What This Privacy Policy Covers

This policy covers how GardenGift.com LLC (GardenGift.com) treats personal information that GardenGift.com collects and receives, including information related to your past use of GardenGift.com products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

This site is hosted by Yahoo! Store. Yahoo! hosts the store pages, ordering system, and order data. Yahoo! automatically collects order information but may only use this information in the aggregate. If you accessed this store through Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! also automatically collects information about your shopping experience. Please see the Yahoo! Privacy Policy for more information about how Yahoo! uses this information.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that GardenGift.com does not own or control, or to people that GardenGift.com does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

• GardenGift.com collects personal information when you register with GardenGift.com, when you use GardenGift.com products or services, when you visit GardenGift.com pages or the pages of certain GardenGift.com partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. GardenGift.com may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
• When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financially based products and services we may also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. Once you register with GardenGift.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
• GardenGift.com collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your financial situation.
• GardenGift.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, GardenGift.com cookie information, and the page you request.
• GardenGift.com uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• GardenGift.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with GardenGift.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help GardenGift.com communicate with you about offers from GardenGift.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of GardenGift.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if GardenGift.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, GardenGift.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• GardenGift.com displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.

Cookies

• GardenGift.com may set and access GardenGift.com cookies on your computer.
• GardenGift.com lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to GardenGift.com's cookies.
• GardenGift.com uses web beacons to access GardenGift.com cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with GardenGift.com products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information

• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to GardenGift.com products and services, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the GardenGift.com Newsletter, that are considered part of your GardenGift.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
• You can edit or delete your GardenGift.com account by emailing contact [at] gardengift.com requesting account deletion.

Confidentiality and Security

GardenGift.com uses the Stronghold secure server, currently the second best selling secure server software, and in our opinion, technically the best product. It supports industry-standard 128-bit SSL encryption. If you are using Netscape or Microsoft Explorer versions 2.0 or later, your browser supports Netscape SSL encryption.

All online transactions at GardenGift.com are handled with the industry-standard 128-bit SSL encryption. When you enter your credit card number into the order form, it is transmitted across the Internet in an encrypted (scrambled) form, then decoded when it gets to us. For added security, we also encrypt the credit card number when it is stored on disk.

If you are not the kind of person who worries about being hit by lightning as you're crossing the street, you probably don't have to worry that your credit card number will be intercepted on the way to a secure Web site. The truth is that you take less risk ordering on-line than you do using your credit card at a restaurant or department store. According to CNN, "The prevalent opinion...is that on-line credit card use is actually no riskier for consumers than traditional "low-tech" transactions."

We order products online all the time, both as a company and as individuals. When we use a credit card to buy something online, we feel at least as safe as we would using one in a store or restaurant.

• We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
• We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.
• In certain areas GardenGift.com uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

• GardenGift.com may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your GardenGift.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

• If you have questions or suggestions, please email contact [at] gardengift.com or you can contact us at: