At Clearwater Landscapes, Inc., user privacy and security is of the highest concern. We are committed to providing you with the best possible user experience.

What do we mean by privacy? We will never disclose your personally identifiable information without your consent - repeat - we will not sell, trade, loan or otherwise make available your personal or contact information to anyone - EVER - unless you give us specific permission.

Here's how we collect and use information from you in our efforts to provide the highest quality user experience:

IP Address - Your IP or "Internet Protocol" address and other site usage data is used to gather broad demographic information. This data helps us serve you better by telling us how visitors use our website.

Cookies - Our site uses "cookies," small files stored by your browser, to help keep track of site visits. Our cookies do not collect personally identifiable information, nor do we share them with anyone. We use cookies to track user trends and improve the areas of our site that our users find valuable.

Registration - We use customer contact information from registration forms to send you information related to our products and services if you consent to receiving such mailings. We may also use your information to contact you when necessary for the administration of your account. We use your email address as a unique identifier in our record system to verify communications from you, and to send you newsletters and promotion offerings that you ask to receive or to tell you about changes to the Clearwater Landscape Design website.

Your Security - Clearwater Landscapes, Inc. has taken the following important measures to protect against loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. First, we store no financial information or social security information on our site. Second, we encrypt all personal information transmitted to or from our site using Secure Sockets Layer technology and PGP encryption.

Payments are made with credit card or PayPal for purchases at The Landscape Market and for purchasing landscape design services. These transactions are entered through a secure server to Authorize.Net and will be charged to your account at the time of purchase. No record of your financial information is recorded at this office.

Outside Links - While on the Clearwater Landscape Design site, you may be led to other websites. Be aware that other sites may collect data and personal information and operate according to their own privacy practices. Please remember that, once outside of our site, any information you submit is outside of our control.

Contacting Us - If at any time you feel that the Clearwater Landscape Design website has not adhered to this policy, or if you have questions, please contact us here and we'll respond promptly.

Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.

Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.

More on Your Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. This is a secure document that uses an encryption key suited for U.S. export (RC4-40, 128 bit with 40 secret). Forms which record client financial information and other sensitive data reside on a secure server and employ SSL (secure socket layer) technology. Further security measures are implemented with the use of PGP encryption to protect data during electronic transfer to our office.