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Thank you for visiting SpicyCupcakes.com. We cherish having you here. Below, you will find our detailed privacy policy. We tried to make it as transparent as possible out of respect for you.

Respecting and protecting the privacy of users of RatherBeCreative.com is of great importance to us. This page describes how we collect our information and how we use it with respect to the Site. It also highlights choices you may have about the way we use and share such information. Please read and understand this policy so that you can understand how we use your personal information. Please be aware that if you use the Site, register in any fashion in connection with the Site, or participate in a survey, contest, sweepstakes, or other promotion available on the Site, you are agreeing to both the terms of our privacy policies and our Terms of Use set forth elsewhere on the Site, each as in effect from time to time.

Collection of Information

On the Site, you may be able to purchase merchandise, participate in our community features like chat rooms or bulletin boards, become a registered user, maintain a "wish list" or store other information on the Site, enter sweepstakes and contests, buy a gift card, participate in surveys and polls, e-mail or instant message, subscribe to a service, enroll to receive something entertaining or informative. These are the ways that we collect information.

The personal information you provide is considered a company asset and may be included among our transferred assets if anybody should buy us out (we don't plan on selling).

Use of Information

We use personally identifiable information for various purposes. For example, as a registered user, you provide us with information that we maintain and reference as part of our attempts to provide better and more personalized service to you.

We may from time to time change information you give us with information from other sources, such as information validating your address. For example, we might learn that you just moved and now have a new address.

We won't share your e-mail addresses with another company that has a similar target market. For example, if Kitson approached us to buy our database of e-mail addresses, we would refuse. Then we'd challenge them to a game of Ping Pong and win!!

Opting Out

We strive to make sure your choices are respected.

In any event, when you receive e-mails or other communications from us our our partners, you should have the ability to "opt out" of receiving any further such communications, and we encourage you to exercise those rights should you see fit. Note that if you've signed up or provided information at different times for different purposes, you may have to opt out multiple times. If you don't want to reply to an e-mail you receive, or want a simpler way to opt out of receiving e-mails from us, you can just tell us what you want by contacting us.

Security

We are committed to treating your personal information with high standards of information security. We work hard to maintain the security and accuracy of personally identifiable information we collect, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers, as well as employing electronic security systems and password protections that guard against unauthorized access. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to protect the security of your credit card information as it is transmitted to us. Please click on the GoDaddy Padlock Logo to learn more. Also, our customer service center and stores operate over a private, secure network. Please DO NOT e-mail us or ANY website your credit card information. Please note that e-mail is not encrypted and is not considered to be a secure means of transmitting credit card information.

Persons Under 13

Persons under 13 are prohibited from providing personally identifiable information on our Site without parental consent. If you are a parent and you want to allow your child to provide personally identifiable information then please contact us. Most likely, we will advise you to buy the item yourself and give it as a gift.

Consent forms are available upon request.

If you have concerns about this Site or its services with respect to persons under 13, wish to find out if your child is a member or has registered for one our services, believe that your child under 13 has registered on our Site WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION, or wish to cancel your child's membership, please contact our Internet Administrator.

If you use the Site from outside of the United States, your connection will be through and to servers located in the United States, your orders placed through the Site will be fully processed in and shipped from the United States and all information you provide will be processed and maintained in our web servers and internal systems located within the United States. By using the Site, you authorize the export of personal information to the United States and its storage and use as specified above when you provide such information to us. This policy and our legal obligations are subject to the laws of the State of New York and the United States, regardless of the location of any user. Any claims or complaints must be filed in the United States in the State of New York.

Links to Other Sites

You should be aware that when you are on the Site you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There may be links to other sites from pages on the Site that take you outside our service. For example, if you "click" on a link. We do not claim to know their privacy policy. Be careful who you buy from. We can only verify our privacy policy.

In the future, we may create chat rooms and forums. PLEASE DO NOT give out any personal information in those areas. Be smart. This goes for our website and websites across the internet.

Our policy does not extend to anything inherent in the operation of the Internet, and is therefore beyond our control.

SpicyCupcakes.com reserves the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Policy at any time. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you may become aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current policy because it is binding on you. This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 4th 2008.