What This Privacy Policy Covers

This privacy policy covers the use of the web site located at http://www.craftnation.com and the services provided by CraftNation.com ("Craft Nation"), including how Craft Nation treats personal information that Craft Nation collects and receives. Pursuant to Craft Nation's Terms of Use, you must be 18 years and older to use this site or have permission from a legal guardian. Therefore, this policy makes no provision for individuals under 18 years old. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Craft Nation does not own or control, or individuals that Craft Nation does not employ or manage. This policy is effective on October 27, 2010.

Information Collection and How it is Used
General Information:

Craft Nation will not sell or disclose your name or email address to third parties without your explicit consent, except as specified in this privacy policy.

Craft Nation collects personal information when you login to use Craft Nation services or to post content on Craft Nation.

If you would like to obtain a trading partner account, Craft Nation will ask for your business address, phone number, and payment information.

Craft Nation automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, cookies, and the pages you request.

Craft Nation uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provisioning. Your browser automatically reports IP addresses each time you view a web page. IP addresses may be used for various research purposes, and/or delivering unique functionality in the Craft Nation Marketplace.

Service Announcements

Craft Nation will send you a welcome email when you sign up for Craft Nation's services.

Craft Nation will send you service announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so.

You may not opt-out of service-related communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account by emailing support at craftnationsunite dot com from the email address you signed up with.

Admin Messages

Craft Nation may periodically email you with admin messages. Craft Nation will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. Your information may be combined with information Craft Nation collects from other companies and used to improve and personalize services, content and advertising. If you don't wish to receive admin messages or participate in these programs, simply opt-out by emailing support at CraftNationsunite dot com

Choice/Opt-out

If you no longer wish to receive admin messages, you may opt-out by emailing support at CraftNationsunite.com. Please note that if you do not wish to receive admin messages from us, those notices will still govern your use of the Craft Nation website and service, and you are responsible for reviewing such notices for changes.

Newsletter Emails

Craft Nation offers subscriptions to Craft Nation email newsletters. To opt-in, Craft Nation will ask for your email address and the newsletter(s) you wish to receive. This email address will only be used for this feature. You may change your subscription or unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions contained in the email.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, which is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Craft Nation service. Craft Nation uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to: Access your information when you "sign in"; keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Craft Nation's services; display local product offerings; estimate and report Craft Nation's total audience size and traffic; conduct research to improve Craft Nation's content and services. Craft Nation cookies do not collect personal information, and Craft Nation does not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your username or email address is.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

When you post a message, your Craft Nation ID or alias is visible to other users. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Craft Nation may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with the law or when your actions violate the Craft Nation Terms of Use. Craft Nation may disclose personally identifiable information to parties in compliance with Craft Nation 's Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy, as Craft Nation in Craft Nation's sole discretion believes necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity. In such events, Craft Nation may disclose name, street address, city, state, zip/post code, country, phone number, email address and company name. Craft Nation may share aggregated demographic information with business partners.

Craft Nation will be affiliated with a variety of businesses and will work closely with them. These businesses may sell items to you from the Craft Nation website. Craft Nation may also provide services or sell products jointly with affiliated businesses. Due to the nature of Craft Nation 's business model, when an affiliated business is associated with your transaction, you will share customer information that is related to such transaction with that affiliated business.

Craft Nation employs other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and needs to share your information with them to provide products and services to you. Examples include but are not limited to fulfilling orders, handling billing disputes, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance and providing customer service.

Craft Nation will not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with nonaffiliated parties except as specified in this Privacy Policy to provide products or services you have requested or when Craft Nation has your permission. It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Craft Nation 's Terms of Use, as specified in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required by law. In some cases, Craft Nation may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Craft Nation will transfer information about you if Craft Nation is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Craft Nation will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the Craft Nation web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

As part of the trading process, you may obtain another Craft Nation user's email address, shipping address and/or other information. Pursuant to Craft Nation's Terms of Use, you have a limited license to use this information. This information should only be used for Craft Nation related communications or for Craft Nation facilitated transactions. Craft Nation has not granted you a license to use the information for unsolicited commercial messages. Without limiting the foregoing, without express consent from the user, you are not licensed to add any Craft Nation user to your email or physical mail list.

Third Parties

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information Craft Nation collects from you. If you disclose your information to others, whether they are buyers or sellers on Craft Nation or throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Craft Nation does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. Craft Nation is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of other websites on the Internet, even those linked to or from the Craft Nation site. Craft Nation encourages you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

Editing and Deleting Account Information

You can change your Craft Nation Account Information at any time. Craft Nation may send you certain communications relating to the Craft Nation service, such as service announcements and administrative messages that are considered part of your Craft Nation account. You can delete your Craft Nation account by emailing support at CraftNationsunite dot com Please note that your identification, billing and contact information may remain in Craft Nation's records for some period.

Craft Nation limits access to personal information about you to employees who Craft Nation believes reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. Your Craft Nation Account Information is password-protected.

If your personally identifiable information changes you may correct or update it by making the change on your Craft Nation account page. You may delete or deactivate your account by emailing Customer Support support at CraftNationsunite dot com. Craft Nation will respond to your request within 2 business days.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. You need to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by signing off once you have finished using a shared computer. Craft Nation follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once Craft Nation receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while Craft Nation strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, Craft Nation cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on Craft Nation 's Web site, you can email Craft Nation Êat support at CraftNationsunite dot com

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If this privacy policy is changed, Craft Nation will post changes so that you are aware of those changes. Craft Nation reserves the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If Craft Nation makes material changes to this policy you will be notified here, by email, or other places Craft Nation deems appropriate.

Questions

If you have questions or suggestions you can submit them to support at CraftNationsunite dot com or by postal mail to Craft Nation Unite Attn: Customer Support; 63 Lytton Avenue, LGC, Hertfordshire, SG6 3HY.