PRIVACY POLICY

Modern Essentials is committed to protecting your privacy and recognizing your need for appropriate protection and management of personally identifiable information you share with us. As part of our commitment to your privacy, Modern Essentials supports and adheres to the guidelines and practices adopted by the Direct Marketing Association's "Privacy Promise to American Consumers". Rest assured that we will not sell or rent information gathered through our site.


COLLECTING INFORMATION

Personally identifiable information needed to make a purchase
When you make a purchase, we ask for your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and other information necessary to fulfill and track your order. For purposes of billing, you will need to provide your credit card type, number, expiration date and billing address for the card. If your order is to be shipped, we also need the name, address and phone number of the intended recipient(s).

Anonymous, non-personally identifiable information
When you visit ModernEssentials.com, small text files commonly known as "cookies" are used to collect information. Cookies allow us to compile statistics about how you use our site. We may use this data to analyze trends and improve the usability of our sites as well as to administer the sites and gather broad demographic statistics. You can generally set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. We may also collect other non-personally identifiable information such as your IP address, domain server, type of computer, type of web browser, and addresses of referring sites. This information is used to administer our site.

SECURITY

We protect our databases with various physical, technical and procedural measures and we restrict access to your information by unauthorized persons. Our information systems are maintained behind a software firewall to isolate them from access by other networks connected to the Internet. We also advise all Modern Essentials employees about their responsibility to protect customer data and we provide them with appropriate guidelines for adhering to our company's business ethics standards and confidentiality policies.

All information transmitted through ModernEssentials.com is stored on our secure server. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, which is the electronic commerce standard for securing information as it travels over the Internet. SSL technology is designed to encrypt your information, preventing an unauthorized party from viewing and downloading your information. Your web browser should display a web address with an "https" prefix, and a solid key or locked padlock will appear in the lower right of you browser window, indicating that the SSL technology is operating when using certain portions of our website like our Checkout features.

 

PROTECTING CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Modern Essentials is committed to the preservation of online privacy for all of its website visitors, including children. Modern Essentials is a general audience site, and we do not knowingly collect information about children or sell products to children. Consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly collect any information from children under the age of 13. By submitting personal information on our site, you are representing to us that you are 18 year of age or older.

 

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEB SITES

Our web sites may contain links to web sites operated and maintained by third parties. Modern Essentials is not responsible for the content of these sites, nor do we control, sponsor, endorse or approve them. Privacy policies on such linked sites may be different from our privacy policy. We encourage you to read that website's policy before submitting any information if you have concerns about how information may be collected or used.

 

POLICY CHANGES

This policy is subject to change and any revisions are effective immediately upon posting.  Any revisions will apply to all current and past users of our web site and will replace any prior policies that are inconsistent.

 

QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS

If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at the following:

Phone:
800.959.2810
Monday-Friday
9:00AM-6:00PM (Central Time)

Email:  use our online form

Address:
Modern Essentials Inc.
3200 West End Avenue, Suite 500
Nashville, TN 37203