Privacy


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.

Information we collect
The information we receive depends on what you do when you visit our site. Creative Memories will not collect or retain any of your personal information (your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address) unless you choose to provide it to us.

On some pages, you can choose to make requests or submit additional information at your discretion. When you visit our site to read or download information, we collect and store only the following: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account), the date and time you access our site, and the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site. We use this information to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.

Creative Memories is committed to providing you with a secure environment to store, share and print your digital images. Should you decide to create an account, you must create a password-protected account that you will have sole control over. Hence, you can individually manage who will be provided access to the images stored in your Creative Memories Photo Center account.

Creative Memories also is committed to providing you with a secure environment for Consultant-customer connection. When using the services provide on the site, you may be required to provide some personal information to help assist Creative Memories or a Creative Memories Consultant conduct business with you. Each site is assigned to a specific Creative Memories Consultant and is managed by that individual through a password-protected account. As a customer, when you access a site you are interacting with a Creative Memories Consultant, who is an independent consultant operating their own Creative Memories business.

The way we use information
Creative Memories only uses your personal information to assist in providing the services available to you at the site you choose to access. Your personally identifiable information will not be rented, sold or shared with any third party, except as provided to third party intermediaries who help us run the site or provide products or services. Your personal information is only provided to third parties, such as credit card authorization companies, technical advisors, vendors processing our outbound email communication, etc., for the purpose of providing you the site services requested at the time you request them. Third parties do not store, retain, access or otherwise use your personal information other than to provide you with the requested site services, and they are held to confidentiality agreements with Creative Memories.

This Privacy Policy applies to Creative Memories. Some sites you access may be managed by a Creative Memories Consultant, and they may have access to your personal information in order to assist in providing requested services. Creative Memories Consultants are individually responsible for ensuring the security and privacy of your personal information. Creative Memories Consultants must only use a customer's personal information for conducting business with that customer and are not permitted to rent, sell or share this information. It is a violation of Creative Memories' Policies and Procedures to inappropriately disclose personal information obtained from customers. Please contact your Creative Memories Consultant regarding their privacy practices.

Creative Memories may use non-identifying and aggregate information for the purpose of enhancing the Creative Memories sites services and to share with business partners. For example, Creative Memories may tell a partner that X number of individuals visited a certain area on the site ,or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out a registration form, but Creative Memories would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Please note that if based on good faith belief that the law requires it, or to protect your or Creative Memories' rights or property, Creative Memories will disclose your personal information to the extent required.

If, when you register at a site, you agree to let Creative Memories send promotional information to you, Creative Memories will use your personal information to send you promotions and other information regarding its products and services. If you choose to opt out you can easily uncheck the e-mail notification box located under the account information link on the site.

Additional information for users of Creative Memories sites

All digital images are uploaded over a secure Internet connection to a highly secure data center. The images are continually backed-up on two separate servers in different locations.

Creative Memories values the intellectual property rights of others. Creative Memories claims no ownership interest in your digital images stored in the Creative Memories sites. We are committed to keeping your images private and secure. Through your password-protected Creative Memories sites account you have sole control over directing the access others have to your images. Please note that by sharing your images, you allow recipients to share and make photographic prints from the images you provided access to.

If you wish to share your digital images with others, you need to provide email addresses for distribution. Creative Memories will e-mail the guests you have specified and invite them to view your images at Creative Memories sites.

Your Creative Memories site account will include an online address book where you can store mailing addresses and email addresses of family and friends. This online address book is private and accessible only by you through your password. Creative Memories will not use any information contained in you private online address book for any non-service or support related purpose.

Security
Creative Memories is committed to the security of your personal information. Creative Memories uses industry best practices to protect the privacy of your personally identifiable information. When providing sensitive information, such as your password or credit card information, Creative Memories encrypts this information through SSL, an encryption and security technology.

Information Automatically Collected (electronic)
Creative Memories uses cookies and pixel tags to track users of Creative Memories sites. Cookies are pieces of information stored on a user's computer by a Web site so preferences are remembered on future requests. Pixel tags (also known as Web Bugs, Web Beacons, Clear Gifts, Invisible Gifts, and Tracker Gifts) are signals sent from certain Web sites or e-mails used to pass certain information to our servers to personalize our Web sites and to track your usage. Creative Memories does not save password or credit card number information on cookies or through use of pixel tags without your permission. Rather, cookies and pixel tags are used to optimize the performance and functionality of the site, and to personalize the site for you and present you with content and offers specific to your interests.

If you are uncomfortable with the idea of your information being stored in cookies, Creative Memories recommends disabling cookie support in your browser. However, please note that this may limit the performance functionality at the Creative Memories sites.

Our commitment to children's privacy

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our Web site from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our Web site is structured specifically to attract anyone under 13.

How to contact us If you have submitted information about yourself through the Creative Memories Web site or an e-mail message and you would like us to delete that information from our records, please contact us. We will make every effort to delete your personal information from our files.

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact us:
By phone: (800) 468-9335
By e-mail: fieldservices@creativememories.com
By mail:
Creative Memories
PO Box 1839
St Cloud, MN 56302-1839


Creative Memories reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at its sole discretion. If there is a need to change the Privacy Policy, we will post any changes for customer viewing announcing the new Privacy Policy. If applicable, Creative Memories will provide site users with a way to opt out of any changes to the way their personal information will be used.

Please note that you should review the Terms of Use that govern your use of the site. By using this site you are bound by the terms and conditions outlined in the Terms of Use.