Privacy Policy

Jewelry Appraisals of South Florida (“JASF”) seeks to provide you with a enjoyable online experience while maintaining your privacy. We use the information that we collect to make your online experience as easy and enjoyable as possible and to provide effective customer service. We need this information to process your order, inform you of any delays or problems and occasionally to send you special offers and promotions. We take very seriously the private nature of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat the information we collect when you visit our website, register your account, or make a purchase. Please read this policy carefully.
Personal Information
We collect information when you register online or update your account, sign in, place an order, communicate online with us, opt-in to receive our emails, shop online, participate in sweepstakes, contests, promotions or surveys, or join our social networking sites. We may also collect information from you through catalogs or other marketing material. This information may include, but is not limited to, your contact information (for example, your name, email address, billing and shipping addresses and phone number). If you create an online account, you also have the option of providing your product preferences and demographic information. JASF does not collect any personal information that you do not expressly provide.
There are limited circumstances where we may share some of your data with others.
We may disclose your personal information with credit reference agencies, credit card clearing agencies, fraud prevention and detection agencies that we use to process the orders you place with us or who assist us in the service we provide to you. In these instances, we provide them with only the information they need to perform their function.
We may disclose specific information about you if required to do so by law, governmental request, process or court order or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with such law, request or court order or to protect the users of our websites or the public.
We may disclose your personal information to outside research companies who may contact you directly for your opinions on our products and services (in which case we provide them with only the information they need to perform their function).
We may occasionally make information available to companies whose products we believe may interest you, unless you have told us not to. If you do not wish to receive such offers please send us a message via our online contact form.
In the event that our business or assets are purchased by another company, we may disclose your personal information to a purchaser that agrees to abide by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
Non-Personal Information
We may also request non-personally identifiable information, such as buying preferences and age, also known as demographic and profile data, though this information is optional. We may use this data to improve our website and/or tailor your experience at our website, showing you content that we think you might be interested in, and displaying content according to your preferences. We may also share this information with others, such as advertisers interested in advertising on our website, in aggregate, anonymous form, which means that the information will not contain any personally identifiable information about you or any other person.
Usage Information
In addition to collecting personal and non-personal information, we may also collect non-personal, aggregated information about your use of our website. This information is not personally identifiable and will only be used to find out how users use our service and website. For example, this information will tell us how much time users spend on our website, from which other sites users came, and to what other sites users go. The collection of this information allows us to, among other things, prepare for traffic load demands and to efficiently deliver our communications.
Access and Opt-Out
If you are a registered user, you may access and update your registration information and your preferences to receive email or other communications from us by sending us a message via our online contact form. Any user who receives an e-mail may choose not to receive such e-mails in the future by following the instructions in the e-mail and, in addition, if you are a member, you may also choose not to receive such invitations by changing your preferences as indicated above. In addition, you may update or change your personal information or preferences by sending us a message via our online contact form. We will take commercially reasonable steps to implement your opt-out requests promptly, but you may still receive communications from us for up to ten business days as we process your request.
While we make efforts to accommodate requests to restrict our use of your information, we reserve the right to delete all or any portion of customer information if we are not able to reasonably accommodate a requested restriction.
Tracking
Like most sites , we make use of browser cookies. Cookies are small text files placed on your computer's hard disk by our server. They allow us to quickly check your status as a user and facilitate access to your preferences. We will never use cookies to retrieve information from a computer that is unrelated to our website or services. By using our websites, you consent to our placement of cookies on your computer. You may occasionally get cookies from our business partners or other third parties. We have no access to or control over these cookies.
If you do not wish to have cookies on your system, you can set your browser preferences to refuse them or to alert you when cookies are being sent. In order to disable cookies, please consult your browser's "help" section for instructions. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the features of our websites. We collect general statistics to track user trends on our website. These statistics include hits to our server, the types of browsers used to access our website, page views, and navigational patterns. This type of information helps us track where our users are coming from so that we can target demographic areas and determine the most effective ways to communicate with our users. In connection with this analysis, we may use devices web beacons to help us identify when emails sent to you have been received and read. We may also collect IP addresses and other information in order to prevent the introduction of viruses and hackers into the website.
Links to Other Websites
As part of the service, we may create links allowing you to access third party websites. We are not responsible for the content that appears on those websites and does not endorse these sites. Please consult those websites' individual privacy policies in order to determine how they treat user information.
Security
We use reasonable physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to help us protect the security, integrity and confidentiality of data stored on our system.s The website encrypts your credit card number and other personal information using secure socket layer (SSL) technology to provide for the secure transmission of the information from your computer to our servers. We use commercially reasonable efforts to limit access to your personal information to the employees, officers, third-party contractors, and strategic partners who need the information in order to perform their duties. While no system is 100% secure, we believe that the measures we have implemented minimize the risk of security breach to an appropriate level given the types of information involved.
Privacy of Young Children
We are concerned about the privacy of young children and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from a child under 13. We do not sell products for purchase by children and all children's products we sell are for purchase by adults only.
Modification to this Policy
We may change this policy at its sole discretion. All changes will be posted on our website. We encourage you to check our policy periodically. Your continued use of the website and provision of any personal information after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such Privacy Policy change. However, we will not use information previously provided to us except in accordance with the then-applicable Privacy Policy that was posted on the website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this policy or our website in general, please send us a message via our online contact form.
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Privacy Policy
Published on November 30, 2011