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Gift-Flowers.com believes you should
be informed about the use and disclosure of the information collected from you during
your use of the Gift-Flowers.com Service. The Privacy Policy below informs you about
the following practices:
1. What Personal Information is collected.
2. Who is collecting Personal Information
3. How Gift-Flowers.com may use Personal Information and disclose
it to third parties
4. Choices you have regarding Gift-Flowers.com's
collection, use, and disclosure of personal Information
5. How to correct, update, or delete Personal
Information collected by Gift-Flowers.com
6. Our security procedures
Personal Information. "Personal Information"
is information that would by itself allow someone to identify or contact you, including,
for example, your full name, street address, telephone number, credit card number,
Social Security number, or email address. Personal Information does not include
information that, by itself, does not permit the identification of individuals.
Consent and Changes to this Policy. When you visit Gift-Flowers.com or use
any of its features (collectively, the "Service") you agree to be bound by the Terms
of Use. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and subject to, the Terms of Use.
The capitalized terms in this policy have the meaning given in the Terms of Use.
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by notifying you of the changes via
the email address you provide to Gift-Flowers.com or by posting the amended policy
on the Service.
Scope. This Privacy Policy addresses Gift-Flowers.com's use and disclosure
of Personal Information collected through the Service and explains generally how
non-personal information may be collected and used. Other entities (including websites
we may link to, services we may co-brand, and companies that may serve advertisements
on the Service) may collect Personal Information from you and have their own policies
and practices regarding the use of such information. We do not control such policies
and practices.
A Special Note About Children. Children are not eligible to use the Service,
and we ask that minors do not submit any personal information to us.
Questions? If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact
Gift-Flowers.com customer help by email at
service@gift-flowers.com.
What Personal Information
is collected.
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Non-Registered Users. When you visit Gift-Flowers.com as a non-registered
user, our servers automatically collect the following information: (a) the domain
name of the Internet service provider you use to access the Internet (for example,
aol.com); (b) the date and time you access the Service; (c) the pages you visit
on the Service; (d) the domain name of the website from which you linked directly
to Gift-Flowers.com; (e) the domain name of any websites to which you link directly
from Gift-Flowers.com; (f) your IP address; and (g) other information regarding
your activity on the Service. None of this information is Personal Information because
it does not, by itself, enable Gift-Flowers.com to personally identify you.
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Registered Users.
If you become a registered user by registering
with the Service, we may collect Personal Information when you: (a) register to
use the Service; (b) submit or make changes to your Public Profile or Private Account;
(c) submit Content to Gift-Flowers.com, including questions and answers; (d) fill
out Gift-Flowers.com on-line forms requiring Personal Information; (e) seek approval
from Gift-Flowers.com for Content you have submitted; (f) send email messages to
us; and (g) visit various places throughout the Service where we may request that
you provide, at your option, your name, address, email address, telephone number,
credit card number, social security number, or other Personal Information.
We may collect information about your activities while you are using the Service,
including the same information collected from Non-Registered Users (see Section
1.1 above) automatically through our servers or through a feature on your browser
known as a "cookie." Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your hard
drive. Cookies may make your Internet experience quicker and more convenient. For
example, cookies may allow your password to be stored on your computer without having
to re-enter it each time you visit a website where you are already a registered
user. In addition, cookies may allow us to better understand how you use our site,
which in turn helps us tailor the Service in ways that reflect your preferences.
This practice is common among websites. For more information about cookies, please
visit www.cookiecentral.com.
We may also use cookies or similar technologies, or our third party contractors
may do so, to collect information used to tailor the advertising delivered to you.
This practice is common in Internet advertising. The information collected in this
manner may contain Personal Information. If our third party contractors (such as
companies that serve ads on the Service) collect this information, then such information
is subject to that company's privacy policy and is not addressed or controlled by
this policy. Most browsers allow you to configure your preferences to notify you
when cookies are being placed on your hard drive and to reject all cookies if you
choose to do so.
Finally, if we receive a complaint or other communication from a third party about
you, it may contain Personal Information about you that we may collect in a file
for appropriate handling.
1. Who is Collecting Personal Information?
Gift-Flowers.com, which
owns and operates the Service, collects Personal Information on the Service. Our
mailing address is Gift-Flowers.com, 546 A, Chirag Delhi, New Delhi-110017, India,
and our customer service email address isservice@gift-flowers.com.
