Backyard
Birdscapes Privacy Policy
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| Backyard Birdscapes recognizes that respecting user privacy over the
Internet is of utmost importance. This privacy statement
is designed to provide information about the privacy and
data collection practices for the site: http://www.backyard birdscapes.com.
The Site is operated by Backyard Birdscapes. |
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If you have questions or concerns regarding this
statement, you should first contact our site coordinator
at; backyardbirdscapes@backyardbirdscapes.com |
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Identifying Information. In general, you can visit
the Site without telling us who you are or providing any
information about yourself. In some areas of the Site,
we ask you to provide information that will enable us to
process an order, offer services that require
registration, assist you with technical support issues
or to follow up with you. Generally, Backyard Birdscapes
requests identifying information when you:
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- Register on any of our web
sites.
- Place an order.
- Provide feedback to an online
survey or tell us about an idea or suggestion.
- Participate in a rebate program,
contest, or other promotional offer.
- Request a special service.
- Request information or files
from technical support or customer service.
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In these instances, Backyard
Birdscapes will ask for your name, address,
e-mail address, phone number and other appropriate
information needed to provide you with these services.
In all instances, if you receive a newsletter or other
mailing from us, you will always be able to
"unsubscribe" to these mailings at any time. |
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What Backyard Birdscapes
Will Do With Your Information. If you choose to give us
personal information for any of the purposes above, this
information is retained by
Backyard Birdscapes and will only be used by
Backyard Birdscapes to
support your customer relationship with us. We will not
add you to a mailing list, or newsletter without your
registration for this service. We will only contact you
if further information is required from you to complete
a service. |
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What Others May Do With Your Information.
Backyard Birdscapes does
not share, rent, or sell any personally identifying
information provided through our Site (such as your name
or email address) to any outside organization for use in
its marketing or solicitations. From time to time
Backyard Birdscapes may use
agents or contractors who will have access to your
personal information to perform services for
Backyard Birdscapes (example: database maintenance),
however, they are required by us to keep the information
confidential and may not use it for any purpose other
than to carry out the services for
Backyard Birdscapes. In addition,
Backyard Birdscapes may
also share aggregate information about its customers and
its web site visitors to advertisers, business partners,
and other third parties. For example, we might share
that our users are x percent PCs users and y percent
Macintosh users. None of this information, however, will
contain personal, identifying information about our
users.
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Backyard Birdscapes
On-line Store. The Backyard
Birdscapes On-line Store is designed to give you
options concerning the privacy of your identifying
information. If you choose, you can set up an account.
This will allow you to have a customized order page for
express ordering and to view your purchasing history. To
protect your privacy, we have designed the Sites to
include certain steps to verify your identity before
granting you access or enabling you to make corrections
in an account. You will always have access to this
account information and can view it, update it or
correct it at any time. To access your information, you
will need to use a password.
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When purchasing products through the our web site,
the order form will also ask you to provide a daytime
telephone number. However, the telephone number is only
used to quickly resolve questions relative to an order,
such as to clarify customer email addresses that are
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Third Party Links
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Backyard Birdscapes.com
does provide links to other sites. Other Internet sites
and services have separate privacy and data collection
practices. Once you leave backyardbirdscapes.com,
Backyard Birdscapes cannot control, and has no
responsibility for, the privacy policies or data
collection activities at another site.
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Cookies
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At times, we will use a feature on your web browser
to send your computer a "cookie". We do not use cookies
to retrieve any personal information from your computer.
We only use cookies to learn ways to enhance our Sites,
and to give you better, more personalized service while
in our web site. You can reset your browser to refuse
all cookies or indicate when a cookie is sent. However,
some functions of the Sites will not function if you
refuse cookies. These areas of our web site will have
information posted about cookies, and when a cookie will
be uploaded to your computer. |
Children's Privacy Protection
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Backyard Birdscapes is
sensitive to the heightened need to protect the privacy
of children under the age of 13. The vast majority of
the material on our web site is not intended for
children and is not targeted to children under the age
of 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children
and, if we learn that we have received personal data
from a child, we will remove this information from our
database.
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Changes to this Policy
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Backyard Birdscapes may
from time to time revise its privacy policy. You should
therefore periodically visit this page, so you are aware
of any such revisions. We will not, however, use your
existing information in a manner not previously
disclosed. You will be advised and have the opportunity
to opt out of any new use of your information.
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Contacting Us
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If you have any questions
about our privacy policy and/or the practices of our web
site, you can write to:
backyardbirdscapes@backyardbirdscapes.com
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Credit Card Security
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We know customers are concerned about credit card
security. We use one of the worlds largest funds
transfer agencies - PayPal.
If you choose to use a PayPal account, your personal
credit card information will not be given to
Backyard Birdscapes. |
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