Policies

Shipping

Your ColorSpark Jewelry will be shipped within five days of placing your order. We'll e-mail you when your order ships. On the rare occasions when shipping within five days is not possible, we'll let you know there's a delay, and why, and when you can expect to receive your order.

We ship via the United States Postal Service. A flat-rate charge of $3.25 for standard shipping of any size order is added during the checkout process.

International shipping is now available! And for the same low flat-rate shipping charge! Taxes or customs fees that may be charged by a buyer's country are the buyer's responsibility. In the checkout form, we've listed the countries of our visitors. If your country is not in the list of choices and you'd like to make a purchase, please contact us so we can add your country's name to the list.

No-Risk Guarantee

Returns

We want you to be happy with your purchase! If you're not, you can return your ColorSpark Jewelry within 30 days from the day you receive it for a refund of the item's cost. To receive a refund, send your ColorSpark Jewelry in its original packaging to ColorSpark Studio, P.O. Box 423, Ladysmith, VA 22501. Please include the packing slip (or a copy of it), and indicate on that the reason for your return. We aim to please and always appreciate any advice offered to us about how to do that better.

Quality

We're proud of and stand behind our products. ColorSpark Jewelry is designed and sturdily constructed to hold up when cared for properly and during normal wearing. The pieces are, however, made by hand of natural materials so there are some variables. If your piece of ColorSpark Jewelry breaks or is otherwise damaged by normal wearing during the first year, please let us know. It may be necessary to return your piece so we can fix it (and learn from that) or replace the piece for you.

Our hope is that such a return will never be necessary, but be assured that if it is, we'll be here. In 2005 we renewed ColorSpark Studio's domain registration for the next nine years, so we'll be easy to find for many years to come.

Accuracy

We describe each item in detail to give you an accurate “feel” for each piece. Because ColorSpark Jewelry is handcrafted from natural materials, there may be some slight variation in colors or shapes, which is part of the uniqueness and added value of each piece. Also, the photographs of each piece will look slightly different on every computer screen, and the size of the image on your screen may not be the actual size of the item. For that reason, the first details in each item's specifications are the dimensions of the finished piece. Please keep those real-life jewelry sizes in mind when considering your purchase.

Privacy

All communications are private between you and ColorSpark Studio. We will not sell or give away your e-mail address or any other information, and software protection is in place to keep such information from being taken without our knowledge.

Security

Your confidential information will be transmitted through a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which is the software that enables encrypted connections across the Internet so no one can hijack your information while it's going from your computer to the ColorSpark Studio computer. On this ColorSpark Studio Web site (and on every Web site), the name of the secure files starts with https:// rather than the usual http://. The change to https:// indicates that the information you send will be encrypted and secure as it travels over the Internet.

Safety

ColorSpark Jewelry is designed to be worn by adults. We do not consider ColorSpark Jewelry appropriate for young children. As with most jewelry, the items consist of many small parts. Also, Swarovski crystals are brilliantly reflective because of their high lead content, which is not a hazard when wearing because the process Swarovski uses to create their crystals binds the lead into the finished crystal, but if swallowed, the lead content may be an additional cause for concern.

Copyright

All text on the ColorSpark Studio Web site is written by Debra Kittrell and is copyright protected with all rights reserved to D Kittrell/ColorSpark Studio. The copyright covers all parts of the Web site, including, but not limited to, all written material, jewelry designs, photographs, drawings, and Web site design and code. No part of this Web site is to be lifted verbatim or copied or duplicated.

Search engines, especially Google, now penalize Web sites that contain “duplicate content” — blocks of content on one Web site that are exactly the same as content on another Web site. The penalizing can be as severe as complete banishment, with no indexing of the pages at all! So copying will be harmful to both your Web site and the ColorSpark Studio Web site. If there is information on this site that would be helpful or of interest to your visitors, then a link to this site is the decent and safer way to go. Or read, research, gather information from everywhere, digest, combine, and rewrite if you'd rather not have any external links. But don't just lift verbatim from this Web site. That's stealing. That's bad karma. So don't do it.

Communication

If you have any comments, questions, feedback, requests or concerns, please e-mail us at . Our joyful focus is on making beautiful jewelry for you and people you care about, and we welcome and appreciate our relationship with every visitor and sparkling collector of ColorSpark Jewelry.