Privacy Policy

Maryland China Company, Inc. (.MCC.) has created this Privacy Policy to explain why we collect particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy within our website. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the website located at www.marylandchina.com.

In order to fully understand your rights we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy. MCC reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting.

Because we want to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, this Privacy Policy notifies you of what personally identifiable information of yours is collected through the site; who collects such information; how such information is used; with whom your information may be shared; what choices you have regarding collection, use and distribution of your information; what kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under our control; and, how you can correct any inaccuracies in your information.

Our registration forms require users to give us contact information that may include name, email address, passwords, format preference (HTML vs. Text), address, interests, and similar information. We do not request or store sensitive information from our visitors, such as social security numbers. We do not sell or share email addresses or other personal information.

Credit card information is not stored on MCC.s website database. All retail credit card transactions are forwarded to a secure financial gateway. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology is used to protect the security of your payment information. For MCC wholesale customers, credit card information is encrypted and sent via secure email to MCC and stored on our secure server, which is not accessible via the internet. Email and other personal correspondence related to feedback comments or any other interaction with the staff of MCC may be collected. MCC web logs collect standard web log entries for each page served. This includes the IP address, page URL, and timestamp. This information is used to help maintain the site and diagnose potential problems. MCC web logs do not collect personally identifiable information.

We collect an IP address from all visitors to our site. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site, analyze trends, track users' movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the site, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Our site may use cookies to enhance your experience while using our site. Cookies are pieces of information that some websites transfer to the computer that is browsing that website and are used for record-keeping purposes at many websites. Use of cookies makes web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving your passwords, your personal preferences regarding your use of the particular website. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard. Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our site will not function properly when you view them.

All information provided to MCC is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us. We also protect account information by placing it on a secure portion of our site that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of MCC. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.

Our Site contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which MCC has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.