Online Privacy Statement
The policy of The Baby Depot is to
respect the privacy of all web site visitors to the extent permitted by law.
This online privacy statement is intended to inform you of the ways in which
this web site collects information, the uses to which that information will be
put, and the ways in which we will protect any information you choose to
provide us.
There are four types of information that this site may collect during your
visit: network traffic logs, web visit logs, cookies, and information
voluntarily provided by you.
Network Traffic Logs
In the course of ensuring network security and consistent service for all
users, The Baby Depot employs software programs to do such things as monitor
network traffic, identify unauthorized access or access to nonpublic
information, detect computer viruses and other software that might damage our
computers or the network, and monitor and tune the performance of our network.
In the course of such monitoring, these programs may detect such information as
e-mail headers, addresses from network packets, and other information.
Information from these activities is used only for the purpose of maintaining
the security and performance of our networks and computer systems. Personally
identifiable information from these activities is not released to external
parties without your consent unless required by law.
Web Visit Logs
The Baby Depot web sites routinely collect and store information from online
visitors to help manage those sites and improve service. This information includes
the pages visited on the site, the date and time of the visit, the internet
address (URL or IP address) of the referring site, the domain name and IP
address from which the access occurred, the version of browser used, the
capabilities of the browser, and search terms used on our search engines. This
site makes no attempt to identify individual visitors from this information:
any personally identifiable information is not released to external parties
without your consent unless required by law.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information stored by your web browser on behalf of a web
site and returned to the web site on request. This site may use cookies for two
purposes: to carry data about your current session at the site from one web
page to the next, and to identify you to the site between visits. If you prefer
not to receive cookies, you may turn them off in your browser, or may set your
browser to ask you before accepting a new cookie. Some pages may not function
properly if the cookies are turned off. Unless otherwise notified on this site,
we will not store data, other than for these two purposes, in cookies. Cookies
remain on your computer, and accordingly we neither store cookies on our
computers nor forward them to any external parties. Unless otherwise notified
on this site, we do not use cookies to track your movement among different web
sites and do not exchange cookies with other entities.
Information Voluntarily Provided by
You
In the course of using this web site, you may choose to provide us with
information to help us serve your needs. For example, you may send us
electronic mail (through a mailer or a web form) to request information, you
may sign up for a mailing list, or you may send us your address so we may send
you an application or other material. Any personally identifiable information
you send us will be used only for the purpose indicated. Requests for
information will be directed to the appropriate staff to respond to the
request, and may be recorded to help us update our site to better respond to
similar requests. We will not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute your
personally identifiable information without your consent, except to the extent
required by law. We do not retain the information longer than necessary for
normal operations. Each web page requesting information discloses the purpose
of that information. If you do not wish to have the information used in that
manner, you are not required to provide it. Please contact us with questions or
concerns on the use of personally identifiable information.
The Baby Depot web sites provide links to other World Wide Web sites or
resources. We do not control these sites and resources, do not endorse them,
and are not responsible for their availability, content, or delivery of
services. In particular, external sites are not bound by the The Baby Depot
online privacy policy; they may have their own policies or none at all. Often
you can tell you are leaving an The Baby Depot web site by noting the URL of the
destination site.