Privacy Policy

Protecting your privacy is important to us.  The following statement will help you understand how snowbythebox.com collects, uses and safeguards the personal information you provide to us. Personal information, including your email address, is never sold, rented or traded to third parties.

Security
When you register as a user with snowbythebox.com (i.e. send confidential, personal account data to snowbythebox.com), initial SSL is not required as payment information is not being transmitted via the web site, it will be submitted via a PayPal site where security is provided.   If, in the future, a credit card payment is ever required by the site for any reason, we will require that a "secure session" first be established using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol when that is fully available. 

Like many other web sites, the snowbythebox.com web site may utilize a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information about how our site is used.

Information Use
If you provide us with your e-mail address or have done so in the past, we may upon occasion send you email correspondence to inform you about space availability, development status, special offerings, products and/or services.

Company Commitment to Privacy
snowbythebox.com is involved with current industry initiatives to preserve individual privacy rights on the Internet and in all aspects of electronic commerce.

• We only collect the information that is needed, and we tell you how we use it.
  Collected information is limited to what we need to know to administer accounts, provide you with proper customer services, to offer (when and/or if applicable) new products and services, and to fulfill any legal and regulatory requirements. We tell our applicants and/or customers about the general uses of information we collect about them, and we will provide additional explanations if requested.
  
• We give customers choices about how their data will be used.
  On a regular basis, we give our customers the option to decide whether or not they wish to have their names removed from lists used for mail, telephone and online marketing. These opt-out choices include product and service offers from snowbythebox.com and those made in conjunction with our business partners.  As stated throughout this web site, unless you are made completely aware of actions to the contrary, private information remains private.
  
• We ensure information quality.
  We use advanced technology and well-defined employee practices to help ensure that applicant and/or customer data is processed promptly, accurately and completely. We require high standards of quality from the consumer reporting agencies and others who provide us with information about prospective applicants and/or customers.
  
• We use information security safeguards.
  Access to customer data is limited to those who specifically need it to conduct their business responsibilities. We use security techniques designed to protect our customer data -- especially when certain data is used by employees and business partners to fulfill applicant and/or customer services.
  
• We limit the release of customer information.
  In addition to providing customers with the opportunity to opt out, we release information only with the customers' consent or request, or when required to do so by law or other regulatory authority.
  
• We extend these privacy principles to our business relationships.
  We expect the individuals and companies we select as our business partners to honor our privacy principles in the handling of customer information.
  
• snowbythebox.com Privacy Commitment
  snowbythebox.com respects the sensitive nature of the information you provide to us. Our Privacy Policy is designed to maximize your ability to protect your personal information and obtain interesting and useful information about products and services being offered.
   
• This Privacy Policy describes how we treat the information we receive about you when you've given us feedback.   Please read the Privacy Policy carefully because it governs how we use the information you submit to us. If the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the information you have submitted to us in a manner that is inconsistent with the Privacy Policy under which the information was originally collected.
   
• Information - What you provide to us and how we use it
  When or if you register with snowbythebox.com for any purpose, you will be providing personal information to us. Personal information includes such things as your name, address, phone number, street address, and email address.

  When you register to make a purchase or wish to receive more information, your information will be collected and used for the specific purpose intended.  We DO NOT provide your name and address to third parties in order that they may provide catalogs or other marketing materials to you.  Again, we DO NOT provide your personal information to any third parties.  Most e-commerce retailers and many other web sites operating online today do this, we do not.

  If you opt-in (specifically choose) to receive e-mail offers about new products and services available from our trusted third party marketing partners, we will combine your personal information with other personal information about you that is available to us, such as past purchase history, in order to provide you with email notices and offers that will be geared towards your individual preferences and tastes. Each email you receive will provide you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving future e-mails.   This is only done, if you specifically choose to participate in such marketing.
   

• Information about Children
  snowbythebox.com does not collect, store, or use information about children. You must be at least 18 years of age in order to participate in any promotional situation available through snowbythebox.com.

Cookies
In the course of communicating with you, this site, and the advertisements you see on it, will use "cookies" to communicate with your browser.

snowbythebox.com, along with thousands of other Web sites, uses cookies to enhance your Web viewing experience.  Cookies do not damage your system or files in any way. A Cookie is a small text file that includes a unique number. The partner we used to handle Cookies records that number in the cookie file of your computer. The Cookie allows you to communicate with our site and allows us to remember your browser on a repeat visit. Cookies also allow our partner (at the present time, no partner has been selected for the purposes described) to serve you ads that are better tailored to your needs or interests.

• Security
  snowbythebox.com maintains internal practices that help to protect the security and confidentiality of this information by limiting employee access to and use of this information.
   
