The MiamiShades.com site supports secure on-line shopping through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. This means that all information that you input during your shopping is encrypted. You will know that you are in a safe and encrypted area when you see the ”Key” (in Netscape Navigator) or the ”Closed Padlock” (in Internet Explorer) or any other security signs that other browsers might use. You can also double check that you are in a secure area at the URL line of your browser. When accessing a secure server the site address will change from http to https. If your browser does not permit communication through a secure server, you can always follow the procedure in ordering by fax. MiamiShades.com strongly recommends online ordering for fast and secure service.

• Credit card use
  We insist that shopping on a secure site is safer than giving out your credit card number by fax or telephone, cellular and cordless phones in particular.
• Customers must register before making an order. This is to protect the credit card holder from fraud. The cardholders will be contacted if there is any doubt that they have not placed the order.
• To help protect against the use of stolen credit cards, we use an address verification system (AVS), which means that large orders can only be sent to the billing address of the credit card.

• Privacy
  MiamiShades has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.
  
  Credit card and other information is handled with the utmost confidence. This information is never sold, shared, traded or given to any individual, company or organization outside MiamiShades.com.
  
  Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart.
  
  Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and email address). We use customer contact information to send information about our company, if you have signed up for our "Newsletter Service". Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings by un-subscribing; see Newsletter in our Customer Service Center.
  
  Our site uses a shopping cart system for customers to request products. We collect visitor's financial information (like their credit card numbers). Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products. Between the order and shipment (we always charge our customers after the products have been shipped) this information is stored in secured and encrypted servers. After each order/payment this information is deleted permanently from our servers.
  
  From time to time we conduct online surveys after an order have been made. Users may opt-out of receiving future surveys by not replying to the survey.
  
  We run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for contact information (like their email address). We use contact data from our contests to send users information about our company. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings by not participating in our contests.
  
  We use an outside company for our free email account service. If you have accepted to receive commercial information during registration you may receive mailings from third party companies. You may at any time change this in the setup page at our email center, under Options/Personal Information/ Preferences. Just choose "Please do not contact me" under Mailings.
  
  We may use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.
  
  Any individual tampering with this information will be turned in to the proper authorities by MiamiShades.com. This is including but not limited to, credit card fraud, false ordering and system intrusion. Within the MiamiShades.com website we do take the liberty to hand over information to the local authorities in the United States as well as other countries.