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Protecting
your personal privacy is very important to us. We hope the following
statement will help you understand how Wiggee's collects, uses
and safeguards the personal information you provide to us. Specifics
about what information is collected and how it is used follows
this Privacy Policy Statement.
Your
personal privacy is a principal concern to us at Wiggee's
Our goal in outlining our policy on the collection and use
of customer data is to ensure the highest level of confidentiality
and security. When you provide your personal information
to any Wiggee's site we will not give or sell your personal
information to any outside company for its use in marketing
or solicitation. We will maintain the confidentiality of
your personal information and it will be used only to support
your customer relationship with our business, assisting
us in providing better and more targeted services to you.
Additionally, internal practices are in place to help protect
your privacy by limiting employee access to and use of customer
data. When Wiggee's asks for customer information, it is
done with the goal of improving the relationship between
a Wiggee's representative and the customer. At Wiggee's, we
allow our customers to maintain control over their personal
data while attempting to provide a more interactive online
experience. Our intention is to send e-mail only to customers
who have chosen to receive such e-mail. At any time, you
have the right to decline receiving future communications
in any manner, including e-mail, fax, telephone and postal
mail.
Privacy
Policies
Credit card information
Wiggee's
also collects credit card information from you to process purchases
from the site. Reputable third-party financial institutions handle
our credit card transactions.
Whenever
you transmit credit card information and other personal information
through our site, the numbers and letters are scrambled using
encryption technology, making it virtually impossible for the
information to be stolen or intercepted. To protect your security,
we do not allow you to store your credit card number from session
to session
Information
Collection
When you browse any Wiggee's Web site, you do so anonymously. Personal
information -- including your e-mail address -- is not collected.
Some of our Web sites, however, may request that you voluntarily
supply us with personal information, including your E-mail address
for purposes such as correspondence, site registration, or making
a purchase. We may ask for your name, e-mail address, telephone
number, mailing address and birth date. Other optional information
may be asked (customer preference information, social security
numbers, lifestyle interests, and other demographic information)
that is needed to register or subscribe you to services or offers
that you may have requested.
Like
many other commercial Web sites, Wiggee's may use a standard technology
called a "cookie" to collect information
about how our site is used. Please read About
Cookies for more information.
We
collect only information that is needed, and we tell the
customer how we use it. We limit the collection of information
about our customers to what we need to know to manage their
membership, to provide customer service, to offer new products
and services, and to fulfill any legal and regulatory requirements.
We tell our customers about the general uses of information
we collect about them, and we will provide additional explanation
if requested. We give our customers choices about how their
data will be used. On a regular basis, we provide our Customers
the ability to decline any or all future e-mail communications.
Customers may also decide if and how they wish to be contacted
via other communication media. We give Customers access
to their data online. A customer may change, update or add
additional information about themselves at any time through
our office, or web sites, which offer this feature. The
Customers can still change their data profile by contacting
the Main office. All Wiggee's websites will provide this
feature in the near future.
We
ensure information quality. We use advanced technology and well-defined
employee practices to help ensure that customer data is processed
promptly, accurately and completely.
We
use information security safeguards. Access to customer data is
limited to those who specifically need it to conduct their business
responsibilities. We use security techniques designed to protect
our customer data -- especially that data which is used by employees
and business partners to fulfill customer services. We limit the
release of customer information. In addition to providing Customers
with the opportunity to refuse marketing offers, we release information
only at the customers' requests, or when required to do so by
law or other regulatory authority. When a court order or subpoena
requires us to release information, we notify the customer directly
so that his/her legal rights can be exercised, if appropriate.
The only exceptions to this policy are when we are prohibited
by court order or law from notifying the customer, or cases in
which fraud and/or criminal activity is suspected.
We
hold employees responsible for our privacy principles. Each
Wiggee's employee is personally responsible for maintaining
customer confidentiality. All Wiggee's employees are required
to sign an agreement that they will comply with these policies.
Employees who violate these policies are subject to disciplinary
action, up to and including dismissal. Employees are expected
to report violations -- and may do so confidentially --
to their managers or other supervisors. Wiggee's has an
employee who has been assigned the responsibility for assuring
the adherence to Wiggee's piggy in the logo in the fram's
privacy policy. Check this web site for this contact. The
Wiggee's Corporate Headquarters can be contacted at the
following e-mail address: mail to: info@Wiggees.com
Information
Use
If you provide us with your E-mail address, or have done
so in the past, we may send you E-mail offers or newsletters.
These offers or newsletters are based on information you
provided in your customer application, registration forms,
in surveys, from information that may indicate purchasing
preferences and lifestyle, as well as information available
from external sources, such as census bureau data. These
E-mail offers will come from a Wiggee's site only. Your
information or e-mail address is never sold to a third party.
