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Cottage Home Living Privacy Statement

effective 10/01/05

Highlights Of Our Commitment To You

* We do not sell, rent, share, or otherwise disclose any customer information to third parties.
* We safeguard your information carefully.
* We are committed to protecting your customer information in every transaction.
* We are committed to helping you protect your privacy.

Information Collection and Use
At CottageHomeLiving.com.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy. CottageHomeLiving.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this site and we do not sell or rent this information to third parties. CottageHomeLiving.com collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site:

Newsletter
Users may opt in for the optional CottageHomeLiving.com newsletter to receive information and news. You may opt out at any time simply by contacting us at info@CottageHomeLiving.com with REMOVE in the subject line.

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes.

We use may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. CottageHomeLiving.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.

Your friend may contact us at info@CottageHomeLiving..com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Uses of Information
We never disclose personally identifiable information to any third party. We use non-personally identifying information to monitor our site traffic and improve our services.

Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”

Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.

Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and subsidiary. This information does not identify individual users. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Personally identifiable information
We DO NOT Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties, with the exception of our Agents as described below.

Agents
We use an outside credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.

Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at info@CottageHomeLiving..com.

You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.

Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

CottageHomeLiving.com does not use cookies however advertisers or affiliates on our site may.

Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by CottageHomeLiving.com. Please be aware that we, CottageHomeLiving, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may update your information by logging into your account and making the change on your account management page. Once you submit your changes they will immediately become active in our database.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send an email to us at info@CottageHomeLiving.com.

Business Transitions
In the event Cottage Home Living, LLC. goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via a prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at the following address:

Cottage Home Living, LLC.
P.O. Box 235050
Encinitas, CA 92023