privacy policy

At Choice Leather -hereafter referred to as "THE COMPANY"-we are committed to protecting your privacy online. We assure all of visitors that The Company will not purposely disclose any individual information regarding you to any third party without your expressed written consent.

Please read this Privacy Policy ("Policy") for an explanation of how your personal information will be handled. By using Choice Leather.com, you consent to the collection and use of personal information as outlined in this Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy in whole or in any part, please do not use this site. If any material of the Policy changes, these changes will be posted in this agreement to ensure that users are aware of what personal information is collected, how that information is used, and under what circumstances that information may be disclosed. Since this Policy may change periodically, you are encouraged to visit this page frequently. Your continued use of Choice Leather.com following the posting of changes to the Policy will signal your acceptance of such changes.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Policy, please contact info@ChoiceLeather.com.

1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally identifiable information is collected from you through the site:

Choice Leather.com does not solicit any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

Choice Leather.com does not collect personally identifiable information through the site unless you provide that information during registration for various features on the site. Information required to participate in such features may vary but will typically include your full name and your e-mail address. You may also be requested to provide a username and password for certain features. Choice Leather.com will maintain all of the personal information submitted by you in secured servers behind several corporate firewalls.

2. The organization collecting the information:

Choice Leather.com is operated by Choice Leather Incorporated. Please contact us at info@ChoiceLeather.com for more information regarding THE COMPANY.

3. How the information is used:

Choice Leather.com uses "cookie" technology. Cookies are pieces of information transferred to your computer for record-keeping purposes. Such technology is an industry standard and is used by most major Websites. Choice Leather.com will never use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie. In order to effectively use the site and some of its features your browser must accept cookies.

Users should be aware that Choice Leather.com cannot control the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third parties hosting data for Choice Leather.com. If a user does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to deny or accept cookies; however, users should note that cookies may be necessary to provide the user with certain features available on Choice Leather.com.

Choice Leather.com tracks certain general usage pattern information, including what pages people visit and how long they have been registered users. Choice Leather.com may log users' IP addresses (the group of four numbers separated by periods, such as 123.45.64.89, that identifies a particular host computer) for the purposes of system administration, site tracking and reporting of aggregate usage information to our marketing and product development teams.

From time to time, Choice Leather.com may solicit your opinion to determine your preferences and dislikes in order to provide you with a better product. These surveys are always optional to the user and your decision not to participate in a survey will not affect your status as a Choice Leather.com user. Should you choose to participate, any information you give us may be used in aggregate form for marketing purposes, and to enhance your overall experience on our site.

4. With whom the information may be shared:

Once again, Choice Leather.com will not provide any personally identifiable information, other than to its affiliates, about you to advertisers or other partners without your consent. As stated above, Choice Leather.com may, however, provide advertisers and/or other partners with anonymous aggregated information about our users to illustrate trends and patterns. All third parties with whom we share such information will have independent privacy and data collection practices and Choice Leather.com has no responsibility or liability for their policies or actions.

We will never give out any information linking your real name to your screen name unless you authorize us to do so, or unless required to do so by law.

Choice Leather.com has several partners that can offer valuable products and services to our members. From time to time, Choice Leather.com may give or sell a list from our database of users to these third party vendors. These lists will consist of only those users that have "opted in" to receiving specialty offers and promotions during the initial registration process. Choice Leather.com will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that every marketing offer sent to a Choice Leather.com user as a result of the provision of such information contains a link for that user to no longer receive such offers. In addition, we may share your information with a company that acquires all or substantially all of Choice Leather.com's assets or in a merger or acquisition, but only if such company agrees to abide by this Privacy Policy.

While Choice Leather.com is careful in choosing its partners and advertisers, we are only responsible for content on our own site. All third parties associated with Choice Leather.com (including, but not limited to, advertisers, sponsors and other Internet sites) with whom we share information have independent privacy and data collection practices. Choice Leather.com does not control this collection of information and is neither responsible nor liable for their independent policies or actions.

5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information:

You are not required to receive any mailings that you do not wish to receive. During the registration process, you will have the option to sign up to receive newsletters and selected sponsor offers and discounts. You will not receive such information if you do not select such options. If, after you choose to receive such information, you wish to discontinue receiving these items, you may change your subscription preferences by visiting the registration area or by indicating your preference by following the instructions provided within the e-mails received. If a username and password is required to access the feature, you will need to provide such information to update your registration preferences. If you have forgotten your password, you may obtain it by visiting the registration area and requesting it to be sent to you at the e-mail address you originally provided during registration.

6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control:

Choice Leather.com has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under its control. The servers for Choice Leather.com are stored in a physically secure and climate controlled off-site facility. Beyond the physical protection of the servers, we protect against data loss by regularly backing up data, performing consistency checks with independently recorded log files to prevent tampering, and restricting access to information on our servers via several user authentication technologies. Our site uses SSL or "Secure Sockets Layer", an industry standard security protocol. When you place an order on the site and your credit card information is transmitted, you will connect with our secure server. SSL sends your browser information that encrypts your order, changing all the information that you send back into a code that is extremely difficult to decipher.

Only those employees needed to carry out the business functions will have access to information on individual Choice Leather.com customers. We train each such employee with respect to the Choice Leather.com Privacy Policy, and those violating these policies will be subject to disciplinary action.

It is important to remember that whatever you transmit or disclose online can be collected and used by others or unlawfully intercepted by third parties. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. In addition, we may disclose information to law enforcement or other government officials if we determine such disclosure to be appropriate, or if we are compelled to disclose it by court order or operation of law.

Any information voluntarily disclosed by users and posted on our site (on message boards, forums, and other areas where posting occurs) may be viewed and used by others. If users post personal information that is accessible to the public online, the user does so at his or her own risk. Users accept that they may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.