Privacy Policy
Our website allows you to buy products and services, enter contests, receive special discounts, and receive newsletters, e-mails or other promotional information from us. We use the information that we collect about you to fulfill your product and service purchases and to create a more personalized online experience. This is just a brief overview, so please read on for more details about our Privacy Policy. This Policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to orderdesk@hitmenow.com
This Privacy Policy will explain the following regarding use of our site:
Personally Identifiable Information
This refers to information that lets us know the specifics of who you are. Personal information is
requested when you order a product or service, enter contests or sweepstakes and send us feedback.
For example, this information might include your name, billing address, shipping address, telephone number,
e-mail address, credit card or other payment information, and product details. With this information,
Pleasure Emporium can fill your orders and better provide you with personalized services.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
This refers to information that does not by itself identify a specific individual.
We gather certain information about you based upon where you shop on our site in several ways.
This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis. For example,
this information may include the Web site's Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") that you just came from,
which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. A URL
is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. An IP address is an identifier
for a computer or device on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ("TCP/IP") network, such as the
World Wide Web. Networks like the Web use the TCP/IP protocol to route information based on the IP address
of the destination. In other words, an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer
whenever you are surfing the web, allowing web servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers require
IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the Internet, browse and shop.
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide Pleasure Emporium's visitors with a superior customized online
experience. We use the customer contact information to fill orders, contact purchasers to inform them of their order
status, to send promotional information, to enhance the operation of our site and administer our systems.
Demographic data also may be collected at our site from third party advertising servers or content servers, who provide us with the zip code and area code associated with a visitor's server, along with pages viewed on our site. We review the actions of the Pleasure Emporium visitors on an aggregate basis to determine customers' preferences. Pleasure Emporium also does research on our visitors' demographics, interests, and pages viewed based on the information provided to us during ordering, a promotion, from our server log files, from contests, drawings or surveys. We will use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site use, to improve our product offerings, and to customize our site's content, layout, and services. We receive reports from third party ad servers and content servers, that tells us how many ads were presented and clicked upon or what content was served.
We gather information in the following ways:
Shopping
We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to gather broad demographic information,
to enable ads to be served on our site, to report Non-Personally Identifiable Information to our advertisers,
and to monitor the level of activity on our site. We collect information from visitors to our site regarding
the URLs they came from, domain types (e.g., .com or .org), their IP addresses, the date and time of their visit
or order, the number of visits and orders, the number of visits per browsing session, the server type, the operating
system and browser type used to come to the site, the country, state and telephone area code where their servers are
located, the pages and page titles of our site that visitors viewed during their visit, whether the visitor's computer
is enabled for Java or cookies, browser language, applications and plug-ins, and any search terms entered on our site.
Ordering
When you order from us, we collect personally identifiable information from you. If you order one of our products
or services, we will collect and maintain your name, e-mail address, billing address, shipping address, telephone
number, product selections, credit card or other payment information, order number, referring URL, IP address,
page you bought from and a password. We collect this, and other information, as disclosed in this Policy, in
order to fill your order, to communicate with you about your order and to send you promotional materials.
Before confirming your order, you will have the opportunity to review the product order form and make changes
and additions to the information it contained and these changes will be automatically kept for future use.
Contests and Sweepstakes
When you enter a contest or other promotion, we may ask you for contact information such as your name,
address and e-mail address in order to administer the contest, to send you promotional e-mails, notify
winners and make the winners' list publicly available pursuant to certain states' laws. Your consent to
such promotional use and disclosure of this information is a condition of your participation. As a condition
of receiving any prize, you will be required to submit an Affidavit of Eligibility, for us to ensure that
you are eligible to receive the prize according to the Contest Rules.
Newsletters & Promotional E-mails
We offer free newsletters and promotional e-mails as a service to our customers. We will send you
newsletters and e-mails periodically listing current specials and deals. To stop receiving our
newsletter, send an e-mail to us at optout@hitmenow.com.
Contact Information and Third Party Data
If you contact Pleasure Emporium or our customer service representatives by telephone, e-mail or letter,
we may keep a record of your correspondence or comments. If you report a problem with our site,
we may collect such information in a file specific to you. If you contact us through our feedback
area or by calling one of our customer service representatives, we may ask for your name, e-mail
address and order information in order to send you a reply. If other users or third parties send
us correspondence about your activities or purchases on our site, we may keep the information in a file specific to you.
Customer Service
We use a third party to help us provide customer service. In order to help you most effectively,
we provide them with your order information.
