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Brookbend Outdoor Furniture cares about the privacy of each
user of its Web site, including those who trust us enough to
place orders. In order to protect the privacy of its users,
Brookbend Outdoor Furniture has adopted the following policy:
I. General Information
When you use the Web site some basic general information is collected.
This information is used to improve the Web site and make your use of
the Web site as enjoyable and efficient as possible. Cookies are also
used to help us determine the various services you use and the support
you may need, and to help us detect and solve any problems you may have
when using the Web site.
This general information is used internally in connection with Brookbend
Outdoor Furniture's business, including Brookbend Outdoor
Furniture's
personal, marketing and advertising efforts.
II. Cookies
A cookie is a text file stored on your computer's hard drive.
Virtually all Web servers require cookies. Cookies allow a web site
to store information on the clients' (shoppers') computers so that the
system can keep track of their orders more efficiently.
From time to time, shoppers may voice concern about storing information
on their computers because of the threat of viruses and other
network paranoia. However, privacy concerns surrounding cookies are
technically unfounded. Since most Web servers require cookies to operate,
cookies are in fact a basic requirement on most Web Servers including
Internet Information Servers (IIS). Therefore, since cookies are required by the
actual Web servers, this issue is really irrelevant to the particular
shopping cart system you are using. Brookbend Outdoor Furniture does not specifically
use cookies, but does rely on session information stored by the IIS Web server.
Thus, the Microsoft® NT IIS Web server itself does require cookies.
To shop online at Brookbend Outdoor Furniture, your browser will
need to be configured to accept cookies. Here's how to do it:
The most popular browsers, such as Netscape
Navigator and Internet Explorer, can be set to give you the option
of accepting or rejecting all cookies.
Follow these steps to enable cookies on your browser.
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Netscape Version |
Instructions |
Communicator 4.x
(Windows) |
- Click the Edit menu and scroll down to Preferences
- Select "Advanced"
- To enable: Select "Accept all cookies"
or "Accept only cookies that get sent back to
the originating server". To get a prompt: Check
"Warn me before accepting a cookie" and
select "Accept all cookies" or "Accept
only cookies that get sent back to the originating
server"
- Click "OK"
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Communicator
(Macintosh) |
- Go to the Edit menu and scroll down to Preferences
- Select the Advanced option and then check the Accept
Cookies box
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Microsoft Version |
Instructions |
Internet Explorer 6.0
(Windows) |
- Select Tools menu and scroll down to Internet Options
and click on the "Privacy" tab
- Click on the "Advanced" button
- Check the box next to "Override Automatic Cookie
Handling"
- Check the box next to "Always allow session
cookies"
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Internet Explorer 5.0
(Windows) |
- Select Tools menu and scroll down to Internet Options
and click on the "Security" tab.
- The default selection, "Medium", supports
cookies, but you can click on the "Custom Level"
button to check. Scroll down until you see the word
"Cookies" and verify that the radio button
next to "Enable" is selected in both options.
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Internet Explorer 5.0
(Macintosh) |
- Go to the Edit menu and scroll down to Preferences
- Scroll down until you see "Cookies" under
Receiving Files. Make sure that "Never Ask"
is selected.
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III. Scripting
If you have Scripting disabled in your web browser, you should enable it
before ordering from Brookbend Outdoor furniture web site. In Netscape, this setting is
located under “Preferences” by clicking on 'Advanced'. In Internet Explorer,
this setting is located under “Internet Options”, under the Security tab. (You
can select 'Custom Level' to access the option to enable 'Active Scripting'
without modifying the rest of your security settings.)
IV. Use/Sharing of Personal Information
Your name, shipping and billing addresses, and credit card number
are used by Brookbend Outdoor Furniture in order to provide you with the
goods that you purchase on the Web site. We use your email address to
provide you with information about your order and its status, and we may
occasionally send out emails, including newsletters, to people who have
placed an order online, offering them more great deals.
Your phone number is used by Brookbend Outdoor
Furniture only in the
event that our customer service representatives need to contact you
about an order you have placed.
Personal Information is used internally in connection with
Brookbend Outdoor Furniture's business, including Brookbend Outdoor
Furniture's
promotional, marketing and advertising efforts, in a manner which does not
readily identify a user to any third party.
Brookbend Outdoor Furniture currently does not share with any third party
any Personal Information that could readily identify any user.
Brookbend Outdoor Furniture will not divulge any user's credit card information
to any third party without such user's prior consent.
V. Credit Card Security
The Internet is a vast network of computers. Because the data passes
from computer to computer, some Internet shoppers worry that unauthorized
persons may intercept the data and gain access to credit card numbers,
but shopping on a secure site is actually safer than handing a credit card
to a waiter in a restaurant.
Credit card information collected by Brookbend Outdoor
Furniture is
encrypted when stored on our servers.
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