ThePartyWorks.com Privacy Policy Statement

Welcome to ThePartyWorks.com (the "Website"). The Website is owned and operated by Search Party, Inc., its affiliates, agents and licensors (collectively, "we", "us", "our" or "Search Party"). We are sensitive to your concerns about how we may use and share personal information that we collect from you through the Website. We recognize and respect the importance of maintaining the privacy of our visitors and members and have established this Privacy Policy Statement ("Privacy Policy") as a result. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Use and therefore governs your use of the Website and/or any services offered by us. By visiting the Website, and/or utilizing any services offered by us, you are accepting the then current practices described in the Privacy Policy.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us at support@thepartyworks.com.

What Information Do We Collect About Our Customers?

The information we learn from customers helps us enhance and personalize the Website and the services we offer. We gather the following types of information:
Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Website or give in any other way (e.g., by telephone). This may include information you provide when you register as a member, engage in transactions, search, contact customer service, or participate in contests, promotions, surveys, forums, content submissions, chats, bulletin boards, discussion groups, requests for suggestions or other aspects or services offered by us. As a result, you may be supplying us with such information as your name, address, and phone numbers; credit/debit numbers, expiration date and other billing information; people to whom purchases have been shipped, including addresses and phone number; names and e-mail addresses of friends.
Automatic Information: We automatically receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, as most Websites do, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses the Website. This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis, and it may include the website's Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") that you just came from, which URL you will go to next, what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. Other examples of automatic information we may collect are purchase history, products viewed or searched for, visits to certain pages, page interaction information and the phone number you used to call our 800 number. We associate the information we store in cookies to personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
Information Provided by Third Parties: We may obtain certain information of customers from third parties. This may include updated delivery or address information from carriers.

Do We Use Cookies?

We use small text files called "cookies" that provide non-personally identifiable information to us regarding the visitors to the Website. In addition to the URL and IP addresses of our visitors, cookies may gather the date and time of all visits to our Website. We may also track the pages of our Website that users viewed during their visit, or track search terms entered on our Website by that visitor. This helps us keep track of the number of visitors to our Website and allows us to gauge the areas that are of the most interest to our visitors. We use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies and other tracking technologies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate. This information is analyzed periodically and is used to gain a broader picture of usage patterns at our site. We may share the non-personally identifiable information gathered through use of cookies with our advertisers and/or business partners, in order to make the Website as user-friendly as possible.

How Do We Use the Information We Collect and Do We Share the Information We Receive?

Information about our customers is an important part of our business. We use information we collect from the Website to communicate with you, to process your orders, to provide an enhanced and more personalized interactive shopping experience, to facilitate your transactions and to inform you of offers and discounts. For example, you can expect to receive a welcoming email to confirm your username and password, we communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request and to manage your account. We also send service related announcements on occasions such as when we need to temporarily suspend our site for maintenance. We also will send you promotional emails on occasion. Generally, you may not opt-out of service related communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to terminate your account. However, you can opt-out of direct promotional communications by following the unsubscribe instructions within each communication or emailing us at support@thepartyworks.com. We may share customer information with third parties in order to enhance your user experience or in connection with corporate transactions or our legal obligations, including without limitation as follows:

Promotional Offers: We periodically provide our customers with information about third party products and services we believe will be of interest to you and with opportunities to participate in offers and/or promotions on behalf of other businesses. Your participation in these events may require us to share data with such a business. If you do not want to receive such information or offers, on behalf of third parties or otherwise, please opt-out during registration, email us later at support@thepartyworks.com or follow the unsubscribe instructions within each communication.
Reviews/Share This/Testimonials. If you review a product on our site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
Merger/Sale: In the event that Search Party or all or substantially all of its assets is acquired, individually identifying information of our members may be one of the assets sold in connection with that transaction, without notice to you or your consent. We will notify users of the Websites of such a change in ownership or transfer of assets by posting a notice on the Websites.
Bankruptcy. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used. Therefore, you should know that in such event, your personal information may be treated like any other asset of Search Party and sold, transferred or shared with third parties, or used in ways not contemplated or permitted hereunder, without notice to you or your consent.
Protection of Search Party: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law and/or a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on Search Party; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Search Party, our Website users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Privacy Policy

How Secure Is the Personal Information You Collect?

We have taken precautions, including the deployment of technological resources and the use of firewalls, systems and procedures, to protect the security of your personal information. When you enter credit card information on our Website, we may store it so that you do not have to re-enter it every time you order, but we encrypt it when storing. While no security system is absolutely foolproof, we are constantly reviewing, refining and upgrading our security technology to protect your privacy. When you open an account with ThePartyWorks.com, you are issued a password by which to access and secure your account and account information. Although we have taken these precautions, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password, which should not be disclosed by you. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

Links

ThePartyWorks.com may contain links to other websites. We have no control over the content, policies or actions of these sites, even if you are offered services on those sites because you have established an account with ThePartyWorks.com. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by our Website.

Minors

You must be 18 years of age or older to become a member of ThePartyWorks.com. We do not collect information from minors.

Changing Your Personal Information

You may review, change or correct your personally identifying information at any time by accessing your account information on the Website or calling us at the contact information below. You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy and completeness of your personal and other information, including your e-mail address, and we urge you to review your information regularly to ensure that it is correct and complete.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to visit ThePartyWorks.com, your visit and/or any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy Statement and our Terms of Use (if you are a member), including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of California. If you have any concern about privacy at ThePartyWorks.com, please contact us. Our Privacy Policy Statement, the Terms of Use and other terms and conditions may change. In the event of a change, the revised policies or terms and conditions will be posted immediately to our Website. You should check the Website frequently to see recent changes. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy Statement applies to all information that we have about you.

Contact Us:

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at support@thepartyworks.com.