• Questions?
  If you have any questions about the snowbythebox.com Web site, our Privacy Policy, or our collection of information, please contact us.

  We recommend that you review this Privacy Statement periodically, as we reserve the right to update it from time to time.

In general, you may visit the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about you.  Also, our servers collect the domain names, operating system in use (e.g., Macintosh, Windows) and browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) through the use of cookies, pixels and/or transparent GIF files. This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the Site, pages viewed, etc. The Lake Shore Group, Inc. uses this information to measure the use of our Site and to improve the content of our Site. E-mail addresses and other personally identifiable information such as first and last name, home or other physical address, telephone number, and other similar information are collected only when voluntarily provided by a visitor for registration for participation in any available online interactive activities, which in the case of this web site, does constitute viewing of 99% of the site, excluding the entry page(s).  Reviewing proprietary information within this web site requires registration, therefore, unless the site is being demonstrated, your information will be required.

Unless otherwise disclosed during the collection, personally identifiable information collected on this Site is retained by The Lake Shore Group, Inc..  The Lake Shore Group, Inc. does not sell, transfer or otherwise disclose this personally identifiable information outside the company, except where disclosure is required by law. We use the personal information you provide for any of the following purposes: (1) to understand the use of our Site and make improvements; (2) to fulfill space reservation requirements; (3) to respond to specific request from visitors; (4) to obtain parental consent from visitors under 18 years of age, where necessary; (5) to provide any necessary notices to our visitors or their parent or legal guardians, where necessary; (6) to protect the security or integrity of our Site when necessary; (7) to send you notices and solicitations regarding Site and our businesses; and (8) in general to promote and market our, our Affiliates’ our merchants various businesses and products to you. These solicitations may take the form of mailings via U.S. mail or other couriers, telephone calls, e-mail solicitations and other methods of contact. If you do not want to receive these solicitations from us using your personally identifiable information, please notify us.

It is our policy that visitors to our Site who are under the age of 18 should not post or provide information on or to our Site without the consent of their parents or legal guardians.  You should supervise the online activities of your children, and consider the use of parental control tools available from online services and software providers that help provide a kid-friendly Internet environment.

We store information that we collect through cookies, pixels, and/or transparent GIF files to create a profile of our users.  A profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that details their viewing preferences.  Consequently, collected information is tied to the user's personally identifiable information to provide offers and improve the content of the site for the user.  The profile is used to provide you with tailored information and to direct pertinent marketing and promotions to you.  A "cookie" is a tiny element of data that a web site sends to your browser, which is stored on your computer.  By setting a cookie on our Site, our Site is able to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie.  Our cookies only collect the operating system and browser that a visitor is using.

In the future, we may employ a company as an ad management partner.  For example, we may select DoubleClick or other similar companies as our ad management partner.  For your information, companies such as DoubleClick employ pixels or transparent GIF files to help manage online advertising.  These files enable DoubleClick to recognize a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn would enable us to learn which advertisements bring users to our website. The cookie would be placed by us, or by another advertiser who works with DoubleClick (or a similar company). With both cookies and Spotlight technology, the information that we collect and share would be anonymous and not personally identifiable. It would not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address. For more information about DoubleClick, including information about how to opt out of these technologies, go to http://www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy.  The term, DoubleClick is owned by that company and not in any way affiliated with The Lake Shore Group, Inc..

The Lake Shore Group, Inc. has not, at this time, contracted with DoubleClick or any other company to supply these services and is providing this information as a courtesy.

At times, we conduct on-line surveys to better understand the needs and profiles of our visitors. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.  When we conduct a survey, we will let you know how we intend to use the information at the time we collect the information from you on the Internet if it differs for the uses stated herein.  Your personally identifiable information is not shared with third parties unless we give prior notice and choice.  Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys, they may not use your personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

This site may contain links to other sites of third parties. We, The Lake Shore Group, Inc. and/or our Affiliates are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those other sites.  We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.  This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this Web Site.

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. You are responsible for checking this policy when you visit our Site to review the current policy. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. If, however, we are going to use your personally identifiable information different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.  If you do not agree with the policy, you should cease use of the Site immediately.

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us.  Your email will be directed to someone who will review your questions and respond promptly.

If you disagree with this privacy policy, please bring to our attention in writing any information that you believe to be inaccurate or that you wish to have removed.  Please send e-mail to our webmaster or you may send your request via the United States Postal Service to:

Director of Online Services
snowbythebox.com Division
The Lake Shore Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 20514
Las Vegas, Nevada  89112-0514

If you have any questions about this statement, you can call us at 1-702-892-4559, or contact us.