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HeartStompers.com collects client information to enhance your shopping experience.
GENERAL BROWSING: HeartStompers.com gathers navigational information about where visitors go on our Web site and information about the technical efficiencies of our web site and services (i.e. time to connect to our web site, time to download pages). This information allows us to see which areas of HeartStompers.com are most visited and helps us better understand our customers' experience at HeartStompers.com. This helps us improve the quality of visitors' online shopping experiences by recognizing and delivering more of the features, services and products our visitors prefer. 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 which will provide information regarding a visitor's use of our Web site (such as the time of a visitor's last visit to a page on our site).
COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION: We collect information from you that you provide to us at this site when you establish or update an account, enter a contest, participate in a survey, shop online, request a catalogue, purchase and send an Egift card, create or send a wish list or gift reminder. Categories of information collected include name, address, e-mail address, recipient's e-mail address, telephone number, credit card information and messages or reminders you create. This information is used to enable HeartStompers.com to deliver products that you have ordered, to fulfill requests that you have created, to contact you or the recipient(s) in the event of order or delivery difficulties, for verification, to respond to your inquiries and to deliver services and information about our products or web site to you, including adding you to our print catalogue mailing list.
We use third parties to help us provide services to you including such things as fulfilling orders, processing payments, monitoring site activity, conducting surveys, maintaining our database, administering e-mails, and administering drawings or contests, and to provide aggregate, comparative information on the performance of our site to us and a select group.
You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with the law or is necessary to protect the users of our Web site or the public.
We may participate with certain reputable companies who offer you the ability to establish a membership that would enable you to participate in digital wallets, payment services or rewards programs. In this regard, if you elect to establish membership in a program sponsored by one of these companies, we would disclose only the information to them required to make their programs work and support your membership with them (typically, name of the user and amount of purchases made on HeartStompers.com). HeartStompers.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of the companies sponsoring these membership programs and we suggest you review the privacy policy of each company with whom you may be considering a membership.
USE OF COOKIES: HeartStompers.com uses a browser feature known as a cookie, which is placed on your computer. Cookies allow HeartStompers.com to make our site more responsive to your needs, by delivering a better and more personalized experience to you. The cookies are stored on your computer's hard drive and are used by HeartStompers.com to help track your clicks and pass information as you go through the pages within our website site and provide a more personalized experience. In addition, HeartStompers.com uses cookies to help keep track of how many items you put into your shopping bag and to tell us whether you have previously visited HeartStompers.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. Cookies can allow us to associate navigational information from browsing visits with personal information you provide at our site.
UPDATING 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 Your Account.
LINKS: For your convenience, our Web site may contain links to other sites.Heart Stompers is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
HEART STOMPERS E-MAIL: Heart Stompers E-Mail allows you to receive timely information about special offers, new products and more. If you're not already registered, simply complete our sign up form to receive these messages. If at any time you would like to stop future delivery of Heart Stompers E-Mail, please follow the removal instructions located at the bottom of each message or complete the removal from e-mail form. Asking to be removed from Heart Stompers E-Mail will not prevent you from receiving e-mail communications relating to any online order you place at HeartStompers.com, requests to participate in surveys about our products or other operational e-mail communications.
APPLICABILITY OF PRIVACY STATEMENT: This privacy policy statement applies only to the information collected online at HeartStompers.com.
QUESTIONS/CHANGES IN POLICY: If you have questions or concerns with respect to our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us. Should there be a material change in the categories of information collected at HeartStompers.com or a material change in how we use information collected at HeartStompers.com (whether a deletion or addition), for a thirty day period after the change we will note deletions with a strike-out and additions in italic type. Further, for this same period we will note [Revised] at the end of the revised sentence or sentences and update the effective date at the bottom of the Privacy Policy. If you are concerned about how your personal information is used, please visit our site often for this and other important announcements about HeartStompers.com.
SECURITY STATEMENT HeartStompers.com takes the following types of security measures: It is our policy not to send your credit card number via e-mail. In fact, this is a practice we recommend you adopt in all of your Internet activities. At the present time, all credit card orders are processed through PayPal and their Secure Socket Layers. Please view their secuirty policy for more information.
We designed HeartStompers.com to accept orders only from Web browsers that permit communication through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology; for example, 3.0 versions or higher of Netscape Navigator and versions 3.02 or higher of Internet Explorer. This means you should not be able to inadvertently place an order through an unsecured connection.
While we implement the above security measures on this site, you should be aware that 100% security is not always possible. Heart Stompers is not responsible for third party security practices.
This privacy statement effective March 1, 2006.
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