Van Pearl knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting Van Pearl, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

What Personal Information About Customers Does Van Pearl Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at Van Pearl. Here are the types of information we gather.

Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. Van Pearl is in the practice of collecting the following information: phone, email, company name, quotes, projects, and order information. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide exclusively for the purpose of responding to your requests and communicating with you.

Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses Van Pearl. The automatic information we receive and store is: user login and password. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at Van Pearl if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.

E-mail Communications: Your email address is used by Van Pearl exclusively to communicate new products and services and special offers that are available to you, to communicate to you regarding your order or potential order, and/or to notify you of material changes to Van Pearl privacy policy. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please advise via email.

What About Cookies?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as personalized greetings, and storage of items in your Projects, Artwork, and Quotes folders between visits.

Does Van Pearl Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described below.

Agents: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, and processing credit card payments. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

Protection of Van Pearl and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Van Pearl, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.

How Secure Is Information About Me?
We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
The Systems that store the information you provide to us exist behind firewalls.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer by hitting Logout at the top of the page.

Which Information Can I Access?
Van Pearl gives you access to all personal and/or company information about your account and your interactions with Van Pearl for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information. In order to view, review, and/or update/change any personal or company information, or if you have any questions you need only ask us.

What Choices Do I Have?

If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please advise, (If you do not want to receive legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your use of Van Pearl, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.)

The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, you will not be able to use such important features as our personalized home page if you do not use cookies.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit Van Pearl, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice. If you have any concern about privacy at Van Pearl, please contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it.

Our business changes constantly and our Privacy Notice will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
This Privacy Policy has been in effect since November 1, 2005