PRIVACY & SECURITY

Apparelbus repute the privacy and security of user information as a critical component of the service that we offer to our users. We are committed to protecting and respecting the confidentiality of all visitors and users of this website. By visiting the AppareBus website you agree to accept the practices defined in this Privacy Notice. If you do not approve to the terms of this Privacy Notice, you may not use the website.

PRIVACY POLICY:

ApparelBus believe that you should feel both informed and authorized when it comes to our handling and usage of your information. The website never stored the financial information such as your credit card numbers on our servers and they are removed as soon as you placed the order. We use information that we collect from our visitors and customers to identify and improve your visit and shopping experience at the website.

• What is personal information being collected by us?

  We collect personal information that is provided by website users. You may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number and/or credit card information. Personal Information is collected when you create an account with us, place the order on the website, or when you interconnect with any of our departments such as sales, technical service or customer services through the website, telephone, mail or fax. In some occurrences, we may obtain other person names and email addresses that you may indicate to provide as part of our "friend email" feature.

1. Orders: For putting in the request through our site, you will be required to give contact, charging, and payment information.

2. Catalog Requests and Email Newsletter Subscriptions: Although placing an order through our website, you will automatically begin receiving both the ApparelBus catalog and the ApparelBus email newsletter, based on the Personal Information you have provided. We will send you an email confirming the request, after your newsletter subscription. This validation process allows you to unsubscribe if you change your mind and choose not to join the list. Moreover, if someone else has entered your email address into our email newsletter subscription list the confirmation email will alert you. In order to make our email newsletters more applicable and beneficial to you, our servers may receive a confirmation when you open an email message from ApparelBus.

• What are cookies and how we use them?

We may also collect and analyze Internet Protocol (IP) address. An IP address is a set of numbers, which is allocated to your computer during a browsing session. You can generally fixed your browser to reject cookies or to alert you when you are sending a cookie. Our site uses cookies to differentiate you from other users of our site and to keep track of your visits. The third parties also available software to allow you to visit the website without providing any information. If you use such software you’re welcome to use the website but we will not offer you our personalized services and unable to receive any online orders from you.




List of cookies we collect

The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.

COOKIE NAME	COOKIE DESCRIPTION
CART	The association with your shopping cart.
CATEGORY_INFO	Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly.
COMPARE	The items that you have in the Compare Products list.
CURRENCY	Your preferred currency
CUSTOMER	An encrypted version of your customer id with the store.
CUSTOMER_AUTH	An indicator if you are currently logged into the store.
CUSTOMER_INFO	An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to.
CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS	Stores the Customer Segment ID
EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE	A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not.
FRONTEND	You sesssion ID on the server.
GUEST-VIEW	Allows guests to edit their orders.
LAST_CATEGORY	The last category you visited.
LAST_PRODUCT	The most recent product you have viewed.
NEW MESSAGE	Indicates whether a new message has been received.
NO_CACHE	Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache.
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART	A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site.
POLL	The ID of any polls you have recently voted in.
POLLN	Information on what polls you have voted on.
RECENTLYCOMPARED	The items that you have recently compared.
STF	Information on products you have emailed to friends.
STORE	The store view or language you have selected.
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE	Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.
VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS	The products that you have recently viewed.
WISHLIST	An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist.
WISHLIST_CNT	The number of items in your Wishlist.

• How the information is being use?

  We practice this information in an effort to advance your experience on ApparelBus to provide services to you and to interconnect with you about information that you demand. This information also helps us target specific offers to you, to help us produce and improve our website, and to modify our website for your interests.





• With whom do we share the information?

  We will not rent, sell or otherwise reveal your Personal Information to unrelated third parties without your permission, we are very careful who do we share your information with, but it is important that you understand when that sharing takes place and why, and that’s what this section explains.

1. Service Providers: We may hire other companies or individuals to provide certain services to or on behalf of us such as analyzing customer lists and data, or performing marketing or consulting services. The Third parties will just approach the alluring data to play out these constrained capacities for our sake and are required to convey your Personal Information with at any rate an indistinguishable level of assurance and security from we use on the site.

   Such Service Providers are forbidden from using your Personal Information for any persistence other than that for which such party was involved by us and/or as stated in this Privacy Notice. Any Service Providers that use data received from us may only do so in agreement with this Privacy Notice.




