Privacy Policy

Candy Plum respects your ability to make informed choices about the collection and uses of your personal information. This privacy policy tells you about our online collection and use of information that identifies you personally so that you can make an informed choice about using this web site ("Site"). The terms of this policy apply to http://www.candyplum.com and other web sites that Candy Plum hosts or operates, unless different terms are specified in a form or contract provided to you online or offline. Business users should refer to the terms and conditions of service or license agreements for additional information governing Candy Plum use of business information. Those terms and conditions take precedence over this policy, and apply to all businesses, including sole proprietorships and other small-business enterprises. Web sites we link to, including but not limited to the sites of subsidiaries and third-party content partners, may have different privacy policies and practices from those disclosed here. We assume no responsibility for the policies or practices of such linked sites and encourage you to become acquainted with them.

This Site is operated by Candy Plum in the United States. By using this site, you understand and agree that (1) the information collected from this site may be retained indefinitely, and may be stored, accessed and used in jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different and less protective than those of your home jurisdiction; (2) Candy Plum may use this information for a variety of purposes, including direct marketing (unless you opt out of receiving direct marketing from Candy Plum ); (3) Candy Plum may disclose this information to affiliates, subsidiaries, agents, third-party content partners and necessary payment processors, whose privacy policies and practices may be different from those of Candy Plum, and for which Candy Plum assumes no responsibility; (4) information about our customers, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, sale of the company assets or acquisition, as well as in the unlikely event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company; and (5) we reserve the right to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to claims or protect the rights, property or safety of our company, employees, customers or the public.

Information Collected from This Site
When you visit this Site, some information, such as the web site that referred you to us, your IP and email address and navigational and purchase information, may be collected automatically as part of the Site's operation. This information is used to generate user profiles and to personalize the Site to your particular interests. On some occasions we may ask you to provide information on online forms. For example, we may ask for your username, password, place of birth, full name, telephone number, email address and postal address, or other information to register online, or for your credit card number or other personally identifying information to fulfill licensing transactions or to receive products or services. We may also ask you about your age, hobbies, income, gender or other information to participate in surveys or other online activities. Providing information on online forms is always voluntary, and you are free not to complete any online forms. If you choose not to, however, some products and services may not be available to you.

How We Use Your Information
Information collected online is stored indefinitely and is used for various purposes, including processing your transactions, customer service, product and service development, direct marketing and marketing analysis, facilitating your use of this Site and customizing your image selection to your particular interests. The information we collect may be shared with our subsidiaries, agents, third-party content partners, affiliates and selected other entities for similar purposes. In addition, unless you opt out of receiving promotional materials from Candy Plum, we may notify you of special promotions, new products or services or other information that may be of interest. (See Opting-Out section, below.)

About Cookies
When you visit the Site, we place a text file called a cookie in the browser directory of your computer's hard drive. A cookie is a small piece of information that a web site can store on your web browser and later retrieve. The information that cookies collect includes the date and time of your visit, your registration information and your navigational and purchase activity. Cookies offer you many conveniences. They allow Candy Plum, and certain of its subsidiaries and third-party content partners, to recognize information and assist in determining what content is best suited to your needs.

Most browsers allow you to decline cookies, but if you elect to do so, these pages may not display properly. You are free to delete cookies after your session, and your browser should contain instructions on how to do this.

Opting-Out
If you do not want to receive promotional information from Candy Plum, you can opt out by unchecking the appropriate box on your online registration form or, in the event an online registration form is not available, by notifying your account executive. If you did not opt out when you registered and later decide that you are not interested in receiving this information, you can opt out at any time by contacting Candy Plum or speaking with your account executive. Please note that if you opt out of receiving promotional material from Candy Plum, you still may receive such material from our worldwide subsidiaries, third-party content partners, affiliates and other parties to whom we provide your information in the course of doing business, as explained above.

Reviewing, Updating or Correcting Your Information
If you would like to review or revise information you previously provided on an online form, or believe that the information we currently have on record is incorrect, you may update your information in the Account section of this web site

Children
We do not intend to solicit or collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13 you should not use or enter information on this Site.

Questions or Concerns
If at any time you have questions or concerns about this policy, or Plum compliance with the policy, please let us know by contacting Candy Plum. We will make reasonable efforts to identify and correct any problem.

Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change the terms of this privacy policy at any time. We encourage you to review this privacy policy whenever you visit our web site to make sure you understand how we use the information we collect.