THE PRIVACY POLICY OF SPECIAL SANTA LETTERS ... Protecting your privacy has always been a SPECIAL SANTA LETTERS priority. To underscore our fundamental commitment to privacy and our vision that good privacy is good business, we have adopted a online privacy policy for our Web site: www.specialsantaletters.com. This policy reflects and implements in an online setting our corporate privacy principles and Fair Information Practice Principles of notice, choice, access, security, and accountability. This online privacy policy applies to SPECIAL SANTA LETTERS website only. INFORMATION COLLECTION * Personally-identifiable information. This site only collects personally-identifiable information from you if you choose to provide this information to us. Personally-identifiable information collected with your consent may include, for example, name, e-mail address, resume information, or any inquires you may make through our Web sites. SPECIAL SANTA LETTERS does not provide personally-identifiable information to unaffiliated third-parties in its normal course of business. However, we will provide such information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process. * Cookies. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. This site uses third party cookies, however personally identifiable information is not collected through the use of cookies. Cookies are used to determine whether a visitor is unique or whether the visitor has viewed our site before. With the exception of the portion of our site dedicated to applying for service with SPECIAL SANTA LETTERS, cookies are optional and do not affect the operability of our site. While most browsers are set to accept cookies by default, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you before accepting them. Your browser manufacturer has information on changing the default setting for your specific browser. * Non personally-identifiable information This site also collects nonpersonally-identifiable information. For example, as you browse this Web site we may collect information about your visit, but not about you personally. Via web server logs, for example, we may monitor statistics such as: the number of people that visit our site, which page(s) are visited on our site, from which domain our visitors come (e.g., aol.com, hotmail.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to visit our site (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.). Our Web site uses an outsourcing program to assist us in analyzing this data to better tailor our Web site. * Retention. We reserve the right to retain personally-identifiable information collected through this site for the length of our business relationship with you. In some cases, we will retain the information for a longer period if required to do so by law, regulation, or the Individual Reference Services Group Industry Principles. INFORMATION USE AND CONSUMER CHOICE The information collected by this Web site is used only for responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding with you, for processing transactions you request, maintaining your account (if you have one), and for the administration, review and/or the improvement the content of our Web site. We may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries, as part of the maintenance of your account with us (if you have one), or in order to complete a transaction that you requested. If you decide that you do not want to receive further e-mails regarding your inquiry from SPECIAL SANTA LETTERS, you can click on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail and we will not continue to e-mail you. ONWARD TRANSFER We may disclose information you provide to us to third parties in order to complete a transaction that you requested. We may also outsource some tasks, including the operation of certain Web site functions, that require access to information you supply online. In such cases, however, we require that the companies acting on our behalf abide by our privacy policy and institute safeguards to protect the confidentiality of your information. DOMAIN OWNERSHIP Christopher Moss INTERNET BUSINESS SERVICES (IBS) 11399 Burl Drive, Fontana, CA 92337 Tel: (909) 609-5437 Fax: (909) 429-6004 specialsantaletters.com, specialsantaletters.net, specialsantaletters.* and other domain name extensions are property of Special Santa Letters and Internet Business Services (IBS). We takes ownership very seriously, we own the rights to "specialsantaletters.com", "specialsantaletters.net" and other Special Santa Letters domain name extensions, specificially for the Santa Letter industry, for another company or private party to embark on our rights would cause a "Cease and Desist" action to help avoid a VERY COSTLY litigation.  If SPECIAL SANTA LETTERS feels that our rights have been in fact taken advantage of, we will pursue our FULL LEGAL RIGHTS and request FULL FINANICIAL COMPENSATION for violating our rights.  As you can see, SPECIAL SANTA LETTERS takes these issues seriously. GRAPHICS, MUSIC, MOVIES, SOUNDS, JAVA SCRIPT, FLASH, HTML, CSS, LINKS, LINK BACKS, COLORING, BACKGROUND IMAGES, PHOTOS AND OTHER WEBSITE BASED DETAILS: Everything on this website is for the sole purpose of SPECIAL SANTA LETTERS and its customers, violators who infringe upon our rights will be sought after in The United States, State of California in the County of Riverside Court system, we will use ALL remedies to recover a FULL financial loss, so we are suggesting that you enjoy this website and DO NOT download our property.  YOUR SECURITY The Special Santa Letters team takes your security very personally. We must log into a secure administration site with a username and password to view any customer/sales information. In order to transfer sensitive information such as credit card accounts, we rely on a 128 + bit secure encryption technology. This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the specialsantaletters.com Web site. On some pages you may order products, make requests and register to receive materials. The type of information collected on these pages are: Name: Address: Email Address: Phone Number: Credit / Debit Card Information: HOW DO WE USE THIS INFORMATION We use information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order. We will NEVER share this billing information with outside parties, e-mail services, except to the extent necessary to complete that order. We use return email addresses to reply to the email that we receive. We have chosen PayPal as our online merchant services, PayPal is one of the world's BEST merchant processing company, this way you and specialsantaletters.com are assured of total and secured protection while you are shopping online at Special Santa Letters. MERCHANT NAME LISTED ON YOUR CREDIT CARD WHEN PURCHASING A SPECIAL SANTA LETTER Internet Business Services will be the merchant listed on your credit card statement when you purchase a Special Santa Letter or other products from The Special Santa Letter Website, if another merchant is listed for a Special Santa Letter, you should report this violation to your credit card processor and get a new credit card with a new credit card number on it. Special Salta Letters values its customers and respects their privacy. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. When you visit any website, your computer exchanges information with other computers. Special Santa Letters recognizes that it must maintain and use customer information responsibly. Therefore, we support your right to decide what information you share and how it is used. If you ever have a question about your privacy please email us at workshop@specialsantaletters.com. Special Santa Letters retains a private counsel in Riverside California in The United States and will utilize their services to protect the rights of Special Santa Letters. This web site is governed with high levels of security, honesty and integrity. Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process. PERMISSION Copyright © 1998, Special Santa Letters. All Rights Reserved. No element of this site may be used without expressed written permission. POLICY CHANGES We may revise this online privacy policy from time to time. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on the Web site. If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via e-mail. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice we will also e-mail users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices. Thanks for reading ... SPECIAL SANTA LETTERS