Privacy Notice

Florida Seashells and Fossils collects client information to make your online shopping experience the very best on the Internet. We respect your privacy, and we assure you that we will maintain and use this information responsibly.

General Browsing:
Florida Seashells and Fossils.com gathers navigational information about where you go on our Web site. This information allows us to see which areas of Florida Seashells and Fossils.com are most visited. This helps us improve the quality of visitors’ online shopping experiences by recognizing and delivering more of the features, services and products our visitors prefer. Additional non-personally identifiable information (i.e. domain type, browser version, service provider and IP address) may be collected which will provide information regarding your use of our Web site (such as the time of your last visit to a page on our site).

Disclosure of Personal Information:
Any information you provide to us at this site when you establish or update an account, shop online or request information (i.e. name, address, e-mail address, telephone number and credit card information), is maintained in private files on our secure Web server and our internal systems. This information is used to enable Florida Seashells and Fossils.com to deliver services to you. To ensure compliance with federal law, Florida Seashells and Fossils does not maintain information provided by children under the age of 16.

If you are visiting Florida Seashells and Fossils.com from a location outside of the U.S., your connection will be through and to servers located in the U.S. Your orders placed through Florida Seashells and Fossils.com will be accepted and fully processed in and shipped from the U.S. and all information you provide will be processed and securely maintained in our Web server and internal systems located within the U.S.

You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with the law or is necessary to protect the users of our Web site, the site or the public.

Florida Seashells and Fossils does not sell, rent or trade your e-mail address to third parties. We may, however, use trusted third parties to help us provide services to you, such as fulfilling orders, processing payments, monitoring site activity, and administering e-mails. If personally identifiable information (i.e. name, address, e-mail address, telephone number) is provided to any of these third parties, we will require that such information be maintained by them in strictest confidence.

If you purchase merchandise through Florida Seashells and Fossils.com, your name and mailing address may be added to the Florida Seashells and Fossils email list and database. If you would like your name and email address removed from this list, please contact us.

Use of Cookies:
Florida Seashells and Fossils uses a browser feature known as a cookie, which assigns a unique identification to your computer. Cookies also allow Florida Seashells and Fossils to make our site more responsive to your needs, by delivering a better and more personalized experience to you. The cookies are typically stored on your computer's hard drive and are used by Florida Seashells and Fossils to help track your clicks as you go through the pages within Florida Seashells and Fossils Web site. In addition, Florida Seashells and Fossils uses cookies to help keep track of items you put into your shopping bag and to tell us whether you have previously visited Florida Seashells and Fossils.com. This allows registered users to avoid reentering information upon every new visit to our site. If you register or purchase product through Florida Seashells and Fossils.com, navigational information from previous browsing visits may be associated with the personal information you provide.

Updating Personal Information:
We prefer to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date. To do this, we provide you with the opportunity to update or modify your personal information including billing and shipping information by logging into Your Account.

Links:
For your convenience, our Web site may contain links to other sites. Florida Seashells and Fossils is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Florida Seashells and Fossils E-Mail:
Florida Seashells and Fossils E-Mail allows you to receive exclusive information about special offers, media events, new products and much more. If you’re not already registered, simply complete our sign up form to receive these special messages. If at any time you would like to stop future delivery of Florida Seashells and Fossils E-Mail, please follow the removal instructions located at the bottom of each message or complete the removal from e-mail form. Asking to be removed from Florida Seashells and Fossils E-Mail will not prevent you from receiving e-mail confirmations for any order you place at Florida Seashells and Fossils.com.

Questions/Changes in Policy:
If you have questions or concerns with respect to our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.  If elements of our Privacy Policy change, we will post the policy changes in our Privacy Policy on this Web site. If you are concerned about how your personal information is used, please visit our site often for this and other important announcements about Florida Seashells and Fossils.