This site is owned and operated by CountrySidewalk Trading Post. Your
privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.
At Countrysidewalk Trading Post, we want to make your experience online
satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our
users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and
conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information.
This privacy statement discloses what information we gather
and how it we use it.
We offer free services, which require some type of voluntary
submission of personal information by users.
- Account Creation
Each user has the option to create an account online.
The account is free and expedites the checkout process.
During account creation user will be asked for a login
name, password, billing and shipping information. Online
accounts are not required to shop in the store.
- Order Processing
Information collected during this process is only used
to ship your order to you. This information will never
be shared, rent or sold to any third party.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in
the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does
not contain personal information. A cookie can not read
your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites.
Countrysidewalk uses cookies to identify you as an account
holder.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.
If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting
cookies, you will receive the warning message with each
cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use
this site. However, you do need cookies to login to your
account.
User Tracking
Countrysidewalk tracks user traffic patterns throughout
this site. However, we do not correlate this information
with data about individual users. Countrysidewalk does break
overall usage statistics according to a user's host name
and browser type (information contained in every user's
browser).
Countrysidewalk tracks and catalogs the search terms that
users enter in our search function, but this tracking is
never associated with individual users. We use tracking
information to determine which areas of our site users like
and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not
track what individual users read. This helps us continue
to build a better site for you.
Use of Information
Countrysidewalk uses any information voluntarily given
by our users to enhance their experience on our site, whether
to provide interactive or personalized elements on the site
or to prepare future content based on the interests of our
users.
We track search terms entered in our Search function on
our site as a measure of what interests our users. But we
do not and will never track which terms a particular user
enters.
Sharing of Information
Countrysidewalk uses the above-described information to
tailor our content and products to suit your needs and wants.
We will not share information about individual users with
any third party, except to comply with applicable law or
valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of
our users or the public.
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use
of this information by Countrysidewalk. If we decide to
change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on
this page so that you are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances
we disclose it.
Security
You can shop at www.CountrySidewalk.com with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to accept credit cards and electronic check payments safely and securely for our customers.
The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the electronic check and credit card processing networks. See an online payments diagram to see how it works. The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:
- 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.
- Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.
- Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
- For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy.
www.CountrySidewalk.com is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.
