Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy
Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine
the highest-quality products and services with the highest level
of integrity in dealing with our clients and partners. The Policy
is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use
and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to
assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and
our products and services. This statement will be continuously
assessed against new technologies, business practices and our
customers' needs.
What Information
Do We Collect?
When you visit
our Web site you may provide us with two types of information:
personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is
collected on an individual basis and Web site use information
collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web
site.
1. Personal
Information You Choose to Provide
Credit Card
Information
If you choose
to purchase products or services from us or our partners, you
may need to give personal information and authorization to obtain
information from various credit services. For example, you may
need to provide the following information:
* Name
* Mailing address
* Email address
* Credit card number
* Home and business phone number
* Other personal information (i.e. mother’s maiden name)
Email Information
In addition
to providing the foregoing information to our partners, if you
choose to correspond further with us through email, we may retain
the content of your email messages together with your email address
and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic
communications that we employ in the maintenance of information
received by mail and telephone.
2. Web Site
Use Information
Similar to
other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology
called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What
Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information
about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies
and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the
pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited
just before and just after our Web site. This information is collected
on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated
with you as an individual.
How Do We Use
the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking,
we use personal information for purposes of administering our
business activities, providing customer service and making available
other products and services to our customers and prospective customers.
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify
you about important changes to our Web site, new services and
special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used
to send you product and service offers are developed and managed
under our traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard
the security and privacy of our customers personal information.
As a customer, you will be given the opportunity, at least once
annually, to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web
servers to recognize the computer used to access a Web site. Cookies
are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's Web browser
on the user's hard drive. Cookies can remember what information
a user accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions
with that Web site by the same user or to use the information
to streamline the user's transactions on related Web pages. This
makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to Web page and
to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies
should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
How Do We Use
Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use Web
site browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs
to gather information about our Web site user's browsing activities,
in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our
customers. This information assists us to design and arrange our
Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually
improve our Web site to better meet the needs of our customers
and prospective customers.
Cookies help
us collect important business and technical statistics. The information
in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our
Web site as they move from one page to another. Web server logs
allow us to count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate
our Web site's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies
to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying
information about you although they do permit us to send focused
online banner advertisements or other such responses to you.
Sharing Information
with Affiliates
From time to
time you may notice offers from outside companies advertised on
our Web site. We take measures to select product or service providers
that are responsible and afford privacy protections to their customers.
However, we cannot make any representations about the practices
and policies of these companies.
Sharing Information
with Strategic Partners
We may enter
into strategic marketing alliances or partnerships with third
parties who may be given access to personal information including
your name, address, telephone number and email for the purpose
of providing you information regarding products and services that
we think will be of interest to you. In connection with strategic
marketing alliances or partnerships, we will retain all ownership
rights to the information, and we will not share information regarding
your social security number or other personal financial data.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally,
we may also use the information we collect to notify you about
important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers
we think you will find valuable. As our client, you will be given
the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these
offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such an
offer or by sending us an email request at callahansdogs@aol.com
How Do We Secure
Information Transmissions?
When you send
confidential personal credit card information to us on our Web
site, a secure server software which we have licensed encrypts
all information you input before it is sent to us. The information
is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our Web site.
Other email
that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you
that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting
the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send
confidential information such as Social Security or account numbers
to us through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect
Your Information?
Information
Security. We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard
the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized
access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
Evaluation
of Information Protection Practices. Periodically, our operations
and business practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate
policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality
and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations. Our corporate values,
ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the
protection of customer information. In general, our business practices
limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the
use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons,
processes and transactions.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide
aggregate information about our customers, sales, Web site traffic
patterns and related Web site information to our affiliates or
reputable third parties, but this information will not include
personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this
Privacy Policy.