Miniatures.com is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of its online visitors. If you register with miniatures.com, we will use your name and password to verify your identity when you log on to the site. Your registered name, address, telephone number and (where applicable) credit card information is transmitted between your browser and our secure web server in an encrypted format. This information may be used to contact you about future services on our site.

Information required for the ordering process (name, address, credit card number, etc.) is used for billing purposes and to fill your order. If we have trouble processing your order, this contact information may be used to get in touch with you.

Miniatures.com makes use of "session cookies," which are small pieces of information that make your shopping experience with us more convenient and personalized. Usage of cookies is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once you close your browser, the cookie simply terminates. It is these cookies that allow us to maintain your shopping basket and to distinguish the areas of our site that are most popular from those that may need some attention from us. If you set your computer to reject all cookies, you will not be able to use our site.

Miniatures.com makes use of log files to analyze user trends, administer the site, track users' movements and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Miniatures.com contains links to other sites on the Internet which are owned and operated by third parties. Please be aware that miniatures.com is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of any such third-party site. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information.

Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. Miniatures.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Miniatures.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. The friend may contact miniatures.com at catalog@miniatures.com to request the removal of this information from our database.

Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, their information is protected both online and off-line. When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just 'surfing.' While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an with "security" in the subject box.

Special Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals and/or newsletters. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our Choice/Opt-out section below.

Correction/Updating Personal Information:
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can be done at the "My Account" page.

Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. You may alter your opt-in/out status at any time via the "edit profile" section of our site. Users who do not wish to receive promotional materials from miniatures.com may also opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to any such materials with "unsubscribe" entered into the subject line of the email.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our home page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.