PRIVACY STATEMENT

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for NICK'S CUSTOM BOOTS (NICKSBOOTS) located at  www.nicksboots.com.

Our mission in the area of privacy is to build users’ trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices.  Because NICKSBOOTS wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, we are disclosing our information practices.  This web site has agreed to notify you of:

1.   What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally identification is collected from you through the web site

2.   The organization collecting the information

3.   How the information is used

4.   With whom the information may be shared

5.   What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information

6.   The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under NICKSBOOTS control.

If you feel we are not abiding by this posted privacy policy, you should first contact Gary Scott, web liaison by email at nick@nicksboots.com or using any of the contact information on our contact us web page.   

Information Collection and Use

NICKSBOOTS is the sole owner of the information collected on this site.  We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.  NICKSBOOTS collects information from our users at several different points on our website.

Order
We request information from the user on our order form.  Here a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date).  This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer’s orders.  If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.  

Feedback Form
We request information from the user on our feedback form located in the contact us web page.  Here a user must provide contact information (like name and address).  This information is used for informational purposes and to answer your questions.  If we have trouble understanding your request, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.  

Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.  IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.  

Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

We may 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.

Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we NICK'S CUSTOM BOOTS are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.  We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.  This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Newsletter
From time-to-time we print a newsletter.  If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. 

Catalog
From time-to-time we update our printed catalog.  We sometimes mail this catalog to individuals who have expressed interest in our products through inquiries or purchases. 

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests.  Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information.  Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level).  Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes.  Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.  

Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information.  When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. 

When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL.  While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’. 

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line.  All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices.  Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information.  ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.  Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers’ information is protected.  Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to security@nicksboots.com.

Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from us may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line of any email we send or email us at support@thiswebsite.com.

Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties.  We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it.  If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email.  Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

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