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Foot Menders Privacy Statement Your privacy is important to Foot Menders. As a user of our website, you may find educational content or information about products to help you learn about foot care and health for yourself or for others and purchase foot care related products or services. At Foot Menders, we understand that your foot care is a personal subject. We want you to feel as comfortable as possible visiting our website and using its services. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect, how we protect it, and how we use it. We urge you to read our Privacy Policy so that you will understand both our commitment to you and your privacy, and how you can participate in that commitment. This statement discloses Foot Menders' current privacy policies in regards to its FootMenders.com site. This statement is not intended on being an offer or a contact and Foot Menders may change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revisions to our website. If you do not want Foot Menders to have any information about you or your use of this site as explained in this privacy policy statement, please exit the site immediately. The following Articles are intended to inform you of the following: What personally identifiable information of yours is collected; What organization is collecting the information; How the information is used; With whom the information may be shared; What choices are available regarding collection, use and distribution of the information; What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under the company's control; and, How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information. The following articles make up our Privacy Policy. We hope that reading them gives you a clear idea of how we manage information regarding you. For immediate access to a particular topic, click on the title of that Article. ARTICLE 1: Personal Information We Collect ARTICLE 2: Disclosure of Your Information ARTICLE 3: How Foot Menders Handles Privacy Internally ARTICLE 4: Your Privacy Choices Foot Menders Inc. - Your Foot Comfort Specialist ARTICLE 5: Updating Your Personal Information and Contacting Foot Menders Please remember that any information (including personal and medical information) that you reveal in a public forum (such as a bulletin board, mail list, chat room/event) is not subject to this Privacy Policy and will be seen by third parties not related to Foot Menders and may be used by them to contact you or for unauthorized purposes. Also, if you link to a third party site from Foot Menders, any information you reveal on that site is not subject to this Privacy Policy you should consult the privacy policies of each site you visit. ARTICLE 1 Personal Information We Collect Foot Menders collects information in one area, order processing. Information we collect in order taking and processing from this site includes both personal and financial information: Personal Information includes contact information such as your name, address, and shipping address, Email and telephone contact information Financial information includes credit card information All of the above information is necessary to process and ship your order to you. Whenever you submit or modify this information, we will send such information over the Internet using Secure Socket Layer, version 3 (or other later versions) ("SSL") encryption technology. The information you submit for orders will be stored on a separate server not connected to the internet as soon as you order is downloaded as an additional security precaution. However, we do not warrant or represent that the information you submit to will be protected against, loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties. Only the order processing part of this web site uses Cookies. We track your order through the use of Cookies until you check out. "Cookies" are small computer files that we transfer to your computer's hard drive. Foot Menders does NOT use cookies to allow us to know how often someone visits our site and the activities they conduct while on our site (such as what type of foot problems you visited, etc.). Credit card information is not stored as part of your customer record, but only with the order being processed. ARTICLE 2 Disclosure of Your Information Except as set forth in this paragraph, Foot Menders will not disclose to unaffiliated companies any information it gathers from you which could be used to identify or contact you ("Personal Information"). Any Personal Information provided to entities affiliated with Foot Menders will be treated in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, unless you are otherwise notified. In the following limited circumstances we will consider, and may release, Personal Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. If you purchase an item through Foot Menders On-Line Store, you will be purchasing it from Foot Menders. Foot Menders requests information from the user on our order form. You will be asked for contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customers' orders. If Foot Menders has trouble processing your order, this contact information is used to contact you. ARTICLE 3 How Foot Menders Handles Privacy Internally Foot Menders wants your personal information to remain as secure as reasonably possible. That is why we have a two-tier system at Foot Menders that combines leading technical safeguards and a code of conduct for those employees that are permitted to access our customers' personal information. On the technical side, Foot Menders uses SSL to help ensure the integrity and privacy of the Personal Information you provide to us via the Internet. As an additional security measure, your Personal Information is also removed from our site server when your order is processed and kept physically separate on a separate order process server. On the employee side, only authorized Foot Menders employees are permitted to access our order process server. Customer information and your personal information is restricted further. All Foot Menders employees must abide by our Privacy Policy and those who violate our Privacy Policy are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Access by authorized personnel is controlled by password. ARTICLE 4 Your Privacy Choices This privacy statement applies only to the Foot Menders web site. The Foot Menders site does contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Foot Menders is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personal information from you." ARTICLE 5 Updating Your Personal Information and Contacting Foot Menders You can always contact us in order to update the Personal Information that you have provided to us, by emailing us at support@footmenders.com. Foot Menders may change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revisions to our web site. Your use of the site constitutes acceptance of the provisions of this Privacy Policy and your continued usage after such changes are posted constitutes acceptance of each revised Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy, please exit the site immediately. 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