All offers are carefully developed to guarantee that they
meet our standards. Our goal is to target offers to Customers
who will find them of value.
The
data you provide is used to enhance the services and offers we
bring you. As a result of providing personal information, Wiggee's
can provide a more customized online experience, making your interaction
with us more productive, helpful and fun. You can also expect
to receive occasional communications targeted directly toward
your lifestyle interests.
Declining
E-mail Offers - Wiggee's provides Customers with an easy means
to decline receiving E-mail offers and recognizes the importance
of providing you with choices. At any time, you may request to
discontinue receiving these offers from us by simply replying
to the E-mail address included in every e-mail message you receive
from Wiggee's.
Activity
Tracking We do monitor URL click-throughs found in our
e-mail messages. The click-through rate is reviewed in order
to: track participation in order to judge effectiveness
and to track customer interests; track response rates for
marketing purposes or to report to a client in aggregate
form only. Individual activity is never shared with employees
or third parties.
Children
Wiggee's does not knowingly solicit data from children, and we
will not knowingly market to children. Wiggee's defines children
as anyone less than 18 years of age.
What
else should I know about my privacy?
Third party Internet sites and services accessible through Wiggee's
have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent
of us. Wiggee's has no responsibility or liability for these independent
policies or actions. You are solely responsible for maintaining
the secrecy of your passwords, ID, or any account information.
Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. If
you post personal information online that is accessible to the
public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties
in return. While we aim to protect your personal information,
Wiggee's cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information
you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. While each
Wiggee's site puts forth its best efforts in adhering to these
minimum privacy standards, additional restrictions may be imposed
to comply with state and local laws, and/or station specific programs,
products and services.
A
Word About Cookies
Cookies were originally designed to help a Web site distinguish
a user's browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember
any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing
the site. A cookie is a small string of text that a Web site can
send to your browser. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data
from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your
E-mail address. Currently, Web sites use cookies to enhance the
user's visit; in general, cookies can securely store a user's
ID and password, personalize home pages, identify which parts
of a site have been visited or keep track of selections in a "shopping
cart."
If
you are just browsing a Wiggee's Web site, a cookie identifies
only your browser. If you sign up for a free e-mail account
at one of our participating sites, a cookie is issued for
security purposes. The cookie is set when you login and
times out 30 minutes after your last interaction with your
e-mail account. After you are logged out (manually or by
the cookie) the cookie is rendered invalid and goes away
when your cache is cleared. This type of security measure
is useful for individuals who share a machine or use a public
machine. If you become a registered user on a Wiggee's
Web site (with a designated user ID and password), we may
use cookies so that we can provide personalized information
that we believe will be of value to you based on preferences
you have stated while visiting the site. It is possible
to set your browser to inform you when a cookie is being
placed -- this way; you have the opportunity to decide whether
to accept the cookie. If you are just browsing one of our
sites and are not a registered user, you do not have to
accept a cookie and you may still continue utilizing the
site, though you might not be able to experience the site
to fullest extent. Here is how to set your cookie preferences:
Netscape Navigator 3:
Select
Network Preferences from the Options menu. From the Network
Preferences menu, select the Protocols tab and modify your
preference if you wish to be warned before accepting cookies.
Netscape Navigator 4: Select Preferences from the Edit menu.
From the Preferences menu, select Advanced, and several
options for cookies will be listed in the lower right of
the menu. Additionally, you may select Help for more details.
For further information about the Netscape browser and use
of cookies, visit Netscape's Web site. Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3: Select Options from the View menu. Choose the
Advanced menu to modify your preference if you wish to be
warned before accepting cookies. Microsoft Internet Explorer
4: Select Options from the View menu. Choose the Advanced
menu and scroll to the section labeled "Cookies," where
several options are listed. For further information about
the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser and use of cookies,
visit Microsoft's Web site. AOL: If you are using AOL v3.0
for Windows 95: Select Preferences from the Members menu.
Click on the WWW icon and select Advanced. Modify your preference
if you wish to be warned before accepting cookies. If you
are using the following AOL browsers, you will not be able
to set cookie preferences since these browsers automatically
accept cookies: AOL v3.0 for Windows 3.0, using AOL's proprietary
browser or AOL's version of Microsoft Internet Explorer
v3.0; AOL for the MAC, using AOL's version of Microsoft
Internet Explorer 2.1. All other earlier versions of AOL
browsers do not support cookies, and therefore cannot authenticate
you as a registered user on Wiggee's Web sites that involve
sending or receiving personal account information.
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