Thegiftingexperts.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. This privacy statement discloses the information collection and disclosure practices for this web site (www.thegiftingexperts.com). By accessing this web site, you consent to the collection and use of information as described herein. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post a new statement on this web site and update the effective date set forth above. Therefore, we encourage you to check the date of our Privacy Policy whenever you visit this web site to see if it has been updated since your last visit.
Information We Collect
Personal Information: When you register for certain services on this web site, including contests and the newsletter we will ask you to provide personal information. For some services we collect personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. We may also collect demographic information, such as your zip code and preferences. We may collect information about your visit to this web site, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken in connection with this web site. We may also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every web site you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring web site addresses.
Aggregate Information: Aggregate information is data we collect about a group or category of products, services or users, from which individual user identities have been removed. We collect aggregate information about you and your use of our services and combine it with information about how others use the same service. Such aggregate information includes, without limitation, site traffic, page views, and impressions. This information may be correlated to you for our internal use only. However, we may collect, compile, store, publish, promote, sell, or otherwise disclose or use any and all aggregate information (i.e., information that does not personally identify you).
Disclosure of Personal Information
Except as set forth in this privacy statement, we do not disclose, sell, rent, loan, trade or lease any personally identifying information collected at this web site to any third party. We will disclose personal information in the following circumstances:
Internal Analysis and Operations: We will use and disclose information about you for our own internal statistical, design or operational purposes, such as to estimate our audience size, measure aggregate traffic patterns, and understand demographic, user interest, purchasing and other trends among our users. We may outsource these tasks and disclose personal information about you to third parties, provided the use and disclosure of your personal information by these third parties is restricted to performance of such tasks. We may also share personal information with third-party vendors who assist us in performing internal functions necessary to operate our business. We require our third party vendors to keep such information confidential and to only use the information for the purpose it was provided.
Protection of Thegiftingexperts.com and Others: We disclose personal information when we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law (i.e., a lawful subpoena, warrant or court order).
Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies to identify users and customize their experience on our site based on information they give us. Cookies are small pieces of information or files that are stored on a user’s computer by the Web server through a user’s browser for record keeping purposes. A cookie itself is not designed or intended to read any information from your computer (other than the contents of the cookie); rather, it is an identifier used by the Web site that originally placed it on your hard drive. The actual contents of the cookie information can be retrieved by the same site’s web server in order to personalize, monitor, or regulate the use of the site. We do not use web beacons, or similar technology on this web site. However, we permit third parties to place web beacons on this web site to monitor the effectiveness of advertising and for other lawful purposes. A Web beacon, also known as a “Web bug,” is a small, graphic image on a web page, web-based document or in an e-mail message that is designed to allow the site owner or a third party to monitor who is visiting a site. Web beacons collect non-personally identifying information such as the IP address of the computer that the Web beacon is sent to, the URL of the page the Web beacon comes from and the time it was viewed. We do not use (or permit third parties to use) Web beacons to collect personally identifying information about you.
Use of Third Party Ad Networks (Affiliate Programs)
We may allow other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display advertisements on this web site. Some of these ad networks may place a persistent cookie on your computer in order to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. We do not have access to the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.
Security
We use reasonable security measures to store and maintain personally identifying information to protect it from loss, misuse, alternation or destruction by any unauthorized party while it is under our control.
Choice and Access
If you would like to access, change and/or delete personal information previously provided, or opt out of receiving communications from us, please email us.