Privacy Policy
By accessing or using the ijo.com web site, you agree to the terms of the Independent Jewelers Organization Privacy Policy, as outlined herein. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not access or use this site. Independent Jewelers Organization reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion, without previous notice. Your use of this site will be subject to the most current version of the Privacy Policy at the time of such use.

Collection of personal information
When you engage in certain activities on this site, Independent Jewelers Organization may ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, however, Independent Jewelers Organization may ask that you provide us personal information, such as your first and last name, mailing address (including zip code), e-mail address, telephone and facsimile numbers, and other personal identifying information. When ordering products or services on the web site, you may be asked to provide a credit card number. Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.

How your personal information is used
Independent Jewelers Organization collects your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. The information that you provide is also used as part of our effort to keep you informed about special offers, latest news and information and other products and services of Independent Jewelers Organization. Your personal information and any information collected on our web site will NOT be sold, rented or otherwise disseminated to other parties or used by any other party except by Independent Jewelers Organization and its authorized agents and representatives. Independent Jewelers Organization provides the user with the options to (1) opt-out of these activities at the initial request to provide the information and (2) at any time during their visit to the ijo.com web site.

Use of cookies
When you visit ijo.com, you can surf the site anonymously and access important information without revealing your identity. In order to improve our site, we use "cookies" to track your visit. Cookies are also required to log in to certain services on the site. A cookie is a small amount of data that is transferred to your browser by a Web server and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. It functions as a marker for recording your passwords, purchases, and preferences. It cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses and cannot be read by anyone or anything, other than the server that placed the cookie.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. (For some Web pages that require an authorization, cookies are not optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will probably not be able to access those pages.)

While Independent Jewelers Organization uses cookies to track your visit to ijo.com, and our Web servers automatically log the IP/Internet address of your computer, this information does not identify you personally. You remain anonymous, and are not personally associated with your cookie or IP address. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our web site. Your IP address is also used to gather aggregate information about our users.

Links
Also, please note that Independent Jewelers Organization is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of non-Independent Jewelers Organization Web sites to which ijor.com or any other Independent Jewelers Organization Web site may link.

Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protect both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this Web site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

Barbara C. DeRosa
Website Administrator
IJO HQ
25 Seir Hill Road
Norwalk, CT 06850
800-624-9252
FAX: 203-846-8571

Corporate Contact