Privacy & Security

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order or subscribe to our newsletter.

When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address or phone number. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

• To personalize your experience: (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
• To improve customer service: (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
• To process transactions:Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
• To send periodic emails: The email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.

Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, You simply click the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of our newsletter..

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.

We offer the use of a secure server. Stowecraft.com also uses industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL ) to protect your data. SSL protects data submitted over the Internet from being intercepted and viewed by unintended recipients and as used by hundreds of thousands of web sites in the protection of their online transactions with their customers. SSL is the de-facto industry standard Internet transaction security technology. It is used in the shopping cart section of our website. When you connect to an SSL part of stowecraft.com, you will see that the URL in the address bar begins with https:// rather than the usual http:// and also a small gold padlock will in your browser. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.

This web site, Stowecraft.com, is tested and certified daily to pass the "McAfee Secure" Security Scan. To help address concerns about possible hacker access to your confidential data, and the safety of visiting this site, the "live" McAfee Secure mark appears only when this site passes the daily McAfee Secure tests. You can see the "McAfee Secure" symbol and the date of the last security scan on the upper right hand corner of each page on our web site.

Our credit card processing is also protected by Authorize.net. Stowecraft.com is a verified Authorize.Net Merchant.

Authorize.Net is committed to providing its merchant customers with the highest level of transaction processing security, safeguarding customer information and combating fraud. We implement and maintain compliance with industry leading security initiatives such as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard. More than 232,000 merchants trust Authorize.Net to process their Internet transactions securely. For more information about the benefits of Authorize.Net's secure transaction processing, please visit the Authorize.Net Web site.

We are located in Stowe, Vermont,one of the safest states in the USA. Our building and computers are protected with an active intrusion alarm security system connected to a security monitoring service.