This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for http://www.crescentgems.com.( Crescent Gems ) Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.

Information Collection and use

In order to purchase from www.crescentgems.com, a user must first complete the registration form. Required information to process orders include: name, email address, street address, and phone number. This information is essential for customer’s orders to be processed and delivered. It is optional for users to give information such as: product interests, etc. This information is used by Crescent gems to better serve and its valued customers.

Cookies

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 any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. For example, the user will not be able to participate in any of our Sweepstakes, Contests or monthly Drawings that take place. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Please note that the access logs collected for www.crescentgems.com contain more information than just IP addresses. They also let us know what operating system/Internet browser you use and what pages on our site you have viewed. As with your IP address, this information is not linked to personally identifiable information and is used in aggregate to ensure the functionality of the site for our visitors.

Sharing

We use USPS to ship orders, and PayPal and Linkpoint to handle all financial transactions. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

Providing an absolutely secure environment for all financial transactions is of primary importance to Crescentgems. To this end, unless requested otherwise by a customer, we conduct all transactions through either PayPal (the secure account-based online payment system) or Linkpoint (a secure merchant account). We believe this is the best way to protect our customer’s consumer rights, privacy and security.

To see PayPal’s privacy policy, please click on the link below:

Tell-A-Friend

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. Crescent gems will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Crescent Gems uses this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and the information is not stored thereafter.

Security

This web site takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit information via the web site, your information is protected both online and off-line.

All of our users’ information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers’ information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.

If you have any questions about the security of your information at our web site, you can send an email to privacy@crescentgems.com.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.