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#### Our Privacy Pledge

Last Updated: 5/14/04; www.6pm.com ("website") is owned and operated by eBags Incorporated of 6060 Greenwood Plaza Blvd.Greenwood Village, CO 80111. The terms "6pm.com", "we", "us" and "our" when used in this Privacy Policy indicates eBags Inc., which includes eBags' parent, subsidiaries, divisions, branches, affiliates or companies under common ownership or control of eBags. The terms "you" and "your" when used in this Privacy Policy means any user of this website. 

We understand and share your concern about privacy. We want to assure you that 6pm.com respects your privacy and treats your personal information with the highest standards of safety, security and confidentiality. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. If you have questions regarding this Policy, you may direct them to privacy@6pm.com. 

  * What information does 6pm.com collect?  

  * Our use of your information  

  * Does 6pm.com share the information it receives?  

  * Accessing and updating your information  

  * Security  

  * A special note about children's privacy  

  * Privacy Policy changes  

  * Contacting 6pm.com with question or comments  


 

#### What type of information does 6pm.com collect?

Our goal is to provide you with a safe and enjoyable shopping experience. When we collect information about you it is in an effort to make our products and services more efficient and customized to you. You are free to browse the 6pm.com site without revealing any personal information about yourself. However, once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. 

Automatic Anonymous Information   
We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on our site. This information does not identify you personally. We use this information to improve the content and functionality of this website and our e-mail updates, to analyze our users' behavior, interests, and demographics and to better understand and serve our shoppers. This information may include the URL that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your IP address. We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. [We sometimes supplement the information that you provide with information that is received from third parties. For instance, if inaccurate postal or zip codes are received, we will use third party software to fix them. 

What about Cookies?  
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that a web site will store on your computer’s hard drive. 6pm.com will use cookies to identify you during your session, make our services easier to use and to store items in your shopping cart between visits. However, cookies by themselves cannot be used to discover the identity of a user. Cookies are never used to store sensitive customer information such as names, addresses, credit card numbers or passwords. Acceptance of cookies is not a requirement to browse our site, however our shopping cart does require the acceptance of cookies to work properly. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can configure your browser to prevent that. If you would like to place an order from our site but object to or otherwise are unable to use cookies, please feel free to place your order via our toll free number: 1-800-746-3346. For more information on deleting or rejecting cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org. 

Web beacons  
Some of our web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to check the open rate of email newsletters. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign. For further information about web beacons, please visit "Web beacons" at www.allaboutcookies.org. 

Personally Identifiable Information  
This is information that you provide to us that is specific to you. We collect information such as your name, phone number, billing information, shipping information and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout our site. You provide such information when you make a purchase, enter a contest or sweepstakes, fill out a survey or form, provide ratings or testimonials feedback, give or redeem a gift certificate, etc. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. You can always choose not to provide information, but you may not be able to use a particular service or feature.  

#### Our use of your information

We use the information we collect from you for specific and limited purposes including improving our products and services, making your shopping experience more efficient and relevant, and providing you with a personalized service. We may also use your information internally to administer this website. We review the actions of our visitors on an aggregate basis to determine customers' preferences. 6pm.com also conducts analysis and research on our visitors' demographics, interests, and pages viewed based on the information provided to us during ordering, from our server log files, contests or surveys. 

Contests and Sweepstakes  
When you enter a contest or other promotion, we may ask you for contact information such as your name, address and e-mail address in order to administer the contest, to send you promotional e-mails, notify winners and make the winners' list publicly available pursuant to certain states' laws. Your consent to such promotional use and disclosure of this information is a condition of your participation. As a condition of receiving any prize, you will be required to complete, execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release, and where lawful, a Publicity Release, for us to ensure that you are eligible to receive the prize according to the Contest Rules. In cases where the sweepstakes or promotional offer is co-branded with or sponsored by another party, we may share your information, with your consent, to that party. 

E-mails  
It is possible to register as a My 6pm.com email subscriber directly from our site or through another source, such as an 6pm.com sweepstakes hosted on another site or the co-registration network™. Upon registering, we will periodically send you newsletters and e-mails featuring exclusive sales, promotions and other members-only benefits. If you make a purchase on our site we will send you order and shipping confirmation emails. Unless you have unsubscribed from our email program, we will also send you emails to collect ratings and testimonials feedback related to your purchase. Please visit the Your Account page to subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your email preferences at anytime. 

Gift Certificates  
If you purchase a gift certificate on our site, we will ask you to provide the recipient's name and e-mail address. The recipient information you provide us will only be used to deliver the gift certificate and for no other purpose. 

Affiliate Program  
Our Affiliate Program is administered by Commission Junction. Any information collected by them is not governed by this Policy.  

