Privacy Policy

Effective June 12, 2006

Welcome to The Simple Leaf website, http://www.thesimpleleaf.com. In order to better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

This document, together with our Terms of Use, govern Pekoe Tips Incorporated's relationship with you as it pertains to this website.

The term "Pekoe Tips Incorporated" or "us" or "we" refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is 2327 N. Geneva Terrace, Suite 2, Chicago, IL 60614. The term "The Simple Leaf" refers to a brand name created by Pekoe Tips Incorporated. The term "you" refers to the user or viewer of our website.

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and on every page on our web site where personally identifiable information may be requested.

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The Information We Collect

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the The Simple Leaf web site. On some pages, you can order products, make requests, and register to receive materials. The type of personal information collected at these pages are:

Name
Address
Email address
Phone number
Credit/Debit Card Information

On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you will need to submit the recipient's address. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected are:

Name
Address
Phone Number

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The Way We Use Information

We use the information you provide about you or someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with any outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.

We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties. You can register on our web site if you would like to receive information about our products as well as updates on our new products and services. Information you submit on our web site while placing an order or registering will not be used for this purpose unless you fill out the registration form and explicitly elect to receive email updates.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our web site and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

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Our Commitment To Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

We strive to protect the security of the information you send to us while it is en-route to our site. Every page of the The Simple Leaf site on which information is exchanged between you and The Simple Leaf employs Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. SSL is a secure and encrypted method of communicating between your browser software and our Web server. SSL is the most common method of secure communication used on the Internet, and SSL technology is built into most major browsers. When you provide information or place an order with us, the information is sent to us via this secure, encrypted SSL connection. A quick method of identifying a secure Web page is to look at the address of the page. Secure pages will usually appear with an address that starts with "https://" rather than the standard "http://". All pages on our site where we collect personal information are encrypted using SSL.

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How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by signing into your account. The "My Account" or "My Profile" section of our site gives you the ability to access and modify any piece of information you give us. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information. You can also correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error. To protect your privacy and security, we may also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

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