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Michaels Stores, Inc. ("Michaels") has created this privacy
statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The
following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices
for this website: Michaels.com (the "Site"). You can read our
policy with respect to Children’s Privacy by clicking here.
Michaels is the sole owner of the information collected on this site.
We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different
from what is disclosed in this statement. Michaels collects information
from our users at several different points on our website.
Michaels contracts with Coremetrics, a service partner, to provide us
with data collection, storage, and reporting services. As a result of
your accessing our site, Coremetrics may on our behalf, collect information
about you. Your first name and email address (if you provide them) as
well as your navigation path through the Michaels.com website will be
collected. We may also ask Coremetrics to store on our behalf similar
information that we collected prior to our relationship with Coremetrics.
This will enable Michaels to measure the number of visitors to the different
areas of our site, and to help make out site more useful to our visitors.
Our service partners are contractually restricted from using your information
in any manner, other than in helping us to provide you with the products
and services available on our site. For more information, including how
to opt out, please go to: http://www.coremetrics.com/info_eluminate2.html.
If visitors leave the Michaels website to view the opt out information,
they are subject to the privacy policies of the new site.
We may occasionally change our Privacy Policy. If we do, we will post
the changes on the Site. The changes will take effect as soon as posted.
This site makes chat rooms, forums, and message boards available to its
users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these
areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when
deciding to disclose your personal information.
If you are a Michaels.com registered user you can update the information
you entered by clicking here.
Michaels Stores, Inc. ("Michaels") has designed this policy
in order to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Act ("COPPA") for MICHAELS.COM (the "Site"). This
policy is intended to supplement our general Privacy Policy. If you want
to read our Privacy Policy, click here.
The Site is owned and operated by Michaels Stores, Inc. located at 8000
Bent Branch Dr., Irving, Texas 75063.
Certain areas of the Site are directed at children, including children
under the age of 13. Michaels encourages parents and caregivers to spend
time online with children and to collaborate in the learning and fun offered
at the Site. We recommend that an adult accompany children when using
content on the Site.
Michaels will never knowingly collect any personal information about
children under the age of 13. If Michaels obtains actual knowledge that
it has collected personal information about a child under the age of 13,
that information will be immediately deleted from our system.
A user is never required to disclose any personal information to visit
the Site. Registration is encouraged so that adults and children over
the age of 12 can take full advantage of the Site. Personal information
is never collected from users who are not registered. Furthermore, during
registration, a user is asked to provide his/her age. If the age disclosed
is under 13 years of age, registration is refused. Until registration
has been completed, our system does not actually store any personal information.
Michaels cannot prevent a child under the age of 13 from sending e-mails
or posting to the public areas of the Site. However, if Michaels obtains
actual knowledge that an e-mail comes from a child under the age of 13,
our customer service staff is trained to reply as follows: "Because
we have actual knowledge that you may be a child under the age of 13,
we are unable to correspond further with you, even with your parent’s
consent. Please have your parent contact us directly. All personal information
about you, including your e-mail address, is being deleted from our system."
Upon providing this reply, all personal information about the author of
the e-mail, including the e-mail address, is deleted from our system.
Michaels does not substantively monitor our public areas except to determine
compliance with our Website Terms of Use. We do not require any user to
disclose personal information to post in or otherwise use the public areas
of the Site. If we obtain actual knowledge that a child under the age
of 13 has disclosed personal information in a public area of our site,
we will immediately delete any personally identifying information from
the public area and from our system.
Michaels may occasionally run contests or sweepstakes. Like our general
registration, sweepstakes and contests are not open to children under
the age of 13. Any registration for a contest or sweepstakes likewise
requests the age of the entrant. If the entrant is less than 13, entry
is immediately refused.
Whenever the Site requests personal information from a visitor before
the visitor can participate in an activity, the visitor is not required
to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary to participate
in the activity.
If Michaels changes its policy with respect to the collection of personal
information about children under the age of 13, the changes will be posted
here and will take effect immediately upon posting. |
