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Cedar Homes Privacy Policy
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Cedar Designs, LLC is committed to protecting your privacy and earning
your trust. This policy discloses the privacy practices
for the CedarDesigns.com Web site. We use the information we
collect about you from the CedarDesigns.com Web site to process
orders and to provide a more personalized experience as
you use our products and services. This policy explains
how your personal information is safeguarded. It is our
intent to give you as much control as possible over your
privacy and personal information and the use we make of
it in our business. This policy may change, so please check
back from time to time.
What kinds of personal information does Cedar Designs, LLC collect?
In general, you can visit Cedar Designs on the Web without
telling us who you are or revealing any personal information
about yourself. The more information you volunteer (and
the more accurate it is), the better we are able to customize
your experience. We ask for information from you in several
ways from different parts of our Web site.
· We ask for personal information from you when you
buy products or services. At that time, Cedar Designs, LLC
asks for certain required information such as your name,
e-mail address, and other information to process and fulfill
your order. We also request certain other optional information
that will enable us to provide you with a more personalized
experience when using CedarDesigns.com. We will let you
know what information is optional, and you decide whether
or not you want to provide that information or to receive
newsletters or third party correspondence.
· As you use CedarDesigns.com, you may be required
to enter personal information in order to receive specific
benefits. For example, we ask for information from you when
you purchase a product or service through our Web site or
when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by Cedar
Designs, LLC or its partners. This enables us to administer
the contest and notify winners.
· In the course of using our site, we automatically
track certain information about you. This information includes
what type of browser you are using. This information may
include the URL that you just came from and the next URL
you go to, regardless of whether these URLs are on our Web
site or not. It also includes your IP address. Cedar Designs, LLC
uses this information to identify broad demographic trends
that may be used to provide information tailored to your
interests.
· We also monitor customer traffic patterns and site
usage to help us refine and improve the design and layout
of our CedarDesigns.com site and the user experience.
· If you send us personal correspondence, such as
e-mails or letters, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
We also periodically ask users for feedback that we use
to improve our service and products and add new features.
If you respond to these requests, we may keep a record of
your response.
· We also collect IP addresses for system administration.
How does Cedar Designs, LLC use my information?
We collect personal information to give you a customized
experience and to help Cedar Designs, LLC understand its customers
better. Cedar Designs, LLC does not sell, trade, or rent your personal
information to others. In the future, we may choose to do
so with trustworthy third parties if you consent to receiving
newsletters and correspondence and e-mails from third parties
on the registration page on our Web site.
· The personal information you choose to give us
allows Cedar Designs, LLC to process and fulfill your orders and
to notify you of your order status.
· We use the personal information you give us to
provide you with up-to-date information about Cedar Designs, LLC
products and services.
· We may use the information we collect to notify
you from time to time about important functionality changes
to the Web site, new Cedar Designs, LLC services and products, and
special offers we think you will find valuable.
· When you provide us with personal information to
enter a contest or promotion sponsored by Cedar Designs, LLC or
its partners, we use this information to administer the
contest and notify winners. We store all information relating
to such contests and promotions.
· We also research our users' demographics, interests,
and behavior based on the information you give us. We compile
and analyze this information on an aggregate or anonymous
basis.
Who collects information?
When you supply personal information on a CedarDesigns.com
site, you share that information only with Cedar Designs,
LLC, unless you are specifically told otherwise. Cedar Designs,
LLC will comply with this privacy policy and may use your
personal information in the same manner it is used by Cedar
Designs, LLC If a company other than Cedar Designs, LLC
is gathering or maintaining your personal data from our
Web site, you will be told before it is collected or transferred.
You can always choose not to share the information.
When companies other than Cedar Designs, LLC sponsor promotions,
data collected on the CedarDesigns.com site in connection
with these promotions may be shared with the sponsor. Once
again, if this is the case, you will be notified before
the data is collected or transferred, and you can decide
not to participate. Most of these promotions are limited
to United States or North American residents.
If you leave our Web site using links to go to other third
party Web sites, those third parties may gather information
about you. This privacy policy does not cover the practices
of those businesses.
Does Cedar Designs, LLC share my information?
Other than as stated in this policy, Cedar Designs, LLC does not
disclose any of your personal information to third parties
without your permission. Read the following sections to
learn more.
