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At Pro Reptiles, privacy of individual visitor data is of primary
importance. We work diligently to protect confidentiality, restrict transfer
of personal data, incorporate technical safeguards and appropriate security
policies, and identify privacy implications in new services. We will not sell or rent your personally
identifiable information to anyone.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first
contact us at
info@ProReptiles.com.
WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVERS
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This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable
information that we may collect when you are on the web site, and when you
use our site services.
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This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not
own or control, or to people that we do not employ or manage.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
At Pro Reptiles, your privacy and the protection of your data is our
main concern. Collecting the information, how the information is used, with whom
the information is shared. The kind of security procedures in place to protect
the loss, misuse or alteration of information under Pro Reptiles control,
How to correct any inaccuracies in the information. If you feel that our company
is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, please contact us at
info@ProReptiles.com.
The information collected and used. Pro Reptiles is the sole owner of
the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this
information to others in any way that varies from what is disclosed in this
statement. Pro Reptiles collects information from our users at several
different areas on our site. You may receive information regarding new features,
services and special offers we think you'll find valuable. Registration is
required in order to use this website, and a user must create an account prior
to completing any purchase. Users are required to provide their name, email
address, zip code, phone number and a password of 5-16 characters in length.
This information is necessary in order for us to contact users about services on
our site for which they have expressed interest and so that you may later login
to our site to check your order status and account history. Pro Reptiles
order forms request data from users including: Contact information such as name
and shipping address; financial information such as credit card number,
expiration date, billing address, and billing phone number. This information is
used for billing purposes to verify that the customer and to fill customers'
orders. If we encounter difficulty when processing an order, this contact
information is used to contact the user. This information is collected from a
secure web page and encrypted for our customers' protection. It is not sold to
anyone else under any circumstances. We may disclose this information to your
credit card issuing bank if a fraudulent order is being investigated or disputed
by you.
COOKIES
Cookies are data stored on the end-user's hard drive with information that
relates directly to the end-user's visit to our web site. Any information placed
in the cookie is accessible only to Pro Reptiles, and will not be sold or
shared with anyone else under any circumstances. We use a cookie to store a
unique session identifier, which allows us to maintain shopping cart and web
site selections from one page request to the next, and maintain session
information from one visit to the next. By setting a cookie on our site, the
user would not have to log in more than once, thereby saving time while visiting
our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still browse our site. However,
the user experience will be greatly curtailed. In addition, the user will be
unable to log in or make a purchase. Cookies also enable us to track and target
the interests of our users to enhance users' experience and display products
that relate directly to individual user preferences. Some of our business
partners and/or advertisers may also use cookies on our site. We have no access
to or control over these cookies.
LOG FILES
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users'
movement and gather demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are
not linked to personally identifiable sites. IP addresses may be used in
fraudulent charge investigations.
SHARING
We may use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card
processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not
retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any
secondary purposes. We value your privacy at Pro Reptiles, and will never
release any account information to anyone outside of the necessary core groups
that help our business function unless our customers give us the authority to do
so.
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LEGAL DISCLAIMER
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as
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.
LINKS
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that
Pro Reptiles is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of
other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to
read the privacy statements of each site that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by
this Web site.
E-MAIL
If a user wishes to subscribe to our emails we ask for contact information
such as name and email address. If at any time you should wish to unsubscribe,
please send an email to our customer service group with your request and the
e-mail address you used to create your account. You may reach us at:
info@ProReptiles.com
SECURITY
Your account information is password-protected for
your privacy and security.
We use industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions in
certain areas such as our shopping-cart and account pages.
We also do everything in our power to protect user data offline. All
sensitive information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the
information to perform a specific job (for example, a Customer Service
representative) are required to sign non-disclosure agreements before being
granted access to personally identifiable information, and are required to lock
their station when they leave their station.
All employees are kept up to date on our security and privacy practices.
Every quarter and whenever new policies are implemented, our employees are
reminded about the importance of keeping customer data secure and safe at all
times. The servers with personally identifiable information are stored in a
locked and secure environment. If you have any questions about the security at
our website, you can send an email to:
info@ProReptiles.com.
CORRECTING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
You can add new information and update credit cards on your account page of
our site. You can also modify your login information and opt out of newsletter
delivery.
Opt-out Instructions. Users who no longer wish to receive our electronic
newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving
these communications by changing the settings in your account page. Users who no
longer wish to receive catalogs and other special announcements via mail can
send a letter to us at Customer Service,
info@ProReptiles.com.
It may take up to ten days (10) days for your opt-out choices to be fully
effective for electronic or e-mail messages and up to ninety days (90) for
physical catalogs. Our systems require time to update we reserve the right to
modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we
make material changes to this policy, we will notify you by email.
FAIR CREDIT BILLING ACT
We guarantee that every online transaction you make will be 100% safe. This
means you pay nothing if unauthorized charges are made to your card as a result
of shopping at our online store. Under the Fair Credit Billing Act, your bank
cannot hold you liable for more than $50.00 of fraudulent charges. If your bank
does hold you liable for any portion of this $50.00, we will cover the entire
liability for you, up to the full $50.00. We will only cover this liability if
the unauthorized use of your credit card resulted through no fault of your own
from purchases made while using the secure server. In the event of unauthorized
use of your credit card, you must notify your credit card provider in accordance
with its reporting rules and procedures.
If you feel that your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you
should contact TRUSTe,
an independent privacy organization.
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