Privacy Policy

Last updated January 1, 2011

Edwards Minerals, LLC is the sole owner of the information collected on www.edwardsminerals.com. Edwards Minerals, LLC collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

Orders
If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).

Uses of Information
We use information collected during the ordering process for billing purposes, to contact you if there is a problem with your order, and shipping.  We also use this information for our own marketing purposes.

Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on site updates, promotions, and show dates.  You can sign up for these emails using the "Join the Edwards Minerals mailing list" form on the right side of the page.  You will also be added to our mailing list if you purchase a product from us.

Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications.  Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”

Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will  communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.

Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, and our shopping cart to create a “profile” of your preferences.  We tie your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.

We do not share your profile with other third parties except for that information required to process credit card and other orders.

Address Verification
We use PayPal and our credit card merchant to verify your address, in order to protect you and us from fraud.

Personally identifiable information:
We share personally identifiable information with third parties.  We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.

Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes when we ask for this information.  For example, if you purchase a product but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.

If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at .

Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files.  This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We may use cookies on this site strictly in conjunction with our shopping cart; we do not use cookies for any other purpose.

We may use session ID cookies.  A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser.

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as our shopping cart, may be limited.  Cookies are used by our shopping cart to ID your individual purchases.

Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Edwards Minerals, LLC. Please be aware that we, Edwards Minerals, LLC, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. 

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. 

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Security
The security of your personal information is important to us.  When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.  No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however.  Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at info@edwardsminerals.com.

Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.