Whenever you enter any personal details, they are transferred to the server across an industry standard secure connection that encrypts all data. This ensures that any details you enter on our Web site are encrypted before being transmitted across the Internet, with the goal of making it safe for you to provide your details and prevent any unauthorized person from gaining access to the information.

Credit card security

We will only ask you to enter your payment card information after you have put the items you want to order into your shopping cart.

When you are ready to pay for your product, your payment card information will be encrypted to keep it secure. Encryption prevents other people from looking at your card information. No credit card data is stored permanently. Because of this security feature, you will need to re-enter your payment card information each time you place an order with us.

We can process payments from Visa, American Express, Mastercard and Discover. We also accept electronic checks through PayPal.

Privacy

In general, you can visit this website without telling us who you are or giving any information about yourself. The only time we collect information from you is when you:

• place an order with us so that we can process your order and contact you
• update your account details

In these instances, we ask for your name, address, e-mail address and other appropriate information we need. If you place an order through this Web site, we will also ask for certain payment card information to check and charge your account.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

We collect information about you for two reasons: first, to process your order, and second, to provide information about products and services which might be of interest to you.

In order to ensure that the information we hold about you remains accurate and up to date, please check the information that we hold about you by visiting the "My Account" page. If you find any inaccuracies, you can update your profile. or contact us if desired. The personal information we do hold will be kept securely in accordance with our internal security policy, and the law. If you have any questions/comments about privacy, please use the form on the Contact Us page to communicate them to us.

Use of personal information

If you choose to give us personal information, such as your name, address and e-mail address, we may use this information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as mailings announcing new products or making promotional offers. You may decline such communications if so desired.

We do not rent, sell or give customer-identifying information to other companies othere than what is required to process your order. When you order goods through this Web site, the order form may ask you to provide a daytime phone number. We will only use this phone number to ask you questions about an order or to let you know, for example, that the payment is incorrect or there is an additional shipping charge. We will not call you to try and sell you other products.

When you place an order we will also ask for your e-mail address, so we can send e-mails to you confirming your orders and shipments.

What about "cookies?"

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent that. We only use cookies to keep track of your shopping cart, and they contain no personal information about you.

By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is sent or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies, you will be unable to use those parts of the site that require registration in order to participate.

Web site security

This site uses security features with a view to ensuring that any personal data we collect from you is safe from misuse. AceScrubs.com uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to transfer all sensitive information. Industry standard 128-bit encryption (the highest level currently supported by web browsers), and it is utilized to guarantee a secure connection between the Web site and your computer.