Privacy Policy
Ann’s Flower Shoppe recognizes the importance of your privacy. In order to respect you, this policy is to inform you of the personal information we may collect from you when you visit our web site, place an order via mail or fax, respond to our e-mails, or when contacting us via telephone, e-mail, fax, or mail and to make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us. We do not collect personal information about you except when you provide it. If you prefer us not to collect any personally identifiable information from you, please do not provide us with such information.
We use your personal information in order to communicate with you, to sign up to join our e-mail list or request some other service or information from us, process an order, participate in a contest, or to help improve our products or service. Personal information is used for internal purposes only and will not be sold or provided to third parties. After review of the information, it shall be discarded or stored in our files. We may combine information with publicly available information about you that we may receive from third parties and use that combined information to enhance and personalize your shopping experience with us, to communicate with you about our products, and for other promotional purposes. We may contract with third-party companies or persons to provide certain services including credit card processing, distribution, data management, promotional services, etc. ("Service Providers"). We provide our Service Providers with the information needed for them to perform these services. We also ask our Service Providers to confirm that their privacy practices are consistent with ours. Non-Personal InformationWhen visiting our site, we may collect information about your operating system, browser software, and Internet Protocol address referred to as non-personal information. This information is collected to provide you satisfactory service and use the information to detect problems with our server, administer the site, track users’ movements around the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base. This information is used only for internal review.
Cookies are used to help personalize your online experience. Cookies are merely a small data file transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your browser from a web server letting us know you are a returning customer and to provide certain features to you. Your web browser can be customized to accept or decline cookies; however, by declining cookies you can use our web site but may be limited in the use of some of the features. Business partners may also use cookies on our web site of which we have no access to or control over and do not accept responsibility for such use. Our site may use GIFs (single pixel gifs) to track purchase, usage and other web activity information and may be shared with our Service Providers but used for our benefit only.
When you place an order, we require you to provide us with personal information. For your convenience we automatically establish your own personal account where information used in placing such order (including billing address, email address, telephone number(s), etc.) is saved. Your personal account is password protected from third parties. You may access your personal account by requesting your password from us and then signing in with that password. Afterward, you may change your password, edit your personal information or request a password reminder at any time. Our database stores your billing and delivery information, and will automatically transfer it to the order form each time you place an order so that you do not have to re-enter this information when you sign in at returning visits. The recipient phone number, which you furnish to us when you place an order, is used for delivery purposes as in certain circumstances the recipient may be called to schedule delivery.
When making purchases from our web site, your credit card will be authorized and charged upon receipt of the encrypted order information. Consumers making purchases must have a valid credit card, be at least 18 years of age or older, and have a good credit standing.
Within your Personal Account, you have the option to opt in for our additional services, which include a personal date reminder service and a free online address book. We use your contact information so that you may take full advantage of these interactive tools. You may view, edit or opt out of these additional services at anytime.
Disclosure of personally identifiable information, after written request or subpoena, will be made in order to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we in good faith believe to be unlawful.
We take special care to protect the safety and privacy of children. To make purchases on our site you must have a valid credit card and be 18 years of age or older. It is our policy not to collect personal information on any person under the age of 18 and we request that any person under age 18 not submit any personal information using our site. Our reminder and greeting services are designed not to gather birth dates (with years) or other personal information for children under 13.
When you place an order on our site it is encrypted using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. SSL encrypts your order information as additional protection against the decoding of that information by anyone other than us. Despite all reasonable security precautions and processes, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed 100% secure. While we do our utmost to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our site, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we will take reasonable measures to protect its security on our system. If you open a personal account on our site, your password will be your personal, secret entry code. When you access your account information a password is needed to access any account areas. Passwords may be changed as often as you like. We urge you to keep your password in a safe place and recommend that you always sign off your account and close your browser window once you have finished your visit. These safety measures will help prevent someone else from accessing your account, especially if you share a computer with other people or use a computer in a public place. You are responsible for maintaining your password confidentiality and any other activities that occur using your password. You agree to immediately contact us of any unauthorized use of your password or account.
Our site may contain links and/or ad banners to other web sites. Please be aware the privacy policies on these sites may differ from our policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices and content of these third-party web sites. You access such linked sites at your own risk. We advise you to follow safe internet practices and do not provide personal information to these web sites unless you have verified their security and privacy policies.
In the event of our business being sold, information obtained from your voluntary participation at our site may transfer to a new owner so that the service being provided to you may continue.
We reserve the right to make changes to this policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
If you do not agree with our privacy policy as posted on this site, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site. Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy and your consent of personally identifiable information by us in the manner specified in this policy. If you are located outside of the United States, any information you provide will be transferred to the United States. You consent to this transfer by using our site or providing us with your information. If you provide data about other individuals (such as gift recipients), you agree that you have obtained consent from each such individual to the submission and processing of such information to the terms of this policy, including without limitation the transfer of such data to the United States. We will collect and use your information only as indicated in this policy; however, laws generally applicable to the protection of personal data in the United States may not be as strict as those in some users' home jurisdictions. | Ann's Flower Home Page Leave Privacy Policy | | Contact Ann's Flower Shoppe | Privacy Policy to House Plants | Beanpod Soy Candles | Inspirational Gifts |
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