Privacy Notice

Last updated: May 2007

This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting MindTalent.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

Personal Information

When you register for a MindTalent.com account, you provide us with your email address in order to correlate your account with payment information. MindTalent.com believes that you own your data and we simply use a copy in order to provide you with service. We will use your information only to provide you with the MindTalent.com service and products you requested. We will not sell, share or rent this information to any other outside company or individual, except as necessary to comply with legally executed subpoenas or other court orders.

The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at MindTalent.com. 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. 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 for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores, 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". A cookie is a piece of data written from the MindTalent.com server to the user's browser in order to maintain a persistent session. Our site does not use cookies for any session or user tracking purposes but may attempt to set a cookie during the normal course of operation. The user is free to reject these cookies. However, if rejected shopping cart data and user preferences may be lost.

We may obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses MindTalent.com. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at MindTalent.com if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.

E-mail Communications

When you register for a MindTalent.com account or request information, you provide us with your email address and are provided with an opt-in choice to receive informational emails. Acceptance of these emails is not required and not necessary, and the user may opt out at any time. Periodically, it may be necessary to contact individual users via email regarding their MindTalent.com account, and these individual contacts are not covered by the user's choice not to receive news and update mass mailings.

To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from MindTalent.com if your computer supports such capabilities. We also compare our customer list to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our customers. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please let us know. Every email that we send contains a method by which you can be removed from the list.

Information from Other Sources

We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.

Sharing Information

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:

Affiliated Businesses

We work closely with our affiliated businesses. MindTalent.com is operated by MindTalent, Inc. which operates several associated websites. Information gathered at MindTalent.com, and other affiliated sites, is not shared for marketing or analysis by third parties outside of the MindTalent, Inc. family of companies and sites.

Agents

Periodically, we employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

Promotional Offers

Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of MindTalent.com customers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers, please let us know.

Business Transfers

As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that MindTalent.com, Inc., or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.

Protection of MindTalent.com and Others

We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of MindTalent.com, 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.

With Your Consent

Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

Security

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

We reveal only the last four or five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.

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.

Access to Personal Preferences

MindTalent.com gives you access to a broad range of information about your account and your interactions with MindTalent.com for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information.

Choices

As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of such MindTalent.com features.

You can add or update certain information on pages regarding your personal profile. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.

If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your customer preferences. If you do not want to receive legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your use of MindTalent.com, 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

Log Files

The MindTalent.com server records generic log information on both website and applet traffic. These logs are used solely to provide load analysis and debug information to the website administrators. IP addresses are not correlated with user information in our database.

Children

MindTalent.com does not sell products for purchase by children. We sell children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use MindTalent.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to visit MindTalent.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Washington. If you have any concern about privacy at MindTalent.com, please send us a thorough description to the email contact listed on the Contact Us page of the site, and we will try to resolve it.

Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the our Terms of Use 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. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.

Change Notification

If it becomes necessary to change this privacy policy (e.g. if we begin accepting additional information during registration and add additional privacy policy coverage for that data) we will post those changes on this page.