PRIVACY-POLICY   We, VICTORIA ROSE COTTAGE, INC., a legitimate company, along with its associated websites - VictoriaRoseCottage.com, VictoriaRosePrints.com and VictoriaRoseGraphics.com , known as such to be "sister sites" and who are conducting business as  retail websites under the corporate entity of Victoria Rose Cottage, Inc. governed by the state of Florida,  Division of Corporations, and any subsequent websites, that are designated  as associated sites  to be included under our corporate banner now or in the future,  offer the following Privacy Policy: We will never disclose any personal information collected about you such as Email address, shipping information or any personal data whatsoever to anyone at any time, other than to those parties who should be involved directly with the associated sales transaction.  Those parties may include only those authorized and deemed necessary such as those employees of our corporation who are vital to the processing of your order and whose duties may include following up on said order, and only with the direct authorization of our Board Of Directors. We also may share this personal information with any artist who has created an item and who we have made special arrangements for said artisan to ship directly to you, our customer, but only those selected artisans who we have deemed trustworthy and who have promised to guard your personal and private information and to use it only for  the purpose so intended. We may provide such personal information to another party for final payment processing such as  PayPal© whose privacy policy is outlined at http://www.paypal.com , our approved payment processor, who uses military strength encryption procedures that are said to be the highest level of security in the industry today. We also may share this information with Visa© whose privacy policy is outlined  at http://www.visa.com , MasterCard© whose privacy policy is outlined  at http://www.mastercard.com , or any other credit card company that we may  so designate as an accepted payment processor in the future,  and only for the purpose so intended. EMAIL ADDRESSES Your Email address will be used to contact you should there be a need to do so  during the order process. Your Email address will also be used to provide you with shipping details and tracking information via the USPS© website, who also uses strong encryption methods to make certain your personal information is kept secure and private according to their specific privacy policy as stated on their website at http://www.usps.com . We also reserve the right to share this information with other shipping agents should we change our shipping company or service in the future or for specific transactions that would be considered best handled by another shipping service. The same said privacy policy will be followed. The designated shipper will only use your information for the purpose so intended and will be appointed after we have deemed that company to be reputable and respectful and adhering to similar privacy policies to protect you, our client. We will not use that  address to send you any unsolicited emails or provide that private information to any third party not involved directly in the transaction or sale. If you do contact us and require an answer, we will cheerfully respond but will never give your Email  address out to third parties. Your security and privacy is of the  uppermost importance to us. PLEASE NOTE As an added protection, please make sure that you see a security padlock when you  use the Shopping Cart Checkout and are transferred to PayPal's website. Also, the http at the top of the browser page should have an "s" added to  http when you are in a secured mode. OUR LIMITED LIABILITY Our responsibility is limited to what we, as a corporation and its associated employees, can physically do to keep your personal information  secure and private. This includes putting in place firewall protection and security and encryption measures to make certain your shopping experience is one  that is protected as much as  humanly possible. As human beings, we promise to  NOT share your private information with any such party not connected to the direct  and specific handling of a sale from any of our websites.  However, we will not be held responsible for the vulnerability  of compromise that website shopping may encounter through the ordering and transmission process when such ordering involves electronic transmission and is subject to vulnerability via the Internet ordering process.   As website retailers, we {Victoria Rose Cottage, Inc.}  cannot guarantee with 100% certainty that your information  will be absolutely secure due to technology and its vulnerability during such transaction and the transmission of such information as part of the payment completion process. We do understand, as shoppers ourselves, and as those who also value privacy and its vulnerability in today's world, promise to never humanly provide your information to any other party other than those specifically involved with the sales transaction as specifically named herein. We will NEVER sell your name and Email address and other private information or share it with any person or entity outside of Victoria  Rose Cottage, Inc. and its associated sites and employees and only for the purpose so intended - a sales transaction that specifically requests your personal information in order for us to complete the sales process. SUMMARY  We believe and respect you and your desire to keep personal information out of public domain and will do anything humanly possible to protect you and your online shopping experience. Any personal information you provide will only be used  for the purpose so intended  and contained herein. We value your privacy as if it were our own. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or any of our Policies, please don't hesitate to contact us through our Contact Form, also a secured form.