Privacy Policy
Christmas Galore is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Christmas Galore website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Christmas Galore website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Changes to this Statement
Christmas Galore will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback and the law. Christmas Galore encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Christmas Galore is protecting your information.
Collection of your Personal Information
Christmas Galore collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Christmas Galore also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your post code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Christmas Galore. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, Christmas Galore, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Christmas Galore for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Christmas Galore Web site.
Contact Information
Christmas Galore welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Christmas Galore has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us at info@christmasgalore.com.au. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
Security of your Personal Information
Christmas Galore secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Christmas Galore secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol (256 bit).
Use of Cookies
The Christmas Galore Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Christmas Galore pages, or register with Christmas Galore site or services, a cookie helps Christmas Galore to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Christmas Galore features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of Christmas Galore.
Use of your Personal Information
Christmas Galore collects and uses your personal information to operate the Christmas Galore Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Christmas Galore also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Christmas Galore and its affiliates. Christmas Galore may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Christmas Galore does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Christmas Galore may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Christmas Galore may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Christmas Galore, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Christmas Galore does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Christmas Galore keeps track of the pages our customers visit within Christmas Galore, in order to determine what Christmas Galore are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Christmas Galore to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Christmas Galore website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Christmas Galore or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Christmas Galore; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Christmas Galore, or the public.
