Privacy Policy
This privacy policy details how brand collects and uses the personal information our users have provide on our website, Shirtelephant.com. It also outlines what the available to you are regarding the use of your submitted personal information, and how you can access and update the said information.
COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our site collects the following personal information from you:
- Basic user contact Information and identification such as name, email address, mailing address, and phone number.
- Billing Information such as name and billing address
As is true of most web sites, we gather information about your computer automatically, which includes your IP address, browser type, entrance/exit pages, referring pages, and operating system, among others.
We use this information to:
- Fulfill your order
- Send your order confirmation
- Send the product or service information requested
- Send you product updates or information about your warranty
- Respond to customer service requests
- Administer your account
- Respond to your questions and other concerns
SPREAD THE WORD
If you would like to make use of our email tool to “spread the word” and tell your friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s email address. Our system will automatically send your friend a one-time email to invite them to visit ShirtelEphant. We do not store this information, and only use it for the sole purpose of sending the said one-time email invite. Your friend may contact us to request that we remove this information from our database.
FACEBOOK CONNECT OR OPEN ID
You can also log in to our website using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services will verify and authenticate your identity, which then will give you the choice to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form for faster signups. These services – like Facebook Connect – will give you the option to post information about your activities on this website to your profile page, to share with others within your network.
INFORMATION SHARING
We care about your personal information. We will only share your personal information with third parties in ways that are described in this privacy statement. We also do not, and will not sell your personal information to third parties.
If you choose to participate in a white-labeled enterprise campaign (identified by the enterprise having their logo in the top left of the campaign, as opposed to having the ShirtelEphant logo) we may share your name, email address and order breakdown (size and quantity) with the enterprise customers for continued contact. This information is protected by data encryption on our database and will only be decrypted to send to the enterprise client exclusively and securely. After this has been complete, the plain-text data is purged from our server. You can opt out of this marketing by contacting the white-labeled enterprise customer.
We may also opt to provide your personal information to companies that will provide services to help us with our business activities, such as shipping your order or offering customer service. These companies are authorized to use your personal information, but only as in its necessary use to provide these services to us.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- When required by law, to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process.
- When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, your safety, of others; investigate reported fraud, or respond to a request from the government.
- If ShirtelEphant is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of the entirety, or a portion of its assets, you will be notified through email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as your possible choices regarding your personal information.
- To any other third party, with your consent prior to us providing such.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We may also use cookies for various purposes. We use it, for example, to track your preferences and profile information. We also use it to collect general usage and volume statistical information, but doing so does not include personal information. We also use other companies to place cookies on your computer to collect non-personal information to compile aggregated statistics for us about visitors to our site, to guide us into serving our customers and visitors better.
We use local shared objects, also known as Flash cookies, to store your preferences such as displaying content based upon what you view on our site to personalize your visit. These third Parties, with whom we partner with to provide features on our site, or to personalize advertising upon your Web browsing activity, use Flash cookies to collect and store your information. These flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount, type, and how your data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies.
BEHAVIORAL TARGETING/RE-TARGETING
We partner with third party ad network/s to either display advertising banners and texts on our website or to manage our advertising on other sites our users visit. Our ad network partner uses cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests and web activities. If you wish to not have this information used to serve you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
Our website includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may be different from ours. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is subject to their respective privacy policies. We encourage you to read through the privacy policy of any Web site you visit thoroughly.
DATA RETENTION
We will store and retain your provided information as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you want to cancel your account or to request that we cease using your information to provide you services, please feel free to contact us. We will only retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
DELETION / DEACTIVATION
If you change your personal information, or if you desire to stop getting our service, you are allowed to correct, update, or remove it by changing it on our member information page, ringing us up on our phone numbers, or by dropping us a line through postal mail at the contact information listed below.
SECURITY
Securing your personal information is important to us. We abide and follow generally-accepted industry standards to protect our users personal information that was submitted and entrusted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms, we automatically encrypt the transmission of the said information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We also encrypt your information (customer information) in our database so that customers name and address is never stored in plain text. That said, do note that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, as much as we want to, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Please feel free to contact us if you have any concerns or other questions about security on our website.
We provide two ways for you to make purchase on our site: You may opt to use our order form, or make use of a third-party payment option. If you choose to use our shopping cart, the transmission of sensitive information collected on our order form is automatically encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and is processed by Authorize.net. If you choose to use a third party payment option, such as PayPal, to pay, their privacy policies and security practices will apply to your information. To make sure your information is secure, we encourage you to read their respective privacy policies before providing your information.
SOCIAL MEDIA FEATURES AND WIDGETS
Our website includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets. These widgets may collect your IP address, the page where you are viewing on our site, and may trigger a cookie for the Feature to function properly. These Social Media Features and Widgets are hosted either by a third party or directly on our Site. The interactions made with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
TESTIMONIALS
We love our customers and their feedback. To show appreciated, we display testimonials of some of our satisfied customers on our site in addition to other endorsements we gather. With your consent, we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you wish to edit, update, or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at [email protected]
NOTIFICATION OF PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices – its collection and implied usage. If we make any material changes to these policies, we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account), and/or by means of a notice on this site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the updates and the latest information on our privacy practices.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Email: [email protected]