ChristmasLightsCreations.com takes the privacy of our subscribers and users very seriously. This policy describes how we handle the information you provide us when you visit or subscribe to the Website.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
As is true of most Websites, we automatically gather information about your computer such as your IP address, browser type, referring/exit pages, and operating system. We employ an anonymization process that truncates your IP address when third parties, namely Google, tracks data for this Website. During the course of operating this Website, ChristmasLightsCreations.com does drop cookies, small text files, onto your hard drive. This is to allow us to recognize you as a subscriber or user and allows us to compile statistical data pertaining to the site’s usage. Cookies help us provide you with a better Website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, blocking cookies may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Website.
Web Beacons
Our Website pages contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our site is used and may be used in some of our e-mails to let us know which e-mails and links have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of our customer communications and marketing campaigns.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
We collect the following personal information from you:
Contact Information such as name, e-mail address, mailing address, and phone number.
Billing Information such as credit card or debit card number and billing address. However, credit card information is collected only through our payment processors Pay Pal and Stripe. The information you provide during the checkout process is being entered into payment forms provided by Pay Pal and Stripe. ChristmasLightsCreations.com does not collect this information and we have limited access to it once the order has been paid for.
Unique Identifiers such as user name, account number, and password.
Any personal information gathered will remain with Christmas Lights Creations, LLC and will not be sold, leased, lent, shared, or leaked to any third parties for marketing purposes without your express permission.
However, we may disclose information you provide if required to do so by law or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend our rights or property; or (3) act in an emergency to protect someone’s safety.
Security
We have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. These include multiple firewalls to prevent unauthorized access to our systems and maintenance of registration information in a separate database. Although we will exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between your computer and our servers, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet and we accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure.
We maintain archives of our web logs, database, and other systems and information. Please note that it is possible some of this information may remain archived after we delete the information from its active database. We maintain archives for disaster recovery, legal and other non-marketing purposes.
We provide two means for you to make a purchase on our site. You can either use Stripe or Pay Pal. When you use our shopping cart, the transmission of sensitive information collected on our order form, specifically your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address is encrypted using Secure Socket Layer technology (SSL). ChristmasLightsCreations.com does not store credit card, debit card or bank account information on the Website or on our servers. If you choose to use Stripe or Pay Pal to pay for your order, the privacy policies and security practices of those companies will apply to your information. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing your information.
What we do With the Information we Gather
We may periodically send promotional e-mails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the e-mail address which you have provided.
We may use the information to improve our products and services, to fulfill your order and send you an order confirmation.
If you are visiting ChristmasLightsCreations.com from outside the United States of America, please be advised that because we operate internationally, and certain of our computer systems are currently based in the United States of America, your personal data will be processed by us in the United States of America where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as the European Union. By using ChristmasLightsCreations.com you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
We do not retrieve any information from a computer unrelated to our Website or services.
All communication on the Internet takes place between pairs of IP Addresses. Our Web servers will log the IP address from which any connection is made. We may use these IP addresses to help diagnose technical problems or prevent abuse of our systems or other site users. We routinely block IP addresses for reasons that are strictly within our discretion.
Links to Other Websites
ChristmasLightsCreations.com contains links to other Websites. However, once you have used these links to leave ChristmasLightsCreations.com, you should note that we do not have any control over other Websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy policy applicable to the Website in question.
Controlling Your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways.
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by e-mailing us at webmaster@christmaslightscreations.com or by using the unsubscribe option found in our marketing newsletters.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act of 1998. We will e-mail you a report within 10 days.
If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to:
Christmas Lights Creations, LLCP.O. Box 34782
Memphis, Tennessee 38184
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please send correspondence or e-mail us. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
California Privacy Rights
This supplements the Privacy and Security Policy above.
Beginning January 1, 2005, under California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents who provide personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2015 will receive information regarding 2014 sharing activities).
To obtain this information, please Contact Us with “Request for California Privacy Information” on the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you at your e-mail address in response. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine the Light” requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.
Your use of ChristmasLightsCreations.com, including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this Privacy Policy. By using ChristmasLightsCreations.com, you are accepting the practices set out in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. Please check the revision date at the bottom of this page to determine if the policy has been modified since you last reviewed it. Your continued use of any portion of ChristmasLightsCreations.com following posting of the updated Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
If you have any questions, please contact us at webmaster@christmaslightscreations.com
This policy is effective from March 14, 2023.