Our pledge to you, our customer
oldworldpottery-online.com respects your privacy. Our Internet site is meant to be a service to you.

No information about your visit to our site is collected unless you specifically submit a comment from our feedback page, request a catalog or place an order for our products.

To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

Your personal information: what we collect and how we use it.
When you purchase products from oldworldpottery-online.com, we collect your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and credit card information. First, we use this information to fulfill your order and to communicate with you about your order. All oldworldpottery-online.com's orders are shipped from our own warehouse and in fulfilling your order, we DO NOT share your personal information with ANY outside source other than as stated in this privacy policy.

Third Party Intermediaries
We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

We DO NOT share our Customer list with ANYONE!
We do not share your personal information with ANY outside parties beside the Third Party Intermediaries above disclosed (Shipping Company and Credit Card institutions).

Whether you are making a first purchase or any subsequent purchase, your personal Account Data (Name, Address, E-mail Address and Phone/Fax Numbers) is solely stored in our own and private office Computer Accounting System.

Occasionally we may send you direct US Mail or E-Mail messages from our web site, announcing Special Promotions or New Product Introduction. Should you later decide that you want to be removed from our mailing list, follow the instructions included in the mailing to remove yourself from future mailings.

When you purchase a gift and want it sent directly to the recipient, you will need to submit the recipient's name and postal address. We use this information only to ship the product and confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside parties other than as stated within this privacy policy. Information you provide us to create a gift-card is only used for that purpose, and it is only disclosed to the person receiving the gift.

Links to/from Other Sites
To enhance your shopping experience within our web site, the www.oldworldpottery-online.com site may have links to other web sites on the Internet that are owned by third party (External Sites), or you may come to www.oldworldpottery-online.com from a link from an External Site. These other web sites will have their own rules on privacy that you should review. Oldworldpottery-online.com is not responsible for the privacy policies of External Sites.

Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Cookies
When placing an order on-line with oldworldpottery-online.com, a cookie file containing your email address and your password is placed on your computer's hard drive in order to be recognized and speed up future access to your personal informations.

Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

We maintain a Valid Certificate with Thawte: Authentic Sites use Thawte SSL Web Server Certificates to offer secure communications by encrypting all data to and from the site. Thawte has checked and verified our company registration documents and the site's registered domain name.

This information is included in the SSL certificate that was issued to oldworldpottery-online.com

Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. However, if users have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated their account, then they will not be contacted, nor will their personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post a notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.