At ShearStore.com, your privacy is our priority. We are committed to protecting your privacy at all times, in all situations. The information we collect about you when you become a customer or member is used to process your orders and to provide a more personalized experience on our site. No credit card data is gathered or retained by ShearStore.com. The information goes directly from your computer to a qualified payment gateway (Google Checkout, Paypal). The information we keep on file is the necessary data to complete the shipping of the order (shipping address, phone, e-mail). We share name, shipping address and phone with our courier.

How Do We Use the Information We Collect?
When you become a ShearStore.com customer, we may ask you to fill out a form that requests your name, address and e-mail address as well as some demographic information. ShearStore.com, will NOT share data with anyone, including any of our partners, for any purpose including, but not limited to, the performance of statistical analysis or for marketing.

Your name, email, phone number, and mailing address are used solely to process orders unless your prior consent is given for a specific reason or purpose. Without your consent, this information will NEVER be sold, given, rented or traded to others for purposes other than order fulfillment.

Your demographic information (gender, date of birth, etc.) will be used for several security purposes, including but not limited to the assurance that you are who you say you are and in fact you are paying with your credit card and that someone is not using your stolen credit card.

Our Use of Log Files
When you visit our site we automatically log your IP address, your browser type and your access times. We utilize this information to conduct site performance evaluations, to see where visitors are coming from and to keep track of click stream data (the screens our users visit on our site). This data helps us to determine what content our members find most appealing so that we can maximize your enjoyment of the site. Log files are not tied to personally identifiable information.

Site Security
All of our staff, partners, merchant partners, etc. at ShearStore.com take your personal information very seriously. Everyone must learn and obey our security policies. Access to member personal information is limited to key personnel and our member or customer services' departments. The information is ID and password protected and our Web security is reviewed on a monthly basis.

Links To Other Sites
This Web site may contain links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you may be leaving the ShearStore.com site and entering another Web site. These sites may independently collect or request information about you and we encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.

Communication
From time to time we may send out email messages alerting you that products are available, to remind you about providing feedback or for promotional offers. In addition, you will receive communication from us 1) if you contact us for a particular reason, 2) to receive your orders, or 3) we need to contact you for administrative purposes. Administrative e-mails will not contain promotional materials. If you choose to receive our News Letters, they will contain promotional materials from ShearStore.com. If at any time you wish to discontinue your membership or wish to be withdrawn from our promotional offers' emails, please send us an email to remove@shearstore.com.

Legal Disclaimer
Although ShearStore.com makes every effort to preserve user privacy, any of your personal information that is requested from ShearStore.com by subpoena or search warrant as part of a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process would have to be released. Prior to compliance, ShearStore.com will undergo the necessary legal research to confirm the validity of such warrants or subpoenas.

Supplementation
We may correct or supplement your address information with standardized postal representation. We do this to ensure efficient delivery and maintain shipping costs at a minimum for your benefit, particularly because non-standardized postal addresses can cause delays in order shipment and may result in additional delivery charges.

Our Use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that your browser stores on your computer's hard drive which identify you when you enter. The ability to select samples on our site is not cookie-driven. We may use session cookies to provide a seamless experience on the site and to combine with our log files so that we can understand our site traffic and analyze our demographic information in aggregate form. If you have set your browser to reject cookies, our site will not identify you when you enter and you will need to manually type in your ID and password.