OUR PRIVACY POLICY

BACKGROUND
When you purchase products at the Category5 site, we ask you for personal information. We use this information to process your orders and to communicate with you about the status of your orders. We also use your email address to send you invitations to events, as well as messages about Category5’s special offers, promotional announcements, and surveys. Occasionally, we send our customers special offers and promotional information via postal mail, using the shipping address provided. If you no longer want to receive the announcements or postal mail, you can email help@shopcategory5.com and request us to stop sending such announcements to you.

COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION
When you place your first order with Category5, we ask you for your full name, physical address, telephone number and credit card number so we can ship your order. We use your telephone number only if there is an order-related issue, not for marketing purposes.

We also track your order and billing history. We will use this information to process your orders and communicate with you about your orders. We also use your email address to send you invitations to fashion shows, as well as messages about Category5’s special offers, promotional announcements, and surveys. We also use this information to stay abreast of the buying trends of our customers.

COOKIES
“Cookies” are small data files stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive.  We use cookies to identify the pages you click on during your visit to our site, and the name of the Web site you visited immediately before accessing Category5. We use this information to improve our site design, product arrangements, customer service, and special promotions.
We may contract with third parties who use cookies to collect information on our behalf or to provide services such as credit card processing, shipping, promotional services or data management. These third parties are prohibited by our contract from sharing that information with anyone other than Category5, or our affiliates.

DISCLOSURE
Except as described in this section, we will not sell, rent or disclose your personally identifying information to third parties.

In order to ship and track merchandise, we make your name and address available to such companies as UPS. In no instance UPS is allowed to use your personal information for any other purpose.

We provide analyses of our users in the aggregate to our vendors and prospective vendors. We do this so that we and our vendors can understand you better, and so we can keep bringing you the latest and most current fashions and fashion accessories. At no time, however, will we disclose personal information about specific users.

Customers shall be notified via email for updates to this policy. Category5 will obtain email consent from any user if the company is going to be using the information collected in a manner different from that stated when the customer registered.

SECURITY AND ACCESS
For transmitting your personal information to us, we use a secure server (SSL), which encrypts all of your personal information. This encryption process ensures that the information you give us is protected against unauthorized access.

We have implemented technology and security features, as well as strict internal guidelines, to safeguard the privacy of your personal information from unauthorized access or improper use. We will continue to enhance our security procedures as new technology becomes available. While we make every effort to ensure that your information is secure on our system, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

This privacy policy was last updated on December 8, 2008.