Privacy Policy
The Days of Gifts (“thedaysofgifts.com”, “we” or “us”), the operator of this web site, is committed to preserving the privacy of those who visit www.thedaysofgifts.com site (the “Site”). This document will outline how we gather and utilize various sources of information obtained during your visit to the Site. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected at this Site. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact us.
For questions about returns, refunds, order cancellations, or lost/stolen packages, please see our Returns, Refunds, Order Cancellation, Lost or Stolen Package Policy.
For questions about our terms and conditions, please see our Terms of Service policy.
This Privacy Policy communicates how, when, and why we gather information about our customers and what we do with it. This privacy policy does not apply to other websites to which we link. You agree that your use of the Site signifies your assent to this privacy policy. If you don’t agree with this policy, you are not authorized to use this site.
Notice of Information We Collect And How We Use It
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience safer and easier. We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for achieving this purpose.
In general, our collection and use of information is as follows:
- The Days of Gifts will not sell or disclose your name or email address to third parties without your explicit consent, except as specified in this privacy policy.
- When you order from The Days of Gifts, we will collect personal information such as your name, e-mail address, shipping address and credit card information. We use this information to process and fulfill your order and to notify you of your order status. All archived credit card information is maintained in a secure and safe environment as described in this privacy policy.
- The Days of Gifts automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookies, and the pages you request.
- The Days of Gifts uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provisioning, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting. IP addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page. Your IP address is stored in The Days of Gifts’ user registration databases when you register with The Days of Gifts. IP addresses may be used for various research purposes, and/or delivering unique functionality to our service.
Information We Collect About Anonymous Visitors
We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the Site. We use this information to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and our community.
Log Files
Like many Web sites, we automatically gather certain information about our Site traffic and store it in log files. This information includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the Site, to track users’ movements around the Site and to gather demographic information about our user base.
We do not link this automatically collected data to personally identifiable information.
Use of Cookies
Our Site may pass a “cookie” (a string of information that is sent by a web site to be resident on your system’s hard drive, and/or temporarily in your computer’s memory blocks). The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a particular page. The Site may retain information gathered in cookies to allow you access to password-protected areas of the Site. You may set your browser to decline cookies. If you do so, however, you may not be able to fully experience some interactive features of the Site.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ a software technology called clear gifs, also referred to as web beacons or web bugs that help manage content on the Site by tracking what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable information.
Information We Collect To Respond To Your Choices and Requests
Registration
In order to use some features of this Site, you must first order from The Days of Gifts. During registration you are required to give truthful contact information (such as name and email address) in accordance with our terms of use. We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
Orders
If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, shipping address, and pet information) and financial information (such as a credit card type, number and expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
Surveys or Contests
We may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address) and demographic information. We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic, or to personalize the site (in the case of anonymous information collected in surveys) and to send participants an email newsletter.
Communication from Us or the Site
Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, and promotions. You can sign up for these emails from us on our registration page.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”
Service-Related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes. You may contact us.
Conditions Under Which We Share Information
Aggregate Information (Non-Personally Identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users.
We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
Personally Identifiable Information
Except as discussed below, we do not share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties.
Agents
We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights; to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on us or the Site; or in connection with an actual or proposed corporate transaction or insolvency proceeding involving all or part of the business or asset to which the information pertains.
Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication.
Links to Other Sites
The Site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by The Days of Gifts. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy policies of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Site and to read the privacy policies of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy policy applies only to information collected by the Site.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact us.
Privacy Policy Changes
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy for the Site, we will post the revised Privacy Policy here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we may disclose it to anyone. Your continued use of the Site indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy as posted. Please check this page frequently for changes to this Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.
