PRIVACY POLICY

As of May 13, 2004, Pacific Blinds and Drapes updated its Privacy Policy to give you a better understanding of our Privacy Policy and Practice. If you have any questions, please contact privacy@pacificblindsanddrapes.com.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Cookies and other Tracking Technologies
• Notice
• Choice
• Security
• Access/Accuracy
• Third Party Services
• Children's Privacy
• Your Consent

Pacific Blinds and Drapes views the privacy of your personal information as an important issue, and is committed to protecting your privacy when you access and interact with the Pacific Blinds and Drapes site. As such, this site supports and endorses the principles of the Victorian Information Privacy Act 2000.

We have established this Online Privacy Policy so that you can understand the care with which we intend to treat your Personal Information.

Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, a home or other physical address and an email address or other contact information, whether at work or at home. In general, you can visit Pacific Blinds and Drapes'  Web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself.

If you choose to provide us with your Personal Information on the Web, we may transfer that Information within Pacific Blinds and Drapes or to Pacific Blinds and Drapes' third-party service providers

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Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Pacific Blinds and Drapes does not, at present, utilize "cookies". A "cookie" is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about Web site activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by a Web user. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser.

Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our site is accessed. Our use of tracking technologies allows us to improve our Web site and your Web experience. We may also analyze information that does not contain Personal Information for trends and statistics.

Email addresses will only be used to respond to specific user queries, and will not be kept or used for any purpose other than stated. Email addresses will not be added to a mailing list unless consent is given, nor disclosed to any other party without your knowledge or consent.

To protect your privacy, we have adopted the following principles:

• Notice
• Choice
• Security
• Access/Accuracy

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Notice

Where Pacific Blinds and Drapes collects Personal Information on the web, we intend to post a purpose statement that explains why Personal Information will be collected and whether we plan to share such Personal Information outside of Pacific Blinds and Drapes or those working on Pacific Blinds and Drapes' behalf. Pacific Blinds and Drapes does not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on Pacific Blinds and Drapes' behalf unless such transfer is legally required.

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Choice

You may choose whether or not to provide Personal Information to Pacific Blinds and Drapes. The notice we intend to provide where Pacific Blinds and Drapes collects Personal Information on the Web should help you to make this choice. If you choose not to provide the Personal Information we request, you can still visit Pacific Blinds and Drapes' Web site , but you may be unable to access certain options, offers, and services that involve our interaction with you.

If you chose to have a relationship with Pacific Blinds and Drapes, such as a contractual or other business relationship or partnership, we will naturally continue to contact you in connection with that business relationship.

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Security

Wherever your Personal Information may be held within Pacific Blinds and Drapes or on its behalf, we intend to take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the Personal Information that you share with us from unauthorized access or disclosure.

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Access/Accuracy

To the extent that you do provide us with Personal Information, Pacific Blinds and Drapes wishes to maintain accurate Personal Information. Where we collect Personal Information from you on the Web, our goal is to provide a means of contacting Pacific Blinds and Drapes should you need to update or correct that Information. If for any reason those means are unavailable or inaccessible, you may send updates and corrections about your Personal Information to privacy@pacificblindsanddrapes.com and we will make reasonable efforts to incorporate the changes in your Personal Information that we hold as soon as practicable.

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Third Party Services

Third parties provide certain services available on Sun.com on Sun's behalf. Sun may provide information, including Personal Information, that Sun collects on the Web to third-party service providers to help us deliver programs, products, information, and services. Service providers are also an important means by which Pacific Blinds and Drapes maintains its Web site and mailing lists. Pacific Blinds and Drapes will take reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on Pacific Blinds and Drapes' behalf.

Pacific Blinds and Drapes does not intend to transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on Pacific Blinds and Drapes' behalf unless such transfer is legally required. Similarly, it is against Pacific Blinds and Drapes' policy to sell Personal Information collected online without consent.

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Children's Privacy
Pacificblindsanddrapes.com is not structured to attract children. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect Personal Information from anyone we know to be under 13 years of age.

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Your Consent
By using this Web site, you consent to the terms of our Online Privacy Policy and to Pacific Blinds and Drapes' processing of Personal Information for the purposes given above as well as those explained where Pacific Blinds and Drapes collects Personal Information on the Web. Should the Online Privacy Policy change, we intend to take every reasonable step to ensure that these changes are brought to your attention by posting all changes prominently on our web site for a reasonable period of time.

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If you have any comments or questions regarding our Online Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@pacificblindsanddrapes.com. While we cannot guarantee privacy perfection, we will address any issue to the best of our abilities as soon as possible.

May 10, 2004