Affiliate Program
Our Affiliate Program is administered by a third party, on a third party's Web site.
Any information collected by them is not governed by this Policy.
Advertising
We may display advertisements on our site. By knowing a little about you, Pleasure Emporium will be able to deliver
more relevant advertisements and content to you in the form of targeted banners and promotions.
For example, advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to
reach (e.g., buyers of Palm Pilots). Pleasure Emporium takes the advertisement and includes it in a Pleasure Emporium
e-mail to prior customers meeting that criterion. We may also have third-party advertising servers
display ads linked to certain search terms that you have entered, or to certain pages that you are viewing.
In this process, advertisers never have access to individual account information. Additionally, Pleasure Emporium
may share aggregated data with advertisers.
We also track customers' traffic patterns throughout their online session, including which pages, information and advertisements a customer views while using the site and what items they place in their basket or purchase. We use your IP address to diagnose problems with our servers, software, to administer our site and to gather demographic information.
We may share aggregated statistics about pages viewed on our site, sales and other shopping information with third parties.
Cookies
We use cookies and allow others to use cookies in the operation of our site; to find out what cookies are and how they are used,
click here.
Ad Servers and Content Servers: We may use third party ad servers or content servers to serve ads or other information both on and off our site. Those third parties
may use "action tags" throughout the site to count the number of visitors who click on a banner ad or
other information and to track the number of customers who continue on to make a purchase. They may
also place their own "cookie" on your computer to help those ads to run. We do not provide them with any
of your Personally Identifiable Information. For more information about the information they collect,
please see the section "Use of Cookies" below.
Image Servers: We may use a third party image serving company to serve the graphics that visitors see on our site more quickly. They collect a visitor's IP address and the URLs of any graphics viewed and the date and time of the visit. However, they do not collect and we do not provide them with any Personally Identifiable Information. They may also use a "cookie".
Website Analysis Agent: We may use an outside service to collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information on an aggregated basis so that we can improve the marketing and layout of our site. They may use cookies to perform their service. For more information, please see the section "Use of Cookies" below.
Links and Banner Ads to Third-Party Sites: Please be aware that our site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third parties. The information practices of those websites linking from or to our site are not covered by this Policy. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. Additionally, other companies or ad servers, which place advertising on our site may collect information about you through the use of cookies when you view or click on their advertising. We cannot control this collection of information. You should contact advertisers directly if you have any questions about their use of the information that they collect.
Fulfillment: The information collected by Pleasure Emporium is used for processing orders, keeping you informed about your
order status, for statistical purposes, for improving our site and its performance, to serve ads, and to notify you
of products or special offers that may be of interest to you. We will disclose your Personally Identifiable Information
to third parties to charge your credit card, fill your order, deliver your order, provide customer service, provide you
with credit and deliver promotional e-mails to you from Pleasure Emporium. For example, we must release your credit card information
to the card-issuing bank to confirm payment; and release your address and telephone information to the delivery service to
deliver products that you ordered.
Other Parties: We do not sell, trade, or rent your Personally Identifiable Information to others without your consent. We may provide Non-Personally Identifiable Information about our customers' sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to third parties, but these statistics do not include any Personally Identifiable Information. We may release account information when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions or to protect the rights, property, and safety of Pleasure Emporium, our users, or others. If customers do not pay us for products ordered, we may submit their account information to a third party collection agency.
Data Analysis Agents: The information collected by or for Pleasure Emporium may be provided to an outside company for the purpose of analysis. That analysis is to help us to improve our site and product selection, and to notify you of special offers that may be of interest to you. That data analysis agent may not share any Personally Identifiable Information with others, or use it for any other purpose than to help Pleasure Emporium.
Ad Servers, Advertisers, Image Servers and Website Analysis Agents: These third parties use their cookies' identification numbers and internal web site tracking features to serve ads on our site and to collect aggregated information to create statistics about our customers and visitors, traffic patterns, and related site information. In the event that our ad servers collect any Personally Identifiable Information on our behalf, it will not be used by them or disclosed to any third parties.
Compliance with Service of Process or Law Enforcement: Occasionally Pleasure Emporium may be asked by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide Personally Identifiable Information to the appropriate governmental authorities. We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information upon receipt of a court order, subpoena, or to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation, without prior notice to you. Pleasure Emporium fully cooperates with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we in good faith believe to be unlawful.
We believe you should have the ability to access and edit the personal information that you have provided to us.
During the online ordering process you can review, change, or delete the information that you have submitted.
