Georgia Kostas' Privacy Policy

Georgia Kostas' web site automatically collects and stores website traffic logs: the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet; the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our sites; and the Internet address of the site from which you linked directly to our sites.

We use this information only as anonymous aggregate data to determine the number of visitors to different sections of our sites, to ensure the sites are working properly, and to help us make our sites more useful. None of this information collected is personally identifiable information. We do not use it to track or record information about individuals. We delete this information after one year.

We use temporary "cookies" or tracking mechanisms (session I.D.s) as part of passing information through the shopping cart and checkout process. No personally identifiable information is passed through session variables or temporary cookies. Instead, the cookies allow us to remember the products you put in your shopping cart. Once you finish checking out or close your browser window or 20 minutes passes, the session I.D. (cookie) is deleted from your computer.

Information Collected

No personally identifiable information is collected at our site. The checkout process is managed securely by the credit card processsor PayPal. Georgia Kostas or any staff working for Georgia Kostas does not have access to credit card information used to purchase products online. Georgia Kostas only receives shipping information and items ordered after completing the checkout process. This is in order to fulfill orders.

How Information is Used and Disclosed

If you contact us to order products from Georgia Kostas' website, we use the information to fulfill your order or contact you about your order. We do not use this information for any other purposes or make it available to any third parties.

We use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect the transmission of the information you submit to us when you use our secure checkout process through PayPal. The information you provide to us is processed securely.

Please do not use email to send any sensitive information like your credit card or charge card numbers to Georgia Kostas. Any email that you send us is not secure against interception. After you complete an online order, PayPal will send a confirmation email with your order details, but it will not include any credit card information. Please contact instead Georgia Kostas via phone or mail if you will be providing sensitive information.

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Contact

Here's how to contact us about:

Products Ordered
Ordering a Product
Technical Problems with the Website
Questions on our Privacy Policy

Georgia Kostas, MPH, RD, LD
12598 Montego Plaza
Dallas, Texas 75230

Outside Links

Our website links to documents located on sites maintained by other agencies and organizations. Once you access another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site.

Cookie

A "cookie" is a small text file that a Web site can place on your computer's hard drive in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on the site or to make it possible for you to use an online "shopping cart" to keep track of items you wish to purchase. The cookie transmits this information back to the Web site's computer which, generally speaking, is the only computer that can read it. Many consumers do not know that "cookies" are being placed on their computers when they visit web sites. Cookie are managed through a browser's settings/options. No personal information is stored with the cookie, it is only a way to track the items you put in your shopping cart as you travel throughout the site.

Privacy Policy Last Updated: May 27, 2005

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