When you use the Site, Desert Brilliance receives and collects information. The information that we receive and collect depends on what you do while you are visiting the Site.

 

You are not required to provide Desert Brilliance with Personal Information to access and browse this web Site. “Personal Information” includes your name, shipping address, billing address, telephone numbers, credit card information, e-mail address, or other information that can be used to identify or contact you. At times, Desert Brilliance will request Personal Information to provide you with specific services or other information about which you are inquiring. Personal Information is only collected so that Desert Brilliance can respond to and/or act upon your request.

 

Some information is automatically received and sometimes collected from you when you visit the Site. However, such data does not identify you personally.  This information may include some or all of the following items: the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet, including the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using and the IP address of your Internet Service Provider; the type and version of Internet browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our Site; the length of your visit; the specific pages, images, video or forms that you access while visiting the Site; the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our Site, and if applicable, the search engine that referred you and any search strings or phrases that you entered into the search engine to find this Site; and demographic information concerning the country of origin of your computer and the language(s) used by it. We use this information to monitor the usage of our Site, assess its performance, ensure technological compatibility with your computer, and understand the relative importance of the information provided on our Site. We also use this data to conduct statistical analyses on visitors’ usage patterns and other aggregated data. 

 

“Cookies” are small files or records that we place on your computer’s hard drive to distinguish you from other visitors to the Site. The use of cookies is a standard practice among websites to collect or track information about your activities while using a particular website. Some websites use persistent cookies, which are placed on your computer and remain there until you delete them. Others use temporary cookies, which expire after some period of time or become overwritten by other data. The Desert Brilliance Site uses a temporary “session cookie,” which is created by the web server to identify each user session. This cookie disappears from your computer after you have closed your Internet browser.

 

Most people do not know that cookies are being placed on their computers when they visit a Site because browsers are typically set to accept cookies. You can choose to have your browser warn you every time a cookie is being sent to you or you can turn off cookie placements. If you refuse cookies, you can still browse the Desert Brilliance Site. By refusing cookies, your overall Internet browsing experience may be affected.

 

Pixel Tags or Clear GIFs, also known as Web Beacons or Web Bugs, are transparent graphical images placed on a website. Desert Brilliance does not currently use them on the Site.

 

As noted above, for most of the browsing services on this Site, Desert Brilliance neither requires nor collects Personal Information. You can browse the Desert Brilliance Site and take as much time as you want to review our services without having to submit such Personal Information.

 

In the following instances, however, you will be required to submit Personal Information through the Site:

 

(i)   To purchase items that are offered for sale on the Site;

(ii)   To submit a custom order request;

(iii)   To submit a proposal story for posting on the Site.

When you request certain services or information from Desert Brilliance, and you actively submit your Personal Information, we will use that information in one or more of the following ways:

 

a.      To process, complete or otherwise act upon or respond to your request or reason for submitting that information;

b.      To register and/or verify you in connection with a service or feature that you are attempting to access or obtain;

c.       To communicate with you about your request or reason for submitting that information;

d.      To provide additional information to you about Desert Brilliance and its services that we believe may interest you;

e.      To study and analyze the use of the information and features available on the Site; and

f.       To assist, when necessary, in protecting our rights or property, enforcing the provisions of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and/or preventing harm to you or others.

 

Except where we otherwise obtain your express permission, we share your Personal Information with third parties only under the limited circumstances stated below:

 

a.      When you purchase jewelry through the Site, we may disclose Personal Information contained in your order to your credit card company to confirm your identity and to avoid the fraudulent use of your credit card information. We may also submit Personal Information to third party identity verification services. 

b.      Personal Information may be disclosed to an attorney or collection agency representing Desert Brilliance in the collection of past due accounts.

c.       Personal Information is subject to disclosure in response to judicial or other governmental subpoenas, warrants and court orders served on Desert Brilliance in accordance with their terms.

d.      Personal Information is subject to disclosure to protect our rights or property, to enforce the provisions of our Privacy Policy or Terms of Use, and/or to prevent harm to you or others.

