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TEXASBOOTS.BIZ Statement of Privacy (Last updated: July 2002) Texas Boot and Leather (TxBL) is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information on our Web sites. This Privacy Statement applies to TEXASBOOTS.BIZ. By using TEXASBOOTS.BIZ, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. If you have questions about this Privacy Statement or the protection of your personal information on TEXASBOOTS.BIZ, please contact us..

Collection of your Personal Information TEXASBOOTS.BIZ explicitly asks when it needs information that personally identifies you ("Personal Information") pertinent to the specific product or service you are choosing to use or subscribe to on the TxBL web sites. This information can include your e-mail address, name, address, telephone number, and credit card number, as applicable. TEXASBOOTS.BIZ also may ask for non-personal information or demographic information.

Use of your Personal Information TEXASBOOTS.BIZ and our TxBL affiliates and service partners use your personal information to operate the TxBL sites and to provide the services you have requested. The information is also used to communicate with you regarding your TEXASBOOTS.BIZ accounts by sending out periodic newsletters that are considered as essential to the operation of the service. We use your e-mail address as your service username. We chose this since this ensures that everyone has a unique username and the username is easy to remember. We also use your e-mail address to respond to incoming service and support requests from you, to collect customer feedback, customer satisfaction surveys, and other service informational mailings. We ask for your postal address, in certain instances, because some of our services require a mailing address so that we can completely perform the service TEXASBOOTS.BIZ may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on TxBL or TEXASBOOTS.BIZ, (b) protect and defend the rights or property of TxBL; TEXASBOOTS.BIZ, or the users of TEXASBOOTS.BIZ; or, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of TxBL, TEXASBOOTS.BIZ, or the public. Personally identifiable information collected by TEXASBOOTS.BIZ may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which TxBL or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

Sharing your Personal Information with Other Companies

Except as otherwise described in this statement, TEXASBOOTS.BIZ or TxBL will share your personal information with other companies only with your consent.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as packaging and delivering purchases and other mailings, providing customer service, performing statistical analysis of our services, or providing other essential elements of the site. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the product or service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

Control of your Personal Information

As part of your participation in any of the TEXASBOOTS.BIZ services, TEXASBOOTS.BIZ allows you to elect to receive certain information and e-mail from TEXASBOOTS.BIZ and its service partners. There are two types of information sent to TEXASBOOTS.BIZ, customers: 1) account specific information; and, 2) promotional and customer feedback information.

Account specific communications include information that is essential for the TEXASBOOTS.BIZ service to operate properly. This includes the initial welcome mail describing features and guides to a particular service. It also includes any communications describing any changes or updates to a particular service or billing schedule. Because account specific communications are essential to providing the customer with the most current information on TEXASBOOTS.BIZ services these types of communications will be sent to all TEXASBOOTS.BIZ customers when appropriate. These types of communications are considered an essential part of the service for which you have signed-up for and you will not be able to unsubscribe from such mailings.

Promotional and customer feedback information includes special promotional offers, sweepstakes, contests, and/or customer surveys. For this type of information, the customer has the ability to opt-in or opt-out from receiving this type of information. The customer also has the ability to change their opt-in/out preferences at any time, either by changing their personal information, described in the next section, or by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in each mailing.

Please be aware that this Privacy Statement and the choices you make on this site will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have provided to TxBL in the context of other, separately operated, TxBL websites, products or services.

Changes to your Personal Information

You may update, edit or delete the personal information you have shared with TEXASBOOTS.BIZ, at any time when you are on the TEXASBOOTS.BIZ Web site, from within your TEXASBOOTS.BIZ Account Maintenance by clicking the "Edit My Profile" link.

1. If you have chosen to receive information from TEXASBOOTS.BIZ and then at a later date decide you do not wish to continue receiving such information, you can unsubscribe by following the instructions in the e-mail

Please contact us at any time to receive further assistance.

Security of your Personal Information

TEXASBOOTS.BIZ secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. TEXASBOOTS.BIZ secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number and other financial information) is transmitted over the Internet, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Use of Cookies

To make it easy and convenient for you to login to our services, the TEXASBOOTS.BIZ site does require you to enable cookies to utilize our services

A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

Use of Privacy Statements by TEXASBOOTS.BIZ Partners and Affiliates

While TEXASBOOTS.BIZ supports other web site operators using TEXASBOOTS.BIZ services complying with these principles, you should carefully examine the privacy statements of sites linking to or from TEXASBOOTS.BIZ. Personal information that you choose to provide to other web sites will be subject to the privacy policies of that specific web site.

Use of Third Party Ad Networks

The majority of the online banner advertisements you see on the TEXASBOOTS.BIZ Web sites are displayed by TEXASBOOTS.BIZ. In addition, TEXASBOOTS.BIZ also allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display advertisements on TEXASBOOTS.BIZ Web sites. To do this, ad networks place a persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows the ad network to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. TxBL does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.

TEXASBOOTS.BIZ may maintain relationships with a number of the third-party ad networks currently operating such as: 24/7 Media; AdForce; AdKnowledge; AppNet/admaximize/i33; Avenue A; BlueStreak.com; CFM&Z; Click Here; DoubleClick; Flycast; Interad Network; MatchLogic; Mediaplex; Sabela Media; The Thinking Media; Vita Bella and Link Exchange. If you want to prevent one of these third-party companies from sending and reading cookies on your computer, you will need to either set your browser to decline third party cookies or visit each ad network's web site individually or request that you be removed from its system.

Use of Web Beacons

TEXASBOOTS.BIZ pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons, sometimes called single-pixel gifs that allow TEXASBOOTS.BIZ to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. TEXASBOOTS.BIZ may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or TEXASBOOTS.BIZ Newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information on the TEXASBOOTS.BIZ network of sites and services; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about TEXASBOOTS.BIZ Web site usage.

Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. TEXASBOOTS.BIZ Web pages may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners to help TEXASBOOTS.BIZ determine the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns.

Changes to this Statement

TEXASBOOTS.BIZ will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect company and customer feedback. When TEXASBOOTS.BIZ posts changes to this Statement, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the Privacy Statement. If there are material changes to this Statement, TEXASBOOTS.BIZ will notify you by placing prominent notice on the Web site. TEXASBOOTS.BIZ encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how TxBL is protecting your information.

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Statement please contact us..

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