Because we gather information about the customers of Mary Lou's Music Boxes and Gifts, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information.

Information Mary Lou's Gifts gathers and tracks

Mary Lou's gathers two types of information about customers: 1) Data that customers provide through optional, voluntary registration on our site, and 2) aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our site. Such information enables us to better tailor our content to customers' needs and to better understand the demographics of our audience.

Mary Lou's does not provide this information to any other third parties under any circumstances.

Electronic Newsletters

Mary Lou's may occasionally offer free electronic newsletters to customers. Mary Lou's gathers the e-mail addresses of customers who voluntarily subscribe. Customers may remove themselves from any mailing list by following the instructions contained in every newsletter. They can also subscribe to the newsletters at any time and change preferences at any time.

Contests

Mary Lou's may offer contests in which we request certain personal information. These contests are conducted in full accordance with United States and Canadian federal and state laws. The full rules and all information about such contests are clearly posted during such events. Information gathered is used only to verify user identity and to contact winners and/or prize recipients, except when specifically noted otherwise. Again, we do not share information about specific individuals with any third party, except as noted previously.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as including a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Mary Lou's uses cookies to track the items you add to your shopping cart.

If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser, but please note, certain features may not function optimally, and adding items to your shopping cart will be hindered.

Use of the Information

Mary Lou's uses any information voluntarily given by our customers to enhance their experience on our site, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the site or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our customers.

As stated above, Mary Lou's uses information that customers voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and special offers, such as sales or new item promotions. Mary Lou's never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties.

Mary Lou's uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and to better understand our audience demographics. We do not share information about individual customers with any third party.

Opt-Out Policy

Mary Lou's gives customers options wherever necessary and practical, such choices include:

1. Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters when registering for a site
2. Opting not to provide certain personal information when registering for our newsletter lists.