At abernook.com, we take issues of privacy
seriously. We want your experience shopping with us to be enjoyable
and hassle free. During the order process or when creating an
account, we collect your name, address, phone number, email, credit card
numbers and other personal information. This information is collected
to facilitate your purchase and is not shared with anyone other than the
companies that assist in processing of your order, such as banks and shipping
companies.
We use your email address and contact information you've
provided to send you updates about the status of any order you have
placed. Your information will not be sold or provided to any
other party. With your permission, we may also use the information to
send you email or postal mail about special offers. You can choose that we
not contact you by selecting the appropriate options in your on-line account or by notifying us in writing or by phone
at:
Abernook, LLC
2300 NBarrington Road
Suite 400
Hoffman Estates, IL 60194
Phone: (800) 683-0027
Security
We use all means at our disposal to safegard the
information you have provided using the latest technology. Our website
uses Secure Socket Layers (SSL) to encrypt information sent between our servers
and your browser. SSL is the encryption method generally used by all
on-line stores, banks and other websites the require secure transactions.
Additionally, our servers are housed in a secure access controlled
location. You'll know that you are using an SSL secure connection
when you see a lock (or other security symbol) on the bottom bar of your
browser.
Cookies and IP Addresses
A cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer to allow our web
server to indentify you and distinguish you from all the other users of our
store. A session cookie is a temporary cookie that does not store any
files or permanant information on your computer. A session cookie is
removed from your computer's memory when you close your browser. A
permanant cookie stores small files of information on your computer that the
webserver can access from visit to visit to identify you. Abernook does
not store any personally identifiable information in session or permanant
cookies. Cookies we use are to distinguish you from other vistors to our
site using a unique user id number.
We use cookies and your ip address to track your usage to improve
the design of our website and the products we offer. Once you leave our
website, nothing else is tracked.
Updates
This is the most recent version of the Abernook, LLC provacy policy which may
change from time to time. This version of our policy replaces all previous
policies and applies to all information collected in th past. Any time our
policy changes, we will post it on our website. The privacy
policy was last updated 6/4/2004.