Last updated on: 12/32/08

Women's Apparel Group, LLC, doing business as Boston Apparel Group ("Boston Apparel Group", "we", "us", and "our"), is a family of brands that offers customer-friendly policies designed to provide a secure and safe shopping experience.  Boston Apparel Group is committed to protecting your privacy. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to assist you in understanding the type of personal information we may collect from you, how such information may be used and the choices that are available to you concerning the use of your information and your ability to correct or modify the information you have provided us. This policy is only applicable to customers in the United States.

The following only applies to California residents.
Women's Apparel Group, LLC, doing business as Boston Apparel Group ("Boston Apparel Group"), may from time to time share your personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.  Under California's "Shine the Light" law, California residents who provide personal information when purchasing our products may request information about the customer information we shared with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses.  Each consumer may request our direct marketing information once per year, and our response will cover the immediately preceding calendar year.  This information would include the categories of shared customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information.

To obtain this information on behalf of Boston Apparel Group please send an email message to PrivacyOfficer@bostonapparel.com with "Request for California Privacy Information" on the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you at your e-mail address in response.

Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the "Shine the Light" requirements and only information on sharing for purposes of direct marketing will be included in our response.

If you do not want us to share your personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, please contact each of the appropriate brands by phone or email and request that your information not be shared.

Chadwicks: (800) 677-0340
metrostyle: (800) 677-0248 

For more information on how your personal information is collected and used, please read our full PRIVACY POLICY.

Your privacy is important to us. To best serve your shopping needs, we endeavor to provide products, services, and offers of value to you. We are able to present meaningful offers to you through the information we collect from our interactions with you, from other customers, and from other parties. Boston Apparel Group has procedures in place to ensure that your personal information is handled in a safe, secure and responsible manner.

Boston Apparel Group may from time to time make changes to its Privacy Policy to reflect changes in its privacy practices. Accordingly, Boston Apparel Group reserves the right to revise or modify this Privacy Policy in whole or in part at any time. We will inform you of any update to our Privacy Policy by updating the "effective date" at the top of our Privacy Policy and providing explanations of revised terms if deemed necessary, in our sole discretion. The updated policy shall replace any prior policies and will be applicable to all current and past users of our web sites.  You are encouraged to review this policy on a regular basis.  If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access our web site.

1. Who is Boston Apparel Group?
2. What Information Does Boston Apparel Group Collect?
3. How Does Boston Apparel Group Use The Information Collected?
4. What Information Does Boston Apparel Group Share With Others?
5. Does Boston Apparel Group use Third-Party Advertising?
6. How Can I Access And Correct Information Collected?
7. How Can I Opt Out Of Receiving Further Communications From Boston Apparel Group?
• How to Unsubscribe From E-Mail Marketing List
8. Are Boston Apparel Group Division Cred Cards available?
9. Does Boston Apparel Group Send Unsolicited Promotional E-Mails?
10. How Does Boston Apparel Group Safeguard The Information Collected?
11. Is My Online Transaction Secure?
12. Does Boston Apparel Group Use Cookies?
13. Does Boston Apparel Group Aggregate Information?
14. What is Boston Apparel Group Policy With Respect To Data Collection From Children?
15. Links to Other Web Sites
16. Policy Changes

Boston Apparel Group is a family of direct mail catalogers and e-tailers, currently including Chadwicks® and metrostyle®, offering apparel from regular to extended sizes for women.

• Boston Apparel Group collects information you provide to us about yourself to serve your needs, including, but not limited to, your name, birth date, address, e-mail address, phone number, credit card or other payment-related information, and information about products you have purchased. Boston Apparel Group also collects information you voluntarily submit when participating in one of our various services, promotions, programs or surveys. From your transactions and other interactions with us, we obtain information concerning the specific products or services you purchase or use.  Whether you choose to provide us with this information is completely voluntary. If, however, you do not choose to provide such information, you may not be able to purchase products from us or access certain services and/or portions of our web sites.
• Boston Apparel Group also may receive information about you from other companies, including, but not limited to information about your creditworthiness for deferment plans, private label credit card offers and products you may be interested in purchasing.

Boston Apparel Group uses the information collected as follows:

• To process and complete your purchase transactions and provide the services you request;
• To contact you about the status of your orders;
• To send you catalogs and other offerings from us and our marketing partners,
• To identify your product and service preferences, so that you can be informed of new or additional products, services, and promotions that might be of interest to you;
• To notify you of product recalls or provide other information concerning products you have purchased; and
• To improve our merchandise selections, customer service, and overall customer shopping experience.

