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Privacy Policy

When you visit DISHJEANS.COM, we collect certain information to enhance your
online experience. To help ensure an enjoyable online experience for all of our
visitors, we provide this summary of what information DISHJEANS.COM collects
online, and how DISHJEANS.COM uses that information.

This Privacy Policy statement applies only to the information collected
online by DISHJEANS.COM.

What information do we collect?

General Browsing:

DISHJEANS.COM gathers navigational information about where visitors go on
our Web site and information about the technical efficiencies of our Web site
and services (i.e. time to connect to our Web site, time to download pages,
etc.). This information allows us to see which areas of DISHJEANS.COM are most
visited and helps us better understand our customers' experiences at
DISHJEANS.COM. This helps us improve the quality of your online experiences by
recognizing and delivering more of the preferred features, areas and services.
In the process of gathering navigational information non-personally
identifiable information (for example, domain type, browser version, service
provider and IP address) may be collected which will provide information
regarding a visitor's use of our Web site (such as the time of a visitor's last
visit to a page on our site).

Use of Cookies and Other Technology:

DISHJEANS.COM uses a browser feature known as a cookie, which assigns a
unique identification to your computer. Cookies are typically stored on your
computer's hard drive and are used by DISHJEANS.COM to help track clicks and
pass information as you go through the pages within the DISHJEANS.COM Web site.
We may also use a cookie and/or a technology known as clear gifs which are
typically stored in e-mails to help us confirm your receipt of, and response to,
our e-mails and provide you a more personalized experience.

DISHJEANS.COM uses cookies to tell us whether you have, or someone using
your computer has previously visited DISHJEANS.COM. If you have previously
registered for the Dish Gallery, registered for e-mail or registered for one of
the online sweepstakes that we may offer at this Web site, cookies could allow
us to associate your registration and/or purchase information with Web site
navigational information from previous browsing visits. If you indicate in our
online surveys in which you elect to participate that you would like to be
considered for future Dish marketing research, we may use cookies to associate
your e-mail registration information with your survey.

Collection of Personal Information:

We collect personal information at this Web site when you sign up for
e-mail, which includes your name, address and e-mail address. We may also
collect additional personal information from you if you elect to participate in
certain features and activities that we may offer at this Web site. For
example, we may from time to time post optional fashion quizzes, polls or
surveys that may ask for additional information from you (i.e. additional
demographic information, fashion preferences, etc.).

We may occasionally participate in sweepstakes with other companies with a
link to a Web site hosted by the other company. If you elect to participate in
the sweepstakes by going to the linked Web site, you may be providing personal
information, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number and
gender to the company that is hosting the sweepstakes Web site. However, some,
if not all, of the personal information that you provide on the sweepstakes Web
site may be provided to us by the company hosting the sweepstakes.

To ensure compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of
1998, DISHJEANS.COM does not knowingly maintain information provided by
children under the age of 13.

How do we use the information that we collect?

When you sign up for e-mail or create an account, you will be added to the
DISHJEANS.com e-mail marketing list and we will send you exclusive information
about special offers, media events, new products and much more.

DISHJEANS.COM does not sell, rent or trade your e-mail address to
unaffiliated third parties, but does use third parties to administer and manage
our e-mails. Third parties who manage and administer our e-mails are required
to maintain your e-mail address in confidence. If you'd like to be removed from
the Dish E-Mail list, you can follow the removal instructions located at the
bottom of the next e-mail you receive from Dish, or you can please click here.
Please be aware, even if you elect not to receive e-mail, or subsequently ask
to be removed from the DISHJEANS.COM e-mail marketing list, you may receive
e-mails sent by a friend using E-mail a Friend.

When you sign up for e-mail or create an account, your name and mailing
address will be added to the Dish direct mailing list and database.

Dish uses its direct mailing list to send you Dish mailings regarding
exclusive information about special offers, new products and much more. In
addition, please be aware that Dish makes names and addresses in this direct
mailing list available to other companies. If you no longer wish to receive our
direct mailings or have your name and address shared with other companies
(other than third parties who provide services to DISHJEANS.COM) please call us
at 604-527-6666.

