Laughing My Tail Off privacy policy

LAUGHING MY TAIL OFF ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY

Thank you for visiting the Privacy Policy page of Laughing My Tail Off, LLC ("LMTO"). LMTO values your right of privacy, and wants you to feel comfortable using its website at http://www.laughingmytailoff.com (the "LMTO Website" or "Website"). By using and/or visiting the LMTO Website, you signify your assent to the terms of this Privacy Policy, which was last updated on May 1, 2004.

1. LMTO Website. This Privacy Policy applies solely to the LMTO Website, which may contain links to third party websites that are not owned or controlled by LMTO. LMTO has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party website. LMTO will not and cannot censor or edit the content of any third party site. By using the Website, you relieve LMTO from any and all liability arising from your use of any third party website.

2. What Type of Information Do We Collect?

(1) Passive Information. When you visit the LMTO Website, we may collect passive information about your visit. Passive information is any form of aggregate data, navigational data, tracking data, click-stream data, or historical data, which does not personally identify you. We do not associate this data with any personally identifiable information you provide us.

(2) Personally Identifiable Information. We may also collect the following personally identifiable information should you voluntarily submit it to LMTO, through the LMTO Website or otherwise: your first and last name, your billing and shipping address, your email address, your telephone number, your credit card information. LMTO provides you with the ability to "opt-out" of certain uses of such personally identifiable information.

3. Maintenance & Opt-Out Of Information. If you wish to change your personally identifiable information, or wish to opt-out of our use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information, other than as expressly permitted in this Privacy Policy, please contact us through one of the following means:

Email address: http://www.laughingmytailoff.com/

Physical Address:

Laughing My Tail Off
Attn: Online Privacy Manager
P.O. Box 5539
Irvine, CA 92616
Telephone: (800) 990-5686

4. How Do We Use Or Share Information? If you have opted out of more general use of your personally identifiable information, LMTO will not use or disclose your personally identifiable information except as follows:

to communicate directly with you in connection with your specific requests;
to validate credit card numbers;
to ship goods you have ordered from us;
to comply with a lawful subpoena or court order;
to remedy any violation or breach of an agreement between you and LMTO; or
to prevent harm to the property or rights of LMTO or its customers.

If you have not "opted-out" of our use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information, LMTO may also use such information for its own marketing and survey purposes.

We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, which may include assisting us in processing your information, for example shippers, or our provider of e-commerce services, Godaddy.com, Inc. We share personally identifiable information with such contractors in order to assist us in using the data for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. These contractors are contractually required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are restricted from using the information for any unauthorized purpose.

5. Aggregate Information. LMTO may share aggregate statistical information with business partners, sponsors or other third parties, but we do not provide them with personally identifiable information. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of visitors visited a certain area on a website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women bought leashes, but we would not disclose anything that uniquely identifies those individuals.

The Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the Website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. By using the Website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

6. Unsolicited Emails Received by You. LMTO endeavors not to send unsolicited email to anyone who has opted out of their receipt. If you have inadvertently received one of our emails after opting out, or if you simply wish to stop receiving them, please follow the instructions contained in the email or send a request to be unsubscribed to http://www.laughingmytailoff.com/.

7. Cookies. We may use "cookies" to enhance your experience with the Website. If enabled in your browser, cookies may store small amounts of data on your computer that enable us to customize our content according to your preferences. Cookies tell us nothing about you personally, unless you specifically give us additional information. You can also disable cookies by modifying your browser preferences.

8. Security. Some pages of the LMTO Website may use security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of information that is transmitted through the Website. These pages use Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") connections with at least 128-bit encryption for certain transactions and confidential data. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit, and you do so at your own risk.

9. Children's Online Privacy Protection. The LMTO Website complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). LMTO does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately delete the information from our servers. If you want to notify us of our receipt of information by children under 13, please do so by emailing us at http://www.laughingmytailoff.com/.

10. Changes To This Policy. This Privacy Policy may evolve as our business changes over time. Should our Policy change, we will immediately publish the amended Policy on the LMTO Website. Accordingly, we recommend that you check our Website frequently to view recent changes or updates. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.