Cookies
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a tiny piece of text asking permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. If you agree, then your browser adds the text in a small file.
If you have set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie, you will notice that Spartanburg Humane Society requests a cookie to be set on your computer. Its purpose is to let us know when you visit our site. This cookie, by itself, only tells us that a previous Spartanburg Humane Society visitor has returned. It doesn't tell us your e-mail address or who you are. If you want to give us that information later via registration, that's your choice.
Why are Cookies Persistent?
If the web server does not detect a Unique ID for your session, it will generate one and send it to the client in the form of a cookie. So, if you accept the cookie, you only get it once. If you do not accept the cookie, it will try to send you one with every hit until you accept it. This means every page and item on that page you request from Spartanburg Humane Society will come with a cookie request unless you already have one.
Are All Cookies The Same?
No. On the Spartanburg Humane Society site we have two kinds; temporary and log cookies. Temporary cookies are necessary to maintain the user session and tell our server which page to pull up next. The traffic log cookie tells us what pages are being used and which ones aren't. This helps us make improvements to the site to better meet your needs and cut down on pages that don't get used.
So What Does A Cookie Do For Me, The Visitor?
There are several immediate advantages on Spartanburg Humane Society that you can see through the use of cookies. For example, the Spartanburg Humane Society support area retains your service tag number between visits. When you return, you'll notice that the service tag number for your computer is already typed in.
When you are browsing in the store, you can add items to your shopping cart and return several days later to pick up where you left off, with the items still in the cart.
Also, special offers from ad banners and special access areas of the site will soon be easier to use with the cookie technology. Overall, cookies help us give you a better Web site to use, by letting us monitor what's working and what isn't through site traffic analysis. In the future, a cookie may allow you to tell us what information you prefer to read and what you don't. For example, if you're a business customer, we can advise you on content specific to your needs.
Why Do I Need to Know This?
Because we want you to know why we ask you to accept a cookie. We want to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you. We know that a lot of people have concerns about cookies, but in talking with many of our users, we feel that the benefit we both gain from their proper use is worthwhile. We value the relationships we have with our customers and future customers, so we respect these concerns.
Spartanburg Humane Society's Privacy Policy
Spartanburg Humane Society respects your privacy. Across our
business, around the
world, we will only collect, store and use your personal
information
for defined purposes. We use your information to support and
enhance
our relationship with you, for example, to process your
purchase, provide
service and support, and share product, service and company
news and
offerings with you. We do not sell your personal information.
We only
share your personal data with other companies with your
consent, as
required by law or to protect Spartanburg Humane Society, its
customers, or the public, or with companies that help
Spartanburg Humane Society fulfill its obligations with you,
and then only with partners
who share Spartanburg Humane Society's commitment to
protecting your privacy and data. At any
time you may contact Spartanburg Humane Society with any
privacy questions or concerns you may have. You
also may ask at any time to see the data you have given us and
request
correction or deletion. Our goal is to ensure the highest
levels of
security and confidentiality.
Privacy and Data Security
At Spartanburg Humane Society, your right to privacy and data
security is a primary concern.
That's why, when you visit Spartanburg Humane Society, we help
you maintain control over your personal data on
the Internet. Below are the guidelines we use for protecting
the information
you provide us during a visit to our Internet site. Visit www.nclnet.org/essentials
to learn more about how to protect your privacy on the
Internet through
a consumer education campaign called Online E-ssentials,
developed by
the National Consumers League.
Spartanburg Humane Society's Privacy statement discloses the
privacy guidelines for
the entire domestic Spartanburg Humane Society Web site. The
guidelines at this site are applicable
only to this domestic Web site. Information submitted
solely in
a business capacity is not covered by these guidelines.
Spartanburg Humane Society only asks for specific types of
personal information
In a few areas on our Web site and online customer support
tools,
we ask you to provide information that will enable us to
enhance your
site visit, to assist you with technical support issues or to
follow
up with you after your visit. It is completely optional for
you to participate.
For example, we request information from you when you (if
applicable):
- Register on Spartanburg Humane Society
- Request a quote
- Place an order
- Provide feedback in an online survey
- Participate in a sweepstakes or other promotional offer
- Request e-mail notification of your order status
- Subscribe to a newsletter or a mailing list
- Request assistance
- Fill out a support request
In each of the instances above, we may ask for your name,
e-mail address,
phone number, address, type of business, customer preference
information,
customer number and service tag number, as well as other
similar personal
information that is needed to register or subscribe you to
services
or offers. If we ever ask for significantly different
information we
will inform you. In the case of newsletters or mailing lists,
you will
be able to "unsubscribe" to these mailings at any time.
Spartanburg Humane Society only uses your personal
information for specific purposes
The information you provide will be kept confidential and
used to
support your customer relationship with Spartanburg Humane
Society. Among other things, we want to help you quickly find
information
on Spartanburg Humane Society and alert you to product
upgrades, special offers, updated
information and other new products and services from
Spartanburg Humane Society. Agents or contractors of Spartanburg Humane
Society who have access to your personal information and prospect
information are required to keep the information confidential
and not
use it for any other purpose than to carry out the services
they are
performing for Spartanburg Humane Society. Spartanburg Humane
Society may enhance or merge your information collected at its
site with data from third parties for purposes of marketing
products
or services to you.
