Our Online Privacy Policy
You know and trust Target and we value your trust. We want you to know how we collect, use and protect information about our online guests. This privacy policy will tell you:

• What information we collect
  
• How we may share information
• How you can limit our sharing of information

The Target Family
The Target family includes:

• Target Stores and Web sites
  
• Target National Bank (formerly Retailers National Bank), which issues the Target Visa and Target Card
• Target Bank, which issues commercial card accounts

What information about guests do we collect?

Information You Give Us
We receive and may store any information you enter on our Web sites or give to our Web sites in any other way. For example, we collect information you provide when you place an order, register with us, send us an e-mail or call us, enter a sweepstakes, or enroll or participate in a club or service such as gift registries. This information may include:

• your name
  
• your mailing address
  
• your e-mail address
  
• your phone number
• your credit card number

along with any other personal or preference information you provide to us.

It may also include information you submit about other people; for example, the name and address of a gift recipient.

Information received from other sources
We may receive information about you from other sources. This may help improve the personalization of our service to you by providing better product recommendations or special offers that we think will interest you.

Automatic Information
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our Web sites. For example, we use "cookies" like many other Web sites. Through "cookies" we obtain certain of information when your Web browser accesses our Web sites. There are utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although we cannot provide you with a personalized experience or certain services at our Web sites if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.

What are "Cookies" and how do we use them?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser. Cookies allow us to provide features such as 1-Click(r) purchasing, New for You and storage of items in your shopping bag between visits.

The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of our Web site’s best features, so we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Do our Web sites share information they receive?

The Target Family
We share information we collect at our Web sites within the Target family. The Target family may use this information to offer you products and services that may be of interest to you.

Amazon.com
Amazon.com offers certain products on our Target.com Web site. When you purchase products from Amazon.com on this Web site, Amazon.com also receives the information related to those transactions.

Carefully Selected Companies and Organizations
We may share information with carefully selected vendors, business partners and other organizations, which are not part of the Target family. These companies and organizations may use the information we share to provide special opportunities and offers to you.

Service Providers
Our Web sites may also share information with companies that provide support services to us (such as a printer, mailing house or web host) or that help us market our products and services. These companies may need information about you in order to perform their functions. These companies are not authorized to use the information we share with them for any other purpose.

Protection of our Web Sites and Others
We may disclose information you provide to our Web sites when we believe disclosure is appropriate to comply with the law; to enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of our Web sites, our users or others.

Business Transfers
If some or all of the business assets of our Web sites are sold or transferred, we generally would transfer the corresponding information regarding our guests. We also may retain a copy of that guest information.

What choices do I have?

E-Mails
If you provide our Web sites with your e-mail address, you may receive e-mails from us. If you do not want to receive marketing or promotional e-mails from us, please click here. You may still receive select e-mails from us if you have requested them through one of our site services such as eNewsletters, New for You, Weekly Ad Reminders, Gift Reminders, or Available to Order Notification. You can discontinue these e-mails by canceling your subscription to these services.

You may still receive e-mail from other members of the Target family if they received your e-mail address from other sources or as a result of their transactions or experiences with you.

Sharing with Other Companies
We may share information with carefully selected vendors, business partners and other organizations, which are not part of the Target family. These companies and organizations may use the information we share to provide special opportunities and offers to you.

If you do not want us to share information you provide to our Web sites with vendors, business partners and other organizations which are not part of the Target family, please click here.

More Information
Please call 1-800-440-0680 or contact us if you have further questions about our e-mail unsubscribe process.

What about links to and from other Web sites?
Our Web sites may offer links to other sites. Other sites have their own policies regarding privacy. If you visit one of these sites, you may want to review the privacy policy on that site. In addition, you may have linked to one of our Web sites through another site. For example, in certain cases you may have linked to Target.com through banner advertising on another site. In such cases the site you linked from may collect information from people who click on the banner or link. You may want to refer to the privacy policies on those sites to see how they collect and use this information.

Application of this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy applies to all information collected or submitted on our Web sites with the following exceptions:

Information collected in connection with a Target Visa or Target Card online credit card application, Target Visa Account Management and Target Card E-Statement is protected by the Target National Bank (formerly Retailers National Bank) privacy policy.

Any prescription number you provide when you use our online prescription refill service is treated as described in the "Prescription Refills" section of this privacy policy.

In addition, other members of the Target family may obtain information independently from their transactions and experiences with you or from other sources. This privacy policy does not apply to that information.

Prescription Refills
When you use our online prescription refill service, you provide us with your prescription number so that we can process your refill request. We understand the confidential nature of such information. Your prescription number is treated as protected information as described in the Target Pharmacy Notice of Privacy Policy. All other information you provide when you use our online prescription refill service is treated as otherwise described in this privacy policy.

Children
We recognize the particular importance of protecting privacy where children are involved. We are committed to protecting children's privacy on the Internet and we comply fully with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a child has provided one of our Web sites with personally identifiable information, we ask that a parent or guardian call 1-800-440-0680 or contact us and we will delete the information about the child from our files.

Your Consent
By using our Web sites, you consent to our use of information that is collected or submitted as described in this online privacy policy. We may change or add to this privacy policy so we encourage you to review it periodically. To help you track changes we will include a history of material changes at the end of this privacy policy. This history will begin as of the end of July, 2004 and will include the date the privacy policy was last updated and a description of any material changes.

Security

Our Commitment to Data Security
We have appropriate physical, electronic and procedural security safeguards to protect and secure the information we collect.

Secure Sockets Layering (SSL)
Our Web sites use Secure Sockets Layering (SSL) to encrypt your personal credit information, including your credit card number, before it travels over the Internet. SSL technology is the industry standard for secure online transactions. Because we use SSL, placing an order online at one of our Web sites is just as safe as giving your credit card number over the phone.

Safe Shopping Guarantee
Our security measures are designed to prevent anyone from stealing and using your credit card number. In addition, consumer protection laws protect you against the unauthorized use of your credit card. Under the Fair Credit Billing Act, if your credit card is used without your authorization, your liability for those fraudulent charges cannot exceed $50. So, if someone steals your credit card or your credit card number, your liability is limited to $50 no matter how much the thief charges to your account. If your credit card provider does hold you liable for any part of this $50, we will cover the entire liability for you, up to the full $50.

We will cover this liability only if the unauthorized use of your credit card resulted through no fault of your own from purchases made at our Web sites while using the secure server. In the event of unauthorized use of your credit card, you must notify your credit card provider in accordance with its reporting rules and procedures.

LAST UPDATED October, 2004.

August, 2004 - Removed references to Mervyn’s Stores and mervyns.com.
October, 2004 - Added Target Bank as member of the Target family.