• Boston Apparel Group Family and Affiliated Brands: Individual brands within the Boston Apparel Group family may share any information you provide to us with each other and our affiliates. 
• Licensees and Marketing Partners: Boston Apparel Group may share your contact and purchasing information with certain outside companies and marketing partners so they can let you know about products or services that might be of interest to you.
• Legal Disclosures: In the event Boston Apparel Group is required to disclose customer information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, Boston Apparel Group will make such disclosure (in compliance with applicable laws). Boston Apparel Group also reserves the right to share information with legal authorities and other companies for purposes of fraud protection.
• Change of Business Ownership: In the event the ownership of all or a part of a business within the Boston Apparel Group family were to change, customer information pertinent to that business' operations may be transferred to, or licensed for use by, the new owner.
• Boston Apparel Group Credit Card Accounts: We may share your information with the bank that issues Boston Apparel Group division credit card accounts.

If you do not want us to share your personal information with third parties for promotional purposes, please contact the appropriate brand by phone or email and request that your information not be shared:

Chadwicks: (800) 677-0340
metrostyle: (800) 677-0248

Boston Apparel Group may share website usage information about visitors who have received a targeted promotional campaign with reputable third-party advertising companies. For this purpose, we and our third-party advertising company may note some of the pages you visit on our website through the use of "pixel tags" (also called "clear gifs"). For more information about our third-party advertising company, please CLICK HERE. 

You can update or correct your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address at any time by visiting any of our websites and clicking on the My Account link at the top of any of our websites and registering/logging in with your e-mail address and password. You can also call, write, fax or e-mail us to access or correct any of this information. See the table below to update your information with any or all of our brands.

BRAND	CAN YOU EDIT YOUR OWN PERSONAL INFO ONLINE?	MAIL ORDER ADDRESS	WRITE US CUSTOMER SERVICE / MAIL PREFERENCE	RETURN MERCHANDISE ADDRESS	CONTACT
Chadwicks	Yes, please visit My Account on www.chadwicks.com	Chadwicks Catalog and Real Comfort PO Box 1600 Taunton, MA 02780-0975	Chadwicks PO Box 4400 Taunton, MA 02780-0318	Chadwicks One Chadwick Place PO Box 4400 Taunton, MA 02783	Internet Orders: (800) 544-3795 Customer Service: (800) 677-0340 TDD Hearing Impaired: (800) 978-8798 Fax: (800) 448-5767 Website technical Problems/Error Messages: (800) 507-9307 Contact (e-mail): Click here to contact us
metrostyle	Yes, please visit My Account on www.metrostyle.com	metrostyle PO Box 4011 Taunton, MA 02780-0991	metrostyle PO Box 4409 Taunton, MA 02780-0434	metrostyle 300 Constitution Dr. Taunton, MA 02780	Internet Orders: (888) 289-2710 Customer Service: (888) 289-2840 TDD Hearing Impaired: (888) 355-3096 Fax: (888) 355-3098 Website technical Problems/Error Messages: (888) 289-6038 Contact (e-mail): Click here to contact us

Any request to update your personal information may take up to 30 days for email requests and up to 60 days for mail and phone requests.

How to Be Removed from a Paper Catalog Mailing List
You can contact us by mail, phone or email at the relevant address or phone number listed above for the specific brand from whom you wish to stop receiving paper catalogs. Please make sure to provide us with your exact name and address or the mailing label from your catalog so that we can identify you correctly. We will make every effort to implement any choice you make as soon as possible, but you should allow approximately 3 months for mailing change requests to be fully implemented. Any mailings that you may receive during this period do not reflect your subscription status, and we ask that you please disregard them. How to Unsubscribe from an E-Mail Marketing List
To be removed from any one of the Emailing solicitation lists from any one of the Boston Apparel Group Family of brands, please click on the relevant link below to be taken to the proper unsubscribe page:

• Chadwicks.com Email List Unsubscribe Page
• metrostyle.com Email List Unsubscribe Page

You will be removed from receiving future e-mail solicitations, from the specific brand from which you unsubscribed, apart from those that have already been processed before this request was received. When making the request please provide the exact email address you which to exclude from our promotions.  Please know that it may take up to 7 days to remove you from our e-mailing solicitation lists. If you choose to be removed from our e-mailing solicitation lists you will still continue to receive order and confirmation emails as well as emails relating to your other transactions.

Yes. You can apply for a Chadwicks®, metrostyle® credit card account or Visa Card accounts issued by World Financial Network National Bank to receive special offers and participate in exclusive brand benefits. When you apply for one of these credit cards online, you provide your financial and personal information needed to process your application directly to World Financial Network National Bank. Boston Apparel Group is independent of and not affiliated with World Financial Network National Bank.

To obtain a privacy policy, opt-out information, or contact information for any Boston Apparel Group private label credit card or Visa Card accounts, you may contact the issuer of your card, the World Financial Network National Bank, by clicking through to the links provided below:

Chadwicks®
Chadwicks® Visa®
metrostyle®

No. We only send marketing e-mail offers to our current customers who agree to receive them. Our on-line order form contains a pre-checked box signifying your consent to receive promotional e-mails from us. If you do not wish to receive such e-mails, please un-check the box.

