The information we receive allows us to tailor our product offer and improve your shopping experience, making shopping easier and more enjoyable. It also enables us to process your purchases, confirm your orders, customize the content and layout of our pages, notify you about updates to our websites and products, and provide you with marketing information. The information you supply to us is added to our customer database. You may receive periodic mailings from us about new products and services, discounts, special promotions or upcoming events if you sign up for the newsletters. If you do not wish to receive such emails in the future, please click the "unsubscribe" link on any promotional email you receive from us. Please note: In order to process your purchases we may send you a confirmation email or we may contact you by mail or telephone if we have questions about your order. In some instances, we use third party companies to help us provide our products and services to you, to assist us in managing customer information, to fulfill promotions and to communicate with you. Some of these companies are given access to some or all of the information you provide to us, and some may use cookies on our behalf. These companies are contractually-restricted from using your information in any manner other than in helping us to provide you with the products and services available from Edhardysydney. We may share information with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when:

(1) permitted or required by law; or,
(2) trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud; or,
(3) investigating fraud which has already taken place. The information is not provided to these agencies or companies for marketing purposes.

A "cookie" is a small data file stored on your computer. At Edhardysydney, we place a unique identifier in the cookie and use the cookie to connect your computer with the information we store for you in our database. Some examples of the data we store in our database includes your account preferences, items added to your shopping bag, user-specific information on pages accessed, and previous visits to our site. Through cookies we may: alert you to new areas that we think might be of interest to you when you return to our site; record past activity at our site; or, customize Web page content. Your information is stored in a safe and secure database.
We do not use cookies to store any of your personal or financial information on your computer. We use cookies to:

• Record the visitor's session information (such as the visitor's shopping selections when ordering),
• Record user-specific information on the pages the visitor selects for viewing,
• Retain the country of our site that you last visited.

We recognize that you have a choice to refuse cookies. However, by choosing to accept an Edhardysydney cookie you allow us to maintain the preferences stored in your Edhardysydney "My Account" and process your order. If you choose not to accept the cookie, purchasing is not possible on the Edhardysydney site.

We have appropriate security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you so you can feel comfortable and secure when shopping. We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving your personal information. On the Internet, when you see either a solid key icon or a locked padlock icon at the lower portion of your browser window, this indicates that the site is secured through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Pages requesting personal information should always have one of these icons. If you do not see one of these icons, please contact us to complete your transaction through emails.