What
Personal Information About Customers Do we collect?
The information
we learn from customers helps us personalize and
continually improve your experience at
StoneGateStables.com. Here are the types of
information we gather.
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Information You Give Us:
We receive and store any information you enter
on our Web site or give us in any other way. You
can choose not to provide certain information,
but then you might not be able to take advantage
of many of our features. We use the information
that you provide for such purposes as responding
to your requests, customizing future shopping
for you, improving our services or products, and
communicating with you.
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Automatic Information:
We receive and store certain types of
information whenever you interact with us. Like
many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain
certain types of information when your Web
browser accesses StoneGateStables.com.
Click here to see examples of the
information we receive. A number of
companies
offer utilities designed to help you visit Web
sites anonymously. Although we will not be able
to provide you with a personalized experience at
StoneGateStables.com if we cannot recognize you,
we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
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E-mail:
We do not track or store any e-mail other than
correspondence to and from StoneGateStables.com.
Although, to help us make e-mails more useful
and interesting, we often receive a confirmation
when you open e-mail from StoneGateStables.com
if your computer supports such capabilities.
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Information from Other Sources:
We might receive information about you from
other sources and add it to our account
information. This information is considered
private and is never shared or distributed in
any way.
What
About Cookies?
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Cookies are
alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to
your computer's hard drive through your Web
browser to enable our systems to recognize your
browser and to provide features such as
personalized greetings, and storage of items in
your Shopping Cart between visits.
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The Help portion of
the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how
to prevent your browser from accepting new
cookies, how to have the browser notify you when
you receive a new cookie, or how to disable
cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you
to take full advantage of some of
StoneGateStables.com most useful features, and
we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Does
StoneGateStables.com
Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our
customers is an important part of our business, but
we are not in the business of selling it to others.
We share customer information only as described
below.
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Third-Party Service
Providers:
We employ other companies and individuals to
perform functions on our behalf. Examples
include fulfilling orders, delivering packages,
sending postal mail and e-mail, processing
credit card payments, and providing customer
service. They have access to personal
information needed to perform their functions,
but may not use it for other purposes.
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Promotional Offers:
We do NOT send your information to any other
businesses for promotions, sales, or
advertising.
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Protection of
StoneGateStables.com:
We release account and other personal
information when only when required by law. This
includes exchanging information with other
companies and organizations for fraud protection
and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however,
this does not include selling, renting, sharing,
or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable
information from customers for commercial
purposes in violation of the commitments set
forth in this Privacy Notice.
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With Your Consent:
Other than as set out above, you will receive
notice when information about you might go to
third parties, and you will have an opportunity
to choose not to share the information.
How
Secure Is Information About Me?
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Any information
stored about has restricted access and is not
available to the web. The information is
accessed controlled and is stored in an
encrypted form.
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We work to protect
the security of your information during
transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
software, which encrypts information you input.
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We reveal only the
last five digits of your credit card numbers
when confirming an order or paying your bill. Of
course, we transmit the entire credit card
number to the appropriate credit card company
during order processing but it is accomplished
using secured communications.
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It is important for
you to protect against unauthorized access to
your password and to your computer. Be sure to
sign off when finished using a shared computer.
What
About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other
Websites?
Our site includes
third-party advertising and links to other websites.
We do not provide any personally identifiable
customer information to these advertisers or
third-party websites.
These third-party
websites and advertisers, or Internet advertising
companies working on their behalf, sometimes use
technology to send (or "serve") the advertisements
that appear on our website directly to your browser.
They automatically receive your IP address when this
happens. They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web
beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel
gifs), and other technologies to measure the
effectiveness of their ads and to personalize
advertising content. We do not have access to or
control over cookies or other features that they may
use, and the information practices of these
advertisers and third-party websites are not covered
by this Privacy Notice. Please contact them directly
for more information about their privacy practices.
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