We provide a secure shopping environment. We appreciate your
business and we respect and guard your privacy.
In order to complete your order or to satisfy your request for
information, you will be asked to provide certain personal
information. Safeguards are in place to ensure the security and
privacy of your information. These safeguards are detailed below.
"Cookies" are small pieces of information
that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Our
cookies do not contain any personal identification information, but
they do enable us to provide features such as storing items in your shopping cart
between visits.
Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually
change your browser to prevent that. Even without a cookie, you can
still use most of the features in our store, including placing items
in your shopping cart and purchasing them.
We use PayPal to securely process your on-line
payments. The Snug Stop does not see any of your credit card
information and we therefore do not store this information.
Secure Web Site Browsing
In order to be sure that information transferred between your
browser and our server is secure, it is important to be aware of the
security information available to you through your browser.
Once you enter the Checkout process (when you're ready to purchase
the items you have put into your Shopping Cart), your connection to
our server becomes secure. To confirm this, look at the bottom of
your browser window. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock
(depending upon your browser) you can be sure that your information
is secure.
You can also ensure security by checking the URL line of your
browser. When you enter the secure area of our site, the first
characters of the site address will change from "http" to
"https".
Data Collection In A Secure Environment
In several areas of our site, we ask you to provide information by
filling out and submitting an online form. These areas include...
1) Checkout, where we ask for name, address, e-mail,
credit card and other information needed to complete your order;
2) Other forms, where we ask for your e-mail address
and other information as needed.
Data Use
The information we collect is never used personally, rather it's
used to improve our Web site (in the case of customer feedback), to
mail out our opt-in e-zines or to notify consumers about updates to
our Web site (in the case of subscription forms), and for special
notices to our customers who purchase one or more products (in the
case of successful orders through the Order Form).
We aggregate statistics about our online sales,
traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable
third-party vendors. We may share these with related third parties,
but these general statistics never include any information about you
(or anyone else) personally. We never provide your personal data to
any third party. As a strict policy, we do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise
share your e-mail address with any other company or third party.
Communications
We want to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us.
By purchasing online, you will receive e-mails from us with
information regarding your order. We will not add you to our
e-zine mailing list (Snug News) unless you have specifically asked
to be added and then confirmed your subscription via our "double
opt-in" procedure. Once you have confirmed your Snug News
subscription you can unsubscribe at any time - there is a link at
the bottom of every Snug News mailing.
IP Addresses
We record IP addresses as a demographic part of our aggregate
statistics (mentioned above). But we do not link this to your
shopper information with the following exception: when you place an
order using our online checkout process, we may correlate your IP
address with your order in cases of fraudulent credit card use. In
the case of a suspected fraudulent order, we may share this with the
financial institution that issued the credit card with which an
order was placed. We may also share this IP information with law
enforcement authorities, if we determine use of the credit card was
fraudulent. We also use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with
our server computers, and to administer our Web site. Your IP
address is used to help identify your browser and your shopping
cart, but we do not know that "you" are "you."
You can shop at
SnugStop.com
with total confidence.
