Privacy Notice

1. Personal information collected

We collect personal information that you choose to provide voluntarily when using the Website. This information includes your email address and a password when you register to create your Ebony of Essence online account. While you can browse our online store, you will need to register in order to make purchases and take advantage of certain features. This will allow us to protect your confidentiality by verifying your identity.

Purchase Information

When you make a purchase using a credit card, it is done through paypal.com we do not collect your credit card information, we may collect your name, your billing address for the card. We collect this information in order to verify your billing address. We also collect information that allows us to ship and keep you informed of the status of your order. This includes your email address and the name, address of the intended recipient(s).

2. Use of your personal information

Information we collect on the Website may be used to enhance your shopping experience in the following ways:

· Deliver merchandise that you purchase online

· Register you as a member

· Confirm your shopping orders

· Respond to your customer service inquiries or requests

· Communicate special promotions and featured items to you, if you choose to receive such notices

· Customize your shopping experience

3. When and with whom we share your personal information

We never sell your personal information to any third parties under any circumstances. We will share personal customer information only with our trusted cutomer representatives and service agents for the limited purposes of fulfilling customer orders; offering certain products and services in connection with our Website; communicating to customers; providing customer service; enhancing and improving the customer shopping experience; providing a personalized shopping experience and completing credit card transactions.

4. How you can control the use of your personal information

Registering as a Ebony of Essence online customer helps us provide a better shopping experience for you and allows you to make purchases more conveniently, without having to re-enter your payment and shipping information each time you make a purchase on our site. Although you must register as a customer in order to purchase products, it is not necessary to register to visit our site.

As a registered user, you can modify your personal information anytime. Simply go to Your Account Log in with your username and password, then click "Contact Information" and edit whatever information you wish. To have your personal information deleted, contact our Customer Service Department by filling out our form on our contact page.

Do not share your Ebony of Essence online password with anyone.

5. How you can decide what marketing communication you receive from us

If you choose to receive them, we may periodically send you email messages describing new items, featured merchandise and special promotions. You can choose to stop receiving these emails at any time. Simply contact us via email at ebonyofessenceinfo@yahoo.com, and request that your email address be removed.

6. How we protect the security of your personal information

The security of your personal information is very important to us. In our efforts to protect your online transactions, we use a technology called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). If your browser is capable of SSL (and most are), your personal information will be automatically encrypted, or encoded, before it is sent over the Internet.

We have digital certificate from Starfield Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Internet trust services. When you enter a secure portion of our site (which is any page containing any of your personal information), an image of a closed lock or a solid key should appear in the bottom bar of your browser window. If you click on this image, a small pop-up window displaying site-security information will appear. This certificate guarantees that your personal information is being transmitted in secure (encrypted) form to a EbonyofEssence.com Web server, not to some unknown or unauthorized server.

Ultimately, your personal information is protected by the password you created when you registered for an account at EbonyofEssence.com (or another password you chose after changing a previous password). Please keep this password confidential. The confidentiality of your password is your responsibility to protect. You may change it anytime by going to Your Account. Log in with your username and password, then click "Change Password" and enter a new password.

7. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change, modify or amend this privacy policy at any time. If we make any significant change to this policy, we will post a notice of the change on EbonyofEssence.com.

8. How to contact us

If you have comments or questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at ebonyessenceinfo@yahoo.com. We will address any issue to the best of our abilities.

Thank you for your support of our policies.

9. Effective Date as of January 1, 2010.