Privacy Statement

On-A-Whim has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm committment to privacy on the Internet. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

Our site uses "shopping cart" software that enables you, our customer, to purchase items and indicate how you would like to pay for these items. We collect your contact information (name, billing address, and email address) and financial information required to process the order(i.e., credit card account number).

Your email address is used to identify your account and allows us to send you an email confirmation that we received your order and to notify you when your order has been shipped or delivered, or if a problem arises that would prevent us from filling the order. Your name and address information is used for billing purposes to confirm your credit card information and to protect us against potential fraud.

Occasionally, we may send news about special promotions or news about our website or business that might be of interest to our customers who have requested to receive this information. By default, you will not be added to our mailing list. If you would like to receive these notices, you must explicitly request to be added to our mailing list when you fill out the billing information form. This is known as an "opt-in" policy. If you have selected the option to receive these notices and then wish to unsubscribe at a later date, you can do so at any time by

replying to the notice with the word "unsubscribe" at the top

sending us an email at sales@onawhim.com

send us a fax at 203-426-0524, or

call us at 800-899-0959.

Virtually all of the items ordered from our website are purchased and sent as gifts for other people. The names and addresses of the recipients are used for shipping purposes only. We do not contact or send other communications to recipients unless we are expressly asked to do so by the customer (for example, to verify that the gift was received).

All information collected through our website is used solely for the purpose of filling orders. We do not now, and we will never, release or sell this information to a 3rd party.

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.

This site has appropriate physical, electronic and managerial security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information that is submitted. All personal contact and credit card information is accessible only by authorized On-A-Whim personnel. When confidential information is submitted through our website, it is transmitted in an encrypted format and stored temporarily on our secure webserver using the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol. The data is then downloaded off the Internet and stored in an offline database that is not accessible to any unauthorized persons.

SSL is a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that's transferred over the SSL connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer (and most current browsers) support SSL.