In addition, Spartanburg Humane Society may be required to
disclose personal information in connection
with law enforcement, fraud prevention, regulation, and other
legal
action or if Spartanburg Humane Society reasonably believes it
is necessary to do so to protect
Spartanburg Humane Society, its customers, or the public.
You can opt-out of receiving further marketing from
Spartanburg Humane Society at any time
Periodically, we may send you information about our various
products
and services, or other products and services we feel may be of
interest
to you. Only Spartanburg Humane Society (or agents working on
behalf of Spartanburg Humane Society and under confidentiality
agreements) will send you these
direct mailings. If you do not want to receive such mailings,
simply
tell us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any
time
you can easily opt-out of receiving further marketing from
Spartanburg Humane Society using any of the contact
information
below.
Spartanburg Humane Society will not disclose your personal
information to any outside
organization for its use in marketing without your consent
Information regarding you (such as name, address and phone
number)
or your order and the products you purchase will not be given
or sold
to any outside organization for its use in marketing or
solicitation
without your consent. Your information may be shared with
agents or
contractors of Spartanburg Humane Society for the purpose of
performing services for Spartanburg Humane Society.
Internet Commerce
The online store at Spartanburg Humane Society is designed
to give you options concerning the privacy
of your credit card information, name, address, e-mail and any
other
information you provide us. Spartanburg Humane Society is
committed to data security with respect to information
collected on our site. We offer the industry standard security
measures
available through your browser called SSL encryption, (please
see Spartanburg Humane Society's Store
Security page for details on these security measures).
If at any time you would like to make a purchase, but do not
want to
provide your credit card information online, you may contact a
sales
representative over the telephone. Simply call . It has always
been a Spartanburg Humane Society practice to contact customers in the
event of a potential
problem with your purchase or any normal business
communication regarding
your purchase.
Customized Experience
New technologies are emerging on the Internet that help us
deliver
customized visitor experiences. At Spartanburg Humane Society,
we primarily use "cookies" to help us determine which
service and support information is appropriate to your machine
and to
maintain your shopping experience in our online store. Our use
of this
technology does not mean that we automatically know any
information
about you. We might be able to ascertain what type of computer
you are
using, but beyond that, our use of cookies is designed only to
provide
you with a better experience when using Spartanburg Humane
Society. Spartanburg Humane Society has no desire or intent to infringe
on your privacy while
using the Spartanburg Humane Society site. For more
information about these new technologies
on Spartanburg Humane Society visit our Cookies
page.
Third-Party Sites
Please be aware that other web sites that may be accessed
through
our site may collect personally identifiable information about
you.
The information practices of those third-party web sites
linked to Spartanburg Humane Society are not covered by this privacy
statement.
You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of
your passwords
or any account information. Please be careful and responsible
whenever
you're online. If you post personal information online that is
accessible
to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other
parties
in return. While we strive to protect your personal
information, Spartanburg Humane Society cannot ensure or warrant the
security of any information
you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Children's Privacy (Age 12 and Under)
Spartanburg Humane Society takes children's privacy
seriously.
Spartanburg Humane Society does not seek to collect personal
information about children
through its Web site. Spartanburg Humane Society does not
condition a child's participation in an activity
on the disclosure of more personal information than is
reasonably necessary
to participate in the activity.
If we become aware that a person submitting personal
information to
us through any part of our Web site is a child, we delete the
information
as soon as we discover it and do not use it for any purpose,
nor do
we disclose it to third parties.
Since we do not seek to collect any personal information
about children,
and we delete any information collected inadvertently as soon
as we
discover that a child has submitted it, we typically retain no
information
about children that could be reviewed or deleted. If a parent
requests
review or deletion of information about their child before we
have discovered
and deleted the information, then we will of course honor that
request.
Other Web sites
Spartanburg Humane Society's Web sites may contain links to
other Web sites that are
not operated by Spartanburg Humane Society. Spartanburg
Humane Society is not responsible for the privacy practices of the Web
sites that it does not operate. Some parts of the Web site
may be
animated using downloadable applications with Adobe's
Shockwave/Flash,
make video available through Microsoft's Media-Player, and use
Adobe's
Free Acrobat Reader. Adobe and Microsoft operate under
their own privacy and security policies, and the way they may
collect
and use information can be further evaluated at: www.adobe.com and www.microsoft.com.
Contact
Spartanburg Humane Society
Spartanburg Humane Society is the sole operator of the
Spartanburg Humane Society Web sites. If you would like to contact us
for any reason
regarding our privacy practices, please write us at the
following address:
Spartanburg Humane Society
150 Dexter Road
Spartanburg, SC 29303
Attention: Privacy
You may also click here
and fill out the e-mail form, which will come to the
Marketing/PR department.
Spartanburg Humane Society wants to help you keep your
personal information accurate
You can request the individual information that Spartanburg
Humane Society has collected by submitting a request here.
