Plus Size Pups - Privacy and Policy

As always, the privacy and security of your personal information is our #1 priority, and we want you to be aware of how we collect and handle information on our site.

Information Plus Size Pups Collects

What information does this Web site gather?

What happens when I provide personal information on this Web site?

What happens when I provide information on registration forms?

Does Plus Size Pups sell or give my information to non-Plus Size Pups companies?

Does Plus Size Pups accommodate links to other sites?

What does Plus Size Pups do with non-personally identifiable information collected automatically?

What does Plus Size Pups do with personally identifiable information?

Does Plus Size Pups use the information provided online to profile its customers?

 Email

Does this site send email to site visitors?

 Security Issues

How does Plus Size Pups protect my personal information?

Does Plus Size Pups' Web site collect information from children?

Cookies

What are cookies and why does Plus Size Pups use them?

What information is collected by the site or in cookies?

How do I disable cookies on my browser?

Online Advertising

What is Plus Size Pups' position regarding online advertising and third-party ad servers?

Contact Us

Whom do I contact if I am concerned, or have questions, about my Privacy at Plus Size Pups?

Information Plus Size Pups Collects

What information does this Web site gather?

Plus Size Pups collects personal information such as name, address, and email address, when you knowingly provide it to us. In addition, Plus Size Pups may collect other information provided by you, such as your credit card number, billing address, Social Security Number (SSN) and date of birth, when you set up an online account or order service online. Our Web servers automatically collect statistical information about your visit such as pages visited and which browsers are used to visit our site. None of this information is associated with you as an individual. We use these statistics to monitor our site's performance and to make it easier for you to use.

If you choose to use an available referral service to tell a friend about our site or a specific product or service, we will ask for your friend's name and email address. We will then send your friend a one-time email regarding our site or the featured product or service. Plus Size Pups uses this information for purposes of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of the referral service.

What happens when I provide personal information on this Web site?

When you supply information for a specific purpose, such as online ordering of a Plus Size Pups service, we use the information for that purpose ONLY. When you use our Web site to order services, we may use this individually identifiable information as we would if obtained in a non-electronic manner. Such information may include:

• Evaluating your service needs and contacting you regarding additional services you may find useful

• Adding your information to our proprietary customer directory

If the way we use personally identifiable information changes, Plus Size Pups will contact you via email notifying you of this change and giving you the opportunity to opt out of such use.

What happens when I provide information on registration forms?

When you choose to register with Plus Size Pups.com or any other Plus Size Pups site, we request accurate contact information and preferences that help us better serve you. You will always retain the option to choose if your contact information is used to send you company and product information, special offers, and in some cases, newsletters. At anytime you may:

• Elect not to receive (opt out) marketing email messages. The primary purpose of these messages is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a Plus Size Pups product or service. At any time after the initial registration, you can opt out by selecting the opt-out cancel option in your profile within the contact form itself.

• Update your contact and personal information anytime by updating your account and/or your profile (where available) within your account setup. In order to improve your experience with us, we may decide to improve our site's ability to obtain information about users. We will update this privacy statement continually to ensure that you are aware of developments in this area.

Does Plus Size Pups sell or give my information to non-Plus Size Pups companies?

No. We do not sell or disclose individually identifiable information obtained online about our visitors to anyone outside of Plus Size Pups. The only exceptions to this rule are the following:

• If you specifically authorize Plus Size Pups to share your information with another company

• It is required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site

• Disclosure is necessary to protect the safety of customers, employees, or property

• Publishing your name, address, and phone number in our directories if you initiate your product purchase or services with us online

• Sharing data with our authorized vendors, contractors and agents, only to the extent necessary for them to perform their work, in order that Plus Size Pups can carry out certain functions in marketing and delivering dog products and services to you.

If you provide individually identifiable information at an event Plus Size Pups sponsors with another company, or if you register on a co-sponsored Web site, or if you have elected to participate in an affinity program (such as airline miles), you may be providing the individually identifiable information to the co-sponsor as well as Plus Size Pups.

Review the privacy statement at the event or on the co-branded site or the affinity site to learn how the partner uses this information. Be assured that Plus Size Pups uses this information in accordance with this privacy policy.

On occasion, Plus Size Pups shares non-personally identifiable information with non-Plus Size Pups companies in order to assess the results of a promotion or event. This information is used in aggregate only, and does not contain any information that would personally identify you.

Does Plus Size Pups accommodate links to other sites?

Yes. Our site contains links to other Web sites. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other sites. However, in some instances where a service is provided through a non-Plus Size Pups partner or supplier site, such as PayPal, you can feel confident that your individually identifiable information will be protected. Plus Size Pups requires suppliers not to use the information for any purpose other than the purpose for which it was originally collected, protecting the privacy of your information.

What does Plus Size Pups do with non-personally identifiable information collected automatically?

Plus Size Pups uses cookies to collect this type of information in order to enhance your online experience as follows:

• Ensure that you see the correct products and services applicable to the selections that you have made

• Manage the number of equine ads that you see to avoid over-delivery of the same message

• Tailor an advertisement to better match your interests and preferences

What does Plus Size Pups do with personally identifiable information?

Personal information you voluntarily supply when obtaining information, purchasing products, or interacting with our advertising on Plus Size Pups.com is not shared for non-Plus Size Pups purposes. This information is Plus Size Pups proprietary data and is not available for use to any outside company in this personalized form. Should any changes be made in the way we use personally identifiable information, Plus Size Pups will contact you via email notifying you of this change and give you the opportunity to choose to opt out of such use.

