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Privacy Policy

LindaZ’s Sewing Center privacy and security measures are designed with the strictest security in mind, so any personal information that you provide to LindaZ’s is used for the purpose of receiving LindaZ’s communications. LindaZ’s privacy policy is outlined below and tells you how we collect personal information, what information we collect, how we use it, to whom we will disclose it and how you can access, change and remove your information.

HOW WE COLLECT THE INFORMATION

There are many ways that LindaZ’s may obtain information from you: (1) via sign up on lindazs.com); (2) from an online, email, retail, fax or telephone purchase; (3) from navigational information about where visitors go on our website; (4) when you enter any LindaZ’s sweepstakes/giveaways; (5) any time you submit a business reply, product, or warranty card; (6) when you sign up at our retail location; (7) upon contacting customer service to request LindaZ’s Custommer support; and (8) upon signing up at an event. This information may be collected by LindaZ’s or by vendors/service providers.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you register on-line to receive our product/classes information, you will need to provide us with your name, address and email address. When you make a purchase through LindaZ’s website, you also will need to give us your telephone number and credit card number so we can process your payment and contact you in the event of any problems with delivery. If you contact our customer service department, you may need to provide us with additional information so that we can respond to your questions or concerns as completely and thoroughly as possible. In order to provide users and subscribers with the most efficient and enhanced service and to better understand your preferences, we may request your gender, year of birth, shopping preference and product interest. Whether or not you provide this information is entirely up to you. We also may collect additional non-personally identifiable information (for example, browser version, IP address) which will provide information regarding the general use of our website. The navigational information allows us to see which areas of our website are most visited and helps us improve the quality of your online experience by recognizing and delivering more of the most desired features and services.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION

All personal information that we obtain about you will be recorded, used and protected by us in accordance with current data protection legislation and this privacy policy. By providing us with your personal information, you consent to us processing this personal information in one or more of the ways described in this privacy policy. We will primarily use your personal information to provide products and services to you, for example:

  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature and to provide you with the relevant products or services (for instance to deliver a prize you may have won in a contest).

  • To send you information/materials via email or mail about products, offers and news we think could interest you. This information may relate to products, offers and news of LindaZ’s.

  • To analyze visits to the website and learn about the interests of our visitors in the aggregate and to better understand your personal interests and needs, so we can improve our products and services and deliver to you the type of content, features and promotions that you are most interested in.

  • The information obtained from registration on-line is utilized to improve your web experience with LindaZ’s by enabling you to obtain a faster checkout for purchases and/or opt-in to receive occasional emails, which provide you with the latest and greatest information regarding LindaZ’s and its products.

 

COOKIES

A cookie is a small removable data file that is stored by your web browser on your computer. Cookies are only used by LindaZ’s to allow you to use LindaZ’s website in the most efficient manner. Cookies allow you to place an order on our website and allow us to enhance and personalize your online surfing and shopping experience. For example, we use cookies to:

  • Recognize you when you return to our website

  • Analyze visitor behavior

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Please note, however, that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our website. We will still know how many of our emails are opened and we will automatically receive your IP address, a unique identifier for your computer or other access device but we will not identify you as an individual.

SHARING INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES

LindaZ’s will never sell any information about you to anyone. We are part of a large Industry and we may share information with our affiliated vendors. We engage third parties to perform services in connection with the operation of our business. Examples of these services include payment processing and authorization, fraud protection and credit risk reduction, product customization, order fulfillment and shipping, marketing and promotional material distribution, website evaluation, data analysis and, where applicable, data cleansing. We may need to share personal information with these third parties so that they can perform these services, however, we limit the personal information that we give to them and authorize them to use this information only for the purpose of performing those services.

We also may share non-personal information, such as the number of users who visited the website during a specific time period or who purchased a specific product through the website, with our marketing partners, advertisers and others from time to time. This information generally is shared in an aggregated form. We may release personal information if we believe in good faith that: the law or legal process requires it; if we have been advised by counsel; we have received a valid administrative request from a law enforcement agency; or such release is necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of LindaZ’s, or any of our respective affiliates, business partners, customers or others.

EMAIL

LindaZ’s has a Company policy not to flood people with email correspondence, but simply to give you periodic information so you can stay up to date on what LindaZ’s is offering. LindaZ’s will send emails to you only if you ask for them and you can easily unsubscribe at any time you want by calling our customer service department at (847)-394-4590 or by following the instructions contained in the email. LindaZ’s also uses your email address to confirm your order and to confirm shipment of your order and to respond to any inquiries you make on-line. All emails you receive will provide you with information as to how to get off the email mailing list if you so desire.

DIRECT MAIL

If you would like to update your mailing information or want your name and address removed from LindaZ’s direct mailing list you can give us a call at (847-)394-4590

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

If you are under 14, you should surf lindazs.com only with involvement of a parent or guardian. Although LindaZ’s does not specifically direct its website, catalogs or emails to children, LindaZ’s strives to provide children with as much customer service as possible without violating their privacy rights. For their protection, LindaZ’s asks that anyone under 14 years of age not attempt to register with LindaZ’s or otherwise provide LindaZ’s with any personal information without the consent of a parent or legal guardian.

ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

LindaZ’s will provide you with access to the personal information you provided to LindaZ’s by allowing you to view, update or correct your information. In order to protect your privacy, LindaZ’s takes steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the private information or enabling you to make corrections. LindaZ’s will accomplish this through the use of passwords and personal data. If you want to find out what personal information LindaZ’s holds about you, please contact our customer service department at (847)-394-4590. We may charge you a small fee for providing this information.

SECURITY

Our website’s bunker security system is armed with a sentry system to monitor activity and prevent any unauthorized disclosure of credit card numbers or other personal information. In addition, we utilize a licensed system for credit card authorization and fraud detection. We use industry standard SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to protect the confidentiality of your personal information.

OPT OUT / UNSUBSCRIBE

You may request to stop receiving communications from LindaZ’s at any time. You can choose to cancel emails only, snail mail only or both by calling our customer service department at (847)-394-4590. Also, all emails you receive will provide you with information as to how to get off the email mailing list if you so desire. It takes some time to put opt-outs in effect so you may still receive catalogs or emails from LindaZ’s for several weeks after your request is received. You may also request to opt-out of LindaZ’s retaining your personal data by calling our customer service department at (847)-394-4590.

UPDATES TO PRIVACY INFORMATION

Please review the site periodically to see any updates to the information provided here. This privacy policy was last updated on June 14, 2018.

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