Privacy Policy
Garden-Rack.com is committed to protecting the privacy of
our online visitors. We strive to offer our visitors the many
advantages of Internet technology and to provide an interactive
and personalized experience. We collect information from online
visitors who ask to receive periodic email announcements. Anyone
who wishes can choose to be removed from our mailing list at any
time.
We only use personally identifiable information (your name and
e-mail address) in order to send email messages subject to the
terms of this privacy policy. We will NEVER sell, barter, or
rent your email address to any unauthorized third party. Period.
All online visitor data collected by
www.Garden-Rack.com is
protected against unauthorized access. We will not sell, trade,
or give your personal information to other companies or
organizations.
How we gather information from users:
How we collect and store information depends on the page you are
visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and
the services we provide. For example, you may be asked to
provide information when you register for access to certain
portions of our site or request certain features, such as
newsletters or when you make a purchase. You may provide
information when you participate in sweepstakes and contests,
message boards and chat rooms, and other interactive areas of
our site. Like most Web sites,
www.Garden-Rack.com also collects
information automatically and through the use of electronic
tools that may be transparent to our visitors. For example, we
may log the name of your Internet Service Provider or use cookie
technology to recognize you and hold information from your
visit. Among other things, the cookie may store your user name
and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that
information each time you visit, or may control the number of
times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting
our site. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather
information through other means. In certain cases, you can
choose not to provide us with information, for example by
setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do
you may be unable to access certain portions of the site or may
be asked to re-enter your user name and password, and we may not
be able to customize the site's features according to your
preferences.
What we do with the information we collect:
Like other Web publishers, we collect information to enhance
your visit and deliver more individualized content and
advertising. We respect your privacy and do not share your
information with anyone.
Aggregated Information (information that does not personally
identify you) may be used in many ways. For example, we may
combine information about your usage patterns with similar
information obtained from other users to help enhance our site
and services (e.g., to learn which pages are visited most or
what features are most attractive).
We may use Personally Identifiable Information collected on
www.Garden-Rack.com to communicate with you about your
registration and customization preferences; our Terms of Service
and privacy policy; products offered by
www.Garden-Rack.com and
other topics we think you might find of interest.
Personally identifiable information collected by
www.Garden-Rack.com may also be used for other purposes,
including but not limited to site administration,
troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce transactions,
administration of sweepstakes and contests, and other
communications with you. Certain third parties who provide
technical support for the operation of our site (our Web hosting
service for example) may access such information. We will use
your information only as permitted by law. In addition, from
time to time as we continue to develop our business, we may
sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses.
In such transactions, user information may be among the
transferred assets. We may also disclose your information in
response to a court order, at other times when we believe we are
reasonably required to do so by law, in connection with the
collection of amounts you may owe to us, and/or to law
enforcement authorities whenever we deem it appropriate or
necessary. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior
to disclosure in such cases.
Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements:
Www.Garden-Rack.com expects its partners, advertisers and
affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. Be aware,
however, that third parties, including our partners,
advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible
through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection
policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our
site you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a
garden-rack page, certain content that is actually created or
hosted by a third party. Also, through
www.Garden-Rack.com you
may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, Web
sites, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other
parties. www.Garden-Rack.com is not responsible for the actions
or policies of such third parties. You should check the
applicable privacy policies of those third parties when
providing information on a feature or page operated by a third
party.
While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or
other third parties may use cookies or other technology to
attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve
information about you. For example, some of our advertising is
served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the
advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular
advertisement before. Other features available on our site may
offer services operated by third parties and may use cookies or
other technology to gather information.
Www.Garden-Rack.com does
not control the use of this technology by third parties or the
resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or
policies of such third parties.
You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose
personally identifiable information on message boards or in chat
areas, that information can be viewed publicly and can be
collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and
may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or
third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of
www.Garden-Rack.com and this policy.
Children's Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children
under the age of 13. If we learn that we have personal
information on a child under the age of 13, we will delete that
information from our systems.
Garden-Rack.com encourages parents
to go online with their kids. Here are a few tips to help make a
child's online experience safer:
- Teach kids never to give personal information, unless supervised by a parent or responsible adult. Includes name, address, phone, school, etc.
- Know the sites your kids are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
- Look for Web site privacy policies. Know how your child's information is treated.
Check out the FTC's site for more tips on protecting children's
privacy online:
http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/privacyinitiatives/childrens.html