Information Collection and Use
Welcome to our online Gift Store. Tam Retail is committed to protecting your privacy. We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site and assure you that we do not sell, share, or rent this information to outside parties, except as explicitly outlined in this policy. Our primary goal in collecting your information is to efficiently process your orders and enhance your shopping experience by providing you with timely and relevant updates, such as order confirmations and shipping status.
The information we collect includes your essential details for order processing and account management: name, shipping address, billing address, telephone numbers, email address, and payment information, including credit card details. For your convenience and security, we also require you to create a unique username and password to access your account information in the future. It is crucial to maintain the confidentiality of your username and password; please DO NOT share this information with anyone.
Should you choose to subscribe to our newsletter or receive notifications about special promotions from our gift store, we will use your provided contact information to deliver these updates directly to you. We also collaborate with third-party advertising companies that may collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits to our site. This data is gathered through cookies and web beacons to help them provide you with advertisements that are likely to be of interest to you, enhancing your online experience.
Registration Process
To facilitate purchases and streamline your experience on our website, registration is required. Completing our registration form is the first step to placing orders. During registration, we will ask for your contact information, including your full name, valid email address, telephone number, and physical street address. This information is essential for us to provide you with key services related to your purchases at our gift store, such as automated order status updates and shipping notifications delivered via email.
Order Processing
The majority of the information collected during registration is utilized to efficiently process your orders. When you proceed to place an order, you will be required to provide financial information to complete the transaction. This includes your credit card number, expiration date, or details for other payment methods like money orders, wire transfers, or checks. This financial information is strictly used for billing purposes and to ensure the accurate fulfillment of your order.
In situations where we encounter difficulties processing an order, the contact information you provided during registration allows us to promptly get in touch with you to resolve any issues. To securely process your credit card payments, it is necessary for us to share your personal and financial information with our merchant bank for transaction authorization and approval. This critical process is protected by an enhanced security system to safeguard your data. For more comprehensive details regarding our security measures, please refer to the Security section below. We want to assure you that we do not share your personal and financial details with any third parties, except those specifically mentioned in the Sharing section of this policy, ensuring your data privacy and security.
Use of Cookies
We employ cookies to customize your browsing experience on our website, tailoring web page content based on your browser type and other non-personal information provided by the cookie. While you have the option to reject cookies, please note that disabling cookies will prevent you from using the shopping cart feature to purchase items from our gift store. The functionality of the Tam Retail shopping cart is dependent on cookies to retain the necessary information for processing your order. Therefore, to ensure a smooth transaction, cookies must be enabled. Disabling cookies means Tam Retail will be unable to accept your online order.
We guarantee that no personally identifiable information obtained through cookies is shared with any third party. However, we do link the data stored in cookies to the personally identifiable information you voluntarily submit while on our site. This linkage enables us to personalize your shopping experience, understand user preferences, and create a familiar and reassuring online environment each time you visit our gift store.
Log Files
Our system utilizes IP addresses for several analytical purposes, including analyzing user trends, efficiently administering our site, tracking user navigation patterns, and gathering broad demographic information for aggregated, non-personal use. It is important to note that we do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information. Furthermore, we do not distribute or share IP information with any external third parties, ensuring your anonymity and privacy are maintained.
Information Sharing Practices
To effectively manage and enhance our business operations, we may engage third-party companies to perform specific functions on our behalf. These functions may include essential services such as order fulfillment, delivery of packages, marketing support, postal and email delivery, customer service provision, data analysis, and credit card processing. It is important to understand that these third-party companies are granted limited access to your personal information strictly to perform their contracted duties and are explicitly prohibited from using your information for any other purposes. We ensure that stringent contractual agreements are in place to protect your data when working with these partners.
In some instances, we may utilize framing or masking techniques to present another website in a way that visually and functionally simulates the browsing experience of our genuine Tam Retail web pages. We exercise extreme caution and discretion when considering the use of third-party sites for such purposes. We only proceed with branding third-party sites if the organizations behind them demonstrate and uphold stringent security and privacy practices that closely mirror our own deep commitment to providing a safe online shopping environment.
As part of the natural evolution of our business, there may be occasions where we acquire or divest business units or subsidiaries. In such scenarios, customer information is typically considered a valuable business asset and would be transferred as part of these transactions. However, in any such event, your personally identifiable information would continue to be protected and used only in a manner that is fully consistent with our pre-existing Privacy Notice, ensuring the continuity of our privacy commitments to you.
Finally, we reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information if legally required to do so. This may occur when we have a good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, comply with a judicial proceeding, respond to a court order, or fulfill any legal process served on our website. These disclosures are made with careful consideration and only when we believe there is a compelling legal or protective basis for doing so.
Testimonials Section
The testimonials section on the Tam Retail website is dedicated to providing a platform for customers to share their positive experiences with our gift store and products. To maintain the integrity and purpose of this section, all testimonials are moderated to ensure they are accurate and genuinely positive in nature. The testimonials published are authentic and are not subject to editing or alteration by Tam Retail. Tam Retail retains the right to decide whether to post or remove any testimonial at its discretion, ensuring the quality and relevance of content shared.
By choosing to post your comments or testimonials (“Testimonial”) on our website, you grant us permission to reprint or utilize the Testimonial in connection with our business operations and promotional activities. Furthermore, you agree to the following terms: (1) The decision to reprint or use the Testimonial is at our sole discretion and will be done without any obligation for compensation; (2) We may use the Testimonial with or without including a pseudo (pen) name credit; (3) Our right to use the Testimonial is perpetual and can be assigned by us to other parties; (4) We are authorized to use the Testimonial locally, nationally, or globally, and this use may occur across any media, information, or communication platform (including Internet advertising), whether currently in use or developed in the future; and (5) You confirm that you personally composed and posted the Testimonial and that it was not created or posted by someone else.
Beyond your pseudo (pen) name, which we may or may not choose to use, your personal contact information will not be disclosed in connection with our reprint or use of your Testimonial. We are committed to protecting your personal details while showcasing your positive feedback.
Policy Regarding Children
Tam Retail adheres to a strict policy regarding children’s privacy. We do not directly sell products intended for purchase by children. Any youth-oriented products available in our gift store are specifically offered for purchase by adults only. If you are under the age of 18, you are permitted to use the Tam Retail website only under the active supervision and with the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
Critically, we do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information via the Internet from children who are under the age of 13. Tam Retail is deeply committed to safeguarding the welfare and privacy of children and takes proactive measures to ensure their online safety within our digital platforms.
External Links
Our website provides links to other external sites for informational purposes and user convenience. However, it is important to be aware that Tam Retail does not exercise control over the privacy practices of these external sites and, therefore, cannot be held responsible for their privacy policies. We strongly encourage our users to be vigilant when they navigate away from our site. We recommend carefully reviewing the privacy statements of each and every website that you visit, particularly those that collect personally identifiable information. This privacy statement is exclusively applicable to the information collected directly by our website, reflecting our privacy practices alone.
