PRIVACY AND SECURITY STATEMENT
THE PET GIFT SHOP COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY
Your privacy is very important to us. To better protect your privacy, the Pet Gift Shop voluntarily provides this notice to explain our online information practices and the choices you make about the way your information is collected and how it is used.
At the Pet Gift Shop, we value you and respect your privacy. We collect information to support our relationship with you, improve our product offering and to communicate about products, services, and promotions. The Pet Gift Shop recognizes that we must maintain and use information responsibly. We may disclose information to companies that work with us and assist us with providing services to you. We will not share your information with other third parties.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
This notice is applicable to all information collected or submitted on the Pet Gift Shop website. Through our online gift shop, you can order products, make requests and/or suggestions, submit questions, and request catalogs or other materials. Types of personal information collected at these pages are:
* Your Name
* Your Address
* Your Email address
* Your Phone/Fax numbers
* Your Credit Card Information
* Your opinion on our merchant's products, and our website
You may be asked to submit information about third parties (i.e. when shipping gift items to other recipients). In this instance, the personal information collected is the recipient's name, address and phone number.
HOW THE PET GIFT SHOP USES YOUR INFORMATION
The information you provide when placing an order is used only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to process that order (i.e., sending your order to the merchant for shipment). The same applies regarding information you provide about other parties when placing an order. Return email addresses are used only to respond to the emails we receive. These addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with or sold to outside parties.
THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE
The information you provide to us when you participate in a sweepstakes or other incentive, become a Pet Gift Shop.com purchaser, sign up to receive our newsletter or other email communications, communicate by mail, telephone or physical mail with our customer service, or otherwise interact with us is stored in our database. Such information may include your name, address, email address, shopping interests and preferences, transaction history, and other personal data. If you choose not to provide certain information you might not be able to participate in our surveys or incentives, or take advantage of certain Pet Gift Shop features.
HOW THE PET GIFT SHOP SHARES INFORMATION
We will share personal customer information with our vendors, representatives and trusted service providers for limited purposes, including fulfilling customer orders; offering certain products and services in connection with our website; communicating to customers; providing customer service; enhancing and improving customers' shopping experiences; enabling access to our partner sites; and completing credit card transactions. These third parties are not allowed to use this information for any purpose except fulfilling orders and servicing your questions.
Aside from the purposes described above, we will never share your personal information with any other third parties. The Pet Gift Shop reserves the right to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the investigation of alleged unlawful activities of our customers related to electronic communication transmitted on our site. The Pet Gift Shop will have no legal liability for such disclosures.
We may also provide information to other organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We may share aggregated demographic and statistical information with our other partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
Special Offers: Occasionally we email newsletters or special offers to selected groups of Pet Gift Shop shoppers who have chosen to receive email. When we do this, we do not give that merchant or business your name or e-mail address. If you do not want to receive such newsletters or offers, please click here to be removed from our mailing list.
INFORMATION GATHERED AUTOMATICALLY
“Cookies” are small files that are transferred to your computer's hard drive or your Web browser memory to enable our systems to recognize your browser. This allows us to provide convenience and other features to you, such as recognizing you as a Pet Gift Shop.com member, or customizing merchant surveys you may be asked to complete so that you don't need to provide the same information more than once.
Like many websites, we use “cookies” to obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses our Web site and our participating merchants' sites, or when you are provided the opportunity to participate in a sweepstakes or other incentive, or open or respond to any Pet Gift Shop newsletter.
Anti-Spam Policy : Pet Gift Shop is opposed to unsolicited commercial email (“spam”). We do not send email to anyone without permission and we do not sell or provide email addresses to any unauthorized third parties. If you receive any unsolicited emails from spammers, please be assured that we did not provide your email address to such parties.
THE PET GIFT SHOP COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the proper use of information, we have employed the proper physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. ( logo coming from JudyD)
INFORMATION SECURITY AND CREDIT CARD TRANSATIONS
We are committed to the highest standards in credit card security to protect the information you provide when you make a purchase at The Pet Gift Shop.com. Our servers use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), an advanced encryption technology to protect the storage and transfer of your data from unauthorized parties. The Pet Gift Shop.com also uses a digital secure server ID to provide you with the best possible protection on the Internet.
THE PET GIFT SHOP ACCOUNT INFORMATION SECRUITY
To protect your account information, The Pet Gift Shop.com requires you to enter a valid username and password before making a purchase using your existing account information.
Your credit card information will not be stored in our database, only your contact and shipping information.
Additionally, The Pet Gift Shop has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of your information. Only select employees and agents of The Pet Gift Shop.com have access to this information. This information is accessed for the sole purpose of completing your order.
SECURITY WHEN ACCESSING OTHER SITES VIA LINKS
While we carefully select the websites to which we link, we are not responsible for the privacy practice or the content of these websites. When you provide personal information at one of those sites, you are subject to the privacy policy of the operator of that site, not The Pet Gift Shop privacy policy. We encourage you to read that policy before submitting any personal information.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
Our privacy policy is regularly reviewed to make sure we continue to serve the privacy interests of our customers. If our information practices change materially, we will post the policy changes on the privacy page of this website to notify you of these changes. You should check our website periodically for more information on how we use the data we collect.
CONTACTING THE PET GIFT SHOP WITH QUESTIONS
You may contact us by using the Contact Us links on our website. We try to reply promptly to every message we receive. This information is used to respond directly to your questions or comments. We may also file your comments and share them with our customer care team to improve our service in the future. Your personal information will only be shared with third parties in the event that we need to follow up with specific order-related questions or comments; the third parties will not use your information for promotional or any other purposes.
HOW TO CONTACT US
Should you have questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us at 800-223-9227 or send us an email at customerservice@petgiftshop.com
This Privacy Notice was last modified November, 2004. |
