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ChihuahuaFanatics.com
Online Privacy Policy
(Last updated
April 29, 2007)
ChihuahuaFanatics.com has established this Privacy
Policy to explain how it protects and manages the
personal information that it collects from you (the
customer) online.
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1.
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Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure
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Your use of the ChihuahuaFanatics.com site and/or your
registration for ChihuahuaFanatics.com products and
services constitute your consent to the terms of this
Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy,
please do not use the ChihuahuaFanatics.com site.
ChihuahuaFanatics.com may occasionally update this
Privacy Policy.
When it does, ChihuahuaFanatics.com will also
revise the “last update” date at the top of this Privacy
Policy. In
addition, ChihuahuaFanatics.com will seek a customer’s
prior consent, by email, for any new uses or proposed
disclosures of information collected from the customer
prior to the change.
ChihuahuaFanatics.com will notify customers
by email of changes to this policy that will
affect information collected from them in the future.
In certain circumstances, however, ChihuahuaFanatics.com
will not inform and obtain the consent of the customer,
such as in connection with an investigation of a breach
of an agreement, contravention of laws, an emergency
where the life, health or security of an individual is
threatened, the collection of a debt or in compliance
with the request of a law enforcement agency or a court
order.
A customer may withdraw his or her consent for
collection, use and disclosure at any time by sending an
email to
unsubscribe@ChihuahuaFanatics.com.
Please note that, if you do,
ChihuahuaFanatics.com may suspend its provision of
products and services to you.
When
you unsubscribe, if you fall within the guarantee
period for any ChihuahuaFanatics.com product and you
request a refund, the guarantee will be
honored.
ChihuahuaFanatics.com collects, at the time of your
registration and your sign-on to its web site, certain
“personal information” (information that personally
identifies you) including but not limited to your name,
email address, home or work address, telephone number,
and information about your computer hardware and
software (e.g., IP address, operating system,
browser type, domain name, URL, access times, and
referring web site addresses).
ChihuahuaFanatics.com has implemented this Privacy
Policy to protect personal information received from its
customers, and to respond to any inquiries.
The Privacy Policy also provides that
ChihuahuaFanatics.com will use appropriate contractual
means to establish a comparable level of protection for
personal information which is sent for processing by
third parties on ChihuahuaFanatics.com’s behalf.
ChihuahuaFanatics.com has designated responsibility for
your personal information to its Privacy Officer, who
ensures compliance with the principles in this Privacy
Policy. Other ChihuahuaFanatics.com individuals
may be delegated to act on behalf of the Privacy
Officer.
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Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
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ChihuahuaFanatics.com collects and uses personal
information for the following Identified Purposes:
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(a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)
k)
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to understand customer needs regarding
ChihuahuaFanatics.com’s services;
to develop and provide our web site and our
products and services for our customers;
to fulfill your
requests for products, services or information;
to communicate with customers and site visitors,
when necessary, and to inform customers of
upgrades, as well as of other products and
services available from ChihuahuaFanatics.com,
its affiliates and third parties;
to
allow customers to access limited-access
areas of ChihuahuaFanatics.com’s site;
to
personalize some of our services and products
for you and to deliver targeted advertisements
and offers from ChihuahuaFanatics.com and third
parties;
to bill accounts and maintain payment records;
to comply with any applicable law, regulation,
legal process or government request;
to respond to a legitimate claim, or to address
our reasonable belief, that you are violating
the rights of any third party or any of the
agreements or policies that govern your use of
the ChihuahuaFanatics.com site or any
ChihuahuaFanatics.com product or service;
to protect the services, products or rights of
ChihuahuaFanatics.com, including but not limited
to the security or integrity of the
ChihuahuaFanatics.com site; and
to
identify and resolve technical problems
concerning ChihuahuaFanatics.com’s site,
products and services.
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ChihuahuaFanatics.com also uses personal information in
an aggregate form (i.e., not individually
attributable to you) for its business analysis,
operational, marketing and other promotional purposes.
If we hire other companies to provide some products or
services on our behalf, then we will only provide those
companies the personal information they need for the
Identified Purposes, and we will limit their rights to
use and further disclose your personal information as
appropriate in the course of their work for us.
