Privacy & Legal Policy

Thank you for visiting this website. KorkEase.com (Kork-Ease) values the privacy of our website visitors. Access to and use of the present site is subject to the following terms and conditions regarding intellectual property and copyrights, which must be adhered to. We therefore ask that you read the following carefully, because access and use of this site imply the acceptance of said conditions. You will only receive communication from the branded Web site you purchased or requested information from.

Information collected on this website will be used according to the following guidelines:

1. Kork-Ease collects individually identifiable information, and other information that can be associated with an identifier. This information is collected to provide information and services to website users, and to allow (Kork-Ease, and KorkEase.com) to (i) analyze and monitor consumer and customer activity; (ii) promote and support Kork-Ease products; and (iii) develop a knowledge base regarding its Web site users and customers. Do not submit information that you do not want Kork-Ease to access.
2. As is commonly done on retail websites, (Kork-Ease, and KorkEase.com) may use "cookies" or similar technology to keep track of its customers and the goods or services they are ordering. For example, we use cookies to keep track of items that you might wish to store in your Shopping Cart between visits. If you do not wish to accept cookies, the "help" selection on your browser's toolbar will likely tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies, how to have the browser alert you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. If you disable cookies, however, you will not be able to take advantage of all of the features on this Web site; therefore we recommend that you leave them turned on.
3. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous.
4. When we ask for your personal information, it is so that we can provide a product or service to you and to communicate with you about those products and services. This may require us to share information with our business partners. For example, if you purchase goods through KorkEase.com like any other retailer we will have to provide your credit card information to our credit card processor and authenticator for payment purposes, and your name and address to the company that ships our merchandise.
5. When we ask for your personal information, we also give you an option to opt out of additional uses of your personal information for marketing purposes. For example, the KorkEase.com website may from time to time send you an e-mail message informing you of on-line sales that you may be interested in hearing about. If you do not wish to receive such messages, please click on the appropriate box when providing your personal information. Also, when participating in surveys at KorkEase.com they are entirely an anonymous event. You will only receive communication from the KorkEase.com website that you purchased or requested information from.
6. H.H.Brown Shoe Company, Kork-Ease, and KorkEase.com, may be required to disclose personal information without prior notice in response to law enforcement activity or other governmental request, to enforce its contract or property rights, or when otherwise required by law. Information we collect may also be transferred in connection with any sale or merger of the company or any division or business line of the company to which the information relates.
7. To improve the products and services offered, Kork-Ease may share data collected on the Kork-Ease website with business partners such as designers, manufacturers and distributors and may furnish data to parties that provide support services for Kork-Ease websites.
8. Kork-Ease intends to use commercially reasonable means to protect the integrity of its websites and the confidentiality of collected data. Kork-Ease cannot provide absolute assurances against, and will not be liable for, any breaches of confidentiality due to system failures or unauthorized access by third parties.
9. The KorkEase.com website is intended for use only by U.S. residents who are 13 years of age or older. If you are not a U.S. resident and 13 years of age or older, do not submit any information to any Kork-Ease website. You represent and warrant that you are either 18 years of age or are using the website with the supervision/permission of a parent or guardian.
10. Kork-Ease does not contain links to websites of retailers who are not affiliated with Kork-Ease. Kork-Ease is not responsible for the operation of or collection of any information from any websites operated by unaffiliated third parties.
11. Our business and the laws that regulate us change from time to time, and we reserve the right to change this policy. If we do change this policy, we will post the revised version on this site. Any information that we collect now will be used consistently with the privacy policy in effect at the time of use.

Use of the site will constitute the user's acceptance of this privacy policy.

Legal Policy

1. The information, photographs, the products and, in general, all of the material contained in this site are intended solely for advertising and promotional use and may be used for personal reasons only. No commercial use of the material contained in this site is permitted and, in any case, any copy, even partial, of said documents must include information indicating that it is the exclusive property of (H.H. Brown Shoe Company, Kork-Ease, KorkEase.com), as must any other notification regarding the property contained in the document itself.
2. In particular, we call your attention to the fact that the trademarks "Kork-Ease", and all other graphic and/or figurative trademarks contained herein, whether registered or not, are and remain the exclusive property of (H.H. Brown Shoe Company, Kork-Ease) and that it is expressly forbidden, for any reason or purpose, to use them even if for personal and non-commercial reasons, to reproduce, distribute, publish, broadcast or modify wholly or in part or sell the same.
3. The recording, saving in memory, copying, reproduction, further publication, exhibition, exposure, broadcast, distribution, transfer, translation, transposition, modification or sale, even in part, of the contents of the site (consisting of images, photographs, text, videos, trademarks and in general of any material or creative expression rendered accessible in this site), in any form and by any means (electronic, mechanical, by photocopy, print, microfilm, magnetic recordings, including CD-Rom, etc.) is strictly forbidden without the prior written consent of (H.H. Brown Shoe Company, Kork-Ease). The material indicated above is the exclusive property of or is legitimately utilized by (H.H. Brown Shoe Company, Kork-Ease), which provides no guarantees and declines any and all responsibility or liability for the use of all or part of the same.
4. The user of the information and/or materials contained in this site takes sole and unconditional responsibility for any and all eventual losses, costs and damages, direct and/or indirect and of any nature and amount, which may result from the use of this site.

If you have questions or comments please contact us toll free at 1-877-289-5675 or you can email us at customercare@korkease.com.