Privacy Policy

Independent Homeworkers' Alliance and homeworkers.org (collectively, "IHA") has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy online. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site.

• Your IP Address
  
  We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our web Site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.
  
  
  
• Cookies
  
  Our site uses cookies to keep track of what you have purchased. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit our Site, and for other purposes relating to your transactions on the Site.
  
  
  
• Information We Request Directly From You
  
  Our Site's registration forms, order forms, surveys and contests require you to give us contact information (such as your name and email address), occasionally, unique identifiers (like your Social Insurance Number), and demographic information (such as your postal code, age, or income level). Our order forms require financial information (such as your account or credit card numbers) as well.
  
  
  
• How We Use Contact Information
  
  Your contact information is used to contact you when necessary in connection with transactions entered into by you on our Site. We also use customer contact information we collect in order to send you information and offers from our company and promotional material from some of our partners. We carefully select the information we send and make sure that it offers real value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or other valuable information.
  
  
  
• How We Use Financial Information
  
  Financial information that is collected is used to check your qualifications and bill you for products and services. Unique identifiers (such as Social Insurance Numbers) are collected from you to verify your identity and for use as account numbers in our record system. We will not share financial or unique identifier information with third parties without your prior consent. When you make a purchase on the Site, your consent is given to provide your financial or contact information to those third parties necessary to process your transactions with us, such as credit card companies and the companies that handle shipping on our behalf and when you purchase products or services which we sell on behalf of third parties (such as magazine subscriptions), your consent is given to provide your financial or contact information to those third parties to process your transactions with them.
  
  
  
• How We Use Demographic Information
  
  We use this information to tailor our Site to the interests of our users. This information is shared with advertisers only on an aggregate basis so that they can tailor their advertisements to the appropriate audience.
  
  
  
• Other Sites/Third Party Vendors and their Privacy Policies
  
  This Site may contain links to other Sites. IHA is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web Sites or for the privacy policies and practices of other third parties.
  
  
  
• Our Security Precautions
  
  This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our secure server software (SSL) is the industry standard and among the best software available today for secure commerce transactions. It encrypts all of your personal information, including credit card number, name, and address, so that it cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet.
  
  
  
• How You Can Update Your Personal Information
  
  This Site gives users the opportunity to change and/or modify information you have provided to us through your Express Ordering account.