Business partners and sponsors
Cedar Designs, LLC may disclose your personal information to business
partners or sponsors, but you will be notified beforehand
and will be able to choose not to share your information.
Many promotions give you the chance to request additional
information from the sponsors. When you ask for more information,
you give Cedar Designs, LLC permission to send your personal information
to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. Much of
the time, only your e-mail address will be shared. You will
be notified if more information will be shared, and you
can choose not to share the information.
Cedar Designs, LLC shopping
When you buy services or products offered through Cedar Designs, LLC,
the provider of the product or service receives only the
information required for the transaction to take place,
unless additional information is collected by the product
or service provider. You may be required to give these providers
certain additional information to purchase some products
or services. These providers have separate privacy and data
collection practices. Cedar Designs, LLC has no responsibility or
liability for their policies. The service provider's home
page usually provides a link to its privacy policy.
Third-party data and aggregate data
Cedar Designs, LLC discloses aggregated or anonymous statistics
(for example, the percentage of users from the western U.S.)
to prospective partners and advertisers and for other lawful
purposes.
Other situations
Cedar Designs, LLC also may disclose your information where disclosure
is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action
against someone who may be causing injury to or interference
with our rights or property rights, the users' rights, or
others' rights. In the same way, Cedar Designs, LLC will disclose
information when we reasonably believe disclosure is required
by law or to comply with a legal process served on Cedar Designs, LLC
or its Web site. We may disclose your personal information
in the good faith belief that we must act under exigent
circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of
Cedar Designs, LLC, its Web site, or the public.
Some of our promotions may request your e-mail address so
that you can receive periodic updates about the status of
the promotion. When you participate in these types of promotions,
you will automatically receive promotion-related e-mail;
however, you can choose the no-e-mail option that some promotions
offer. Occasionally these promotion-related e-mail messages
may include targeted advertisements.
You can make decisions about cookies. You can modify your
browser preferences to accept all cookies, be notified when
a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you decide
to reject all cookies, you cannot participate in Cedar Designs, LLC
services that require registration to participate.
We will notify you any time we want to transfer the data
we have collected or share it with a third party, and you
always have the option to forbid the transfer.
No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure. Although we are committed to protecting
your personal information, Cedar Designs, LLC cannot ensure
or warrant the security of any information you send to us
or from our online services, and you do so at your own risk.
What are cookies and how does Cedar Designs, LLC use them?
Part of our customized service involves using "cookies"
so that we can immediately recognize you, determine when
you - or someone using the same browser you previously used
- revisits Cedar Designs, LLC, and to provide a more personalized
experience. A "cookie" is a chunk of data that
is sent to your browser from a web server and stored by
your browser on the hard drive of your computer. Your browser
settings must be set to accept cookies before you can log-in
or customize. Most browsers are set up to accept cookies,
but you can usually change your browser settings to refuse
them. Cedar Designs, LLC does not use cookies to retrieve personal
information about you from your computer. This policy does
not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers on our Web
site.
Cedar Designs, LLC uses cookies to:
1. Locate your name and account information when you log
in to our Web site so that you can access your account information.
When you log in, the cookie is set, and when you sign-out,
the cookie is modified.
2. Estimate the size of our audience. Each browser that
accesses Cedar Designs, LLC is given a unique cookie, which is used
to calculate how many people return to our Web site, compare
the number of registered and unregistered visitors to our
site, and use customer interests and behavior to target
our advertisements.
3. Help Cedar Designs, LLC partners track visits and complete business
transactions. This information is sometimes called "click
stream" or "click trail."
4. Track the way you use our promotions, contests, and sales.
When a Cedar Designs, LLC-hosted promotion uses cookies, the information
written to the cookie tracks the user's progress through
the promotion (for example, entries, submissions, and status
in prize drawings).
5. Measure the traffic to various areas of the Cedar Designs
Web site. We measure the areas of the network of Web sites
you visit and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. This
research helps us understand the ways in which our customers
are alike and the ways in which they differ. We may use
this information to personalize the information and design
in our Web site.
What about the privacy of children?
Cedar Designs, LLC is a general audience Web site and does not request
the age of its customers. If a child wants to log in or
register at our site, we prefer that a parent or guardian
do so instead of the child. In this way, we have a parent
or guardian's consent before we gather any information from
the user.