Does Plus Size Pups use the information provided online to profile its customers?

No. Plus Size Pups does not combine offline information about you with the online information that you provide on our Web site. We have made it a requirement that you will be clearly notified at the time of online data collection for the purpose of consumer profiling. When your online purchase behavior is intended to be combined with offline information, this intent will be clearly stated. You will then have the ability to choose not to have that information combined.

Email

Does this site send email to site visitors?

Plus Size Pups strives to continuously improve our customers' online experience by providing them with the latest information about the benefits of Plus Size Pups’ products and services and in other circumstances described below. We may provide this information in any number of ways, including emails to our customers, online visitors and others who have provided their email addresses to Plus Size Pups. In addition, unless you have chosen to opt out from receiving email messages from Plus Size Pups, Plus Size Pups may send emails to:

• Conduct online surveys

• Provide marketing information about Plus Size Pups products and services

• Provide information to those who have voluntarily provided their email addresses to third parties in order to receive promotional material Moreover, in the following situations, Plus Size Pups reserves the right to communicate through email with online users, including those who have opted out of receiving solicitation-based emails, to:

• Notify customers about service or product affecting changes

• Respond to an online user's email

• Confirm transactions, orders, payments and registrations placed online

• Send information that a customer or potential customer has requested

• Provide emergency, security and online account maintenance information Plus Size Pups supports and complies with all laws governing its email communications and will update this policy as needed to ensure ongoing compliance.

Security Issues

How does Plus Size Pups protect my personal information?

We are committed to protecting the information you give us, so we implement the appropriate safeguards to do so. Any information that you give us is protected by a password with a minimum of six characters for added security. Within Plus Size Pups, your information is stored in password-protected, limited-access servers. Wherever possible, Plus Size Pups servers reside behind a corporate firewall that maintains tight controls on any access to the system from both our internal network and the Internet. Plus Size Pups uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to transmit sensitive information such as credit card numbers and SSN. SSL is a transport level technology for authentication and data encryption between a Web server and a Web browser. SSL sends data over the "socket" which is a secure channel at the connection layer.

Does Plus Size Pups’ Web site collect information from children?

Plus Size Pups believes that protecting the privacy of children on the Internet is very important. The Plus Size Pups Web site is not designed to attract children under the age of 13, and we do not intentionally collect personal information from children on our Web sites. Ordering online products and services is limited to adults 18 or over. Children should exercise caution before providing personal information online and should discuss with an adult or guardian before doing so. Plus Size Pups also urges parents and guardians to consider using one of the low-cost software programs designed to protect children while they are online.

Cookies

What are cookies and why does Plus Size Pups use them?

A cookie is a small data string our server writes to your hard drive. This data string contains your unique user ID for our Web site. This technology also allows us to customize your experiences when you visit the Plus Size Pups Web site. For example, we're able to deliver content specific to your interests, keep track of your online ordering and alert you to new products or money saving opportunities based on your current services.

What information is collected by the site or in cookies?

Plus Size Pups collects non-personally identifiable information regarding your visit, usually in the form of cookies, log files, or clear .gif files. Cookies contain a session identification number that our systems use to recall previous authentication or order information from our servers. We may also collect your domain name, IP address, the address of the last URL you visited prior to coming to our Web site, and your browser and platform type. We use third party tracking services to help us analyze this information in the aggregate to evaluate the effectiveness of our site. In some cases, the information is collected directly by the third party and in others it is forwarded by Plus Size Pups to the third party. The third party is not permitted to use the information for any other purpose.

How do I disable cookies on my browser?

It's important you know that a cookie cannot be used to access or otherwise compromise the data on your hard drive. Your privacy is always protected. However, at any time you may choose to change your browser settings to disable cookies if you do not want us to establish and maintain a unique Plus Size Pups.com user ID for you. Please be aware that cookies may be required to complete certain functions on this Web site, such as ordering online.

Online Advertising

What is Plus Size Pups’ position regarding online advertising and third-party ad servers? As an online advertiser, Plus Size Pups uses information supplied from third-party companies in several ways. This is aggregated data that does not personally identify any individual online user. This data is used to:

• Evaluate and prioritize site selection when developing online media plans

• Geographically target advertising

• Deliver product and pricing information applicable to the customer

• Gauge the effectiveness of our online advertising Again, personally identifiable information such as name, address, phone number, or email address is not collected unless you voluntarily supply this data to Plus Size Pups or to a third party partner in order to get further information about Plus Size Pups products and services.

In addition, some Plus Size Pups Web sites may accept advertisements from third-party advertisers. These advertisers are carefully selected to provide information about products and services that we think may benefit you. Please check the privacy policy of these Web sites concerning what information may be collected by third-party advertisers.

Third-party advertising companies may also utilize technology in order to measure the effectiveness of ads. Some Plus Size Pups Web pages contain clear .gif files (also known as Web beacons), electronic images that allow the third party to collect anonymous information. This anonymous information about your visits to our site is used to provide advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. No personally identifiable information is collected during this process.

Contact Us

Whom do I contact if I am concerned, or have questions, about my Privacy at Plus Size Pups?

Please visit Contact Us from our Home Page

Updated July 2009
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E-mail: CustomerService@plussizepups.com