2. Credit Card Companies: Through our website, if you place an order the Personal Information you provide is transferred to your credit card company to verify and authorize your purchase. At certain times we may offer financing options with or without third-party contribution. If you use a financing option, information provided by you (such as your address, birthdate, social security number, and credit card number) may be used to request a credit report from third parties or may be sent to a third party for processing.




3. Third-Party Marketing Partners: After time to time we might begin a business relationship with other third parties whom we believe are trustworthy. In such cases we might license, exchange, share and/or cross-reference information, counting your name and postal mailing address that will enable such third parties to communicate you regarding products and services that may be of interest to you.We will never share any phone numbers, email, or credit card data which you have given us with any such third-party accomplices.




4. Shipping Companies: Through our website if you make a purchase, your name, telephone number and shipping information must be provided to third-party shippers such as UPS, FedEx and the United States Postal Service to convey your purchase. There also may be occurrences in which we drop-ship orders directly to you from one of our constructors or suppliers. These drop-shippers are only given your name, postal address, and telephone number for the sole purpose of satisfying your order.




5. Third Party Transaction-Level Data: In the event that you visit our site from an outsider website, then that website may have right to select information from your individual transaction information. The third-party website may give you a unique code, cookie or graphic which will uniquely identify you in order to track and credit your transaction. This will only happen if you link directly from a third party website to our website. Any transactions made at our website while such a code is active will be listed back to the third party website. We will only report non-Personal Information to these websites such as the transaction date, the products purchased and the amount spent. We will not report any information to these third-party websites that will allow them to personally recognize you.




6. Links to Third-Party Website: The website contains certain links to third party websites, such as our vendors. We are not answerable or liable for the privacy practices or content initiated on these websites. We endorse that you checked the privacy notice of each website you visit. Links to third-party websites are provided exclusively for your suitability and any submission of data to such websites shall be at your sole risk.

• What information will be disclosed if required by law?

  We do not sell, trade, or transfer your personal information to outside parties. But to extent legalized by law, we will reveal Personal Information to government authorities or third parties pursuant to a legal request, order or other legal process. We may also use or reveal your information as permitted by law to perform charge confirmations, report or collect debts owed, fight fraud or protect our rights or property as well as those of our affiliates, customers, or its users. You should be aware that, following disclosure to any third party, your Personal Information may be available by others to the extent permitted or required by applicable law.

  
  

1. Children & Privacy:We are in agreement with the requirements of children's online privacy protection act. We do not collect any information from anyone under 18 years of age. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time with their children online and to be aware with the websites they visit. ApparelBus products and services are all directed to people who are at least 18 years old or older. If you are under the age of 18, you are required seek the consent of your parent or guardian to purchase products from the website.

• How do I access, update, or delete my personally identifiable information?
  

  If your name, e-mail or postal address, telephone number or other Personal Information changes, you may update, correct or omit the relevant information by contacting us at privacy@apparelbus.com. In addition, if you no longer wish to receive communications from us you may opt-out by emailing us at privacy@apparelbus.com, by sending a letter to:

Web Security:

The accurate Web Security Service makes advanced threats feel like empty threats. The security processes are place to protect the harm, mismanagement or alteration of information under our control? ApparelBus.com values your business and is dedicated to doing everything possible to make our online ordering process secure.

• What is an SSL Certificate?

  SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificate is a software that encrypts all information between web server and visitor's web browser, moving to and from the Certificate holder’s website. This means no interchange between the website and its visitors can be purposefully or accidentally “overheard” by a third party, regardless of whether the visitor is placing an order or just signing up for a newsletter.

  
  

  When you enter our Best SSL certified website you can look for “https” prefix or a green address bar as shown in the picture, which means your information is safe when submitted to our SSL Certified website.

  
  

  When you have completed your order online, our security procedures do not end. We take appropriate precautions to protect the security and privacy of the information stored on our computer networks. Systems are also kept in secure facilities, and access to your data by our employees is limited to a "need to know" basis, controlled by password-protected systems, and monitored for abuse.

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If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Notice, please email us at privacy@apparelbus.com or send a letter to: Apparelbus.com Privacy Officer.