Your Privacy

Effective Date: 17 August 2008
Last Updated: 17 August 2008

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. thisiscool.com prides itself on its stringent privacy measures.

To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we link to it from our home page and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

This privacy policy is subject to regular review and may change at any time. If we change it, we will update the RSS feed of thisiscool.com and update the Last Updated date of this page.

The Information We Collect

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on thisiscool.com.

thisiscool.com allows you to make an online purchase of intangible goods and services that are delivered in electronic form. No physical shipment is performed. For such purposes, the buyer can choose to pay via Paypal®. The user is not required to enter financial information on this website.

A purchaser must create a user account prior to making the purchase. During account creation, the following standard billing and contact information is collected:

  • Name
  • Billing Address and Phone Number
  • Email Address
  • Miscellaneous Preferences (contact preferences, receive newsletter, etc.)

The Way We Use Information

We use your user information for the purposes of fulfilling your orders and sending your our electronic newsletters if you have opted to receive them. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order or comply with the law. We use a persistent cookie solely as an indicator as to whether you have previously created a user account and do not store billing information on our server. User information is retained on our server. Your user information is not shared with third parties except to comply with the law.

We use email addresses specified in our contact page to answer the email we receive. We may then send subsequent newsletters to these email addresses, with an option of opting out of these emails. These email addresses are not shared with outside parties except to comply with the law.

Finally, we never use or share the 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.

Our Commitment To Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

We do not store billing or credit card information on our servers. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to ensure all financial transactions are encrypted. Payments processing is done via a third-party provider (Paypal) via SSL technology.

Our Commitment To Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13. Our Terms of Use clearly state that no one under 18 is allowed to make a purchase on this website.

How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information

User information may be modified by logging into your account and updating your profile, including any communication and opt-in preferences. There is currently no automated means of deleting a user account other than by contacting us via our contact page. Communications sent via email addresses collected via our contact page will have an option for opting out of future communications.

How To Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact us via our contact page.