Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 08/15/2009
Thank you for visiting the Privacy Policy page of the Pet Amber Alert website. Pet Amber Alert values your right of privacy, and wants you to feel comfortable using its website at http://www.petamberalert.com (the “Pet Amber Alert Website” or “Website”). This page describes our privacy policy for the Website.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
The Pet Amber Alert website does not automatically gather any personal information from you when you visit it. Information is obtained only from what you supply voluntarily through email or by submitting through a form on the site. When you register for membership, update your registered information or request a Missing or Found Pet Alert, Pet Amber Alert will collect the following information (”Information”):
Contact information such as name, address (Zip Code, City), phone number and e-mail.
Pet Amber Alert may retain other information provided, such as the contents of e-mails sent or submitted to Pet Amber Alert through this Site.
The Information provided is used to provide you the products and services made available on this Site, including to fill your requests for products or services, to respond to your communications to Pet Amber Alert, to communicate with you, to customize your use of this Site, to administer this Site, to diagnose technical problems with this Site, and to develop new products and services.
Pet Amber Alert employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. This software receives and records the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer that has contacted our website, the date and time of the visit and the pages visited. We make no attempt to link these addresses with the identity of individuals visiting our site unless an attempt to damage the site has been detected.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
Pet Amber Alert may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on its behalf, such as analyzing data, payment processing and shipping companies. These companies and individuals will have access only to the Information that is needed to perform their functions. These companies and individuals may not use the Information for other purposes.
Pet Amber Alert may release the Information when Pet Amber Alert believes release is appropriate to comply with law, and/or a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site; to enforce or apply the terms and conditions of use of this Site and other agreements and to protect the rights, property or safety of Pet Amber Alert and others who use this Site. Pet Amber Alert will not sell, rent, share or otherwise disclose the Information for commercial purposes other than its own except as described in this privacy policy.
In the event Pet Amber Alert goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and/or prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
If the Information is to be disclosed other than as set out above, Pet Amber Alert shall notify you to give you the opportunity to choose not to have the Information so disclosed.
SECURITY
OUR SECURITY MEASURES
We have an integrated system of industry best practices and technologically advanced safeguards that includes:
Firewall
Monitoring
Encryption
Firewall: A firewall is a combination of hardware and software deployed to control the information that can pass from the Internet into our internal systems and servers. Firewalls enforce a set of rules intended to bar intruders and viruses from gaining entry.
Monitoring: We continually monitor our systems for evidence of attempted break-ins. Our monitoring methods combine internal resources and security companies we pay to safeguard your information.
Encryption: When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number, Tax ID and social security number) on our sign up or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We use intensive testing procedures and other safeguards to verify that your Information is protected but no security system is foolproof. Please be sure you’re comfortable with our security measures before submitting Information through our Secured Online Forms and when accessing your file online.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.
We use cookies to track site use and access. We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site will be limited.
We use a third-party tracking service called Google Analytics that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate. Site usage and volume information is collected to analyze site wide statistics.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Pet Amber Alert. Please be aware that we, Pet Amber Alert, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
TESTIMONIALS
If you enter a testimonial on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. For testimonials, we do obtain the customer’s consent prior to posting their name along with their testimonial. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. If you want to remove your personal information that is being displayed on our website under public pages please see “Contact Us” below.
INFORMATION YOU CAN ACCESS
Upon request, Pet Amber Alert will give you access to the Information that it has retained. Such requests should be directed to: privacy@petamberalert.com
CHANGES IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
Headquarters
PetAmberAlert.com
68-19 53rd dr
Maspeth, NY 11378
Contact@PetAmberAlert.com
1-877-875-PETS