Occasionally, we may post special fashion surveys, quizzes or polls on our
Web site. We will aggregate the answers provided by all visitors who
participate in each quiz, poll and survey and use this aggregate information to
help us better understand our customers. We may also use the information you
provide in your responses to enhance and personalize our product offerings and
mailings to you. If you indicate when taking a quiz, poll or survey that you
would like to be considered for participation in future Dish marketing
research, we will associate your answers with your e-mail registration
information and use this combined information to contact you for future Dish
marketing research.

E-mail a Friend:

E-mail a Friend is a feature on our Web site that allows friends to e-mail
items to each other. While you will provide both your e-mail address and the
e-mail address of your selected recipient, DISHJEANS.COM does not retain or
review any personal information, including the e-mail addresses of the sender
and recipient, which is provided in E-mail a Friend or the message content.
When you send an E-mail a Friend from DISHJEANS.COM, we will send your selected
recipient your e-mail address, message, and your selected outfit or item(s). We
may include an opportunity for the recipient to sign up to receive promotional
materials such as Dish E-mail from DISHJEANS.COM.

General:

If we receive your personal information because you have entered a
sweepstakes linked to our Web site, we will use the information to contact you
regarding exclusive information about special offers, new products and other
information about DISHJEANS.COM.

You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if
necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is
necessary to conform or comply with the law or it is necessary to protect the
users of our Web site, the site or the public.

We may use third parties to help us provide services to you, such as
monitoring site activity, conducting surveys, maintaining our database and
administering e-mails, drawings or contests. If personally identifiable
information (i.e. name, address, e-mail address, telephone number) is provided
to any of these third parties, we will require that such information be maintained
by them in confidence.

International Visitors:

If you are visiting DISHJEANS.COM from a location outside of the U.S. or
Canada, your connection will be through and to servers located in the U.S. and
Canada. All information you receive from DISHJEANS.COM will be created on
servers located in the U.S. and Canada and all information you provide will be
maintained in our Web server and internal systems located within the U.S. and
Canada.

Updating Personal Information:

If you need to update your name, mailing address or email address, just
click on "sign-up" and use your new name, mailing address or e-mail
address when registering or you may go back into an account that you have
created by using your password and revise the information in the account.

Please be aware that it could take up to 30 days before you receive e-mail
or mail at your new address.

Links:

For your convenience, our Web site may contain links to other Web sites.
Some of these Web sites may request or require you to provide personal
information. DISHJEANS.COM is not responsible for the privacy practices of such
Web sites and you should review their privacy policies prior to providing any
personal information. Links that appear on DISHJEANS.COM should not be deemed
in all cases to imply that DISHJEANS.COM endorses or has any affiliation with
the linked Web sites.

Security Statement:

DISHJEANS.COM maintains security measures such as the use of independent
databases and password encryption. In addition, DISHJEANS.COM limits access to
your password and personal information to employees and service providers with
a valid business need for the information. If you forget your password, the
means to retrieve it is completed by an automatic function through the database
and without human interaction on behalf of DISHJEANS.COM. We hold our employees
responsible for upholding our privacy standards.

While we implement the above security measures on this Web site, you should
be aware that 100% security is not always possible on the internet.

Questions / Changes in Policy:

If you have questions or concerns with respect to our Privacy Policy, please
feel free to contact us. Should there be a material change in the categories of
information collected at DISHJEANS.com or a material change in how we use
information collected at DISHJEANS.com , we will post the revised Privacy
Policy on this Web site, state the effective date of the revised Privacy Policy
at the bottom of the Privacy Policy and for the first 30 days after the
revisions indicate these material changes by noting them in italic type with
"[Revised]" following the revised sentence. [Revised]. If you are
concerned about how your personal information is used, please visit our Web
site often for this and other important announcements from DISHJEANS.COM.

(This privacy policy effective July 18, 2005.)