Privacy Policy

Personal Information:
In order to make your experience with eCreate as valuable as possible, we request personal information from you in connection with your use of, or participation in services and resources we make available on our site. In all of these cases, we will collect personal identification information from you only if you voluntarily provide it.  eCreate is the sole owner of the information collected on this site.


eCreate Network:
The eCreate Network is free to ALL new schools. As a member, you receive valuable information and offers from our carefully selected partners. Registration to belong is available through our  eCreate representative or by completing the online registration form. During the registration, users are required to give their information (such as name, mailing address, email address). This information is used to mail the member special offers from eCreate "Online Shopping Mall". By ordering a eCreate package, you're automatically part of the eCreate Network.

Registering for the eCreate Network is considered consent to receive special offers and free product samples from eCreate partner companies.

Online Ordering:
We request information from the user on our eCreate order form. Here a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer's orders.

We use state-of-the-art e-commerce technology to protect your transactions with us. When you order photo packages, gifts, announcements, and other products from our site, your transaction is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry-SSL.

Site & Service Updates:
We also send the user site and service announcement updates. On occasion, for example, we may send you emails to introduce a product or service that we may think might be of interest to the users of our site. We may also request personal information from you in connection with your use of, or participation in requests for suggestions, customer feedback, and surveys. If you identify yourself to us by sending us an email with questions or comments, we may use your personal information to respond to your questions or comments. We may file your comments for future reference, or we may discard the information after we have reviewed it.

Choice/Opt Out:
If you provide us with personal information, we may use it to conduct the activities described above. We will give you an opportunity to decline at the time your personal information is requested. If you do not decline at first, you may choose to decline or "opt out" at any time, even after you have provided personal information by contacting us.

We have the following exceptions to these policies: We will release specific information about you or your account to comply with any valid legal process such as warrant, subpoena, statute or court order. We will also release specific information in special cases, such as if there is an attempted breach of the security of the eCreate site.

Non-Personal Information:

Cookies & Log Files:
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to personally identifiable information while on our site. We collect non-personal information through the use of "cookie" technology and IP address tracking. Non-personal information might include the browser you use, the type of computer the operating system, the Internet service provider and other similar information. By setting a cookie, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site.

Our system also gathers information about the areas you visit on our site and about the links you may select from within our site to other areas of the World Wide Web or elsewhere online. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We use such information in the aggregate to understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site. This way we know which areas of our site are most popular, which areas need development, and what technologies are being used so that we may continually improve our site and provide you with a positive online experience.

We may share this non-personal information only in summary with our partners, suppliers and other third parties for the purpose of trend analysis. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. In fact, your personal information is not even included in the data we collect in these instances.

Links:
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that eCreate is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.

Security:
Protecting your privacy and personal information is a top priority. We have taken careful measures to secure both your information and the physical location of our servers. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of information from your Web browser to our servers. All Internet transmissions of data via eCreate are private.

Our Policy on Safe Transactions:
All eCreate merchant partners are required to offer secure transaction capabilities; this ensures your credit card and personal information are safe. All eCreate merchant partners are required to post a statement explaining their privacy policies. Please see their sites for details. The information you share is subject to their posted privacy policy.

Notification of Changes:
We may need to update this policy from time to time in order to address new issues and reflect changes on our site. We will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we use that information and whether we will disclose that information to anyone. Please refer back to this policy regularly.

By using the eCreate site, you signify acceptance of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use this site. Your continued use of the site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes.