When you sign up with SunflowerSky.com you establish a password-protected personal account for storing and writing your personal journal(s). In order to establish your SunflowerSky.com account, we will need your name, email address and password.
The password will allow you access to your account; as such, it needs to be as secure as possible. A good password includes seemingly random letters and numbers, and isn’t obvious (such as your first or last name).
When you order your journal(s), or other paid products or services, we will need the shipping address, billing name and address, as well as the credit card number and expiration date.
We may occasionally request information from users through surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary. The information requested may include Personal Information, demographic information or attitudinal information. Rest assured, the information collected is only used for purposes of improving user satisfaction with the SunflowerSky.com service.
Any contact with our Customer Service team or communication from you, such as emails, may be recorded to help us provide better service.
SunflowerSky.com uses state-of-the-art protection, including Secure Socket Layers (SSLs), to encrypt pages when collecting sensitive information such as your password or credit card number. This measure is designed to guard against interception of this information while it is on the Internet. You can tell if you are using a secure page by looking at the bottom of your browser window where you will see a lock. If it’s in a closed state, the page is encrypted.
SunflowerSky.com keeps the Personal Information you provide on servers that are protected against intrusion or unauthorized access by firewalls and other technological means. They are located in a physically secure facility, and only SunflowerSky.com employees and agents are given access to the information on a need-to-know basis.
SunflowerSky.com is designed so that you can control who may view your journal(s) stored in your SunflowerSky.com account. We are committed to keeping your journals private and secure. We will never make your journals publicly accessible. Please note that if buy your journal and then post it to your own or other Web sites, or you invite your friends or family to buy your journal, then your journal may become, through your own actions, accessible to others.
SunflowerSky.com employees and third-party service providers fulfilling your order or providing Customer Support to you may review the print or final product for quality purposes only.
SunflowerSky.com stores your journals for a period of five years. After 5 years, there is a service charge for taking them out of archive. Please contact us if you need assistance with archiving an inactive journal that is over 5 years old.
Inviting your friends and family to contribute to your journal is one of the key benefits we offer. If you want to invite others to contribute to your journal, or to buy a journal(s), you need to enter their email addresses. An invitation with a web link created specifically for your journal(s) will be sent to them. They may contribute to the journal(s) and/or purchase them. We will not add their email addresses to a mailing list, unless they agree to either in their invitation to contribute or in their invitation to purchase. Any member may unsubscribe from SunflowerSky.com
Our Web site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. Please do not register at SunflowerSky.com if you are under the age of 13.
As a SunflowerSky.com member, we will notify you in email or through the mail about new features, products and promotions. We may also send you information on carefully screened third parties whose products or services may be of interest to you. You may unsubscribe to these notification services by electing to unsubscribe, an option on every e-mail or mail notification or contact our Customer Service team at Contact us.
From time to time, we may send you service announcement updates with important information about SunflowerSky.com. Service announcements may contain information vital to your account, so members may not unsubscribe from service announcements.
Cookies are small data files stored by your web browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies enable you to use our site and services. SunflowerSky.com never saves information, such as your password or your credit card number, on cookies. You may modify your browser preference to provide you with choices relating to cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies, you may not be able to access the SunflowerSky.com service.
We may also use other technologies such as clear gifs, pixel tags, and scanning navigational data to collect anonymous information about our users in order to help us deliver better service and user experience. Anonymous information could include the web site you were on before coming to SunflowerSky.com, IP addresses, or areas of site being clicked on most frequently.
At times, we may combine information collected from our site and other information you shared with us to customize our service to you and improve your experience. For example, we may recommend products or offers you may be interested in based on what you have liked in the past, or to remind you that you have an “active” shopping cart waiting for you.
Our third-party service providers may also use Cookies or other technologies to help us manage our marketing efforts (these include ad servers, outbound email vendors, affiliate vendors and search engine advertising agencies, and web analytics tools). SunflowerSky.com has carefully selected these service providers and instructed these service providers not to collect personally identifiable information or share the anonymous information with anyone other than SunflowerSky.com.
SunflowerSky.com shares Personal Information with carefully screened third-party service providers for the sole purpose of providing you with the products, services and information you have requested. Examples of such third-party service providers are credit card authorization companies, merchandise distributors and shippers. They do not store, retain or access your information except to provide our services to you.
Finally, SunflowerSky.com may share very general information about our customers as a group with business partners, sponsors and other third parties. For example, we might say that a certain percentage of our customers live in California, while a different percentage live in New Jersey.
SunflowerSky.com may be required by law to disclose Personal Information to proper law enforcement authorities; even though you might have requested that we don’t share your information. This information may be necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone who may attempt to cause injury to another’s rights or property.
If we merge with, or are acquired by another company, the resulting combined company will use the Personal Information you have provided as described in this policy. If we cease operation, your Personal Information may be transferred to and used by another company that offers similar or related products or services.
We reserve the right to modify our Privacy Policy at any time. If our privacy policy changes, the revised policy will be posted on this site and we will change the ‘updated’ date at the bottom of this page to reflect the date of the modification. Please check back periodically.
SunflowerSky.com will do our utmost to keep all your information up to date when you provide it to us, and to guard your privacy by continuously evaluating the enforcement and nature of our policies.
Updated 1/25/2007