Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Pearls for a Cause, LLC. We want you to know that your privacy is important to us. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to ensure your experience with us is one that you will want to repeat and share with your friends. Part of our commitment to you is to respect and protect the privacy of the personal information you provide to us. The information below is designed to inform you of what information we collect, why we collect such information, and how we use the information we collect.

When you submit your personal information to us, you are giving us your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. We are always available to discuss your questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices. If you would like to speak to a customer service representative, please contact us via email at info@pearlsforacause.com.

Pearls for a Cause, LLC will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When a revision is made we will revise the "last updated" date on this page. Your use of our Website constitutes your consent to this Privacy Policy, including any changes or updates.

Collection and Use of Information
General. In general, you can browse our website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. At various times, you may decide to provide us with your personal information. You should know that we receive and may store all personal information (whether written or oral) that you provide to us through whatever means you provide such information (through our website, via e-mail, over the telephone, etc.). Personal information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, home, billing or other physical address or email address as well as any information associated with the foregoing. In addition to your contact information, we may collect information about your purchases, billing address, shipping address, gender, birthday, marital status, anniversary, interests, phone number or other contact information, and credit card information.

Use of Your Personal Information
We may use the information we collect about you to:

  • Facilitate your purchases and provide the services you request.
  • Respond to your inquiries and requests.
  • Compare and review your personal information for errors, omissions and accuracy.
  • Prevent and detect fraud or abuse.
  • Improve our Website, service, product offerings, marketing and promotional efforts, and overall customer experience.
  • Identify your product and service preferences.
  • Understand our customer demographics, preferences, interests, and behavior.
  • Contact you (via email, postal mail, or telephone) regarding products and services that we believe may be of interest to you.

Sharing your Personal Information
In certain circumstances, we may share your personal information with trusted partners. 

  • Service Providers: We use trusted third-party service providers to perform certain services on our behalf, including: payment processing, data storage/management, web analytics, etc. These service providers only receive personal information if such information is needed to perform their function(s), and they are not authorized to use any personal information for any other purpose(s) other than the purpose(s) set forth by Pearls for a Cause,LLC.

  • Compliance with Law and Fraud Protection: We may, and you authorize us to use and disclose any information, including personal information:(1) we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; (2) in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any personal or as otherwise required by law; (3) to other companies and organizations for credit fraud protection and risk reduction; and (4) to enforce any agreement we have with you.

  • Business Transfer: Your personal information may be disclosed as part of any merger, sale of company assets or acquisition, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, in which personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the Company.

Anonymous Information. We may create anonymous records from personal information by excluding information (such as your name) that makes the information personally identifiable to you. We may use these records for internal purposes, such as analyzing usage patterns so that we may enhance our services, and we also reserve the right to use and disclose any information in such records at our discretion.

Other Uses of Your Information
When you visit our website, Pearls for a Cause, LLC collects your IP address to, among other things, help diagnose problems with its server, administer and tune the operation of its Website, analyze trends, track traffic patterns, gather demographic information for aggregate use, and track the date and duration of each session within our website. Your IP address may also be used in combination with your personal information to prevent fraud or abuse, customize your shopping experience, improve our website, customer service, products, and promotional efforts, and to understand your preferences, patterns and interests.

Data Collection Devices such as Cookies. In some instances, Pearls for a Cause,LLC may collect data through cookies and other monitoring technologies to enhance your browsing and shopping experience on our website. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive to collect information about your activities on our website.

You are always free to decline cookies if your browser permits; although, by declining the use of cookies you may not be able to use certain features on the website.

Children
Pearls for a Cause, LLC does not sell products for purchase by children.  If you are under 18, you may use our website only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

Pearls for a Cause,LLC does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18. If we learn that we have collected personally identifiable information from a child under the age of 18, we will delete that data from our systems. Please visit the FTC's website at http://www.ftc.gov for tips on protecting children's privacy online.

Links
Our Website may provide links to other third-party websites which are outside our control and not covered by this privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) Websites.

Security
Pearls for a Cause, LLC is committed to the protection of the personally identifiable information that you share with us. We utilize a combination of physical and electronic security technologies, procedures, and organizational measures to help protect your personally identifiable information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When we transfer sensitive personal information (for example, credit card information) over the Internet, we protect it using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology. While we strive to safeguard your personal information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and, accordingly, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us.

Choice/Opt-Out
We want to communicate with you only if you want to continue to hear from us.

To opt out of receiving email promotions that we send you:  (1) follow the unsubscribe instructions in any of our promotional emails. Opting out of communication with us does not affect our communications with you via telephone or email related to your orders with us. It also does not affect our use of your non-personally identifiable information. 

Updated 3/18/2011