Privacy Policy / Terms
dreamsofmybrother.com & dreams-of-my-brother.com
This page was last updated Nov 3, 2009
By using our Site, you consent to the terms of this Policy.
Your privacy is important to us. 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. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on all our web pages through a link in the footer and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
In short, we will not automatically opt users into our mailing list unless users specifically express an interest in joining such a list. No information we collect is used by or shared with any third parties unless it is needed to complete a transaction. In that case, the information is strictly used to complete such transactions and will not be used to contact you for any other reason. Our ordering process uses SSL technology to secure the transmission of personal and payment information to our server.
What is Personal Information?
Personal information specifically identifies an individual, such as an individual's name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card or other account number, and information about that individual's activities when directly linked to him or her, such as information about his or her purchases.
Personal information does not include "aggregate" information. Aggregate information is data collected about a group or category of products, services or clients from which individual client identities have been removed. In other words, information about how you use a service may be collected and combined with information about how others use the same service, but no personal information will be included in the resulting data. Likewise, information about the products you purchase may be collected and combined with information about the products purchased by others. Aggregate data helps us understand trends and client needs so that we can better consider new products and services, and tailor existing products and services to client desires.
Where Personal Information Is Collected and How That Information is Used
Registration:
Our website may now or at any time in the future include one or more features that require registration in order to access such protected information or features. Registration for these features is optional and would merely be used to limit spammers and spam bots from accessing, posting to, and/or reading information on our site. Upon registration, users will be asked to provide a username, password, and valid email address. The username does not have to be the user's actual or real name but rather the screen name that the user wishes to use to log into a password protected area or feature of our website. Any such information collected will not be used for anything else and certainly will not be shared with any third parties. Providing an email address as part of registration will not constitute an opt-in to any mailing lists. Joining our mailing list will require users checking one or more checkboxes indicating their express desire to join such a list (see below). Upon registration, an automated email may be sent to the user in order for them to verify the validity of the email address they provided and thereby activating their account. The only other time users may be contacted by email is if either a) our privacy policy has changed, or b) if there is a notice or alert that pertains specifically to the feature or area of our site that users registered for in the first place.
Mailing List:
We encourage our users to sign up for (opt-in to) our mailing list. Joining our list requires that users complete a sign-up form or else specify they wish to join a list by clicking a checkbox and submit button. Users may opt in as a stand alone process or as part of the ordering process by clicking an opt-in checkbox. Check boxes that are part of the ordering process will not be checked on by default; users must click the checkbox to indicate they wish to opt-in.
In order to join our mailing list, we will require that users provide a valid email address. We may also ask users to provide additional information but all such additionally requested information is optional and not required in order to join our mailing list. Any such information will not be published for other users to see or utilized for anything other than to personalize the email content we send out and/or to filter whether or not that user receives an email. In other words, if a user provides their name then we may create a personalized sentence in an email that includes their name. Alternately, if a user provides their address then we may send a targeted email based on their city or state of residence.
Regardless what information a user decides to provide, no personally identifiable information we collect will be shared with any third parties.
As part of any communication from us, we will always include a way for the user to remove themselves from our list (opt-out). Users can click an "unsubscribe: link or button and follow the required steps to stop receiving emails from us. The unsubscribe process may require an email confirmation in order to prevent users from deleting accounts other than their own. Users can also opt-out by following a link inside their profile page (if they registered) and/or the sign-up pages and following the necessary steps to opt-out.
Ordering:
Our website offers an online shop to purchase a variety of products. We only accept Credit Card and PayPal payments. In order to place an order, the user will need to provide their email, ship to, bill to, and payment information. We use advanced encryption to ensure the safe transfer of such information to our server. In some cases, personalized items can be ordered in which case the personalization text will become part of the order.
We will never disclose, share, or sell your personal information to third parties, except as needed to complete your order (e.g., if drop-shipping directly from a manufacturer or an email sent by a shipping confirmation for you to track your order with them directly). Our suppliers have equally stringent policies in place, when it comes to keeping your personal information safe.
When you shop with us, you provide information using online forms on our website. We use this information to process your order, contact you regarding your order, or to answer any questions/concerns you might have expressed.
When you purchase something from us, we securely transmit your credit card information, name, and billing address to your credit card company for authorization and approval of your order amount. Additionally, we must provide your name, shipping address, and sometimes telephone number to third party shippers such as DHL, UPS, or FedEx to deliver your product from us.
Finally, we will release personally identifiable information if required by law or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
Cookies:
Our ordering process utilizes a third party platform that utilizes cookies to complete your order. Sometimes cookies are mandatory, and optional at other times. For instance, in order for the cart and ordering process to work properly, cookies are created with a variety of non personally identifiable information like cart contents and so on. But at other times, users may choose for the site to 'remember' them in order to expedite future logins. In those cases, cookies are set that might include the login ID of that user.
Additionally, when you visit our Site, some information is automatically collected, such as your computer's operating system and browser type, version, and capabilities (such as whether JavaScript is enabled and cookies are accepted), your Internet Protocol (IP) address and the time and date of your visit, the referring site (if applicable), as well as screen resolution, color and depth. This information is tracked through the use of "cookies."
Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer by your browser at the request of a web site to store your personal preferences. We use cookies to keep you logged in to the Site, to count the number of unique computers visiting the Site, and to record your user preferences.
Aggregate Information
When a visitor comes to our website we collect information about the visitor's computer such as its IP address, operating system and browser software, click-stream information such as the address (URL) of the web site that directed you to our site, which pages and the order in which they were visited on our site for the purpose of assessing our site traffic and the effectiveness of the content. We may use any and all of this information in aggregate form - and never analyzed at the individual level - to improve our website's performance, organization, and functionality.
With whom this site shares information it gathers/tracks/shares:
We may share aggregate statistics about our customer's traffic patterns, but these statistics do not include any personally identifying information. Like most Web sites, there is certain information we automatically track, including the URL that you just came from, which URL you go to next, the browser you are using and your IP address.
Information gathered by our credit card processing vendor, as the name of the client, name of the company, phone number, email address, and credit card, is necessary for them to provide that service, and will not be provided to us. Our credit card processing vendor is prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
Security:
We have put into place reasonable security measures in an effort to prevent loss, misuse and alteration of information while it is under our control. We cannot, however, guarantee the protection of information against interception, misappropriation, misuse or alteration, nor can we promise that your information may be not be disclosed or accessed by accidental circumstances or by the unauthorized acts of others. Furthermore, we have no control over the security of other sites you might visit, interact with or do business with.
Orders placed on our Site are protected by the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to ensure privacy and security of your ordering and payment information. We also use encryption technologies to protect billing information that we retain.
Links to Other Web Sites:
The Site may contain links to other Web sites. Links from our Site to other sites or content are provided for your convenience only, and we do not have control over the content or privacy and security practices and policies of such third parties or other sites. Any personal information you provide on linked pages is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party's privacy policy. We encourage you to learn about their privacy and security practices and policies before providing them with personal information.
Changes to our Privacy Policy:
This policy may be revised over time as new features are added to the web site. We will post those changes prominently so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. Please check this site for information about revisions to our privacy policy.
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.
Your Comments or Concerns:
We welcome your feedback. If you have any comments or concerns about this Policy or would like to contact us for any reason, please use the following address:
Dreams Of My Brother
c/o Material Culture
4700 Wissahickon Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19144
