide us with personal information, we will be better able to reciprocate by providing you a more personalized experience over time. But, it's your choice. And, we will protect your privacy as explained in this policy.
  • If you choose to participate in our “Friends and Family” programs, we will contact you regularly by e-mail. This contact will usually be in the form of a newsletter.
  • If you request that we not contact you for marketing purposes, we will not. However, if you are interested, we may keep you informed of special offers on products and services.
  • If you use the email feature on our contact page to contact us for any reason, we will respond appropriately. However, your name and email address will not be added to our Friends and Family programs nor will it be added to any marketing programs using any media.

Contents

1. Children's Privacy Policy
2. Types and Uses of Information Collected from You
3. Access to Personal Information for Reviewing, Editing, and/or Removing
4. Security
5. Acceptance of Terms
6. Contacting Us

1. Children's Privacy Policy

Children under 18 should not access any interactive portion of this website without first obtaining parental permission. If a child under 18 years of age wants to participate on our web site, we encourage the child's parents to participate in his/her experience on our site.

2. Types and Uses of Information Collected from You

Personal Information - Generally, you can visit our site without revealing any personal information about yourself. At times, though, we may need information about you, for example our Friends and Family programs. Unless otherwise indicated, the information we request is optional. We will specify which information is mandatory at the appropriate data entry points.

If you chose to provide us with personal information that we or the companies doing business with us may need (for example, to process an order you sent to us by email or to correspond with you), we will use such information, in accordance with this policy. If you ask us to not use this information as a basis for further contact with you, we will respect your request.

Our site may collect information from our registration form in the Friends and Family programs, order form, online survey, and other contest or subscription registration forms we may initiate in the future. At these places, we may ask you to give us contact information (like name, email address, and personal interests). In the future our website may provide online shopping functionality. While it's necessary to provide your credit card information at the time you make a purchase, we don't store your credit card information on our servers. We will never request your credit card number by any email sent to you. If you send to us an unsolicited credit card number to any of our email addresses we will delete the email upon its discovery, however, we take no responsibility to any capture of the numbers by a third unauthorized party.

  • We may use contact information to (i) send you information about our company, and promotional material from the businesses doing business with us; (ii) contact you when necessary; (iii) share with other companies who may want to contact you; and/or (iv) send orders to you. As stated below, you may opt-out of being contacted in the future.
  • We may use unique identifiers to verify your identity, for use in our record system, and for marketing purposes.
  • We may use financial information to check your qualifications and bill you for products ordered and services used. We may use demographic and profile data to tailor your experience at our site. This data allows us to show you content that we think you might be interested in and to display content according to your preferences. Aggregated demographic and profile data may also be distributed to the companies doing business with us to provide them with information about our visitors.

We may perform statistical analyses of your behaviors and characteristics in order to measure interest in, and use of, the various areas of the site and to inform advertisers of such information, as well as the number of visitors that have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising banners.

Schuck Jewelers Ltd. reserves the right to contact you regarding account status, changes to any subscriber/visitor agreement, and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the information collected. We also reserve the right to use the information that you give us and disclose it to third parties to provide you with information about products and services. If you do not want to receive correspondence related to Schuck Jewelers Ltd. or other promotions or products, please indicate your preference by opting-out as described below.

Information From Your Computer - Our site recognizes information about your computer, such as the browser, operating system, IP address, and the home server from which you access the Internet. We keep track of the domains from which people visit our site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and a future offered shopping cart, gather broad demographic data, identify trends and statistics, help diagnose problems with our server, and administer our Web site. We may use your IP address information when compiling and reporting aggregate information to companies doing business with us. We normally do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information, however, when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers, visitors, or others, we may use IP addresses to identify a visitor.

Cookies - Our site uses "cookies" to provide information on your computer. Cookies are pieces of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive. Cookies save your preferences while you are at our site and we may use them to provide you with tailored information. Our site may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, track visitor trends and practices, to save your password so you do not have to enter it every time you visit our site, to store visitor names and passwords, store and retrieve log-in information, track a future offered shopping cart, and to otherwise customize your experience. In addition, cookies allow us to measure and report aggregate information to advertisers such as the number of people who see their ad and the number of times people see their ad. Also, cookies help us determine which areas of our site are popular by tracking hits to those areas. With the exception of your password when required in the future, we may share this information with third parties. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept cookies, to be notified when a cookie is sent, or to reject cookies.

Outside advertising companies display advertisements on our site, some of which may contain cookies. We do not control these cookies. Cookies received with banner advertisements are collected by the advertising companies and we do not have access to this information.

As indicated above, we may share some customer data with advertising companies.

Other Information Practices. - We supplement information received from you with information received from third parties.

In addition to the situations described above, we may disclose visitor information in special instances when we have reason to believe disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with Schuck Jewelers Ltd. rights or property, other http://schuckjewelers.com/ OR http://www.schuckjewelers.com/ visitors, or anyone else. We may disclose visitor information when subpoenaed, for government investigations, and when we otherwise believe in good faith that the law requires it. Schuck Jewelers Ltd. may, from time to time, share information received from you or your computer with other entities such as advertisers on our web site or companies doing business with Schuck Jewelers Ltd. We reserve the right to distribute your information to third parties at any time, unless you opt-out by asking us to remove your information from our databases and discontinue providing you with information. We reserve the right to sell, rent, lease, or otherwise distribute any information we obtain on or from you to third parties.

http://schuckjewelers.com/ OR http://www.schuckjewelers.com/ contains links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other sites. You should check the privacy policies of these other Web sites when providing personally identifiable information.

3. Access to Personal Information for Reviewing, Editing, and/or Removing

You may, at any time, review, edit, and/or remove any information we have stored on you by contacting http://schuckjewelers.com/ OR http://www.schuckjewelers.com/ through e-mail at info@schuckjewelers.com. We will promptly comply with any request to review, edit, or remove information.

Other Information Practices

4. Security

Schuck Jewelers Ltd. cannot and does not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services. You transmit information to us at your own risk.

5. Acceptance of Terms

Schuck Jewelers Ltd. reserves the right to amend this policy at any time. This privacy policy will be dated following the opening statement and thus notifying visitors of the existence of a new privacy policy change or update from a previous visit. This privacy policy is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party. By using this site, you signify that you understand the terms of the http://schuckjewelers.com/ OR http://www.schuckjewelers.com/ Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use our site. Your continued use of the Schuck Jewelers Ltd. web site following the posting of changes or amendments to these terms constitutes acceptance of such changes and amendments.

6. Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the practices of this site, please contact:

Schuck Jewelers Ltd
120 S. Lynn Street
Bryan, Ohio 43506

419.636.3536 (v)
419.636.3536 (f)

info@schuckjewelers.com