Store Security
Providing you with a secure online experience is a high
priority of
Spartanburg Humane Society's. We recognize that your privacy
and security are of the
utmost importance, and we have devoted a great deal of effort
to ensure
that your personal information is safeguarded. Your
transactions are
not only supported by industry-standard data encryption, but
also protected
by Spartanburg Humane Society's Secure
Shopping
Guarantee.
Please take a moment to read about the steps that we have
taken to
help protect your information and make your online
transmissions safer.
We also invite you to review the steps you can take to help
protect
yourself further.
Spartanburg Humane Society Secure Shopping Guarantee
The Spartanburg Humane Society
Secure Shopping Guarantee helps to cover you against unauthorized
charges on your credit card.
From our experience, we know it is an important factor to
have the
same confidence when you use your credit card online as you do
when
you order by phone. That's why we now offer the Spartanburg
Humane Society Secure Shopping Guarantee?to help protect you from credit
card theft or misuse. Here are the steps we take to help
ensure that
your purchase is safe with us:
- Data encryption. To help protect your credit card number
and personal
information, we encrypt every order. Encryption is a process
by which
we use software to scramble your credit card number and
personal information
in transit to Spartanburg Humane Society.
- The Spartanburg Humane Society Secure Shopping Guarantee.
In the unlikely event that
your credit card company holds you liable for any
unauthorized charges
to your account resulting from your online purchases at
Spartanburg Humane Society, Spartanburg Humane Society will cover your
liability up to $50 (the maximum you
can be held liable for).
Store Security -- Safer Transmissions
Positive identification. The Spartanburg
Humane Society Store Web site is registered with site identification
authorities
to enable your browser to confirm the Spartanburg Humane
Society Store's identity before any transmission is sent. With
this technology, the identity of our site is automatically
confirmed
behind the scenes prior to the transmission of any customer
information
requested to complete an online order your data reaches your
intended
target or your browser notifies you (prior to your sending any
personal
information) that the potential receiving site looks
suspicious and
should be avoided.
Data encryption. If you are using a
security-enabled browser
(such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 2.1 or greater,
or Netscape
Navigator version 2.0 or greater), the information you send us
regarding
your purchase is encrypted, making it extremely difficult to
read even
if it is wrongly intercepted. The Spartanburg Humane Society
Store utilizes industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
technology to allow for the encryption of: potentially
sensitive information
such as your name, address and critically sensitive
information like
your credit card number Standing behind our security
technology, Spartanburg Humane Society also provides the Secure
Shopping
Guarantee , helping to ensure that you are protected every
time
you buy online with us. For more details, take a look at this
guarantee.
If concerned only about the privacy of your credit card
information,
we encourage you to submit your order electronically without a
credit
card number and a sales representative will contact you to
obtain this
information. If you are still uncomfortable with submitting
your personal
information via the Internet for any reason, please feel free
to contact
us over the phone or via fax to complete your order. Use your
browser's
Back button to return to the previous page.
Store Security - Help Protect Yourself
If you use a security-enabled browser (such as Microsoft
Internet
Explorer version 2.1 or greater, or Netscape Navigator version
2.0 or
greater) paying attention to two browser features will
decrease the
chances for the unintended or fraudulent use of your personal
information:
1. Browser security settings.
Your browser security preference settings are your first
line of defense
to stopping the theft or unwanted viewing of confidential,
personal
information. The most popular browsers offer you the ability
to receive
an alert or notification if any of the following happen or are
about
to occur:
If your credit card company: (a) determines that the
charges were
fraudulent charges resulting from your online purchase at
Spartanburg Humane Society, and (b) holds you liable for any of the
unauthorized charges,
contact us immediately. For your convenience, you
can contact us
by e-mail or by mail. In order to help you, we will need the
following
information:
- changing between secure and insecure transmission modes
- receiving an invalid site identification for the site to
which
you are about to transmit
- sending a transmission over an "open" or unsecured
connection
Check the settings of your browser security features to see
all the
checks that are possible and those that are currently in
place.
2. Browser security signals.
The presence of security measures surrounding the entry of
data on
a web page is identified in several ways for you on your
browser:
- the URL identifying the page will always begin with
"https://"
versus the normal "http://".
- a security symbol to indicate operation in a mode that
supports
secure transmissions
- A "closed lock" icon is present in the bottom right-hand
corner
of your Microsoft Internet Explorer browser screen
- An "unbroken key" icon appears in the lower left-hand
corner of
the Netscape Navigator browser screen
With these security measures in place, you can also feel
confident
that every credit card transaction you make at Spartanburg
Humane Society is protected by the Spartanburg Humane Society Secure
Shopping Guarantee. For more details, take a look at this guarantee. If
concerned only
about the privacy of your credit card information, we
encourage you
to submit your order electronically without a credit card
number and
a sales representative will contact you to obtain this
information.
If not using a browser with these standard security features,
or if
you are still uncomfortable with submitting your personal
information
via the Internet for any reason, please feel free to contact
us over
the phone or via fax to complete your order.
We hope that once you understand the measures we employ and
the steps
you can take to protect yourself, you'll be as confident about
the security
of your transactions and personal information as we are. The
end result?
When you buy online with Spartanburg Humane Society, you can
buy with a measure of confidence.
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