#### Does 6pm.com share the information it receives?

The following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed: 

Fulfillment  
During the purchase process, we will share your information with certain intermediaries (e.g. UPS, FedEx, Paymentech, Product Manufacturers) strictly to process and ship your order. 

Promotional Offers  
At times we may present or send offers to select 6pm.com subscribers on behalf of other parties. When we do this, we do not give that company your personally identifiable information without your consent. If you do not want to receive such communications, please edit your account preferences. 

Agents  
We employ other third parties to perform services or functions on our behalf in order to improve our site, merchandising, marketing and promotional efforts, communications or other services. Those third parties include authorized contractors, consultants and other companies working with us (collectively, "agents"). They only have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, and may not share any personal information with others or use it for any other purpose than improving 6pm.com services and offerings. If you have made a purchase on the 6pm.com website, we may make your name and postal address available to carefully screened companies who have specific direct mail (e.g. catalog) product or service offers that we think may be of interest to you and whose privacy practices meet the Direct Marketing Association's privacy standards. We only share with these carefully screened companies the individual names and postal address of customers who have purchased products from us. If you do not want us to share your name and postal address information, simply follow the instructions in the section below titled "Accessing and Updating Your Information." We may also receive information about you from other sources (such as demographic information and purchase history) and add it to our information in order to make our marketing efforts more efficient. 

Advertisers  
We work with third party advertising companies to serve and track our ads. These third parties may serve other cookies. Our advertising partners use the anonymous, non-personally identifying information they collect from our site, in the aggregate, to help us better market and serve our customers. In the event that our advertisers collect any personal information on our behalf, it will not be used by them or disclosed to any third parties. 

Third Party Sites  
You may visit other web sites, through links on our site, who may collect, use and share your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. The information practices of those websites linking from or to our site are not covered by this Policy, and we encourage you to be very cautious before you disclose your personal information to others. If you register for 6pm.com on another web site or use a web site providing a service for 6pm.com, that web site may provide personal information about you and your transactions back to 6pm.com. It is possible that 6pm.com could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such an event occur, you should expect that 6pm.com would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide such products and services. Notice of such an event will be posted and we will require that the new combined entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy. Where appropriate, before disclosing your personally identifiable information to a third party, we contractually require the third party to take adequate precautions to protect that data and to comply with applicable law. 

Sharing Within Our Group  
In order to provide you with the information, products, or services which you have requested, we may share or transfer your information with other companies within the eBags group of companies. In addition, we may also share your information with other companies within the eBags group who may contact you about their products or services that may interest you. 

Legal Requests  
6pm.com will cooperate with law enforcement inquiries. 6pm.com reserves the right to disclose any activities or information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, determine necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, for the administration of justice, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.  

#### Accessing and Updating Your Information

You always have the opportunity to review and change the information you provide to us by logging into the site and entering in the new information yourself. You can edit your name, contact information and preferences by logging into the Your Account section of the site. 

As a customer, subscriber, or contest entrant, you will occasionally receive e-mail communications about new 6pm.com products, special offers we think you'll like and requests for feedback. If you want to stop receiving our emails or to specify the communications you prefer to receive, you may unsubscribe or edit your profile at any time. You can do this through any of our emails, by visiting your account preferences page or sending us an email at help@6pm.com. 

You may ask to have your account information removed from our active databases; however, because we keep track of past purchases, we cannot delete information associated with your past purchases. Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible based on your account activity. Also, as a security measure we "back up" the data stored on our systems, and such prior information cannot be completely removed from our databases. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests. However, please be aware that we keep your personally identifiable information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with any applicable legal or ethical reporting or document retention requirements.  

#### Security

The 6pm.com Security Pledge protects you while you shop at 6pm.com so that you never have to worry about credit card safety. We guarantee that every transaction you make at 6pm.com will be safe. This means you pay nothing if unauthorized charges are made to your credit card as a result of shopping at 6pm.com. 6pm.com' servers use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), an encryption technology that works with Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and AOL's browser, so that only 6pm.com can read a buyer's personal information. We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. However, we will transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.  

#### A special note about children's privacy

You must be at least 18 years old to have our permission to use this site. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose Personally Identifiable Information about visitors under 18 years of age. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with your parents or guardians.  

#### Privacy Policy Changes

6pm.com reserves the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted in this document and will become effective immediately upon being posted unless we tell you otherwise.  

#### Contacting 6pm.com

If you have further questions about 6pm.com's Privacy Policy or comments on how we can improve the 6pm.com shopping experience, please do not hesitate to email us at privacy@6pm.com. 

Need more help? You can refer to our Help Center or email one of our friendly Customer Help Specialists at help@6pm.com. 

You may also write to us at:  
Privacy Manager  
6pm.com  
6060 Greenwood Plaza Blvd.  
Greenwood Village, CO 80111  


We always enjoy hearing from you and appreciate your business.