Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the e-commerce website for Julie Apple.  Your privacy while at this web site is our most important responsibility.  To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices, what we do with that information, and why we require certain information.

The Collected Information


When ordering products, information such as your name, address, credit card information (if applicable) and other billing and shipping  items are required for you to submit an order.  Every precaution is taken to avoid credit card fraud should you opt to pay for your  order via credit card instead of invoice or other methods.

If you are placing a review on the site, or providing a testimony about how Julie Apple conducts their daily business, a summary including your name and city/state is required.  We encourage you to use your first initial and last name only.

The Use of Information


The information you provide while ordering is kept confidential but may be shared with companies used to help fulfill  some of our products (direct shipments for example) you have ordered.   YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS NEVER SHARED, SOLD, OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTED TO THIRD PARTIES,  although Julie Apple does reserve the right to contact any customer to market  new merchandise in which they may be interested.  Julie Apple respects the  rights of all customers and will not abuse any mailing systems through this web site.  By using this web site,  you are giving your consent to receive emails regarding new product or sales from Julie Apple.

To help make your buying experience at this web site as pleasurable as possible, we also may collect non-personally identifiable information to improve the design and content of the web site. We may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage through traffic statistics, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services as you browse the site.  We will store this information on your computer in the form of a secure cookie.  A cookie is a text file which we may use to store your username, frequently searched items and most viewed categories etc...  However, we cannot read cookies placed on your computer from other web sites.  Likewise, they cannot view the cookie which we place on your computer.

For legal purposes or requests, such as subpoenas, Julie Apple may disclose personally identifiable information. We also may disclose such information in response  to a law enforcement agency's request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. In addition, Julie Apple may transfer information about you if either company is acquired by or merged with another company.

Although Julie Apple takes appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, Julie Apple cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that Julie Apple collects will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice.  The use of this web site means that you accept this and agree that Julie Apple will not be held liable in any way unless it can be proved in a US Court of Law that the offending company has been intentionally negligent concerning your privacy. 

It is also understood that some of the products on this website may be fulfilled directly from third party warehouses. These particular products will be noted as such on the web site and your information will be shared with the fulfillment companies for the purposes of making sure that your order arrives in a timely fashion. This data will include product, shipping and contact information.  These companies have their own privacy policies in place, and  Julie Apple will be held liable with what they do with said information.

Finally, do NOT transmit ordering information containing credit card numbers via standard email or non-ssl encrypted contact forms on this web site.  This method of transmitting information is unsecured and such emails or other electronic communications (excluding faxes) of this nature will be discarded.

Cookies


To enhance your experience, this web site may use "cookies." Cookies are text files which are placed into your computer's browser by the web site to store your preferences.  Cookies, by themselves, do not indicate your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to the web site  by, for example, registering or placing an order at this site.  You can also choose to store your ordering information in your cookie, however, that is not a requirement for you to place an order.  Additionally, cookies can only be viewed by the web site which creates them.  In other words, other sites such as AOL or Yahoo, cannot view the cookie which is placed on your computer by this web site.

How You can Access or Correct Information


This web site let's you record your personal information so that you do not have to reenter it when ordering.  This information may be updated in your account section here at the website (if you choose to register as a customer).

To protect your privacy and security, the web site will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

How to Contact Julie Apple


If you have any questions or concerns about this web site, you may contact Julie Apple by using our contact page.

Opting In and Out of Email Lists


You may opt in and out of email lists at any time by updating your information in your account.   Any changes in this area of the web site are immediate and will remain at  those settings until you update your account and profile.

Updates & Effective Date


We reserve the right to periodically update  this privacy policy.  The changes become effective immediately when published here at our site.

The Privacy Notice was last updated on June 25, 2009.