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Privacy and Online Data Collection Notice

*Effective June 15, 2008

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Our Commitment to Privacy

To better protect your privacy BirthdayGiftExpress.com™ ("This Site") and its parent, The Holiday Shop.com™ ("Parent Site") provide this notice explaining our online information practices. By using the Web Site, you are also consenting to our privacy practices.

Minor's Privacy
Although there is no adult content on This Site, our site is not intended for unsupervised use by anyone under the age of 18 (eighteen). By using This Site you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older, or are using This Site under supervision of a parent or guardian.

The Information We Collect.
This Site does not collect private information. We have built This Site to bypass data collection, direct transactions, or any collection of personal information at This Site. In selecting vendors, retailers, and merchants, we have taken care and diligence in finding vendors with topnotch retailing, transaction, and privacy practices, as well as security and protection for customers that go to their sites by way of This Site.

Quitclaims and Warranties.
We quitclaim any responsibility or liabilities once the visitor or shopper leaves This Site and is transferred to the direct merchant.

Reports of Abuse or Lack of Service.
While This Site does not take responsibility for the any purchase, claim, or transaction between visitors through This Site's portal, we are always interested in any reports of abuse or significant lack of promised service(s) by merchants, vendors, or retailers represented on This Site. Visitors are encouraged to report any such abuses or incidents to us at:  customercare@BirthdayGiftExpress.com. More contact information can be found on our Contact Us page.

General Site Use Information.

 

As with all websites, certain types of general information about a visitor's use is collected by This Site's server, as well as the Merchant's server, including but not limited to the number of times you have visited This Site, your IP address, cookies, etc. Because This Site has declined to engage in direct transactions, our access to general use information is limited to merchant name, products viewed, products purchased, purchase amount, purchase date. No information is passed on to This Site regarding the purchaser's name, address, phone, or financial information, such as credit cards or banking information.

We use blanked and non-identifying information to better design the Web Site for our visitors and to share with our affiliated advertisers and merchants so that they may do the same. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on the Web Site, but we do not have access to any information that could be used to identify specific individuals.

Third Party Vendors.

We use third party vendors, advertisers, and merchants exclusively. We select such vendors, advertisers, and merchants carefully, as such merchants select sites on which to allow their products to be displayed and accessed. These vendors, advertisers, and merchants are responsible for providing security and protection for visitors and customers. They also have their own business and commercial privacy policies and terms of services. Visitors from This Site should look at posting on the third party venders', advertisers', and merchants' websites to ascertain the level of security and privacy protection on the third party website is adequate. By passing through to a third part vendor via This Site, a visitors grants and warrants that he or she is voluntarily using the third party site and is subject to the privacy policy and terms of use of that third party site.

Third Party Vendors - Legal Access to Information
Third party vendors may legally be required to disclose personally identifiable information about a visitor in special circumstances, for instance in response to legal actions, subpoenas, court orders, to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims, etc. This Site cannot provide such information because we do not collect such information, but the third party vendors and merchants whose products and services are featured on This Site may be required to do so, and visitors should be aware of such possible us.

Unrelated Use of Information.

By passing through to a third part vendor via This Site, a visitors grants and warrants that he or she is voluntarily using the third party site and is subject to the privacy policy and terms of use of that third party site. Because This Site does not collect identifiable personal information, we can never use or share personally identifiable information to any unrelated manner. However, the third party site(s) may ask permission to use information. The third party site is responsible for  providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Should you have other questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please send us an e-mail at customercare@BirthdayGiftExpress.com

 

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