We at Vestal & Friends respect your concern about privacy and online security. We value our relationship with you. Our goal is to provide you with the best shopping experience possible. We recognize that you place your trust in us, so we take care to safeguard information about you. We hope you will take a few minutes to read about how we collect, use and protect information about online customers.

Secure Sockets Layering (SSL)

Vestal & Friends uses Secure Socket Layering (SSL) to encrypt your personal credit information, including your credit card number, before it travels over the internet. SSL technology is the industry standard for secure online transactions. Because we use SSL, placing an order with Vestal & Friends online is just as safe as giving your credit card number over the phone, via fax, or by using email. Our Secure Server hosting services are provided by our web hosting company, Mad Dancer Media. The web address "secure.maddancer.com" will appear when you make a purchase from our store.

What information do we collect?

We collect information you provide when you place an order, register with us, send us an e-mail or call us. This information may include your name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, or your credit card number. It may also include information you submit about other people; for example, the name and address of a gift recipient. Some of this information is mandatory; without it we will not be able to register you, and you will not be able to make online purchases.

What are "Cookies" and how do we use them?

A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer when you visit a web site. This file gives your computer a unique identification and helps our website recognize previous visitors to our web page, record a visitor's progress from page to page, and recall certain information a visitor entered previously.

You can choose to decline our cookies by setting your browser to reject cookies, but if you do, some parts of the Vestal & Friends website will not operate properly.

Vestal & Friends uses session cookies and persistent cookies to enhance your shopping experience at our website. Session cookies disappear from your computer's hard drive after you close your browser and end an online session. Persistent cookies last from visit to visit. When you return to our web site, the cookie associates your computer with information the web site is storing for you from previous visits. This enables us to do fun and helpful things like say "Hello, (username)" at the top of certain pages, and connect you to your Wish List, for example.

Does Vestal & Friends share information it collects with others?

We may share information we collect with other members of the Vestal & Friends family of businesses. They may use this information to offer you products and services that may be of interest to you. We may also disclose information you provide as required by law or to protect the security or integrity of information collected or submitted on this website.

Finally, note that our website may contain links to other sites on the internet. Please remember that when you click on one of these links, you are leaving our website and entering another. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other websites, and encourage you to read their privacy statements (which may differ from ours).

Your consent

By using the Vestal & Friends website, you consent to our use of guest information as described in this Online Privacy Policy. We may change or add to this privacy policy so we encourage you to review it periodically.