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Limiting the Collection of Personal Information
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ChihuahuaFanatics.com limits its collection of personal
information to only that information which is necessary
for the Identified Purposes. ChihuahuaFanatics.com
does not direct its site to, nor does it knowingly
collect any personal information from children under the
age of thirteen.
When you visit the ChihuahuaFanatics.com web site, a
cookie may be placed on your computer or the cookie may
be read if you have visited the ChihuahuaFanatics.com
site previously. ChihuahuaFanatics.com uses
cookies to allow ChihuahuaFanatics.com to determine
which products and services you have already purchased
so that ChihuahuaFanatics.com does not provide redundant
information to you, and, if you are an
ChihuahuaFanatics.com affiliate, to track
ChihuahuaFanatics.com sales made to customers referred
by you so that you can receive compensation under our
affiliate program. If you choose to not have your
browser accept cookies from the ChihuahuaFanatics.com
web site, you may not be able to view all the text on
the screens, or to experience a personalised visit, or
to subscribe to certain service and product offerings on
the ChihuahuaFanatics.com site.
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Disclosure, Processing and Retention
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ChihuahuaFanatics.com does not sell, rent or disclose
your personal information to anyone else, except:
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(a)
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to someone you have designated to act as your
agent, for one or more of the Identified
Purposes (listed in Section 2, above);
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(b)
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to ChihuahuaFanatics.com’s employees,
independent contractors, subsidiaries,
affiliates, consultants, business associates,
service providers, suppliers and agents, acting
on ChihuahuaFanatics.com’s
behalf for any of the Identified Purposes;
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(c)
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as necessary if ChihuahuaFanatics.com has reason
to believe that disclosure is necessary to
identify, contact or bring legal action against
someone who may be causing injury to or
interference (either intentionally or
unintentionally) with ChihuahuaFanatics.com’s
rights or property, other users of
ChihuahuaFanatics.com’s web site, products or
services, or anyone else that could be harmed by
such activities; and
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(d)
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to
respond to judicial process and provide
information to law enforcement agencies or in
connection with an investigation on matters
related to public safety, as permitted by law,
or otherwise as required by law.
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In addition, as we continue to develop our business, we
or our affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or
entities, or we may merge with another company.
In such transactions, personal information may be
one of the transferred business assets.
Also, in the event that ChihuahuaFanatics.com or
substantially all of its assets are acquired, your
personal information may be one of the transferred
assets.
Your information may be stored and processed in the
United States, or in any other country in which
ChihuahuaFanatics.com or its affiliates, subsidiaries or
agents maintain facilities. By using this web
site, you consent to any such transfer of information
outside of your country.
After your account becomes inactive (that is, if you
request to be removed from our database),
ChihuahuaFanatics.com will keep your personal
information in its archives.
Your information will then be used only as
necessary for tax reasons or to prove
ChihuahuaFanatics.com’s
compliance with any applicable law.
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Accuracy of Personal Information
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ChihuahuaFanatics.com will use reasonable efforts to
keep customer personal information accurate for the
Identified Purposes, and for
minimizing the possibility of making inappropriate
customer decisions based on such information.
Customers are responsible for informing
ChihuahuaFanatics.com about changes to their personal
information. You can do this by
submitting
a request
on our
Contact Us page.
ChihuahuaFanatics.com will use new or updated personal
information it receives from customers to update its own
records.
ChihuahuaFanatics.com will use reasonable efforts to
protect customers’ personal information.
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Access to Personal Information
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ChihuahuaFanatics.com will afford you a reasonable
opportunity to review the personal information in your
file, if you so request by submitting
a request on our
Contact Us page, or in writing to:
ChihuahuaFanatics.com
1086 Talon Trace
Lawrenceville, GA 30043
If ChihuahuaFanatics.com is not able to provide access
to some aspect of a customer’s personal information, it
will provide reasons for denying access such as; that by
doing so would likely reveal personal information about
a third party, or that it is confidential commercial
information or attorney–client privileged
communications, or that the information relates to a
breach of an agreement or a contravention of law, or
that its disclosure could reasonably be expected to
threaten the life or security of another individual.
Customers have the right to request that inaccurate or
incomplete information be amended as appropriate, by
contacting ChihuahuaFanatics.com as described above.
ChihuahuaFanatics.com will promptly correct such
personal information.
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