There are no circumstances under which we will provide or 
sell personal information regarding our Customers to third parties.

The Competition
RingDesigner.com invites you to compare our Privacy Policies to those of other Internet jewelry web businesses selling engagement rings and certified diamonds!  Many of them require in their business plans a significant revenue stream provided by the sale of your personal information to third party marketers.  So when you compare our prices and quality to other Internet sources selling engagement rings and certified diamonds, also check their Privacy Policies as to what happens to the information regarding your purchase and your personal information!  You may be surprised by what you find.

Prying eyes Opting for privacy online
from Consumer Reports  November 1999
Catalog companies have long kept detailed records of what you buy and how much you spend, and they’re quick to sell and swap their mailing lists.  But web merchants can—and routinely do— take prying to a new level. They track your movements on the web and how long you spend on each page, in addition to whatever other personal information they can get you to give them. According to a study commissioned by the Federal Trade Commission, more than 90 percent of online mer­chants gather some kind of data about their visitors. All the catalog "e-tailers” we visited disclose their privacy practices. Some sites indicate that they collect only domain names of the Internet service provider—America Online or MindSpring, for example—and not full e-mail addresses. They		use the information in aggregate, they say, to detect online traffic patterns Many sites, however, reveal that they share e-mail and snail-mail addresses with other merchants unless a consumer tells them not to —either by sending in an e-mail message or a letter. The better commercial sites offer “opt out” check-off boxes on their order blanks that allow customers to indicate whether or not they want solicitations from that company or from third parties.  By contrast, all of the catalogs we looked at announce on their order blanks that they intend to sell customers’ names and addresses to “other fine companies” unless you mail a letter telling them not to.

Data Storage
Personal Customer information (such as your name, address, postal, telephone, e-mail, product purchases) is stored on a secure RingDesigner.com database. Only approved Ringdesigner.com employees who have signed binding confidentiality agreements have access to that data.

Secure Server Technology SSL
RingDesigner.com applied for and was granted a VeriSign Secure Server Certificate.  VeriSign provides an encrypting software technology that allows the Internet browser of a purchasing Customer to link with our web site in an encrypted secure manner.  The VeriSign encryption technology helps to safeguard the credit card type transactions that occur on our web site.  To find out more information regarding this technology and process, please visit VeriSign's web site (linked here).
 

No Computer Tracking of Identifiable Information
Our Ringdesigner.com web site does not track, collect or distribute personal information about its visitors. Our web server does recognize the home server address (Internet Service Providers or ISPs) of visitors, but we do not track individual e-mail addresses from those ISPs or servers. For example, we can tell a "surfer" was visiting from America-On-Line, but we do not know their names, e-mail address or other information about our visitors that would allow us to identify any one particular visitor or visit to our RingDesigner.com web site. Our RingDesigner.com web site does track "informational general statistics" regarding visits to our web site such as daily number of visitors, what periods of the day is traffic heavy or light, the daily "viewing" counts of particular individual product pages, what countries are represented by the ISPs and many other marketing related statistics.

Web Site Visitor Provided Information
If a "surfer" submits their personal information to us while visiting our web site, because they want further information from RingDesigner.com, then we do maintain and follow-up with that individual as requested by the individual. That information is maintained on a secure database as well.

Marketing to our Customers 
We are a marketing company.  We, upon occasion, will send advertisements to our Customers regarding our RingDesigner.com products or services.  But, when you place your order, our order form contains a check box if you do not want future advertising from us.

The following is the exact text copied from our order form that Customers can check to opt in or opt out.

The check boxes are activated on our order form only (not here).  the order form is the first occasion where Customers provide us information of a private nature that we need to capture to do business.