Privacy Statement and Policy for the Mystic House
Our Privacy Statement and Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how and why we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services.
The Mystic House has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: The Mystic House. Other web sites that we may administer or advertise on have there own privacy policy.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our web site.
Information Automatically Logged
We use your IP address, web browser and operating system to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our web site. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and your shopping cart, and to gather broad demographic information such as what part of this planet our visitors come from.
Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. We, our advertisers and ad serving companies may also use small pieces of code called “web beacons” or “clear gifs” to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you shop on our Web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other shoppers so your shopping cart is only available to you. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration Forms
Our site's various registration forms may require users to give us contact information and unique identifiers (like their name, email, postal address and phone number).
You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you register to be a member of certain Mystic House areas, register for certain services, register for email newsletters and alerts or make a purchase from the Mystic House.
This Contact information from the registration forms is used to ship purchases and/or information about our company, products or services. Customer contact information is used to get in touch with the customer/client when necessary.
Unique identifiers are collected from Web site visitors to verify the user's identity and will never be sold or traded to anyone.
Any information you may enter into reviews, blogs or other areas where public input is allowed, may or may not be made public and becomes the property of the Mystic House. the Mystic House may use this information as it sees fit without compensation to the original poster or author.
Credit Card or Payment Service Account Information
Credit cards and payment service information that you enter during a sale is not stored on our servers. It is transmitted fully encrypted to the appropriate authority for verification and processing. Credit card information is processed through Authorize.net, PayPal and other similar services and information is transmitted to their respective services encrypted as well. Please note the lock symbol in your browser while entering information or going through check out.
Email Information.
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at
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Sharing Information with Third Parties
Certain contact information such as name and address and in some instances, phone number, may be shared with our warehousing partners, suppliers and delivery services in order to deliver your purchases or promotional material.
We will never, under any circumstances, sell your personal information to anyone else for any reason unless directed to by government authorities.
External Links and Advertising
This site contains links to other sites from various ad services such as Google and others. We may from time to time, direct you to other Web sites that may be of interest to you. The Mystic House is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other Web sites. Please use your best judgment when visiting these other sites.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As our customer, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by sending us an email request at
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Changes to this privacy policy as well as other policies in place are subject to change. Changes will be posted here and will be sent to our General Interest Newsletter.
If at any time, you feel that anyone associated with the Mystic House, be it advertiser, supplier or otherwise has violated your privacy, please contact us immediately at
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This policy adapted for use and is © by the Mystic House - December 2008 |