Our shop knows that you care how information about you is used and
shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and
sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting Our
shop, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal Information About Customers Does Our shop Gather?
What About Cookies?
Does Our shop Share the Information It Receives?
How Secure Is Information About Me?
What About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites?
Which Information Can I Access?
What Choices Do I Have?
Are Children Allowed to Use Our shop?
EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
Examples of Information Collected
What Personal Information About Customers Does Our shop Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and
continually improve your Amazon experience. Here are the types of
information we gather.
Information You Give Us: We receive and
store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other
way. Click here to see examples of what we collect. You can choose not
to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take
advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you
provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing
future shopping for you, improving our stores, and communicating with
you.
Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of
information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web
sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when
your Web browser accesses Our shop or advertisements and other content
served by or on behalf of Our shop on other Web sites. Click here to see
examples of the information we receive.
Mobile: When you download
or use apps created by Amazon or our subsidiaries, we may receive
information about your location and your mobile device, including a
unique identifier for your device. We may use this information to
provide you with location-based services, such as advertising, search
results, and other personalized content. Most mobile devices allow you
to turn off location services. For more information about how to do
this,click here .
E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails
more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you
open e-mail from Our shop if your computer supports such capabilities.
We also compare our customer list to lists received from other
companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our
customers. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us,
please adjust your Customer Communication Preferences .
Information
from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other
sources and add it to our account information. Click here to see
examples of the information we receive.
What About Cookies?
Cookies are unique identifiers that we transfer to your device to enable
our systems to recognize your device and to provide features such as
1-Click purchasing, Recommended for You , personalized advertisements on
other Web sites (e.g., Amazon Associates with content served by Our
shop and Web sites using Checkout by Amazon payment service), and
storage of items in your Shopping Cart between visits.
The Help
feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from
accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you
receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser
add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or
visiting the Web site of its manufacturer. Because cookies allow you to
take advantage of some of Our shop's essential features, we recommend
that you leave them turned on. For instance, if you block or otherwise
reject our cookies, you will not be able to add items to your Shopping
Cart, proceed to Checkout, or use any Our shop products and services
that require you to Sign in.
Does Our shop Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business,
and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share
customer information only as described below and with subsidiaries Our
shop. controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or
follow practices at least as protective as those described in this
Privacy Notice.
Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: We
work closely with affiliated businesses. In some cases, such as
Marketplace sellers, these businesses operate stores at Our shop or sell
offerings to you at Our shop. In other cases, we operate stores,
provide services, or sell product lines jointly with these businesses.
Click here for some examples of co-branded and joint offerings. You can
tell when a third party is involved in your transactions, and we share
customer information related to those transactions with that third
party.
Third-Party Service Providers: We employ other companies and
individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include
fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail,
removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data,
providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links
(including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments,
and providing customer service. They have access to personal information
needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other
purposes.
Promotional Offers: Sometimes we send offers to selected
groups of Our shop customers on behalf of other businesses. When we do
this, we do not give that business your name and address. If you do not
want to receive such offers, please adjust your Customer Communication
Preferences .
Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our
business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units.
In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the
transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in
any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer
consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that Our shop, or
substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will
of course be one of the transferred assets.
Protection of Our shop
and Others: We release account and other personal information when we
believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply
our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights,
property, or safety of Our shop, our users, or others. This includes
exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud
protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not
include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally
identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in
violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
With
Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when
information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an
opportunity to choose not to share the information.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
We work to protect the security of your information during transmission
by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts
information you input.
We reveal only the last four digits of your
credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the
entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during
order processing.
It is important for you to protect against
unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to
sign off when finished using a shared computer. Click here for more
information on how to sign off.
What About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites?
Our site includes third-party advertising and links to other Web sites.
For more information about third-party advertising at Our shop,
including personalized or interest-based ads, please read our
Interest-Based Ads policy.
Which Information Can I Access?
Our shop gives you access to a broad range of information about your
account and your interactions with Our shop for the limited purpose of
viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information. Click here to
see some examples, the list of which will change as our Web site
evolves.
What Choices Do I Have?
As discussed above, you
can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be
needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of such Our shop features
as Your Profile, Wish Lists , Customer Reviews, and Amazon Prime.
You can add or update certain information on pages such as those
referenced in the Which Information Can I Access? section. When you
update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our
records.
If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us,
please adjust your Customer Communication Preferences . (If you do not
want to receive Conditions of Use and other legal notices from us, such
as this Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your use of Our
shop, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.)
If
you do not want us to use personal information that we gather to allow
third parties to personalize advertisements we display to you, please
adjust your Advertising Preferences .
The Help feature on most
browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new
cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new
cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can
disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash
cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or visiting the Web site of
its manufacturer. Because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of
Our shop's essential features, we recommend that you leave them turned
on. For instance, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will
not be able to add items to your Shopping Cart, proceed to Checkout, or
use any Our shop products and services that require you to Sign in.