Privacy Policy

 

     What This Privacy Policy Covers

  • This policy covers how Winding Stair Creations treats personal information that we collect and receive. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

  • This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Winding Stair Creations does not own or control, nor to people that Winding Stair Creations does not employ or manage.

     Information Collection and Use General

  • Winding Stair Creations collects personal information when you visit Winding Stair Creations pages or the pages of certain Winding Stair Creations partners. Winding Stair Creations may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

  • Winding Stair Creations collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.

  • Yahoo! automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Winding Stair Creations cookie information, and the page you request.

  • Winding Stair Creations uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

     Information Sharing and Disclosure

  • Winding Stair Creations does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

    • We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Winding Stair Creations under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Winding Stair Creations communicate with you about us. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

    • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

    • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Winding Stair Creations terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

    • We transfer information about you if Winding Stair Creations is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Yahoo! will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

     Confidentiality and Security

  • We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

  • We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

  • In certain areas Winding Stair Creations uses industry-standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions.

 

Copyright 2002 Winding Stair Creations
Last Updated 1/3/04