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PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY
Collection of Personal Information
We value you as a customer, and respect your privacy to the fullest extent. In order for Gallery of Pearls to best serve you, we store the information that you provide to us through our secure website. This information includes information such as your name, e-mail address, password, shipping address, billing address, telephone number, and credit card information. As an added level of security for our customers, credit card information is deleted from our records 30 days after your purchase. You may also call us to place your order and provide us the payment information via the telephone.
We use cookies to record the visitor's website session information (such as the visitor's shopping selections when ordering) and to record user-preferred information on the pages selected for viewing. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive.
We retain email addresses when visitors send us e-mail or customers give us their e-mail address when placing an order. However, we do not share or sell our e-mail lists. We use your e-mail address to communicate with you regarding your orders and other business matters regarding transactions between us. Only if you choose to be included in our promotional messages, will we send you information about Gallery of Pearls products and services. You may opt-out of receiving such promotional messages from us at any time via your account management.
We do not sell or offer your information to any third parties period. We do not like it when it happens to us and we will not allow it to happen to you unless you or the law instructs otherwise. In the unlikely event we are required to release private information, it will only be to comply with federal or state law, fraud protection, or to protect the rights, property or safety of Gallery of Pearls and/or others.
Security Assurance and Certification
Through the use of encryption technology, the transfer of sensitive information on our website is always protected against theft or other misuse. When purchasing online, a solid key or a locked padlock icon will appear in the lower right of your browser window, indicating that your transaction session is secured through Secure Socket Layer (SSL). SSL is a widely used measure of security on the Internet. Most data is encrypted with 128-bit SSL, Gallery of Pearls web server however protects transactions with up to 256-bit SSL.
Your user password will help protect against unauthorized access to your online account. Store your password in a safe place. You may change your password at anytime by logging into Your Account. If you misplace your password, please go to the Your Account tab on our website and click on the “Password forgotten? Click here” button, then enter your email address and we will send you an email containing a new password.
Our servers offer the highest level of data encryption security with up to 256-bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption and is certified by both GoDaddy.com hosting and Authorize.net merchant transactions to enable secure server access for data transfer of payments and other sensitive information. You can rest assured that communications between your browser and this site's web servers are private and secure.
We also ensure that your personal credit card information is secure and protected based on national PCI (Payment Card Industry) standards. The ComplyShield Seal verifies that Gallery of Pearls has passed a comprehensive quarterly test to meet the PCI data security scan requirements accepted by Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. This site seal lets our consumers know that we are a No Fraud Zone and comply with National Credit Card Security Standards.
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