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Privacy Policy for GiftMyWay.com
About GiftMyWay.com
GiftMyWay.com is a website (the “GiftMyWay.com Site”; the GiftMyWay.com Site, together with all other websites operated by GiftMyWay, LLC around the world herein collectively referred to as the “GiftMyWay Sites” or “Sites”) operated by GiftMyWay, LLC (“GiftMyWay” or the “Company”) that sells paper products including greeting cards, postcards, invitations, and announcements on-line, together with digital audio and other media content (collectively, the “GiftMyWay Content”), stored-valued gift cards, and other select merchandise, services and products through the GiftMyWay.com Site. Additionally, GiftMyWay.com offers various services relating to the printing, purchase and mailing of the above-described items (collectively, the “GiftMyWay.com Service”; the GiftMyWay.com Service, together with all other services offered by the Sites, herein collectively referred to as the “Services”). GiftMyWay.com cares deeply about online privacy. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@GiftMyWay.com.
Information Collection and Use by GiftMyWay
GiftMyWay collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Services. GiftMyWay also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.
What information we collect and how we may use it:
There are a number of situations in which your personal information may help us give you better products. For example: • We may ask for your personal information when you’re discussing a service issue on the phone with an associate, downloading a software update, registering for a seminar, participating in an online survey, registering your products, or purchasing a product. • When you interact with GiftMyWay, we may collect personal information relevant to the situation, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, and contact preferences; your credit card information and information about the GiftMyWay products you own, such as their serial numbers and date of purchase; and information relating to a support or service issue. • We also collect information for market research purposes — such as your occupation and where you use your computer — to gain a better understanding of our customers and thus provide more valuable service. • We collect information regarding customer activities on our websites. This helps us to determine how best to provide useful information to customers and to understand which parts of our websites, products, and Internet services are of most interest to them. • We may use personal information to provide products that you have requested as well as for auditing, research, and analysis to improve GiftMyWay’s products. GiftMyWay also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the Sites. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the Services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes. We may also use a user’s email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the Services. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their “notification” setting to “Do not send me notification emails” in the user “Account Settings.” From time to time, GiftMyWay or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on the Sites. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
Use of Cookies
GiftMyWay uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our Sites. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set—each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences—however, you must enable cookies from GiftMyWay in order to use most functions on the Sites. Please note that GiftMyWay allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers’ use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the GiftMyWay Privacy Policy.
Links
GiftMyWay.com contains links to other sites. GiftMyWay is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on the GiftMyWay Sites.
Chat Rooms, Journals and WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums
If you use a bulletin board, journal, weblog, message board, classified advertisement space, chat room or other public forum on a GiftMyWay Site you should be aware that any information you share is visible to other users. Personally identifiable information you submit to one of these forums can be read, collected, or used by other individuals to send you unsolicited messages. GiftMyWay is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. For example, if you choose to make information, which was previously non-public, available by enabling certain user features, GiftMyWay will collect that information from your interaction and the information will become publicly available.
Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
Users of the GiftMyWay Sites may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info.
Third Party Advertising
Ads appearing on the Sites may be delivered to users by GiftMyWay or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers 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. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by GiftMyWay and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Security
User accounts on the GiftMyWay Sites are secured by member-created passwords. GiftMyWay takes precautions to insure that user account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect user information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to user information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of user account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of user information at any time. For any additional information about the security measures we use on GiftMyWay Sites, please contact us at support@GiftMyWay.com
Sharing and Disclosure of Information GiftMyWay Collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, GiftMyWay will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by GiftMyWay, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the GiftMyWay Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. GiftMyWay.com reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of GiftMyWay or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest. For more information see the “Changes in Our Privacy Policy” section below.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them on our Sites to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A user is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the Sites after those changes have been posted. If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Sites for 30 days.
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