You may change any of your personal information in your account online at any time. We encourage you to promptly
update your information if it changes. You may ask to have the information on your account deleted or removed;
however, because we keep track of past purchases, you cannot delete information associated with past purchases.
Also, as a security measure we "back up" the data stored on our systems, and such prior information cannot be
completely removed from our databases. As a result, you should not expect that all of your Personally Identifiable
Information will be completely removed from our backed-up databases.
Email: We may from time to time send you e-mail or other communications regarding current promotions, specials
and new additions to the Pleasure Emporium site. You may "opt-out," or unsubscribe from our newsletters by following the
unsubscribe instructions in any e-mail you receive from us, or by sending an e-mail to optout@hitmenow.com. After
doing so, Pleasure Emporium users will not receive future communications or mailings unless they open a new account or enter a contest.
Ad-servers and other Content Servers: You may also set your browser so that it will not accept "cookies" to prevent assignment from the ad server of a unique identifier; however, you will be unable to shop on our site if you do so.
In order to most efficiently serve you, credit card transactions and order fulfillment are handled by established third
party banking, processing agents and distribution institutions. They receive the information needed to verify and
authorize your credit card or other payment information and to process and ship your order.
When you access your account information, the information is kept on a secure server. All of the customer data we collect is protected against unauthorized access by physical security means.
You must be at least 18 years old to have our permission to use this site. Our policy is that we do not
knowingly collect, use or disclose Personally Identifiable Information about visitors under 18 years of age.
If you are the parent or guardian of a minor under 18 years of age and believe that they have disclosed
personally identifiable information to us, please contact us at privacy@hitmenow.com so that we may delete the
minor's information.
Pleasure Emporium Cookies: When you use our site we will store cookies on your computer in order to facilitate and customize your use of our site.
A cookie is a small data text file, which a Web site stores on your computer's hard drive (if your Web browser permits)
that can later be retrieved to identify you to Pleasure Emporium. Our cookies store randomly assigned user identification numbers,
the country where you are located, and your first name to welcome you back to our site. The cookies make your use of the
site easier, allow you to retrieve an earlier shopping cart, make the site run more smoothly and help us to maintain a secure
site. You will be unable to shop on our site without your browser set to accept cookies.
Ad Server and Content Server Cookies: We may use an outside ad serving company or content server to display banner advertisements and other information on our site. As part of their service, they place a separate cookie on your computer. Pleasure Emporium does not provide third-party ad servers with any of your Personally Identifiable Information. Pleasure Emporium and its third party ad servers do collect and use Non-Personally Identifiable Information about you, such as your IP address, browser type, the URLs from which you came, referring site's domain types (e.g., .com), operating system, the country, the server your computer is logged onto, where the servers that your computer is logged onto is located, the pages of our site and products that visitors viewed during their visit, where an ad was placed on a specific web site page, the time and date particular ads were served, the area code and zip code associated with your server and whether you responded to a particular ad, and a receipt identifier.
Our third-party ad servers will occasionally use outside agents, whose computers will serve ads on our site in the same manner and under the same conditions as above. In addition, other ad serving companies or advertisers may place banner ads on our site in the same manner as above, but we do not disclose to them any Personally Identifiable Information.
Image Server Cookies: As part of the ad-serving process, a third party may serve graphics upon our site. In order to customize their service, they may also place a cookie upon your computer. While Pleasure Emporium does not control their use of that cookie, no Personally Identifiable or individual customers' product information is collected.
Website Analysis Agent Cookies: We may use a third party to analyze what our visitors find to be most interesting on our site. To do that, they will place a cookie on your computer with a randomly assigned unique number in order to track the pages you view on our site, along with other Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
Other sites accessible through our web site have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices.
Please consult each site's privacy policy. Pleasure Emporium is not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties.
Please be aware that this site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third parties.
The information practices of those web sites linked to Pleasure Emporium are not covered by this Privacy Policy. These other sites may
send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. Additionally, other companies that place
advertising on our site may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising through the use of cookies.
We cannot control this collection of information. You should contact these advertisers directly if you have any questions
about their use of the information that they collect.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with
this site, please contact us by email at orderdesk@hitmenow.com.
This Privacy Policy was last changed on February 8, 2002. If Pleasure Emporium makes changes to any terms
or conditions of the Privacy Policy, the changes will be posted in this document so that you will
always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and to whom we will disclose it.
We may change, modify, add or remove portions of this Policy at any time, and any changes will become effective
immediately upon being posted unless we tell you otherwise.