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Privacy Policy
www.creativesandart.co.za
Creative
Sand Art has established this Privacy Policy to explain
how it protects and manages the personal information that
it collects from you (the customer) online.
Consent
for Collection, Use and Disclosure:
Creative Sand Art International, Inc. remains committed
to the protection of your information. We never sell, lease
or rent any information that we collect. This notice describes
Creative Sand Art’s privacy policy. By viewing and/or using
any of the websites owned, operated and/or maintained by
Creative Sand Art International, Inc., including this one,
you constitute your consent to the terms of this Privacy
Policy. If you disagree with any of the content contained
herein, please do not view or use any of Creative Sand Art’s
websites.
Creative
Sand Art may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When
it does, Creative Sand Art will also revise the “last updated”
date at the top of this Privacy Policy. In addition, Creative
Sand Art will seek a customer’s prior consent, by email,
for any new uses or proposed disclosures of information
collected from the customer prior to the change. Creative
Sand Art will notify customers by email of changes to this
policy that will affect information collected from them
in the future. In certain circumstances, however, Creative
Sand Art will not inform and obtain the consent of the customer,
such as in connection with an investigation of a breach
of an agreement, contravention of laws, an emergency where
the life, health or security of an individual is threatened,
the collection of a debt or in compliance with the request
of a law enforcement agency or a court order.
A
customer may withdraw his or her consent for collection,
use and disclosure at any time by sending an email to unsubscribe@creativesandart.co.za.
When you unsubscribe, if you fall within the guarantee period
for any Creative Sand Art product and you request a refund,
the guarantee will still be honoured.
In
order to provide our customers with an expected level of
customer service Creative Sand Art may collect a variety
of information in the following categories.
Purposes
for Collecting Personal Information:
Creative Sand Art collects and uses personal information
for the following Identified Purposes:
a)
to understand customer needs regarding Creative Sand Art’s
products and services;
b)
to better develop and better provide our web site and our
products and services for the benefit of our customers;
c)
to better fulfill your requests for products, services or
information;
d)
to better communicate with customers and site visitors,
when necessary, and to inform customers of new products,
upgrades, warranty information, as well as any other products
and services that may be available from Creative Sand Art
and its affiliates and third parties;
e) to allow customers to access limited-entry areas of Creative
Sand Art’s site;
f)
to personalize some of our services and products for you
and to deliver targeted advertisements and offers from Creative
Sand Art and third parties;
g)
to bill accounts and maintain payment records;
h)
to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process
or government request;
i) to respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable
belief, that you are violating the rights of any third party
or any of the agreements or policies that govern your use
of Creative Sand Art’s sites or any of Creative Sand Art’s
products or services;
j)
to protect the services, products or rights of Creative
Sand Art, including but not limited to the security or integrity
of Creative Sand Art’s websites; and
k)
to identify and resolve technical problems concerning Creative
Sand Art’s websites, products and services
Personal
Information:
Creative Sand Art limits its collection of personal information
to only that information which is necessary for the Identified
Purposes. Creative Sand Art does not direct its sites to,
nor does it
knowingly collect any personal information from children
under the age of eighteen. We receive and store any information
you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. This
may includes information such as first name, last name,
sex, contact information including billing address, shipping
addresses, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers.
Statistical
Information:
We receive and store certain types of information whenever
you interact with us. This includes broad demographic information
that when combined with site usage data, enables us to better
facilitate the needs of our customers. Statistics include;
number of visitors to the site, browsers used, operating
systems used, and time spent on site. Web server logs and
cookies are two of the technologies used to collect this
information. This type of information does not contain any
personal information that can identify a specific user.
E-mail
Addresses:
Email addresses are kept for the purpose of responding to
your inquiries and/or for periodic e-mail newsletters and
promotional e-mails to our customers and visitors about
products offered by Creative Sand Art. Individuals may have
their information removed by e-mailing unsubscribe@creativesandart.co.za.
We never sell, rent or lease our email addresses or customer
lists.
Information
from Other Sources:
For reasons such as improving personalization of our service
(for example, providing better product recommendations or
special offers that we think will interest you), we might
receive information about you from other sources and add
it to our account information. We also sometimes receive
updated delivery and address information from our shippers
or other sources so that we can correct our records and
deliver your next purchase or communication more easily.
Cookies:
Cookies are numbers and letters that are transferred to
your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable
our systems to recognize your browser at subsequent logins.
When you visit a Creative Sand Art web site, a cookie may
be placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if
you have visited the Creative Sand Art site previously.
Creative Sand Art uses cookies to allow Creative Sand Art
to determine which products and services you have already
purchased so that Creative Sand Art does not provide redundant
information to you, and, if you are a Creative Sand Art
affiliate, to track Creative Sand Art sales made to customers
referred by you so that you can receive compensation under
our affiliate program. If you choose to not have your browser
accept cookies from a Creative Sand Art web site, you may
not be able to view all the text on the screens, or to experience
a personalised visit, or to subscribe to certain service
and product offerings on the Creative Sand Art site.
Credit
Card Information:
Creative Sand Art’s preferred method of payment receipt
is through SETCOM. Creative Sand Art also accepts payment
with VISA, MasterCard and American Express credit cards.
Creative Sand Art utilizes Secure Socket Layers (SSL) to
encrypt all of the information you provide before sending
it to our server. Data in transit remains encrypted until
it reaches our server where it is decrypted. Creative Sand
Art utilizes Thawte Secure Site Certificates for the most
comprehensive security coverage.
Your
account information:
Information required to open an account helps to pre-define
certain criteria such as billing address, shipping preferences,
and payment methods. Customer access to accounts is controlled
by security Login ID and Password. This is to prevent unauthorized
access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification
and unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
Disclosure,
Processing and Retention:
As Creative Sand Art continues to develop it’s business,
we or our affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or
entities, or we may merge with another company. In the event
that Creative Sand Art or substantially all of its assets
are acquired, your personal information may be one of the
transferred assets. Your information may be stored and processed
in the United States, or in any other country in which Creative
Sand Art or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain
facilities. By using this web site, you consent to any such
transfer of information outside of your country. After your
account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to be
removed from our database), Creative Sand Art will keep
your personal information in its archives. Your information
will then be used only as necessary for tax reasons or to
prove Creative Sand Art’s compliance with any applicable
law.
Accuracy
of Personal Information:
Creative Sand Art will use reasonable efforts to keep customer
personal information accurate for the Identified Purposes,
and for minimizing the possibility of making inappropriate
customer decisions based on such information. Customers
are responsible for informing Creative Sand Art about changes
to their personal information. You can do this by sending
an email to privacy@creativesandart.co.za. Creative Sand
Art will use new or updated personal information it receives
from customers to update its own records.
Security
Safeguards:
Creative Sand Art will use reasonable efforts to protect
customers’ personal information. Access to Personal Information:
Creative Sand Art will afford you a reasonable opportunity
to review the personal information in your file, if you
so request by writing to:
Creative
Sand Art
PO Box 99217
Garsfontein-East
Pretoria, South Africa
0060
If
Creative Sand Art is not able to provide access to some
aspect of a customer’s personal information, it will provide
reasons for denying access such as; that by doing so would
likely reveal personal information about a third party,
or that it is confidential commercial information or attorney–client
privileged communications, or that the information relates
to a breach of an agreement or a contravention of law, or
that its disclosure could reasonably be expected to threaten
the life or security of another individual.
Customers
have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete
information be amended as appropriate, by contacting Creative
Sand Art as described above. Creative Sand Art will promptly
correct such personal information.
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