Privacy Policy
At Canvas by Blossom we welcome your comments regarding this privacy statement. Please email us at becky@canvasbyblossom.com, or mail to: Blossom Publishing, 163 East Second Street, P.O. Box 307, Winona, MN 55987
Changes to this Statement
Canvasbyblossom.com will occasionally update this privacy statement. For
material changes to this statement, Canvasbyblossom.com will notify you
by placing a prominent notice on the Web site.
Your Privacy is Important to Us
Canvasbyblossom.com is committed to protecting your privacy. You can
visit most pages on our site without providing information about
yourself. Information we collect from order processing or from any
inquiries is not shared with any other company. Your information is only
used for contact, billing and shipping purposes or to respond to your
request. Your credit card information is not stored for future use by
us.
This privacy statement explains data collection and use in those
situations where information about you is required to provide services
that you request. This privacy statement only applies to
canvasbyblossom.com. Please read the complete canvasbyblossom.com
privacy statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you
(personal information) or allows us to contact you. Generally, this
information is requested when you are registering before entering a
contest, ordering email newsletters, signing up for an event or
training, or when purchasing and/or registering canvasbyblossom.com
products and/or services. Personal information collected by
canvasbyblossom.com may include but is not limited to email address,
language, country or location, or other information necessary to fulfill
the service you requested. For example: If you choose a service or
transaction that requires payment, such as making a purchase using the
web site, we will request personal information necessary for billing
and/or shipping, including: name, address, email address, telephone
number, and credit card number.
Canvasbyblossom.com also collects certain information about your
computer hardware and software. This information may include: your IP
address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access times and
referring web site addresses. This information is used for the operation
of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide
general statistics regarding use of canvasbyblossom.com.
Canvasbyblossom.com also collects information about which pages our
customers visit within canvasbyblossom.com. This site visitation data is
identified only by a unique ID number, and it is never linked with
personal information unless a user consents as described below.
Use of your Personal Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes: 1. To
ensure our site is relevant to your needs. 2. To deliver services, such
as newsletters, events, training or software, that you request or
purchase. 3. To help us create and publish content most relevant to you.
4. To alert you to product upgrades, special offers, updated
information and other new services from canvasbyblossom.com, if you so
request. 5. To allow you access to limited-entry areas of our site as
appropriate. We will merge site-visitation data with anonymous
demographic information for research purposes, and we may use this
information in aggregate to provide more relevant content. In some
limited-entry sections of canvasbyblossom.com, with your approval, we
will combine site-visitation data with your personal information in
order to provide you with personalized content. If you decline
permission, we will not provide you the personalized service and won’t
merge your personal information with site-visitation data. We
occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our
behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases, answering
customer questions about products or services, sending postal mail and
processing event registration. We will only provide those companies the
information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited
from using that information for any other purpose. Canvasbyblossom.com
may disclose your personal information 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
canvasbyblossom.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or
property of canvasbyblossom.com and its family of web sites, or (c) act
in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of
canvasbyblossom.com employees, users of canvasbyblossom.com products or
services, or members of the public. Your information may be stored and
processed in the United States or any other country in which
canvasbyblossom.com or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain
facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of
information outside of your country. Canvasbyblossom.com abides by the
safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce
regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European
Union.
Control of your Personal Information
When you create an account, or otherwise give us personal information,
canvasbyblossom.com will not share that information with any third party
without your permission, other than for the limited exceptions already
listed. It will only be used for the purposes stated above. Registering
also allows you to tell us how or whether you want canvasbyblossom.com
to communicate with you.
Security of your Personal Information
Canvasbyblossom.com is committed to protecting the security of your
personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and
procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized
access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal
information you provide in computer servers with limited access that are
located in controlled facilities. When we transmit sensitive
information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect
it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
protocol.
Protection of Children's Personal Information
Canvasbyblossom.com is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children.
Use of Cookies
When someone visits the site, a cookie is placed on the user's machine
(if the customer accepts cookies) or is read if the customer has visited
the site previously. One use of cookies is to assist in the collection
of the site visitation statistics described above. We also use cookies
to collect information on which links are clicked by customers. This
information is used to ensure we are sending information customers want
to read. It is collected in aggregate form and never linked with your
personal information. Web beacons, also known as clear gif technology or
action tags, may be used to assist in delivering the cookie on our
site. This technology tells us how many visitors clicked on key elements
(such as links or graphics) on a canvasbyblossom.com web page. We do
not use this technology to access your personally identifiable
information on canvasbyblossom.com; it is a tool we use to compile
aggregated statistics about canvasbyblossom.com web site usage. We may
share aggregated site statistics with partner companies but do not allow
other companies to place clear gifs on our sites.
Enforcement of this Privacy Statement
If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact canvasbyblossom.com by email: becky@canvasbyblossom.com.