Greetings from the Stitch & Bloom and welcome to our site! As our guest, we want to assure you that while visiting our Web site your privacy is a priority. The Stitch & Bloom will never sell, lease or rent your confidential information. We will continually monitor our site to assure that any information you provide to us will remain secure. We want you to feel safe while visiting our site.

1. Security
Our e-commerce system uses SSL encryption to protect sensitive data transmissions from your computer to our Web site. In some areas, password protection is also used to protect your privacy and security. At the Stitch & Bloom protecting your personal information through online security is of the utmost importance. Thus, we have taken Verisign Secured reasonable means to ensure that before your information is transmitted across the Internet, it is encrypted to prevent the information from being read or tampered with during the transmission. Our site uses the industry standard, SSL (secured socket layer) encryption.
If you use one of the following browsers then SSL encryption is protecting your information:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher
• Netscape 2.0 or higher
• America Online 3.0 or higher

While we at the Stitch & Bloom consider online security a priority, we cannot provide absolute assurances against, and will not be liable for, any breaches of confidentiality due to system failures or unauthorized access by third parties.

2. Collection of Information
At times you will be asked to provide us with personal information while online. This information includes: name, mailing address, address, city, state, country, zip code, phone number, and e-mail address. This occurs when online donations, purchases, resource requests, suggestions, concerns, ideas, personal testimonies, prayer requests or questions are submitted. No personal information is collected without your knowledge and is never shared with third parties. All information collected will be utilized to facilitate our response to your specific request, offer responses and may also be used to improve the information available and the usability of our site.

Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. It contains unique information that a Web site can use to track such things as passwords, pages you have visited, the date you last looked at a specific page, and to identify your session at a particular Web site. When a cookie has been sent to your computer by our site you have the option to refuse or allow it. If you reject the cookie, they may still browse our site however you will not be able to place an order. Our site employs cookies as a mechanism to remember information about you in order to maintain your shopping cart. We do not use cookies to store any information about you. All cookies are “session cookies” meaning they removed themselves or terminate once you close your browser.

Cookies will be used in two specific situations: (1) Account Registration - When requesting resources or making online purchases personal information will be required in order to create a unique account and; (2) Shopping Cart Identification - When generating a shopping cart for you that will allow us to complete your transaction. A "cookie" is offered following this "registration" as a means to automatically identify you as you are browsing the available resources and completing your request or order. The cookie is set to terminate when you exit your current browser session.

3. Use of Information
For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes no information regarding the domain or e-mail address.

We collect information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations.

The information we collect is used for internal review and is then discarded /, used to improve the content of our Web page / used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor / used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site / shared with other reputable organizations to help them contact consumers for marketing purposes / used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes / not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

4. Changes
We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time. Please review this policy often for updates.

5. Links
This Web site may provide links to external Web sites that are not a part of the Stitch & Bloom family or domain. These sites are managed by organizations, companies, or individuals not under the Stitch & Bloom's control. Therefore, the Stitch & Bloom is not responsible for the information or additional links you may find on that site. These links are provided merely as a convenience to you and in no way does their presence give the Stitch & Bloom’s endorsement of the site. Once accessing the links to another Web site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the Web site containing the information you have linked to.