Thank you for visiting our Privacy and Security information page. The Global Exchange Online Store e-commerce service is provided by Yahoo!, one of most trusted names on the Internet and a leading provider of e-commerce services. In addition, our website is tested and certified daily to pass the HACKER SAFE Security Scan. As a result, our checkout process is secure and encrypted. So you can feel absolutely safe and confidant shopping with us. Below you will find a detailed description of why our site is a secure place for you to shop online, and why your personal information is safe with us.

• Description of our Policy
• Confidentiality and Security
• Information Collecting, Sharing and Use Practices
• Hacker Safe & Yahoo! Store's Security Policy

 

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Description of our Privacy and Security Policy
This policy covers how the Global Exchange Online Store treats personal information that we collect and receive from you (such as your name, address, email address, phone number, credit card, and any other information that is not otherwise publicly available) and the security of our website.

 

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Confidentiality and Security
Global Exchange is a secure place to shop online. We operate the Global Exchange Online Store through Yahoo!, which uses industry-standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions. When you enter your credit card number into the order form, it is transmitted across the Internet in an encrypted (scrambled) form, then decoded when it gets to Yahoo!. For added security, they also encrypt the credit card number when it is stored on disk, and when they forward it to the Global Exchange Online Store.

 

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Information Collection, Sharing, and Use Practices
When you make a purchase through the Global Exchange Online Store, we will ask you for your name, billing and shipping addresses, email address, telephone number, and credit card information. Yahoo! gives you the opportunity to submit a testimonial about your experience using the Global Exchange Online Store that asks for your name, email address, and information about your experience. Your comments may be shared with the press or made publicly available. The Global Exchange Online Store gives you the opportunity to receive a short email newsletter about new crafts, resources and promotions. This is strictly double opt-in (meaning that unless you specifically request this email, you will not receive any emailed information).

The Global Exchange Online Store limits access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.

We do not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or organizations except to provide products you've requested (such as some coffees which are shipped directly from the roaster), or when we have your permission.

 

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Our website is tested and certified daily to pass the HACKER SAFE Security Scan. To help address concerns about hacker access to confidential data, the "live" HACKER SAFE mark appears only when a web site meets the HACKER SAFE standard, such as our website.