Privacy Policy
ProfaneCards.com recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others (known
collectively or individually as "Users") who use www.profanecards.com
(the "Website") value their privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to all
of the products, services, and Websites offered by ProfaneCards.com, and details
important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected
on the Website.
- Your use of the Website and any personal information you provide on the Website
remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the ProfaneCards.com
Terms of Use.
- ProfaneCards.com Privacy Policy applies only to Websites and services that are owned
and operated by ProfaneCards.com. While other Websites may be displayed as links
from within ProfaneCards.com, those sites are owned and operated by others, and
they may have different privacy policies. When linking from ProfaneCards.com to
other websites, if you have privacy concerns, we urge you to review the privacy
policies of those sites.
1. Information Collection and Use
General
- ProfaneCards.com does not require that you register in order to view its products.
- ProfaneCards.com collects personal information when you register with ProfaneCards.com,
when you visit the Website, when you make a purchase, or any time you provide information
to ProfaneCards.com about yourself. ProfaneCards.com may combine information about
you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
- ProfaneCards.com automatically receives and records other non-personally-identifying
information ("Non-Personal Information") on our server logs from your
browser even if you do not register with ProfaneCards.com, for example, your IP
address, ProfaneCards.com cookie information, and the pages you visit.
- ProfaneCards.com uses Non-Personal Information for the following general purposes:
to customize the advertising and content you see, improve our services, conduct
research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Registration
- When you register with this Website, we request certain personally identifiable
information from you on the registration form and require you to create a user name
and password. During registration you are required to give contact information (such
as name and email address). We use this information to contact you about the services
on our site in which you have expressed interest. When you register with ProfaneCards.com
and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
- You have the option to provide demographic information (such as gender, birth date
and general location) to us; we encourage you to submit this information to so we
can provide you a more personalized experience on our site.
- During registration, you can choose to opt into our newsletter as well as periodic
email updates from our Website regarding newly printed designs, new products, and
upcoming sales on our Website.
- Profane Cards, LLC is the sole owner of the information collected on ProfaneCards.com.
- Profane Cards, LLC collects personally identifiable information from our users at
several different points on our Website.
Orders
- If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable
information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such
as name, email and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card
number, expiration date and the 3 digit security code). We use this information
for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order,
we will use this information to contact you.
Newsletter
- If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your name and email address
to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a
way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section.
Choice/Opt-out
- We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally
identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information.
For example, if you purchase a product or service from us but do not wish to receive
any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our
order form.
- If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications,
you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each
newsletter or communication or by emailing us at info@profanecards.com.
- You will be notified when your personally identifiable information is collected
by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed
choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
- If you choose to use our email referral service to tell a friend about our site
and products, we will ask only for your friend’s email address. We will automatically
send your friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the Website. Profane Cards,
LLC stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email
and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at
info@profanecards.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Children Under 13
- ProfaneCards.com is committed to protecting the privacy of children. ProfaneCards.com
does not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information online from children
under the age of 13.
2. Information Sharing and Disclosure
- ProfaneCards.com does not rent, trade, or share Personal Information with third
parties except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your
permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We use other third parties such as a shipping company to fulfill orders, a credit
card processing company to bill you for goods sold on our website, and an email
service provider to send out emails on our behalf. When you make a purchase on our
website or sign up for our email list, we will share the necessary amount of personally
identifiable information as necessary for the third party to provide that service,
including your name, address, credit card information and email address. These third
parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for promotional
purposes.
- We provide Non-Personal Information to interested third-parties for purposes of
understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements,
promotions, and/or functionality on the Website.
- We use both your Personal Information and certain Non-Personal Information to improve
the quality and design of the Website and to create new features, promotions, functionality,
and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
- We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required
by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or
comply with a judicial proceeding, or legal process served on our Website.
- We may share Personal Information if we believe it is necessary 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
ProfaneCards.com"s Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
- In the event Profane Cards, LLC goes through a business transaction, such as a merger,
acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your
personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred.
You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of your
personal information.
- Keep in mind that any personal information, or comments that you voluntarily disclose
on the Website, for example on comment pages, or on the blog forums, becomes publicly
available. Your account name is displayed to other Users when you send and/or post
messages through the Website. Please note that any comment or other content you
post or send to the Website becomes published content and is not considered personally
identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy. Your messages and other
information you make available in public areas of the ProfaneCards.com website will
be seen by people and organizations not related to or controlled by ProfaneCards.com,
and may be used by others to contact you.
- If you use a blog on www.profanecards.com, you should be aware that any personally
identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other
users of these blogs, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are
not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit
in these blogs.
- We post customer news and/or events on our website which may contain personally
identifiable information. We do obtain the customer’s consent via email prior
to posting the news and/or event to post their name along with their news and/or
event.
3. Cookies and Web Beacons
- A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping
purposes. We use cookies on this site and we do link the information we store in
cookies to any personally identifiable information.
- We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to
make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you
close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended
period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided
in your Internet browser’s “help” file.
- We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter
it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests
of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
- If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some
areas of our site, such as the shopping cart and design scoring pages, will be limited.
- ProfaneCards.com does utilize tracking technology to better understand site traffic
patterns and use. However, none of the information collected via tracking technology
is personally identifiable information.
- The use of cookies by our partners, affiliates or tracking utility company is not
covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access or control over these cookies.
Our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company and service providers use session
ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site, in order for you to use
the shopping cart, etc.
- If you click on a link to a third party site, including on an advertisement, you
will leave ProfaneCards.com and go to the site you selected. Because we cannot control
the activities of third parties, we cannot accept responsibility for any use of
your personally identifiable information by such third parties, and we cannot guarantee
that they will adhere to the same privacy practices as ProfaneCards.com. We encourage
you to review the privacy statements of any other service provider from whom you
request services.
- ProfaneCards.com may use web beacons in connection with e-mails sent to ProfaneCards.com
users, to let us know whether and when the email was opened. No personal information
is transmitted through web beacons.
4. Confidentiality and Security
- We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personally identifiable
information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No
method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100%
secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means
to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Website, you can send us an email
at privacypolicy@profanecards.com.
- We limit access to Personal Information about you to employees who we believe reasonably
need to come into contact with Personal Information to provide products or services
to you or in order to do their jobs.
- The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive
information (such as a credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we
encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
5. Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information
- If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire
to maintain an account on ProfaneCards.com, you may correct, update, amend, delete/remove
or deactivate it by making the desired changes on account profile page (http://www.profanecards.com/account)
or by emailing our customer support at info@profanecards.com. We will respond to
your request to access within 30 days.
6. International Users
If you are a User accessing the Website from the European Union, Asia, or any other
region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure,
that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued
use of the Website, which is governed by U.S. law and this Privacy Policy as incorporated
in our Terms of Use, you will be transferring your Personal Information into the
United States and you consent to that transfer.
7. Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy
ProfaneCards.com may update this policy at any time in its sole discretion and without
prior notice. We will strive to notify you about significant changes in the way
we treat Personal Information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified
in your ProfaneCards.com account and/or by placing a notice on the Website.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy
statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if
any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review
it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here,
by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
8. Effective Date
This Privacy Policy was last modified August 1, 2010.
9. Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you can contact
us at:
Profane Cards, LLC
PO Box 1672
Royal Oak, MI 48068
info@profanecards.com