Your right to privacy is very important. EDC Knives recognizes that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner. We believe this information should only be used to help us provide you with better service. That's why we have put a policy in place to protect your personal information. Below is a summary of our policy. Please note that not all sections of this policy apply to all services or users. Personal Information Personal information is collected only after you have signed on as a member and during the purchase checkout process. This information includes your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, credit card information, and information regarding the products you purchased. Your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, items ordered, and total purchase amount are sent via e-mail to you as a receipt, any credit card information is specifically not e-mailed. Cookies Some shopper information is collected through the use of cookies by our shopping cart vendor and our credit card processor. Disclosure of Shopper Information to third Party Entities EDC Knives does not now and never will, sell, trade, rent, loan or share in any way your personal information with others. Period. Security We will take appropriate steps to protect your privacy. Whenever you provide sensitive information (for example a credit card number), we will take all reasonable steps to protect it. When you place orders or access your account information, we offer the use of a secure server. The secure server software (SSL) encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. Furthermore, all of the customer data we collect is protected against unauthorized access. We will also take reasonable security measures to protect your personal information in storage. Credit card numbers are used only for payment processing and are not used for marketing purposes. Except as stated in this Privacy Statement, we will not provide any of your personal information to other companies or individuals without your permission. However, we may release personal information in response to all court orders and lawful requests from governmental authorities. Consent By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by EDC Knives. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we will disclose it. All online purchases are secured by GeoTrust and Authorize.net. AUTHORIZE.NET Authorize.Net takes privacy and data protection issues seriously. We have designed this Privacy Policy to explain how we handle personally identifiable information collected from merchants who register for services and submit information to Authorize.Net through the Internet. As the Authorize.Net services evolve, we may revise this policy, so please check back frequently. If you have questions about Authorize.Net privacy practices please contact us at support@authorize.net . This Privacy Policy covers Authorize.Net's treatment of personally identifiable information collected from merchants (hereafter "merchant" or "you") who use the Authorize.Net payment gateway services, as well as consumer information that we acquire in the course of our business. This Policy also covers the treatment of personally identifiable information that Authorize.Net's business partners may share with it. This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Authorize.Net does not own or control, or to people that Authorize.Net does not employ or manage. Authorize.Net is a wholly owned subsidiary of InfoSpace, Inc. This Policy is specific to Authorize.Net and does not apply to www.infospace.com or other Web sites or Internet services that are part of the InfoSpace Network. Information Collection and Use Authorize.Net collects personally identifiable information when you register for an Authorize.Net account, and when you use certain Authorize.Net products and services. Authorize.Net may also receive personally identifiable information from its resellers and other business partners. When you register with Authorize.net, we ask for your contact information (such as your name, street address and email address), as well as certain information pertaining to your business, along with billing information such as a bank account and/or credit card number. In the course of processing a payment transaction, we typically receive from the merchant or a financial institution information related to the transaction. This normally includes information about the payment that a consumer has furnished the merchant or financial institution in placing the order. We do not acquire any information directly from consumers through the www.authorizenet.com Web site. The personally identifiable information we acquire in processing payment transactions varies according to the nature of the transaction and the way in which merchants or financial institutions are using our payment services. It may include, for example, the amount of the transaction, the consumer's name, credit card number and expiration date, checking account number, billing address, and shipping address. Authorize.Net uses the information collected to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, to process payment transactions, to facilitate billing, and otherwise deliver the payment gateway services. We may also send merchants service announcements, newsletters, and periodic notices about specials and new products. Personally identifiable consumer information is used to process payment transactions and for no other purpose. Authorize.Net does not offer services or sell products to children. Authorize.Net does not request or knowingly collect personally identifiable contact information from anyone under the age of 13. Information Sharing and Disclosure Protecting personally identifiable information about merchants and consumers is an important part of our business. We share and disclose such information only as described below. Authorize.Net will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when: 1) we have your consent to share the information; 2) we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; 3) we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Authorize.Net to provide a product or service to you (unless we tell you differently these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide them beyond what is necessary to assist us). Personally identifiable consumer information is shared with third parties (such as banks and credit card processors) to the extent necessary for Authorize.Net to deliver payment processing services. We also may release personally identifiable information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our Merchant Agreement and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Authorize.Net, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and risk reduction. In the unlikely event that Authorize.Net is acquired, merchant account information may be one of the transferred assets. Information Security Information security is critical to our business. We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. We store information gathered on secure computers located in a locked data center. The number of employees involved in the management of the data center that have physical access to these computers is limited. We use firewalls and other security technology to prevent our computers from being accessed by unauthorized persons. We also require that any personally identifiable consumer information sent to us by you be encrypted using SSL encryption. To learn more about SSL, go to: http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/S/SSL.html. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your Login ID/password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer and otherwise protect the password used to access the Authorize.Net services. Notice for European Users Authorize.Net is located in the United States. Any information that you provide to Authorize.Net will be transferred out of the EU to the United States. By providing personal information to us, you are consenting to its storage and use as described herein. Changes to this Privacy Policy Authorize.Net reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. If there are material changes to this statement or in how Authorize.Net will use personally identifiable information, Authorize.Net will post notice on the Authorize.Net homepage at www.authorizenet.com prior to implementing the change. If you have additional questions about this Policy, please contact us at support@authorize.net . EDC Silent Auctions The general idea of a silent auction is for all interested players to bid once on an item, and at the end of the auction the highest bid is the winner. This lets people get involved in the auction that they may not win in the standard competitive type auction format. There is no outbidding one another; you only get one shot at it. This gives everyone a chance at winning the item. Interested players are welcome to place a bid by selecting the item for purchase, and running through our shopping cart. You may place your bid in the comments section, and select Money Order as payment option to avoid going through the credit card module. We will certainly work on making this as simple and clean as possible, but wanted to get this started, so please bare with us. Silent Auction RULES