INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE:

PWS is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to any outside parties, except as outlined in this policy. PWS collects information from our users at several different points on our website in order to process orders and better serve you with pertinent information. Information collected includes name, shipping address, billing address, telephone numbers, e-mail address, and payment information such as credit card. PWS also requires you to submit a user name and password of your choice for future access to your information. Your user name and password is to remain confidential and you should not share this information with anyone.

Registration: In order to process your orders using this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information, which include name, e-mail, telephone number and physical address. This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site such as sending automated order status updates.

Order: Most of the information collected in the registration process will be used to process orders. In the order process, a user must provide additional financial information such as credit card number, expiration date, money order, wire transfer or check information. This information is used for billing purposes and to fulfill customer’s orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user. We do not share your personal and financial information with any third parties. The only exception is when processing your credit card information with the merchant bank for authorization and approval. This process is protected by an enhanced security system. See Security paragraph for more details on security measures and procedures.

Cookies: With respect to cookies, we use cookies to customize Web page content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site, however you will be unable to use our shopping cart to purchase items online. This is because cookies are used by the shopping cart to retain information necessary to process your order. If you disable cookies, we will not be able to accept your order online. We do not share any information with any third-party sites. Cookies are used strictly for the purpose of enhancing your personal experience with our site. When you close your browser, the cookies will be terminated.

LOG FILES:
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We do not distribute or share IP information with any third parties.

Sharing: We use an outside shipping company (UPS, FedEx) to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes. PWS is a California Corporation and shall abide by all federal and state laws. PWS shall disclose any personally identifiable information when required to by law.

Links: This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware PWS is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Security: PWS websites take every precaution to protect our user’s information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry – SSL. Our SSL technology is the most advanced 128bit encryption by Authorize.net. To learn more about SSL, follow this link www.Authorize.net. All PWS employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers information is protected.

Special Offers: If you choose to receive special offers, PWS may send you such pertinent information. Our special offers are sent only to customers who grant PWS permission to send such information. PWS does not share your information with third parties and does not solicit outside parties to send special offers on our behalf.

Notification of Changes: If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will post it on the website and notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.