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Many web sites today collect information about their customers
and this information can be used for a variety of purposes, some of which may be
done without the customers explicit permission. As fellow citizens of the world
wide web, we take this very seriously. Within this website there are
several areas where you may need to enter information in order to complete
orders and transactions and/or simplify your browsing and ordering experience.
We take our customers concerns about privacy and security
very seriously and therefore we fully disclose what information is gathered
and what it is used for. You can be assured that the information you provide is
only used for legitimate reasons and we have taken steps to safeguard this
information.
Security of your Personal and
Financial Information
- When submitting payment for an order, the payment
processing is done by a reputable, third party supplier with a proven track
record and excellent security and anti-fraud protection. Your credit card
details are never sent through e-mail and we never see them, unless you
provide this to us over the phone. They are not kept
on our database. We collect them only in order to process payment.
- All transactions involving financial or sensitive information is done over
encrypted pages using industry standard 128 bit SSL certificate.
- To know whether the page you are on is secure look for the 'closed
padlock' icon on the bottom of your browser. Double clicking this icon will
give you information about the certificate and its validity.
- None of your personal information, such as phone number, email, address
etc is kept on our server, although we may add you to our mailing list for future
updates, should you wish.
- The exception to this is if you setup an
account with us and decide to keep this information on file voluntarily.
In this case your credit card number is encrypted with a unique key that can
only be accessed by account holders.
Cookies
- These personal details are kept only on your computers hard
drive using a 'Cookie', a small text file that can be accessed by your browser
the next time you log in. This is done purely as a way to make your viewing
and shopping experience easier.
- In order for you to retrieve the information in this cookie
you will be asked to enter your e-mail address as an additional check that
someone else is not using your computer to access our site.
- Cookies are used in three areas on this site.
- Your user profile enables you to check out faster and apply
large discounts on volume orders.
- The shopping cart feature uses a cookie to pass order
information form one page to another.
- The 'My Album' feature uses a cookie to remember the images
in your album.
IP Logging
- To ensure the integrity of the images on our site, your IP
address may be logged in our database when downloading images. The IP address
is a number assigned by your internet service provider and cannot identify you
specifically. We do not share this address with anyone or use it for tracking.
Advertising / Newsletter
- We do not advertise on this media gallery site directly,
although some of our linked pages may contain banner or popup ads.
- If you have ordered from us in the past we will add you to our newsletter
distribution. Should you wish to be removed just reply to any email from us
with the phrase 'please remove' in the email. We will take you off the list
for any future updates.
- Otherwise you will always be asked before being added to our newsletter in
the form of a checkbox on any form submissions.
Reselling or Marketing of your Personal Information
- When we receive your order details we require personal
information about you in order to process the order. Again, no financial
information contained in these details is kept in our database.
- We will never market, re-sell or use your information in
any way other than to fulfill your order and to continue a business
relationship with you.
- If you have purchased products from us, we may from time to
time send you information through e-mail on special offers or updates about
our web based business. You can ask to be removed from this mailing list at
any time and you will be removed, normally within 2 days.
Inappropriate or Copyrighted Content
- We do not market images which we deem to be inappropriate
content. This includes pornography, gratuitous violence, racist or hate based
images.
- Some of our images may contain subject matter which some
people may find tasteless or offensive. Our photographers may upload images
from other parts of the world where certain customs or behaviors may have a
different level of acceptance.
- Some images may contain tasteful nudity, however any
sections containing these sorts of images will be identified as such.
- While we do our best to ensure material submitted by our contributing
photographer is copyright safe, if you are concerned about an image you see on
our site please let us know. We take these sorts of concerns very seriously.
- Should you come across anything in this gallery which you
think does not meet these criteria we encourage you to let us know.
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If you set up an account with World of Stock there are certain things you
need to be aware of.
By setting up an account you are giving us permission to retain information
about you, your company and other employees or associates of your company, on
our database in order to make processing of orders easier and provide you with
additional value added services.
Disclaimer: While we make every attempt to ensure that this
information is kept absolutely secure, (all account updates are done on secure
pages which require an account ID to access, credit card and account ID have
additional encryption applied) we cannot be held responsible for any damages
resulting from this information being viewed or distributed by a non authorized
third party.
Please take note of the following additional precautions;
- Keep your Account ID in a safe place. You will need it for all account
related activities.
- Never under any circumstances allow unauthorized persons to use your
account id.
- The account prime from your company is responsible for granting and
removing access from your account.
- We can only grant access to existing accounts with approval from your
account prime.
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