If you are not placing an order and would like to request occasional promotional e-mail offers, notifying you of special deals, web-only offers and product previews, you may sign up for E-mail Offers on this website, or call, fax or write us at the addresses listed above. To remove your name from any e-mail offer list, click the unsubscribe link in any of our marketing e-mails you receive, login to the Account Settings under the My Account section of the website in question, or contact our Customer Service Center. Your choice to opt-in or opt-out of promotional e-mails will not affect the order status and registration service. We may offer from time to time referral programs that permit you to submit information about other persons (each, a "Referred Person"), including, without limitation, email addresses, names, street addresses and other contact information so that they may receive information and/or promotional offers. We will use and store any such information that we collect from you about a Referred Person only to the extent necessary to carry out your request, and we will not use any such information for any other purpose unless the Referred Person consents to the use for such other purpose. Boston Apparel Group does not rent, sell or exchange your e-mail address with third parties to send you unsolicited e-mail offers.

Boston Apparel Group protects against unauthorized disclosures by limiting access only to those of our employees who need the information to do their jobs. Boston Apparel Group employees are trained about their responsibility to protect our customers' privacy. We limit the information we provide to outside companies to only the information we believe is appropriate to enable them to carry out their responsibilities under our contracts or to offer you products and services we think might be of interest to you. We contractually require that the information provided be used only for the specifically authorized purpose and that its confidentiality be maintained.

Yes. It is very secure. The use of the latest cutting edge technology ensures that your shopping experience will be safe and secure. We encrypt your personal information, including your name, address, and credit card number when transmitting over the Internet using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) security software. We constantly update our security procedures and enhance our site to meet the very latest encryption standards. We retain a third party security firm to audit our procedures to ensure compliance with these standards. All of your sensitive information is scrambled before, during and after your order is placed on our site.

You may notice an unbroken key or a closed lock at the bottom of the page when you enter our "check-out" page. This means that your browser has opened a secure connection with our site! You can also check by looking at the URL line of your browser. When accessing a secure server, the first characters of the site address will change from "http" to "https."

PLEASE NOTE THAT NORMAL E-MAIL (SUCH AS USING "CONTACT US" OR YOUR HOME E-MAIL) IS NOT ENCRYPTED AND THUS IS NOT A SECURE MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING CREDIT CARD INFORMATION OR ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU WISH TO KEEP PRIVATE AND SECURE.

Boston Apparel Group uses cookies to enhance the browsing and shopping experience on the Boston Apparel Group Family of Brands' websites. Cookies are small files or records that we place on your computers' hard drive to collect information about your activities on the Boston Apparel Group sites. There are absolutely no personally identifiable pieces of information stored anywhere in these files, and they are used solely by Boston Apparel Group to enhance your shopping experience and to allow us to serve you better in the future. These cookies transmit information back to the computers at Boston Apparel Group's Family of Brands; these computers are, generally speaking, the only computers which are authorized to read such information. The information captured makes it possible for us (i) to speed navigation, keep track of items in your shopping cart, and provide you with custom tailored content; (ii) to remember information you gave to us so you don't have to reenter it each time you visit the Boston Apparel Group sites; (iii) to monitor the effectiveness of some of our marketing e-mail campaigns; and (iv) to monitor total number of visitors, pages viewed, and the total number of visitors served.

Most people do not even know that cookies are being placed on their computers when they visit the Boston Apparel Group Family of Brands' sites or most other websites because web browsers are typically set to accept cookies. You can choose to have your browser warn you every time a cookie is being sent to you or you can turn off cookie acceptance altogether. However, if you refuse cookies, you will be unable to order from the Boston Apparel Group sites using the Shopping Cart. You will still be able to browse our selection, but the order process requires that your Web Browser be set to allow cookies. Moreover, by not allowing cookies, your overall Internet browsing experience could be adversely affected.

Yes. Boston Apparel Group collects non-personal information about how users navigate through our websites. This statistical information is gathered in order to improve the Boston Apparel Group sites. This information may be shared with Boston Apparel Group affiliates or other outside companies. This aggregated statistical and navigational information does not include individual names, personal data or account information, so it does not identify you or any other customer.

Boston Apparel Group takes care to protect the privacy and safety of children. Our web sites are not directed or targeted to children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13 on our websites. We do not permit anyone under the age of 13 to register with us. If you are under the age of 13, you are welcome to browse our websites. However, you are not permitted to use any features of our site that require the collection of any personally identifiable information. If we learn that we have obtained personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will use reasonable efforts to immediately delete that data from our records.

Boston Apparel Group occasionally provides links on our web sites to other non-affiliated we sites to enhance your shopping experience. These other web sites operate independently from Boston Apparel Group and will have their own privacy and security policies. We strongly encourage you to review these policies at any web site you visit. Boston Apparel Group does not take responsibility for such non-affiliated web sites.