PRIVACY STATEMENT
MyDogsBoutique.com collects customer information to enhance your experience. This privacy policy is intended to assist you in understanding what information we gather about you when you visit this Web site, how we use that information, and the safeguards we have in place for that information.
This Privacy Statement applies only to the information collected online at MyDogsBoutique.com.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE
1. General Browsing Information
MyDogsBoutque.com gathers navigational information during each visitor's use of our Web site. In the process of gathering navigational information, non-personally identifiable information (i.e. domain type, browser version, service provider and IP address) may be collected. The navigational information tells MyDogsBoutique.com about the use of our Web site by visitors, including the areas of our site that are most visited or the time of a last visit to a page on our site. It also tells us about the technical efficiencies of our Web site and services (i.e. the time it takes a visitor to connect to our Web site or download pages). The navigational information helps us better understand a visitor's experience and improve upon that experience by recognizing and delivering more of the features, services and products our visitors prefer.
2. Personal Information
MyDogsBoutique.com may ask you to provide personal information (about yourself or someone to whom information is sent) when you establish or update your account, sign up for our Newsletters, shop online, check the status of an order, request a catalog, or any other feature we provide in the future.
Categories of information collected include name, address, e-mail address, recipient's name and e-mail address, order information, telephone number, mobile phone number, credit card information and messages you create.
USING PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ONLINE
My Dog's Boutique uses the personal information we collect from you to deliver products that you have ordered, to fulfill requests that you have created, to contact you or the product recipient(s) in the event of order or delivery difficulties, for verification purposes, to respond to your inquiries, and to deliver services and information about our products, promotions, sweepstakes or Web site, including adding you to the My Dog's Boutique E-mail list and to our print catalog mailing list when you sign up or make a purchase.
MY DOG'S BOUTIQUE NEWSLETTER
This feature allows you to receive exclusive information about special offers, media events, new products and much more. If you're not already registered, simply complete our sign up form to receive these special messages. If at any time you would like to stop future delivery of our Newsletter, please send us an email with subject: "Remove me from Newsletter List". Asking to be removed from My Dog's Boutique Newsletter will not prevent you from receiving e-mail communications relating to any online order you place at our website or other operational e-mail communications.
INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH THIRD PARTIES
We use third parties to help us provide services to you such as fulfilling orders, processing payments, monitoring site activity, conducting surveys, maintaining our database, administering and monitoring e-mails and newsletters.
If, after making a purchase at MyDogsBoutique.com, you choose to participate in a survey conducted at a third party provider's website, any personal information that you provide during the survey at the third party provider's website will be subject to that third party provider's privacy policy. If you sign up to receive text messages through MyDogsBoutique.com, we will not share your cell phone number with any third party so that they may send you text messages.
If you make a purchase through MyDogsBoutique.com, the information you provide (for example, name, address, credit card) will be added to a database. The information in this database will not be provided to other companies.
In the event My Dog's Boutique sells or transfers all or a portion of its business assets, consumer information may be one of the business assets transferred as part of the transaction.
CLIENTS FROM OUTSIDE THE U.S
If you want to purchase at MyDogsBoutique.com from a location outside of the U.S., your orders placed through mydogsboutique.com will be accepted and fully processed in and shipped from the U.S. through a freight forwarder located in the U.S. This means our shipping responsibility ends once your freight forwarding company receives the merchandise. All information you provide will be maintained in our Web servers and/or internal systems located within the U.S., and protected as noted in this privacy policy.
COOKIES
1. What are cookies and how do we use cookies on our Web site?
MyDogsBoutique.com uses a browser feature known as a cookie. A cookie is a small data file that is stored by your Web browser on your computer. Cookies are used to help track your clicks and pass information as you go through the pages within MyDogsBoutique.com. This allows My Dog's Boutique to make our site more responsive to your needs by delivering a better and more personalized experience to you. MyDogsBoutique.com also uses cookies to keep track of how many items you put into your shopping bag and to remember you when you return to MyDogsBoutique.com.
We also use cookies and/or a technology known as clear gifs, which are typically stored in e-mails to help us confirm your receipt of, and response to, our e-mails and to provide you a more personalized experience. These technologies may also be used to help us keep track of the number of times a video, widget or other media is sent to a friend or how many times a video, media or widget are embedded and, when applicable, the social networking site on which it is embedded. Cookies can sometimes allow us to associate navigational information from browsing visits with personal information you provide at our site.
2. Do we share information from cookies with third parties?
Only for third party companies who help us provide you with all services you need while shopping in our website, such as Paypal.
3. How do third parties use cookies on our site?
Third party service providers who assist us in running and monitoring MyDogsBoutique.com will use cookies on these pixel tags in the emails sent from our website to assist us in conducting and monitoring the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and, in the future, to possibly provide you with enhanced features and content. Cookies and pixel tags may also be used by these third parties to monitor and provide information about visits to our website.
Joomla: We have also selected a company, Joomla, that will assist us in better understanding your use of our site. Joomla will place cookies on your computer upon a visit to our site to collect information on our behalf. Blocking cookies served from third party domains will not block the first-party Joomla cookies. The information Joomla collects educates us on such things as search engine referral, how you navigate around our site, traffic driven by banner ads, responses to email, unique visitor identification, and product browsing and purchasing information, and allows us to better serve your interests and provide you with more personalized information or product offerings. MyDogsBoutique.com does not allow Joomla to collect credit card, username or password information. Joomla analyzes the information it collects on our behalf and returns its analysis to MyDogsBoutique.com through a secure web connection. Other than possibly allowing use of collected data on an aggregate basis, Joomla is required to maintain all information collected and its analysis in confidence.
As a visitor to MyDogsBoutique.com, you may also choose to continue to benefit from the improved experience which the Joomla analysis allows us to provide to you, but maintain anonymity. If you delete your cookies, you will need to opt-out again.
UPDATING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We prefer to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date. To do this, we provide you with the opportunity to update or modify your personal information including billing and shipping information by logging into My Account.
QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS
If you have questions or concerns with respect to our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.
SECURITY STATEMENT
MyDogsBoutique.com takes the following types of security measures: use of technologies and policies such as limited access data-centers, firewall technology, secure socket layer certificate authentication and limitations of administrative access to our systems. In addition, it is our policy not to send your credit card number via e-mail. In fact, this is a practice we encourage you to adopt in all of your Internet activities.
We designed MyDogsBoutique.com to accept orders only from Web browsers that permit communication through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology; for example, 4.0 versions or higher of Netscape Navigator, versions 5.01 or higher of Internet Explorer, versions 0.8 or higher of Firefox and versions 1.2 or higher of Safari. SSL is encryption technology that provides security while information is being transmitted over the Internet.
While we implement the above security measures on this site, you should be aware that 100% security is not always possible.