e.      Personal Information may be disclosed and transferred if Desert Brilliance or its business is sold or offered for sale to another company or person(s), if a petition for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Laws is filed by or against Desert Brilliance, or if Desert Brilliance becomes subject to an order of appointment of a trustee or receiver.

f.       If you communicate with us via e-mail, we will share your correspondence, including any Personal Information provided in the e-mail, with employees, representatives, or agents most capable of addressing your correspondence. We will retain your communication until we have done our very best to provide you with a complete and satisfactory response and may subsequently retain your communication for our records.

 

All comments, feedback, suggestions, proposal story submissions, ideas, and other information disclosed, submitted, or offered to Desert Brilliance in connection with your use of the Site (collectively “Comments”) shall be and remain the property of Desert Brilliance.  Unless otherwise prohibited by law, you agree that Desert Brilliance may use or disclose Comments in any manner, without restriction and without compensation to you.

 

We may sent out occasional specials, notices or other information regarding the Site to individuals who have previously provided their email addresses to us, unless you opt out of receiving such emails. Desert Brilliance does not sell its customer e-mail addresses to third parties.

 

Except where we are compelled by law to disclose your Personal Information, you have the right to choose whether we disclose it to a third party or use your Personal Information for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally provided or subsequently authorized by you. Except where we are compelled by law to maintain it, you also have a right to choose whether we keep your Personal Information. Please notify us at questions@desertbrilliance.com if you wish to opt out of any such use. Please be aware that opting out of certain third party use may prevent us from providing certain services or information that you request.

 

If you have provided us with Personal Information, you can contact us to request that we provide you with the Personal Information we have in our records about you. We reserve the right to limit the number of times such a request can be made and to charge you for responding to such requests if this process is misused or abused.

 

 

You have several options when deciding how you can best protect your Personal Information on the Internet. One option is simply not to volunteer it. As stated above, this approach would allow you to still visit our Site, but it would prevent you from being able to complete an order through the Site. However, you may contact us by telephone toll free at 1-866-611-5745 to complete an order by telephone.

 

The Federal Trade Commission’s website, www.ftc.gov also offers useful information about how to protect personally identifiable information provided to a website. 

 

The Desert Brilliance web Site is targeted for use by businesses and working adults. We do not market to or create special areas for use by children. Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 18 years. We hereby advise all visitors to our Site under the age of 18 not to disclose or provide any personally identifiable information on our Site. If Desert Brilliance discovers that a child under the age of 18 has provided personally identifiable information to us, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protect Act (see the Federal Trade Commission's website at http://www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy for more information about this Act), we will delete the child's personally identifiable information from our files to the extent technologically possible.

 

From time to time, Desert Brilliance may provide links from the Site to another third-party website. When you click on links on our Site that take you to third-party websites, you will be subject to the privacy policies of those third-party websites. While we support the protection of privacy on the Internet, Desert Brilliance cannot be and is not responsible for the actions of and content on any third-party websites. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement of any and every website you visit, whether you are linking from our Site or browsing on your own.

 

If at any time you believe Desert Brilliance has not adhered to the policies and principles set forth in this Privacy Policy, please notify us at questions@desertbrilliance.com. We will make all commercially reasonable efforts to promptly address your concerns.

 

This privacy policy was last updated on July 27, 2008. Desert Brilliance reserves the right to update this policy at any time. Unless we clearly express otherwise, we will use information in accordance with the latest Privacy Policy under which the information was collected and/or authorized for use by you. YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED THAT YOUR CONTINUED USE OF OUR SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF ANY AMENDMENTS TO AND THE MOST RECENT VERSION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

 

If you have any questions or comments concerning this Privacy Policy, please send an email message to questions@desertbrilliance.com. You may also contact Desert Brilliance by phone at 1-866-611-5745 or by mail at 12367 North Barbadense Drive, Marana, Arizona 85653.