Aristo Home & Garden is firmly committed to the privacy and security of your electronic commerce.  For your full understanding, the following statement details how we gather and utilize information, as well as the security measures we take to assure that your information stays secure and private.

Information Collected
When you shop on our Web site, we collect personal information from you such as your name, e-mail address, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, product selections, credit card or other payment information and a password.  We may also collect the URL you came from, IP address, domain type, your browser type, the country, state and telephone area code where your server is located, the pages of our Web site that were viewed during a visit, and any other information regarding the materials you had looked up on our Web site.

Cookies
A "cookie" is a small data file that a Web site may send to your browser and which may then be stored on your system.  Our Web site uses cookies to simulate a continuous connection — cookies let us "remember" information about your preferences and passwords and allow you to move within our Web site without reintroducing yourself.  The cookies contain randomly assigned user identification numbers.  You will be unable to shop on our Web site without your browser set to accept cookies.

Privacy of Information
We do not sell or rent your personal information to others.  We use customer information we collect for the sole purpose of filling orders, contacting purchasers to inform them of their order status, sending promotional information, enhancing the operation of our Web site, protecting the card holders from fraudulent purchases, for statistical purposes and to administer our systems.  We may use third parties to help us fulfill orders, to help process payments, to provide customer service, and to serve Web site content.  We give them access to the information needed to do their job.  Sometimes that includes your personal information.  Our computer system protects personal information using advanced firewall technology.

Credit Card Information
Credit card information that we collect from you is used to process your transaction at Aristo Home & Garden. When you place an order, you are consenting to our providing your credit card and billing details only to those third parties that process transactions with us, such as the company or companies we use to clear credit card transactions.  They are under strict obligation to keep your personal information private.  We don't retain your credit card information on any of our systems.  We do, however, record a few digits of your credit card number to enhance our customer service.

Secured Transactions
For credit card transactions, Aristo Home & Garden adds security by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.  An SSL connection is symbolized by a padlock icon in the right-hand side of the taskbar and a URL that starts with 'https', the 's' standing for a secure http connection.  This means that the credit card information you send is encrypted by your computer, and then decrypted again on our side, preventing others from accessing your private information in between.  So, when using an SSL capable browser, shopping on the Aristo Home & Garden Web site is the safest kind of transaction possible with a credit card.

Other Links
We may include links on Aristo Home & Garden to other companies’ Web sites.  Aristo Home & Garden is not responsible for the privacy policies and content of those Web sites.

Please contact us for further information.