Privacy Policy & Security

Elegant Rugs greatest asset is our respected and valuable customers.  As a valued customer, we want you to know that your privacy and security while shopping at our ecommerce store is our utmost priority.  In today’s modern society, information is transferred at the speed of light.  Safekeeping of your personal information and ensuring this information stays with Elegant Rugs is very important.  We are all constantly bothered with sales calls from telemarketers.  Our email inbox is full of junk mail on a daily or even hourly basis.  The internet is the information superhighway; however, some information needs to stay personal and not shared with 3rd party.

When placing an order with Elegant Rugs, there is some required information we must collection to process your order.  This information includes your name, billing address, shipping address, telephone number(s), and credit card information.  This information is the standard for shopping on the World Wide Web.  However, in recent years, the safekeeping of this information has become a great safety issue for companies and consumers.

Once an order is placed with Elegant Rugs, this information is required in order to process, confirm and finalize your order.  In addition, consumer’s addresses are usually used to send specials, promotions, product updates and information, sales, surveys and other marketing tools.  This information is also used for research purposes to enhance your shopping experience by sending you information on products and services that are beneficial.  Based on your location, this information is used to target specific areas for mailers and advertising.

In many cases, it becomes necessary to share your information with third party suppliers who are affiliates of Elegant Rugs.  However, be assured that your credit card information is never shared with anyone, unless required by law.  Your personal information will be shared with our suppliers in order to fulfill your order.  Please rest assured that Elegant Rugs does not authorize any of our suppliers to use your information in any other manner except to fulfill your order.

When you hear the word Cookies, different thoughts might come to mind.  In computer lingo, a cookie is a small string of text that is sent to your computer from a web server.  This data is stored onto your computer’s hard drive for easy access in the future.  This information usually includes user preferences, contents of a shopping cart and many other data used by websites.  Elegant Rugs uses this information to evaluate the efficiency of our ecommerce showroom and allows us to determine necessary changes to enhance your shopping experience.  It is important to understand that cookies are not spyware or viruses.  One important reason that Elegant Rugs uses cookies is to determine the areas of our site that are most visited so that we can focus our marketing around these items and categories.  In addition, cookies help us to determine areas in which our customers might have difficulty accessing our store so that we can make necessary changes to our ecommerce showroom.  Please be aware that if you feel uncomfortable for any reason about cookies, please feel confident that we do accept orders via telephone and regular mail.

The ease of shopping online is becoming more and more popular in the 21st century.  With the convenience of being in home, or literally anywhere in the world, consumers have the option to shop from many different ecommerce stores, compare prices and services and make a very wise and economical decision.  However, with this ease of shopping and the ability to get the most value for your money, there are many concerns of security while on the web.  In recent years, consumers have become more confident in shopping the World Wide Web with the use of modern security measures.  Elegant Rugs values our customer’s privacy and work tremendously to ensure your security while shopping at our site.  Orders placed through our ecommerce store are encrypted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology where your information and transaction is protected.  With SSL technology, rest assured that your information is secure.  This technology allows Elegant Rugs to transfer your personal information to our secure server without it being compromised.  If for any reason you are not completely confident about shopping online, we do accept orders via telephone and regular mail.  Shop secured at Elegant Rugs.