A. LINK Privacy Policy

It is our sincere hope at A. LINK that what is now a purely digital relationship will evolve into a more personal one. A relationship built on trust. Our policy on privacy is simple and unwavering. We would also remind you that www.alinkandco.com is a private, copyrighted site and intended solely for personal use. And now that we've taken care of the business that our attorneys advised us had to be stated, let's get back to something more exciting, more promising: A. LINK and you.

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we have provided this Privacy Policy, which explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this Privacy Policy easy to find, we have made it available on our home page and at every point where personally identifiable data may be requested.

The Information We Collect

This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected or submitted on the www.alinkandco.com Web site. On some pages, you can order products, make requests and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected on these pages include:
  • Name
  • Address
  • Email address
  • Survey questions
  • Phone number
  • Credit card/Debit card information
On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you will need to submit the recipient's address. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected may include:
  • Name
  • Address
  • Phone number
How We Use Information

We use return email addresses to answer the emails we receive. We may also use these email addresses to provide order status and order tracking information, and to respond to queries.

You can register with our Web site if you would like to receive our catalog, as well as updates on our new products and services.

We may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our Web site and share with our advertising agencies. For example, we may tell an advertising agency that “x” number of individuals visited a certain area on our Web site, or that “y” number of men and “z” number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to personally identify those individuals. If you choose to register or receive products or materials from us, or to otherwise give us personal information, we may store some or all of that personal information and use it for marketing research and marketing purposes.

We will never sell your personal information to any other company.

In the event of a criminal investigation or a suspected illegal activity, we may be requested by law enforcement agencies to share certain personal information.

Finally, we will never use or share personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

A Word on "Cookies"

"Cookies" are small items of data that some Web sites either write to your hard drive upon your visit to their site(s) or store in the browser. These data files contain information the site(s) can use to organize the pages you have visited on a particular Web site. Some of our Web sites may use "cookie" technology to measure site activity and tailor information to fit your personal interests. In this way, we can deliver tailor-made information suiting your personal interests upon your next visit to our site(s). Our use of "cookie" technology is, thus, to provide you with a more individualized delivery of information and an optimal viewing experience.

Pixel Tags

We may use "pixel tags," which are small graphic files that allow us to monitor the use of our Web sites. A pixel tag can collect information such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the tag appears; the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page on which the pixel tag appears; the time the page containing the pixel tag was viewed; the type of browser that fetched the pixel tag; and the identification number of any cookie (please see “A Word on ‘Cookies’") on the computer previously placed by that server. When corresponding with you via HTML capable email, we may use "format sensing" technology, which allows pixel tags to let us know whether you have received and opened our email.
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