Mutual trust between collector and Kenmore is essential to our way of doing business. Stamp collecting is a very individual hobby where each collector has unique objectives and preferences. For this reason we offer interesting collections in our Great Bargains category on this site that also includes fascinating stamps on 15-Day Free Examination. This stamps-on-approval service allows the collector to examine a wide variety of affordable stamps in the comfort of their home with no obligation to buy.

We are committed to protecting the privacy of data about your collecting interests and related personal information (name, address, phone # and email address) which is the reason for describing our privacy policy in detail. If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, please contact us.

Our business attracts stamp collectors and persons interested in postage stamps and the history, art and culture they reflect. For children under 13, we require a parent to provide information (name, address, phone # and email address) and encourage their participation in determining how to use our services to best match their child's collecting interests.

We collect personal information necessary to fulfill your orders and requests. This includes name, address, phone number and email so we can provide catalogues, special offers, stamps-on-approval and any items you order from us via web, mail, or phone. Any additional information that you provide about your stamp collecting preferences will allow us to be more responsive to your interests by making special offers and personalizing your stamps-on-approval requests.

Kenmore does have contractual relationships with service suppliers, such as our web hosting company, that require them to protect any elements of this data that they maintain for us, with similar respect. For your security we do not maintain credit card information beyond a single transaction, and will ask you to provide this data with every order.

Editing Your Account allows you to change your preference settings. This includes distribution of our email offers. You can terminate delivery of these special offers using this web service or simply "unsubscribe" according to the instructions at the bottom of every email message. [Note: we will continue to work with your wish lists, collecting interest designations and other paper correspondence we have received from you.] For collectors wanting to make a change to any stamps-on-approval program that they are active on we ask that you phone us, or contact us by email (contact us) to initiate changes in the approvals you are receiving. We ask this so we can provide you with direct feedback regarding any outstanding items or approvals that may have already been shipped.

We recognize our responsibility when you provide us with information. Precautions taken to protect it from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction include:

• Contractual arrangements with our web hosting service to maintain your preferences and transaction information in secure databases;
• Preferences, requests and orders maintained internally at Kenmore Stamp Company are on secure internal systems;
• We use password protection and "cookies" to prevent others on the Internet from having access to your preference information. (Cookies are small information files stored on your computer associated with a specific web site that help us identify you as you move from page to page in the web site. These are needed to associate you with Your Account, Wish List and online ordering information.)

If you have any complaints or concerns about our policies, your preferences information, our service or our products, we encourage you to contact us.