At our Gift Shop, we understand the importance of privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your data when you visit our website and purchase delightful gifts for your loved ones. We want to ensure you have a secure and joyful shopping experience, and transparency about our data practices is a key part of that commitment.
Information We Collect and How We Use It
Our gift shop is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We assure you that we do not sell, share, or rent your information to outside parties, except as described in this policy to ensure smooth order processing and provide you with relevant updates. We collect information from our customers to process orders efficiently and to enhance your experience by providing pertinent information, such as order confirmations and shipping status updates.
The information we collect includes:
- Personal Details: Your name, shipping address, billing address, telephone numbers, and email address. This information is essential for order fulfillment and communication regarding your purchases from our gift shop.
- Payment Information: When you make a purchase, we collect payment information such as your credit card number. This is necessary to process your transactions securely.
- Account Credentials: For future convenience and to access your order history, we require you to create a username and password. Please keep this information confidential and do not share it with anyone to protect your account security.
- Marketing Preferences: If you opt to receive our newsletter or information about special promotions from our gift shop, we will use your contact information to deliver these updates.
We also partner with third-party companies that may collect non-personally identifiable information when you visit our site. This data is typically collected through cookies or web beacons to provide you with advertisements that are likely to be of interest to you, enhancing your browsing experience across the web.
Registration for a Smoother Shopping Experience
To facilitate your purchases and provide you with the best possible service at our gift shop, you will need to complete a registration form. During registration, we require you to provide contact information, including your name, email address, telephone number, and street address. This information is crucial for providing you with essential services, such as automated order status updates via email, keeping you informed every step of the way as your chosen gifts are prepared and shipped.
Ordering Gifts Securely
A significant portion of the information gathered during registration is used to process your gift orders efficiently and securely. When you place an order, you will be required to provide financial information, such as your credit card number and expiration date. This information is used exclusively for billing purposes and to fulfill your order for the perfect gift. If we encounter any issues processing your order, we will use the contact information you provided to get in touch with you promptly to resolve any issues.
To ensure the secure processing of your credit card information, we must share your personal and financial details with the merchant bank for authorization and approval. This critical process is protected by an enhanced security system to safeguard your financial data. We do not share your personal and financial information with any other third parties, except those specifically mentioned in the Sharing section of this policy, ensuring your data remains protected.
Cookies: Enhancing Your Gift Shop Experience
We utilize cookies to customize your experience on our website, tailoring web page content based on your browser type and other information provided by the cookie. While you can choose to reject cookies, please note that our shopping cart, essential for purchasing gifts, requires cookies to function correctly. Disabling cookies will prevent you from using the shopping cart to buy merchandise from our gift shop online.
The Tam Retail shopping cart relies on cookies to retain necessary information for processing your order. If cookies are disabled, our gift shop will be unable to accept your online order. We want to reassure you that we do not share any personally identifiable information obtained through cookies with any third parties. However, we do link the data stored in cookies to the personally identifiable information you submit on our site. This allows us to personalize your shopping experience, remember your preferences, and create a sense of familiarity and assurance each time you visit our gift shop online.
Log Files for Website Improvement
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. This helps us understand how visitors interact with our gift shop website and allows us to make improvements for a better user experience. Importantly, we do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information, and we do not distribute or share IP information with any third parties. Your browsing activity is analyzed in aggregate to improve our website, not to identify you personally.
Sharing Information Responsibly
To provide you with a seamless and efficient service, we may employ third-party companies to perform functions on our behalf. These functions may include:
- Order Fulfillment: Processing and preparing your gift orders.
- Package Delivery: Ensuring your gifts are delivered promptly and safely.
- Marketing Assistance: Helping us reach customers with relevant offers and information about our gift shop.
- Postal and Email Delivery: Managing our communications with you.
- Customer Service: Providing support and assistance when you need it.
- Data Analysis: Helping us understand and improve our services.
- Credit Processing: Securely processing your payments.
The third parties we contract with for these purposes have limited access to your personal information and are strictly prohibited from using it for any other purposes. They are essential partners in ensuring you receive the high level of service you expect from our gift shop.
We may, on occasion, frame or mask another website to create a seamless browsing experience that simulates a genuine Tam Retail web page. We exercise extreme caution and discretion when evaluating third-party sites for this purpose. We only brand third-party sites if their organization adheres to stringent security and privacy practices that mirror our own commitment to safe online shopping, ensuring your security is never compromised even when interacting with partner services.
As our business evolves, there may be instances where we acquire or sell business units or subsidiaries. In such cases, customer information is considered a business asset and would be transferred as part of these transactions. Should this occur, your personally identifiable information will only be used in a manner consistent with this pre-existing Privacy Notice, maintaining your privacy rights.
Finally, we reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law, and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website. This is to ensure we operate within the bounds of the law and protect the integrity of our gift shop and its customers.
Testimonials: Sharing Your Positive Gift Shop Experiences
The testimonials section of the Tam Retail website is designed for sharing positive experiences with our gift shop. To maintain accuracy and positivity, this section is moderated. Published testimonials are genuine and are not edited or altered by Tam Retail. We reserve the right to post or remove any testimonial at our discretion, ensuring the testimonials section remains a helpful and reliable resource for potential customers.
By posting your comments or testimonials (“Testimonial”) on our website, you grant us permission to reprint or use the Testimonial in connection with our business. You also agree to the following terms:
- The reprint or use of the Testimonial will be at our discretion and without compensation.
- We may use the Testimonial with or without any pseudo (pen) name credit.
- Our right to use the Testimonial is perpetual and may be assigned by us.
- We may use the Testimonial locally, nationally, or globally, and such use may be made in any media, information, or communication platform (including Internet advertising) currently in use or developed in the future.
- You confirm that you, and not someone else, composed and posted the Testimonial.
Other than your pseudo (pen) name, which we may or may not use, your personal contact information will not be disclosed in connection with our reprint or use of your Testimonial, protecting your privacy while still allowing you to share your positive experiences with our gift shop.
Children’s Privacy: Our Commitment
Tam Retail does not sell products for purchase by children. Youth-oriented products in our gift shop are intended for purchase by adults only. If you are under the age of 18, you may only use Tam Retail under the supervision of a consenting parent or guardian. We are committed to protecting children’s privacy and will not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information via the Internet from children under the age of 13. Tam Retail is dedicated to safeguarding the welfare and privacy of children.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Tam Retail is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be vigilant when they leave our site and to carefully read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by our gift shop website, and we recommend you review the privacy policies of any external sites you may visit.
