Orchid & Company Policies
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Orchid & Company makes no guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of or results to be obtained from accessing and using information on our Website. And we shall not be liable to any reader or anyone else for any inaccuracy, error or omission, regardless of cause, in the Websites' information or for any damages resulting therefrom. The opinions expressed by customers and contributors are their own and not those of Orchid & Company LLC.
Privacy Policy
Orchid & Company is committed to providing privacy in our products and services. This policy outlines our personal information handling practices. If you give us personal information, we treat it according to this policy, and we use your personal information only in the ways specified when it was collected. We do not otherwise share it. Orchid & Company encourages you to read this privacy policy and those of all Websites you visit.
Types and uses of personal information
Our commerce system requires that you provide a valid email address; we use that to process orders and communicate with our customers. Accounts in our system are perpetual. If you change the information in your account, our data backups may include your original information for up to six months. Separately, when you email us, we retain your address and correspondence. We use these to raise and respond to issues and inquiries of all types.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Personally identifiable information:
We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties, with one limited exception: we may disclose personally identifiable information about you if we have a good faith belief that doing so is required by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order.
Cookies:
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. The information we store in cookies is, in some cases, linked to readers' accounts.
We use both short-term cookies and persistent cookies. A short-term cookie expires within a limited period of time. We use session cookies so that readers with accounts can navigate and contribute to our site without logging in multiple times over a short period of time. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. We use persistent cookies to recognize account holders and present the site accordingly. You can remove cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to browse and purchase products online will require cookies.
Links to Other Sites
It should go without saying, but we'll say it anyway: this Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Orchid & Company. Please be aware that we, Orchid & Company, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Changes in This Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Working on Your Own Privacy Policy?
Check out BoingBoing (they also recommend TRUSTe). Their very user friendly policies page was the inspiration for this one.