Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy covers Housewares Direct 's treatment of personally identifiable information that Housewares Direct collects when you are on the Housewares Direct site, and when you use Housewares Direct 's services. This policy also covers Housewares Direct 's treatment of any personally identifiable information that Housewares Direct 's business partners share with Housewares Direct or that Housewares Direct may collect on a partner's site. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Housewares Direct does not own or control, or to people that Housewares Direct does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

Housewares Direct collects personally identifiable information when you register for a Housewares Direct account, when you use certain Housewares Direct products or services, when you visit Housewares Direct pages, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Housewares Direct may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners. When you register with Housewares Direct , we ask for company name, address, email address, phone number and additional business-related information. Once you register with Housewares Direct and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. Housewares Direct also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, Housewares Direct cookie information and the page you requested. Housewares Direct uses information for three general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to contact you about specials and new products.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Housewares Direct will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. Housewares Direct may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when: We have your consent to share the information; We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Housewares Direct to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.)

Cookies

Housewares Direct may set and access Housewares Direct cookies on your computer. Housewares Direct allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Housewares Direct 's cookies. Housewares Direct uses web beacons to access our cookies within and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Housewares Direct products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

Housewares Direct gives you the ability to edit your Housewares Direct Account Information and preferences at any time. You may request deletion of your Housewares Direct account by emailing housewaresdirect@comcast.net. Please be advised that some statistical information may possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Security

Your Housewares Direct Account Information is password-protected for your privacy and security. In certain areas Housewares Direct uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Housewares Direct may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages. For questions or comments on this policy e-mail customerservice@HousewaresDirect.com or write Customer Service, Housewares Direct , 20 Myles Standish Road, Weston, MA 02493.