Privacy Policy

School Shoppes is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the School Shoppes site and governs data collection and usage. By using the School Shoppes site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to register. If you are under the age of 13, please ask your parents to register for you. Thank You.

Collection of your Personal Information

School Shoppes collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. School Shoppes also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by School Shoppes. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by School Shoppes for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the School Shoppes site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through School Shoppes public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: School Shoppes does not read any of your private online communications.

School Shoppes encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from School Shoppes so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. School Shoppes is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the School Shoppes and School Shoppes family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

School Shoppes collects and uses your personal information to operate the School Shoppes Web site and deliver the services you have requested. School Shoppes also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from School Shoppes and its affiliates. School Shoppes may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

School Shoppes does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. School Shoppes may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, School Shoppes may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to School Shoppes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

School Shoppes does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

School Shoppes keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within School Shoppes, in order to determine what School Shoppes services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within School Shoppes to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

School Shoppes Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on School Shoppes or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of School Shoppes; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of School Shoppes, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The School Shoppes Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize School Shoppes pages, or register with School Shoppes site or services, a cookie helps School Shoppes to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same School Shoppes Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the School Shoppes features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the School Shoppes services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

School Shoppes secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. School Shoppes secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Our policy is to not collect any personal information on any person under 13 because children are not permitted to use the site or receive services on the site. We request that children under the age of 13 not submit any personal information to us using the site. As a measure to ensure that we do not collect personal information from children, we require that all individuals provide a valid credit card number before completing a purchase order on the site. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information about children under 13, we will attempt to notify such child's parent or guardian and erase such information from our records, unless the child's parent or guardian consents to our maintaining such information.

Changes to this Statement

School Shoppes will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. School Shoppes encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how School Shoppes is protecting your information.

Contact Information

School Shoppes welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that School Shoppes has not adhered to this Statement, please contact School Shoppes at info@schoolshoppes.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.