Kitchen Wares, Housewares and Collectibles

At country by the city, we take your privacy very seriously. This privacy policy applies to our websites www.countrybythecity.com and www.countrybythecity.net.

This policy describes how we collect/handle your personal information when you use our site. This Policy only covers country by the city and the information we collect on the site only. We reserve the right to modify this Policy. We will notify you of substantial changes to this Policy by telling you about them in a notice on our website. Should we make a material change to the manner in which we handle your collected personal information, we will place a prominent notice on the Site, or notify you by email prior to the change becoming effective.

We do not share your personal information with third parties for their promotional purposes.

· We will not give personal information to advertisers;

· We do not tolerate spam;

· You may occasionally be notified by email of announcements from country by the city; you may opt out of these announcements at any time by using the unsubscribe link contained in each email announcement.

Information we collect

Our main purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with an enjoyable, customized, and efficient experience on our Site. It is our policy to never willfully disclose any personal information about our registered users to the general public without their consent. country by the city collects information from you when you purchase and/or conduct certain activities on the Site. We collect your full name, valid telephone number, contact/billing information, email address, and shipping address. 

We collect some information from your browser. This includes your IP address and the name of the page you requested. This information helps us to diagnose problems with our servers and administer the Site. Basically, your IP address helps us in identifying you and your specific needs.

Cookies and other tracking technology: We also collect information from cookies, which are software tags that are stored by a browser onto your hard drive. These bits of information are general in nature and they allow us to customize our Site to fit your specific preferences. Cookies also allow you to log onto or navigate through specific sections of our Site without having to re-enter certain information. You can decline the use of cookies, if any, through your browser. We tie cookie information to users' to user accounts in order to track users who set up duplicate accounts. However, we don't make this information publicly visible/available in any way. On occasion we may also employ Web Beacons and clear gifs on the Site to track information and traffic on the Site. A Web Beacon is a small 1x1 image that allows a Site to monitor site traffic.

Third Party Cookies: We may from time to time engage third parties to track and analyze non-personally identifiable usage and volume statistical information from visitors to our Site to help us administer our Site and improve its quality. Such third parties may use cookies to help track visitor behavior. Such cookies will not be used to associate individual website visitors to any personal information.

Our third party partners employ clear gifs (a.k.a. web beacons/web bugs), images, and scripts that help them better manage content on our Site. We do not tie the information gathered to our Customers’ or Users’ personal information.

Who will see my personal information?

Our number one priority is to keep your personal information private and confidential. We will not willfully disclose your personal information to third parties. And we will not rent or sell your personal information to anyone. However, certain personal information will be made available to others in the process of using our Site.  

country by the city will disclose your personal information to others only under the following circumstances:

· You consent to share the information;

· To law enforcement where a formal request has been made such as in responding to subpoenas, court orders or legal process;

· Your actions on our Site are, or appear to be, in violation of the Terms of Service and disclosure of this information will assist in efforts to enforce the Terms of Service;.

· To our service providers: we employ the services of a third party payment processor on the Site to fulfill payment when a purchase is executed. This third party isn't authorized to utilize your personal information for any other purposes. We also employ the services of a third party shipping agent.

Minors

Minors (those under the age of 18) are not eligible to use our site unless they use our Site through a parent or guardian.

Your Responsibilities

We go to great lengths to protect all of your information on our Site. 

We employ industry accepted standards in protecting your personal information during your use of the Site and have established physical and electronic safe guards to protect your information.

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

No method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot and do not guarantee that your information will not suffer unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure or access. By using our Site, you acknowledge these risks.

Data Retention

We will retain your information for the time needed to fulfill our obligation to you.  We do not sell email addresses and payment information is not stored.

Behavioral Targeting / Re-Targeting

We partner with a third party ad network to either display advertising on our Site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on the Site and other web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. 

Social Media Widgets

Our Site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button [and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site]. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site , and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the feature.