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This policy covers information collected by Ginger Michelle, including all the associated web sites and services. Products and services are purchased via GingerMichelle.com site operated by Ginger Michelle.
Customer Information
Information is collected at the time of a sale in order to complete the sale and deliver the products. Customer lists are not sold or distributed to third parties. Ginger Michelle does not use customer lists to send solicitations except for renewal notices for continuing services such as domain registrations, e-mail, or web page services.
Credit Card Transactions
Information collected during transactions is maintained in our database for accounting and billing purposes. Information from these transactions is not released to third parties. Ginger Michelle does not maintain a copy of the credit card cvv2 on its servers.
Information About Children
Ginger Michelle does not attempt to collect personal information from children. If children do send personal information to Ginger Michelle, the information is deleted.
Web Site Log Files
Web site log files are generated that collect the IP Address of the visitor, date, time, and pages visited. Aggregate reports for web site visitors are generated that do not contain personally identifiable information.
Advertising reports are generated that show the IP addresses of visitors who clicked on ads. This information may be sent to the advertiser to confirm the number of "click-throughs." The advertiser normally already has this information as a result of the user clicking on the adverstisement. No additional information about the visitor is supplied to the advertiser. The log files are eventually deleted.
Cookies
Internet 'cookies' are not used except for demonstration purposes at Ginger Michelle and for the GingerMichelle.com order form and forums.
Persistent cookies are placed on the user's system for the forums at GingerMichelle.com. These cookies remain on the user's system and are automatically retrieved when a user visits at a later time.
The order form uses cookies that keep track of items ordered. They are used to pass information from one form to the next durring the ordering process. These are session cookies and will expire once your order is completed. A user does not have to supply any personal information unless they decide to complete an order and pay. These cookies are not used for any other purpose.
External Linking
The logging of clicks for external links using "redirects" is only done for advertisements. This is indicated by link to a URL such as '/redirect.php?url= ...' The external URL is clearly marked in the "url=" portion. This is done to create the advertising reports described above in order to bill the advertiser.
Mailing Lists
Ginger Michelle may maintain subscription mailing lists. All users must confirm their subscriptions via return e-mail. Users are never added based on requesting information, making a purchase, or forgetting to uncheck some box during ordering.
User Registration
Ginger Michelle does not require user registration to access content at the GingerMichelle.com web site. Domain name registration requires logon to access the domain name registration services provided by eNom.
Favicon.ico requests
Some browsers initiate a favicon.ico request to a web site when a user adds a site to their "Favorites" list. (.ico stands for "icon") It is a small 16x16 pixel icon that replaces the standard icon used for a web page. Favicon.ico requests are not tracked.
The restrictions on the dissemination of personal information are not subject to change. The policy is updated occasionally but the changes will not reduce the privacy protection of visitors. If there are changes made in the future the changes will not affect information already collected.
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