Cookie Policy

Like most Internet retailers, SharperImage.com collects some computer information to enhance its product/service offerings and personally tailored marketing, such as computer configuration; Internet Protocol address; the URL of the website that sent you to the SharperImage.com Website; the URL of the website that you went to after leaving the SharperImage.com Website; and/or search terms that directed you to our Website.

We use cookies, pixels, java script, and other tracking mechanisms to track information about your use of the Sharperimage.com Website and to enhance your experience. We may combine this information with other information, including personal information we collect about you.

• Cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Website, while others are used to enable a faster log-in process or to allow us to track your activities while using our Website. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
  
  
  • Operationally necessary cookies (also called essential cookies). These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Website. For example, these cookies are required to identify irregular website behavior, prevent fraudulent activity, and improve security. They also allow users of the Website to make use of its functions. Without these cookies, features and services you have requested will not be able to be provided.
    
    
  • Functional cookies. These cookies allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using the Website. This may include to remembering choices you make, for example, remembering your preferences or settings, remembering if you reacted to something on or through the Website so that you are not asked to react to it again, remembering if you have used any feature of the Website before, and enabling social media components. If functional cookies are disabled, various functions of the Website may be unavailable to you or may not work the way you want them to.
    
    
  • Performance cookies (also called analytical cookies). These cookies assess the performance of the Website, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how visitors use and interact with the Website, for example, which pages on our websites users visit most often. These cookies also enable us to personalize content and remember your preferences. These cookies help us improve the way our websites work and provide a better, personalized user experience. 
    
    
  • Advertising or targeted cookies. These cookies record your visits to the Website, the pages you visit on our websites, and the links you have clicked. They gather information about your browsing habits and remember that you have visited a particular website. SharperImage.com and its third-party advertising platforms or networks may use this information to make the Website and its content more relevant to your interests (this is sometimes called "behavioral" or "targeted" advertising and is further discussed above). These cookies are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. To find out more about interest-based ads and your choices, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance, the Network Advertising Initiative, and http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
    
• Clear GIFs, pixel tags and other technologies. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer’s hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (also referred to as web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with our Services to, among other things, track the activities of users of our Services, help us manage content, and compile data and statistics about the usage of our Services, including keeping track of items you put into your shopping cart, including when you have abandoned your cart, which is used to determine when to send cart reminder messages via SMS. We and our third-party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.
  
  
• Do-Not-Track Signals. Our Website does not currently respond to do-not-track signals. You may, however, disable certain tracking as discussed above (e.g., by disabling cookies in your browser).  

You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, by doing so, some parts of our Website may not be accessible and/or function properly. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.

The information we collect is used to improve our Website, to notify consumers about updates to our Website and for special offers and promotions. Also, SharperImage.com may provide aggregate statistics about our online sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these general statistics will include no personally identifying information.

We will periodically send to your mailing or e-mail address product news and updates that you may find of interest, and we do sometimes share customer information with third parties, which may include marketing partners, for commercial purposes. The above excludes SMS/text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

We may also collect information about you, including personal information, from third-party sources. For example, we collect certain personal information about you from marketing research firms in order to improve our future marketing efforts and make them more efficient. This information may include name, interests, and publicly-observed data like shopping behavior. We may combine this information with the Personal Information we collect from you. We will treat any combined information as Personal Information pursuant to this Privacy Policy.