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8BallPythons.com Privacy Statement
This document was last updated
March 16, 2005.
8 Ball Pythons, LLC. (hereinafter
referred to as "8 Ball Pythons") is committed to protecting your privacy.
You can visit most pages on our site without giving us any information about
yourself. But sometimes we do need information to provide services that you
request, and this privacy statement explains data collection and use in those
situations. This privacy statement only applies to 8BallPythons.com; it does not
apply to other online or offline 8 Ball Pythons sites, products or services. Please
read the complete 8BallPythons.com privacy statement.
Collection of
your Personal Information
We will ask you when we need information that
personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you.
Generally, this information is requested when you are registering before
entering a contest, ordering e-mail newsletters, joining a limited-access
premium site, signing up for an event, or when purchasing from 8 Ball Pythons online.
Personal information collected by 8BallPythons.com
often is limited to e-mail address, language, country or location, but may
include other information when needed to provide a service you
requested.
For example: If you choose a service or transaction that
requires payment, such as making a purchase in the Shop area of the Web site, we will request
personal information necessary for billing and/or shipping, such as: name,
address, telephone number, and credit card number.
8BallPythons.com also
collects certain information about your computer hardware and software. This
information may include: your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain
name, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used
for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to
provide general statistics regarding use of 8BallPythons.com.
8BallPythons.com
also collects information about which pages our customers visit within
8BallPythons.com. This site visitation data is identified only by a unique ID
number, and it is never linked with personal information unless a user consents
as described below.
Use of your Personal Information
We
use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To ensure our site is relevant to your needs.
- To deliver services, such as newsletters or events that
you request or purchase.
- To help us create and publish content most relevant to you.
- To alert you to special offers, updated information and
other new services from 8 Ball Pythons, if you so request.
- To allow you access to limited-entry areas of our site as appropriate.
We will merge site-visitation data with anonymous demographic
information for research purposes, and we may use this information in aggregate
to provide more relevant content. In some limited-entry sections of
8BallPythons.com, with your approval, we will combine site-visitation data with
your personal information in order to provide you with personalized content. If
you decline permission, we will not provide you the personalized service and
won’t merge your personal information with site-visitation data.
We
occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf,
including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases, answering customer
questions, sending postal mail and processing event
registration. We will only provide those companies the information they need to
deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any
other purpose.
8 Ball Pythons may disclose your personal information if
required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is
necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process
served on 8 Ball Pythons or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property
of 8 Ball Pythons and its family of Web sites, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to
protect the personal safety of 8 Ball Pythons employees, users of 8 Ball Pythons services,
or members of the public.
Your information may be stored and
processed in the United States or any other country in which 8 Ball Pythons or its
affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site,
you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
8 Ball Pythons abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S.
Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from
the European Union.
Control of your Personal
Information
When you register, or otherwise give us personal information,
8BallPythons.com will not share that information with third parties without your
permission, other than for the limited exceptions already listed. It will only
be used for the purposes stated above.
Registering also allows you to
tell us how or whether you want 8BallPythons.com to communicate with you.
Security of your Personal
Information
8BallPythons.com is committed to protecting the security of your
personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures
to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or
disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide in
computer servers with limited access that are located in controlled facilities.
When we transmit sensitive information (such as a credit card number) over the
internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket
Layer (SSL) protocol.
Protection of Children's Personal
Information
8BallPythons.com is a general audience site and does not
knowingly collect any personal information from children.
Use of
Cookies
When someone visits the site, a cookie is placed on the
customer's machine (if the customer accepts cookies) or is read if the customer
has visited the site previously. One use of cookies is to assist in the
collection of the site visitation statistics described above.
Web beacons, also known as clear gif
technology, or action tags, may be used to assist in delivering the cookie on
our site. This technology tells us how many visitors clicked on key elements
(such as links or graphics) on a 8BallPythons.com Web page. We do not use this
technology to access your personally identifiable information on 8BallPythons.com;
it is a tool we use to compile aggregated statistics about 8BallPythons.com Web
site usage. We may share aggregated site statistics with partner companies but
do not allow other companies to place clear gifs on our sites.
If you choose to not have your browser accept
cookies from the 8BallPythons.com Web site, you will be able to view the text on
the screens, however you will not experience a personalized visit nor will you
be able to subscribe to the service offerings on the site.
Enforcement of this Privacy Statement
If you have
questions regarding this statement, you should first contact 8BallPythons.com by e-mail.
Changes to this Statement
8BallPythons.com will
occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the
"last updated" date at the top of the privacy statement. For material changes to
this statement, 8BallPythons.com will notify you by placing prominent notice on the
Web site.
Contact Information
8 Ball Pythons welcomes your
comments regarding this privacy statement, please contact us by e-mail, or postal
mail.
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