Web Privacy Statement
Collecting and Using Personal Information
Welcome to EXPRESS FAMILY OF COMAPNIES'
(EXPRESS) website. We appreciate your interest in us. When
you visit and navigate our site and when you communicate
with us via our site, we will not collect personal
information about you unless you provide us that information
voluntarily. Any non-public personal information that you
may provide via our site will be used solely for the purpose
stated on the page where it is collected. (In some cases and
in all cases where required by law or regulation, you will
be able to update the information that you provide to us
either by sending us an e-mail or, where you have
established personal profiles with us, by updating your
profile online. Please refer to the specific pages where
data is collected for more information.) EXPRESS will not
sell, license, transmit or disclose this information outside
of EXPRESS and its affiliated companies unless (a) expressly
authorized by you, (b) necessary to enable EXPRESS
contractors or agents to perform certain functions for us,
or (c) required or permitted by law. In all cases, we will
disclose the information consistent with applicable laws and
regulations and we will require the recipient to protect the
information and use it only for the purpose it was provided.
By "personal information" we mean data that is unique to an
individual, such as a name, address, Social Security number,
e-mail address, or telephone number. From time to time, we
may request personal information from you at our site in
order to deliver requested materials to you, respond to your
questions, or deliver a product or service.
We welcome your comments or questions about our website and
have provided e-mail boxes for that purpose. We will share
your comments and questions with our customer service
representatives and those employees most capable of
addressing your questions and concerns.
Please note that your e-mail, like most, if not all,
non-encrypted Internet e-mail communications, may be
accessed and viewed by other Internet users, without your
knowledge and permission, while in transit to us. For that
reason, to protect your privacy, please do not use e-mail to
communicate information to us that you consider
confidential. If you wish, you may contact us instead via
non-cellular telephone at the numbers provided at various
locations on our site.
There are some locations on EXPRESS website where we have
made special provisions for a more secure environment in
which we can exchange information with you. At each of these
locations, we will provide you with appropriate
instructions.
Other Information; "Cookies" and "Tags"
You
should also be aware that when you visit our website, we
collect certain information that does not identify you
personally, but provides us with "usage data," such as the
number of visitors we receive or what pages are visited most
often. This data helps us to analyze and improve the
usefulness of the information we provide at our website.
Like most commercial website owners, we may use what is
known as "cookie" technology. A "cookie" is an element of
data that a website can send to your browser when you link
to that website. It is not a computer program and has no
ability to read data residing on your computer or instruct
it to perform any step or function. By assigning a unique
data element to each visitor, the website is able to
recognize repeat users, track usage patterns and better
serve you when you return to that site. The cookie does not
extract other personal information about you, such as your
name or address.
We may also use what is known as "client-side page tagging",
which uses code on each page to write certain information
about the page and the visitor to a log when a page is
rendered by your web browser. This technique is also
commonly used on commercial website. "Tagging" does result
in a JavaScript program running on your computer, but it is
limited to providing information about the page that you are
requesting and the configuration of your browser. It will
not read any of your data files, or execute any additional
programs. It does not extract any personal information about
you, such as your name or address. You can prevent tagging
by disabling JavaScript in your browser, but that may
prevent you from using all of our website's functions.
Linking to Other Site
From time to time, EXPRESS website may provide links to
other website, not owned or controlled by EXPRESS, that we
think might be useful or of interest to you. We cannot,
however, be responsible for the privacy practices used by
other website owners or the content or accuracy of those
other website. Links to various non-EXPRESS website do not
constitute or imply endorsement by EXPRESS of these website,
any products or services described on these site, or of any
other material contained in them.
EXPRESS
has adopted and adheres to stringent security standards
designed to protect non-public personal information at
www.expressfamilyofcompanies.com against accidental or
unauthorized access or disclosure. Among the safeguards that
EXPRESS has developed for this site are administrative,
physical and technical barriers that together form a
protective firewall around the information stored at this
site. We periodically subject our site to simulated
intrusion tests and have developed comprehensive disaster
recovery plans.