Privacy
Statement for PlatinumJewelry.biz
Opals International
Jewelers, Inc. dba PlatinumJewelry.biz has created this privacy statement
in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following
discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for
this website: www.platinumjewelry.biz
We use your
IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer
our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your
shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information.
Our site
uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart and to make sure you
don't see the same ad repeatedly. We use cookies to deliver content
specific to your interests and to identify you with subsequent visits.
Our site's
registration form requires users to give us contact information (like
their name and email address). We use customer contact information from
the registration form to send the user information about our company.
The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor
when necessary during a credit card transaction. Users may opt-out of
receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
This site
contains links to other sites. www.platinumjewelry.biz is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Our site
uses a secure order form for customers to request information, products,
and services. We collect visitor's contact information (like their email
address), unique identifiers (like their mailing address and phone number,
as well as their account or credit card numbers), and demographic information
(like their zip code, age, or income level). Contact information from
the order form is used to send orders and information about our company
to our customers. The customer's contact information is also used to
get in touch with the visitor when necessary to verify the order. Demographic
and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to
tailor our visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that
we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according
to their preferences. Credit card numbers are NEVER seen by us when
the Secure Encryption Server is used by you to place your order. Only
if you give us this number via another media i.e. fax, phone email or
mail will we ever see it. The number is shredded after all transactions
are approved and closed.
Our online
surveys ask visitors for contact information (like their email address)
and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income level).
We use contact data from our surveys to send the user information about
our company. The customer's contact information is also used to contact
the visitor when necessary such as when aa contest is won.
We run contests
on our site in which we ask visitors for contact information (like their
email address) and demographic information (like their zip code, age,
or income level). We use contact data from our contests to send users
information about our company. The customer's contact information is
also used to contact the visitor when necessary WE DO NOT SELL OR SHARE
ANY CLIENT INFORMATON WITH ANYONE OUTSIDE OF AUSTRALIANOPALS.COM WEBSITE.
With our secure e-commerce ordering process the customers credit card
information is not recieved by any of our employees. All transaction
data ( such as credit card numbers ) is SHREDDED immediately after processing.
No information like this is kept for future reference. We fully protect
the privacy of the bank card information. It is against the law and
all credit card merchant programs to use your credit card information
for anything besides the initial credit card purchase that you authorized.
Security
This site
has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration
of the information under our control, including HACKERSAFE third party
verification services which "daily" try to infiltrate our SECURE SERVERS
in order to expose ANY vulnerabilities that may develop. We utilize
industry standard SSL encryption when accepting your credit card information
during our online checkout process, unless you specifically choose the
non-SSL encryption version of our order form. In addition, with the
CyberCash seeecure e-commerce system, your credit card information does
not reside on our server. Instead, once you submit your order, your
credit card information is immediately encrypted (or scrambled) and
this encrypted series of numbers goes directly to the CyberCash server
for de-encryption (unscrambling) and then verification of credit card
authenticity, address verification and card members account balance.
If your credit card information is authorized then a message goes back
to the merchant without any credit card information. The merchant is
informed that the transaction is approved or not approved. The chances
of your credit card information being stolen from your order processing
(you placing an order) is very remote if not impossible. It has been
shown that your credit card information is more likely to be compromised
from your last visit to your local restaurant than through a secure
internet transaction. We can honestly say that we have NEVER - since
1994 - had a clients Credit Card or Personal Information "stolen" or
accessed from ANY of our systems or offices!
General consumer credit card
usage policies:
1. In most
cases, a surcharge fee cannot be added to the price of goods or services
that you purchase on your credit card. Here are questions to help
determine if the fee being charged is a surcharge.
- Is the fee added regardless
of whether you pay by cash or credit card? If so, it is not considered
a surcharge.
- Does the merchant offer a
discount if you pay cash? If so, this is permitted.
2. Most credit card companies prohibit
a merchant from setting a minimum or maximum purchase amount before
they will accept your credit card for payment of goods or services.
3. When
the credit card logo is displayed by a business to show the card is
welcome, the merchant must accept, without discrimination, any valid
credit cards presented for payment.
4. The
merchant cannot require additional identification as a standard business
practice when you use a credit card for payment. There are a few exceptions,
such as when additional information is required to complete the transaction.
For example, a merchant will need your address if goods are to be
delivered to your home. They may require a photocopy of your credit
card front and back to further authenticate card holder via an Internet
transaction.
5. As a
general rule, in the event of disputed charges resulting from a purchase
from an Opals International Company such as PlatinumJewelry.biz Sm
, all transactions that are paid for with a credit or charge card
are subject to the Fair Credit Billing Act. For maximum rights, should
disputed charges arise, use a charge card for your transaction. In
the case of charges arising from unauthorized use of a consumer's
credit or charge card, consumers are generally held liable only for
the first $50.
6.You will receive a confirmation
of your purchase order by e-mail. Be sure to print a copy for your
records. In addition, you should know that the Federal Mail or Telephone
Order Merchandise Rule also covers orders made via the Internet. This
means that, unless stated otherwise, merchandise must be delivered
within 30 days, and if there are delays, the company must notify you.
For credit
card usage policies relating to a specific credit card, please contact
the issuing bank or credit card company directly.
In addition,
any disputes between Opals International Jewelers and individual customers
may result in possible arbitration of the particular issue. We will
do our best to help resolve the concerns only after all avenues between
Opals International Jewelers and customer have been exhausted.
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Jewelers, Inc. dba PlatinumJewelry.biz
5770 NW Expressway, Suite 101
Oklahoma City, OK 73132
Fax: 1-405-728-1914 Tel: 1-405-495-6610
1-800-376-6725 or 1-800-654-3259
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