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Privacy Policy
Funerals and Flowers Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Funerals-and-Flowers.com. Your privacy on the Internet is of the
utmost importance to us. We want to make your online experience online safe and satisfying.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want you
to fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the
capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what
information we gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION WE GATHER AND TRACK
The Funerals and Flowers website gathers two types of information about
users:
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Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions.
These are voluntary submissions to receive electronic newsletters, to
participate in message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from your
participation in polls and surveys;
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Information
gathered through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by
tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to
better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers
and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because
the Funerals and Flowers website derives its revenue mainly from
sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data
is essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances
does the Funerals and Flowers website divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
Added 3/13/09
Google and the DoubleClick DART cookie: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on the
Funeral and Flowers website. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve
ads to you based on visits to the Funeral and Flowers website and other
sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and content network privacy policy.
The Funerals and Flowers
website may gather user information in the following processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We may offer the following
free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal
information by users:
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Electronic newsletters privacy policy
(Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. The Funerals and
Flowers website gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily
subscribe.
Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link
provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription
management page.
Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
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Message boards/forums privacy policy
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register separately for
these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages,
although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration the
user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.
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"E-mail this to a friend"
privacy policy
Our site users may choose to electronically forward a link, page, or
documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user
must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This
information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of
course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is
not used for any other purpose.
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Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their
opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important
issues.
Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not
identifiable to any particular user. The Funerals and Flowers website may
use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only
once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information
about individual users.
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Surveys
The Funerals and Flowers website may occasionally conduct user surveys to
better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the
aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors,
advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about
specific individuals with any third party.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998
(COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information
from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
The Funerals and Flowers website tracks user traffic patterns throughout all
of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. The Funerals and Flowers website does break down overall
usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME
type by reading this information from the browser string (information
contained in every user's browser).
The Funerals and Flowers website sometimes tracks and catalogs the search
terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never
associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine
which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those
areas.
We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page
performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your
computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although
it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you
have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information
a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read
data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. The
Funerals and Flowers website uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as
described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to
better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set
your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the
warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on
to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in
message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
Privacy Policy Use
How the information you gather is used if relevant.
USE OF INFORMATION
The Funerals and Flowers website uses any information voluntarily given by
our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to
provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better
prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order
to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in
polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to
subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and
occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be
particularly interested in something we are doing. The Funerals and Flowers
website never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties,
including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users
like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what
individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This
helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms
entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our
users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
The Funerals and Flowers website creates aggregate reports on user
demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners.
This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our
users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because
we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or
sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not
disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with
applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of
our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
The Funerals and Flowers website uses the above-described information to
tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better
understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our
service free. We will not share information about individual users with any
third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or
to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
The Funerals and Flowers website operates secure data networks protected by
industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and
privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and
only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our
customers.
OPT-OUT PRIVACY POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices
include:
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Opting not to register to
receive our electronic newsletters.
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Opting not to participate
in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to
gather any personally identifiable information from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this
information by Funerals-and-Flowers.com. If we decide to change our privacy
policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances
we disclose it.
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