100cookwares.com privacy policy

We never distribute a customer's information outside the inner offices of 100cookwares.com. This customer information is solely used to build and maintain a typical business-to-customer data base and is never made known to anyone outside 100cookwares.com.

Secure Servers
Some customer information is supplied to the company which processes your credit card purchases. All order information you provide to us and all information contained in your "Shopping Account" is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a widely used coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt or scramble data before you send it to us [please click here if you do not know what SSL encryption is]. Transactions will not be permitted if your browser does not accept SSL encryption. Only authorized personnel from 100cookwares.com or its partners can decode this information and such personnel will only do so in accordance with our or their Privacy Policy. In addition, to attempt to deter the theft of credit card numbers and other personal information residing in our system, we and our retail partners have installed secure "firewalls" and/or have implemented other security measures to help protect our systems against "hacker" break-ins. Additionally, all credit card numbers are encrypted in our system until either the customer or 100cookwares.com requires the information.

Newsletter
If you subscribe to our email newsletter, you will occasionally receive email updates from us about important functionality changes, special offers from us, new 100cookwares.com services and other noteworthy news items about us. This information is not shared with other companies, but it is transmitted over non-secure web servers. If you would rather not receive future newsletters, go to our home page and unsubscribe by typing in your email address and click "Unsubscribe."

Cookies
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies in several ways, just as thousands of other sites currently do. Cookie files are used to better understand how you travel through our website so that we may better tailor your experience. Cookies are also used to tell us whether you have visited our website previously, and to help us determine whether you came to our website from a particular Internet link or banner advertisement. Cookies can also be used to help you save and retrieve passwords and other information and preferences you use on our website, saving you from having to re-enter this information upon every visit to our website. Cookies cannot and will not be used by us to retrieve any personal information about you from your computer that you have not previously and voluntarily provided to us. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. Please note that most of our features, as well as with other web sites, will not function if you do not accept cookies. For more information on cookies, see Cookies on your computer's help menu.

IP Addresses
When you connect to our website, we record your IP addresses and information on the type of operating system (i.e.Windows98) and browser software you are using (i.e. AOL, Internet Explorer, Netscape). This helps us to diagnose problems with our servers and for system administration. Your IP address is also used to help gather aggregated demographic information.

"Hackers"
It is the intention of 100cookwares.com, and our Internet Service Provider, to prevent "hackers" from infiltrating our servers, and stealing our customer's personal information. "Personal Information" as describe herein pertains to customer's names and addresses, and does not pertain to customer's credit card information. That information is never stored on our servers. However, and as with many other web sites, our customer's names and addresses are stored within our server databases and may only be accessed by an authorized agent of 100cookwares.com. 100cookwares.com, and its Internet Service Provider cannot 100% guarantee customer's information will remain free from the attempts of hacker's trying to steal this private information. However all care will be taken to ensure our customer's privacy remains as private as technically possible, and we will prosecute hackers to the fullest extent as allowed by law. If you have any other questions pertaining to your privacy rights, or issues pertaining to your privacy with our company, then please email us directly at privacy@100cookwares.com