In addition, any company that serves ads that appear on the Service may collect
Personal Information (as noted above) when Members view banner ads or click through
such ads on the Service. The use and disclosure of such information is not within
the scope of this privacy policy.
2. How We Use Personal Information and
Disclose it to Third Parties.
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Our Use of your Personal Information We use Personal Information about you to improve
our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, to improve our content
and service offerings and to customize our site's content, layout, and services.
We believe these uses allow us to enhance our site and better tailor it to meet
our users' needs. For example, we may use your Personal Information: (a) to contact
you; (b) to undertake transactions with you and otherwise administer your Gift-Flowers.com
account; (c) to personalize the site in accordance with your requests, your interests;
(d) to determine what advertisements and/or promotions are displayed on the pages
of the Service you view; and (e) to display to users of the Service information
you provide to Gift-Flowers.com as part of your Public Profile.
When you request payment from Gift-Flowers.com, you will have to provide us with
your Social Security number or taxpayer identification number and other Personal
Information so we can properly report the payment to the concerned Tax & Revenue
Service. We will use and disclose your Social Security number or taxpayer identification
number to the relevant government entity only to comply with applicable tax laws.
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Disclosure of your Personal Information.
You should note that Personal Information
that you voluntarily disclose to Gift-Flowers.com for use in your Public Profile,
during question-and-answer sessions with other Users, or as part of any Content
you submit to public areas of the Service will be displayed publicly on the Service.
You should be careful about the information you choose to disclose in these instances
given that this information is available to anyone who is using the Service
As noted earlier, third party ad-serving companies may place cookies on your computer
in the process of serving ads to you, and they may monitor such cookies. Any information
collected through such cookies is subject to the disclosure policies and practices
of the ad-serving companies. We may also use third parties to host and store data
on non- Gift-Flowers.com servers. If such data contains Personal Information, such
third parties will be under an obligation to keep such Personal Information confidential
and not disclose it to any third parties in violation of Gift-Flowers.com's privacy
policy.
We may use your Personal Information and any other information we obtain from your
current and past activities on the Service to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems,
prevent fraud and enforce our Terms of Use.
Gift-Flowers.com may share non-personal aggregate or summary information regarding
its users with partners or other third parties. In addition, due to circumstances
beyond our control we cannot absolutely guarantee that your Personal Information
will not be disclosed to any third parties. For example, we may be forced to disclose
information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third
parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications.
Further, in the unlikely event of a governmental investigation, you authorize us
to disclose information about you to law enforcement or other government officials
as we believe necessary.
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Choices you have regarding Gift-Flowers.com's
Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information. You can limit the collection and use of different
elements of your Personal Information by not participating in those activities in
which we collect Personal Information. You may choose to discontinue the collection
of your Personal Information by discontinuing your use of the Service. Please note
that if you provide any information to parties other than Gift-Flowers.com (including
without limitation other Users), this privacy policy will not apply to such parties'
use or disclosure of the Personal Information you disclose to them. We encourage
you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing information to third parties.
2.
How to Correct, Update and Delete Personal
Information Collected by Gift-Flowers.com.You can access and update your Public Profile and Private Account
information by going to the Edit My Public Profile or Update My Private Account
Page on Gift-Flowersand following the
instructions on those pages. If you wish to delete your Personal Information, you
may do so by requesting that we terminate your membership by writing us at
service@Gift-Flowers.com. Upon such a request, Gift-Flowers.com will terminate
your membership and delete your registration and profile information. However, even
if Gift-Flowers.com deletes your registration information from its current database,
your Personal Information may still be stored on other databases (including those
kept for archival purposes and those of third parties to whom we disclosed information
pursuant to this policy). In addition, your Personal Information that is publicly
available on the Service may remain publicly available on the Service after we delete
your registration and profile information.
3.
Our Security Procedures.
We use industry-standard efforts such as commercial
encryption programs to protect communications of certain sensitive information you
submit to Gift-Flowers.com (such as your credit card number or social security number,
if you submit this information) and we use firewalls to safeguard the confidentiality
of your Personal Information that resides on our servers; however, please be aware
that perfect security does not exist on the Internet.
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