Improvements® respects your privacy and is a member of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and follows the DMA privacy guidelines. The DMA's Mail Preference Service reduces the availability of your name and address to many other direct
marketing companies. To learn more, click on www.dmaconsumers.org
Improvements® is part of the IAC family of businesses. IAC is an interactive conglomerate
with more than 60 brands, including: Ask.com, Citysearch, Evite, Gifts.com, HSN, LendingTree, Match.com, RealEstate.com, ServiceMagic, Ticketmaster, and many
others. For a list of all of IAC's businesses, please visit www.iac.com.
At IAC, we respect the privacy of our customers and the importance of the information they entrust to us. We summarize below the basic information policies and practices in place on all IAC websites. To read the entire Privacy Policy of Improvements®, please click here.
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We may collect information that can identify you ("personal information"), such as your name, address, and email address, (i) when you (or other users) provide it to us when using our website or in some other manner, or (ii) from other IAC businesses, from our business partners, and from other third parties. We may combine the personal information that we receive from different sources.
We also may collect other types of information in the following ways when you visit our website:
- Our server logs automatically collect information, such as your IP address, your browser type and language,
and the date and time of your visit, which helps us track users' movements around our site and understand trends.
- We may assign your computer one or more cookies which may collect
information to facilitate access to our website and to personalize your online experience.
- We may use standard Internet tools, such web beacons, which collect
information that tracks your use of our website and enables us to customize our services and advertisements.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. Should we ever do so,
we will comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
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We may allow third-party advertising companies or ad networks to display advertisements on our
websites.
- We do not provide any personal information to these companies.
- These companies may use tracking tools, such as cookies, to collect information about computers used to view or
interact with their advertisements.
- Some of these companies may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative www.networkadvertising.org, which offers consumers the ability to opt out of ad targeting by all member companies.
If you post information about yourself or others, or communicate with others using our website, please note
that we cannot control who reads your postings or what they do with the information you provide. We encourage you to use caution in posting personal information.
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We may use information to:
- Fulfill your requests for products and services;
- Offer products and services that may be of interest to you;
- Customize the advertising and content that you see on our website;
- Facilitate use of our website;
- Manage your account and your preferences;
- Analyze use of and improve our website, products and services;
- Identify and protect against fraudulent transactions and other misuses of our website;
- Enforce our Terms of Use.
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We will not share your personal information with others except as indicated below, or except when we
inform you in advance and give you the opportunity to opt out. We may share personal information with:
- Service providers, such as credit-card payment processors, performing services on our behalf;
- Other IAC businesses;
- Other businesses with which we partner or which we carefully select to offer you products, services, and promotions through our website or offline; and
- Other third parties in limited circumstances, such as complying with legal requirements, preventing fraud, and protecting the safety of our users.
We may share aggregated, non-personal information in any of the above situations and also with advertisers and others.
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You may choose:
- Not to provide personal information, although that may result in your inability to obtain certain services or use certain features of our website;
- To stop receiving promotional emails or newsletters from us by sending an email to the contact address below or by clicking here to unsubscribe
- To delete or decline cookies by changing your browser settings, although if you do so, some of the features or services of our website may not function properly;
- To review and update your personal information by contacting us at the email address below or, if you have an online account on our website, by logging into that account.
- Opt-out. If you do not wish to receive mailings from other companies or to have personal information shared with other companies, including other IAC businesses, please contact us by phone, email or mail.
Our company contact points:
Toll Free: 1-800-634-9484
Email: custserv@improvementscatalog.com
Mail: Improvements®
5566 West Chester Road
West Chester, OH 45069-2914
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We take appropriate physical, electronic, and other security measures to help safeguard personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure.
We may occasionally update our Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. If we make material changes in the way we collect, use, or share your personal information, we will notify you by sending you an email to the email address you most recently provided to us and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on our website.
If you have any questions about this summary, our Privacy Policy, or our information practices, please contact us by email or postal mail below:
Privacy Contact:
Customer Service
c/o Improvements
5566 West Chester Road
West Chester, OH 45069-2914
1-800-634-9484
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