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Fundamentals of e-cards and e-gifts

Privacy and Security

Managing my account and subscriptions

Technical difficulties with the e-card website





Fundamentals of e-cards and e-gifts

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What are e-cards and e-gifts? How do they work?
The Vintage Workshop Card's e-cards are designed with illustrations and photos from the late 1800s into the 1950s. We've combined the timeless images with timely sentiments for you to share with your friends and family via the Internet. You choose the appropriate e-cards from our ready-to-send collection. Once you personalize your e-card selection, it will be sent to your recipient's email address. The recipient receives an e-mail from us with the retrieval instructions. This is a simple fun way to communicate with your best buds or with that special someone.

Recall happy days, and make your e-card even more memorable by choosing an e-gift. These special virtual vintage e-gifts come from our collection of home crafts, fancy work, craft projects, stories, poems, and paper dolls, just to name a few. We’ve collected original works from days gone by (lots of antique shop browsing!), and through the magic of digitization, we've captured these memories and saved them in Adobe Acrobat Reader files for easy reading, sharing and printing. Most people know about and use this very popular free software to open files and read documents. Please go to www.adobe.com to get a free copy of Acrobat Reader. Then when you open our e-gifts, you'll recall the fun of cutting out paper dolls and playing for hours in a sunny corner of your bedroom.

Do I need to subscribe to use the e-card service?
No. VintageWorkshopCards.com offers a small selection of FREE cards to let you try the service without obligation. But for access to our more than 200 e-cards and 50 e-gifts, you’ll need to have either an Annual or Week’s Pass subscription.Subscribe now!

Can I change, cancel or delete my e-card order?
Unfortunately, e-cards cannot be changed once they're sent. Once you've ordered an e-card, we do our best to send it out immediately

Can you re-send an e-card?
No, you can’t re-send an e-card that has already been sent. However, you can select the same e-card from the collection (if it is still available), personalize it, and send it again.

Are my e-card messages confidential?
E-card messages are ALWAYS confidential and securely protected. We use your recipient’s e-mail address only to send them your e-card.

Are the e-cards and e-gifts protected by copyright law?
All content included on this site, such as e-cards, e-gifts, text, graphics, logos, icons, photos, products, audio clips, digital downloads, and software, is the property of VintageWorkshopCards.com and its suppliers and is protected by United States and International copyright laws. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, incorporate into another Web site, or in any other way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part without the specific permission of VintageWorkshopCards.com.

Privacy and Security

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What is the privacy policy of VintageWorkshopCards.com?
Your privacy and security are very important to us at Petunia ArtWorks (dba "The Vintage Workshop Cards"). We want to make your experience on our site as enjoyable and rewarding as possible.

The Vintage Workshop Cards is a commercial partner of The Vintage Workshop®. Together we bring you the e-card service featured on this site. You have the opportunity to opt-in and sign up for the e-newsletters offered by The Vintage Workshop Cards, The Vintage Workshop, or both. If you opt-in to receive communications from both of us, your personal data may be shared between The Vintage Workshop Cards and The Vintage Workshop to bring you product and special promotion announcements of interest. If you opt-in to receive communications from only one of us, we will not share your personal data with the other party. Read the entire privacy policy.

Additionally, to assure your privacy and security, we do not retain your credit card information.

What technology does VintageWorkshopCards.com use to ensure the security of credit card transactions?
We seek the highest standards in credit card security to better protect the information you submit when you subscribe to VintageWorkshopCards.com. Our servers use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to protect storage and transference of your data. We also use a digital secure server ID to give you more security when you access our site.

How else do you safeguard my VintageWorkshopCards.com account information?
To protect your account information, we ask that you enter a valid user name and password to access your e-card service subscription. When you use a credit card to purchase products and services, we do not save your credit card information once your transaction is complete. We hope this is not an inconvenience to you. We believe that to assure its confidentiality, you are the only one who should possess that information.

Managing my account and subscriptions

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How do I access and change my personal information?
You can change or delete your personal information at any time. Simply "Sign in" and then click on the "Your Account" link at the top of the page.

How do I renew my subscription?
Thirty (30) days before the expiration of your Annual Subscription, we will send you a reminder e-mail. Since for security reasons we do not retain your credit card information, the renewal must be completed by you. Return to the e-card site, "Sign in" and click "Your Account" to assure you have continued use of our e-card site.

If you've purchased a Week's Pass subscription, you'll have 7 days/24 hours per day to use the e-card site as much as you'd like. If you'd like to upgrade to a full Annual Subscription, return to the e-card site before the 7 days elapse, "Sign in", click on "Your Account" and follow the upgrade instructions. You'll get a great price if you act before the Week's Pass subscription expires.

Technical difficulties with the e-card Web site

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Will this work on all computers and browsers?
Currently, the site is optimized for the PC platform and works best with Internet Explorer 6.0. It will also work on the PC with Firefox although there may be some display and functional differences. Plans are underway to extend full functionality to Mac users in the near future. Mac users will see best results using the latest Firefox browser, but we are not able to guarantee performance at this time.

Why won't the card personalization process work for me?
Ensure that you have JavaScript enabled on your browser. The e-card creation process requires JavaScript function. As noted elsewhere, we do not fully support the Mac platform but we are working to resolve these issues. The best Mac performance will be achieved using the latest Firefox browser.

Why won't my e-card open?
There are numerous reasons that this could occur. Your e-card could have expired (they are only available for 30 days), the site may be down for maintenance, or perhaps the network you are viewing our site from has a firewall policy which prevents the viewing of certain images.

Can my computer receive a virus from your e-cards?
No. You can’t receive a virus from our e-cards. Viewing the e-cards does not require the download or running of any files that have the potential of being virus carriers.

How can I get my e-card to go to an AOL or Yahoo account that won't take it?
We have done our best to conform the e-mail our servers send out to the standards of these two services. If you still encounter a problem please email us at customersupport@vintageworkshopcards.com.

Why wasn't my e-card received?
When your recipient doesn't receive your e-card, the problem is often a typing error. Double-check the accuracy of your recipient's e-mail address. It's also possible that your recipient or their Internet service provider could be blocking e-mail from our server. If your recipient doesn't receive your e-card, just forward the e-mail confirmation you received from us. This confirmation contains the URL that will take your recipient to the viewing page on our e-card site.

Why didn't I receive a confirmation e-mail that my e-card was delivered?
If you didn't receive a confirmation e-mail, it may be that an invalid e-mail address was entered, and that the confirmation was misdirected. Or it is possible that the e-mail address was typed incorrectly. It’s also possible that you or your Internet service provider has a "spam" blocker enabled that mistakenly interpreted our e-mail as unwanted.

I see a blank or white page instead of my e-card?
Most likely the problem is temporary. Try waiting for a few minutes and then trying again. If you're still unable to view the e-card, you may have to clear your browser' cache. If you're trying to view an e-card behind a corporate firewall, those systems may prevent you from doing so.

How do I download or print my e-card?
Currently, there is not a way to print or download our e-cards with the kind of quality you’d require. We have future plans to expand our service to provide these functions. However, if you have sent an e-card, it will be available for viewing for 30 days.

How can I get help in using your e-card service?
To contact us regarding questions or information about our products or the use of our e-card service, please email us at CustomerSupport@vintageworkshopcards.com. Please allow up to one full business day for a response to your email. However, we will try to respond as soon as possible.