Privacy Policy
Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. This document discloses our information gathering and usage practices. For additional information about Summerpet Online Store, please review our Terms and Conditions.
Use of your information
Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) collects personal information about you through your use of the Services and the Website, including your registration details and information relating to your use of the Website and the content you access (like items you have viewed and the search queries you input).
Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) may use this personal information to help us provide the Services to you, to verify your identity, to enforce or apply our terms and conditions, to protect the rights, property, or safety of Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd), our users, or others, for internal research purposes, for promoting and marketing other Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) products and Services to you, and for any other use that you authorise.
We release account and other personal information only when we believe release is appropriate for legal compliance and law enforcement (including to government agencies with statutory law enforcement responsibilities); to facilitate court proceedings; enforce or apply our terms and conditions; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd), our users, or others. Government agencies with statutory roles enabling them to request data from us includes but is not restricted to Police, IRD and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Members can contact Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) to ask whether such information has been provided.
Where Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) contracts third parties to undertake various services, we may provide those third parties with personal information required to fulfil those services. These contracted services may include sending you letters for address verification, or conducting research for Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) to ensure the Services we provide you are relevant and personalised to your interests. Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) may also use third party customer relationship management services to manage customer agreements, enquiries, and generate reports for internal use. We will require any third party to undertake strict precautions to protect any personal information against unauthorised use or disclosure.
If you wish to take Dispute Tribunal proceedings against another member, you can contact Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) or the Disputes Tribunal for a statutory declaration, requesting contact details for the sole purpose of making a claim.
It is the policy of Summerept Limited to send our members email throughout the purchasing process and other email they elect to receive, in addition to customary business communications (payment confirmations, etc.). Further, it is our policy to immediately remove any member from any mailing list upon the member's request. In addition, Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) will send newsletters and other communications to members. Newsletters will contain clear and obvious instructions for how the member can remove himself or herself from that mailing list.
We do use email as a means of receiving feedback from our members, and we encourage you to email us with your questions or comments.
Emailing tools
Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) provides facilities throughout the site to refer a friend to Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) or to send references to a specific listing to a friend. We do not permanently store, sell, or rent these email messages or the email addresses.
Membership registration
Our site's registration form requires you to provide us contact information and may also require demographic information. We may use your contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company and promotional material from some of our affiliated partners. Your contact information is also used to contact you when necessary.
Updating your personal information
Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) provides you with ways in which you can update your personal information, including changing your email address, password, phone number, etc. Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) will store previous email addresses against your profile to ensure compliance with our Terms and Conditions - specifically the use of one account per member.
Delivery address details
Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) enables you to save one or more of your delivery addresses which we will store against your profile. When you buy an item you have the option of selecting a delivery address which we will then send to us.
Payment instructions setup
Summerpet Online Store (Summerpet Ltd) send a standard payment instructions email to the successful buyer.
Control of your password
You are responsible for all purchasing taken with your user name, email address and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your registered password to any third parties. If you choose to share your user name, email address and password or your information with third parties to provide you additional services, you are responsible for all actions taken with this information and therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Ensure you logout when you have finished visiting Summerpet online store, especially if you access Summerpet Online Store from a shared computer.
Credit and debit card security
We work diligently to protect the security of your personal information, including credit and debit card information.
We protect your credit and debit card information during transmission by using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, which encrypts your information when transmitted over the Internet. Summerpet Online Store does not retain card details. However they may be held by either Direct Payment Solutions (DPS) - review their Privacy Policy - or PayPal - review their Privacy Policy - depending on which provider processes the transaction.
Cookies and local storage
Summerpet Online Store uses various technologies, including cookies and local storage, to collect and store information about you when you visit Summerpet Online Store.
Cookies and local storage allow us to store information (including your personal information) in a file on the device you use to access Summerpet Online Store. We use cookies and local storage to deliver information and fresh content specific to your interests and to improve the experience of using Summerpet Online Store. Cookies and local storage are widely used.
Summerpet Online Store uses "session" cookies to temporarily store information to help you use Summerpet Online Store. This information is used to deliver the right content to you as you use Summerpet Online Store and avoids unnecessarily asking you to log in. Session cookies expire immediately when you close your browser or are deleted after 30 minutes of no activity on Summerpet Online Store.
Summerpet Online Store also uses "persistent" cookies and local storage to personalise the user experience, to help protect our members and to provide us with research information (such as how often members visit Summerpet Online Store each month). Persistent cookies allow us to track users on Summerpet Online Store and helps us identify users abusing the Summerpet Online Store service. A persistent auto-login cookie is also stored when you select the "remember me" option when logging in. The auto-login cookie is removed if you log out.
Summerpet Online Store also participates in Google's AdWords pay-per-click advertising programme. AdWords advertisements appear on Google's search result pages and on the Google Display Network. Summerpet Online Store ads may also appear on other websites in the Google Display Network. Google uses cookies to target ads to you, including to measure the number of Google users that click on certain advertisements and visit certain Summerpet Online Store pages, or who complete certain actions on Summerpet Online Store (like adding an item to a Watchlist).
Google provides this data to Summerpet Online Store without identifying users. View Google's privacy policy.
Advertising and third party links
Some Summerpet Online Store advertisers may request information directly from users, or link to sites that do so. Summerpet Online Store has no control over its advertisers' privacy policies, and encourages users to review such policies prior to submitting any personal information to them.
Summerpet Online Store contains non-advertising links to a variety of third party sites to enhance the member experience. Summerpet Online Store has no control of either the content or privacy policies of such sites, nor should such links be considered an endorsement of these sites except where otherwise noted.
In some cases, third party advertisers may also use cookies in certain advertisements that appear on the website for advertising purposes, or collect information in the course of advertising being served. For example, Summerpet Online Store participates in Google AdSense advertising, and as part of this, Google may use cookies in order to reduce the number of times you see the same ad.
Summerpet Online Store also uses the services of SAS to deliver display advertisements intended to be relevant to your interests, based on the information you have provided to us through the use of any of our Services.
Summerpet Online Store uses Google remarketing to serve relevant ads to you after you leave our website. When you visit pages on our website, Google may place a cookie on your browser. Then when you later visit another website in the Google Display Network, you may see relevant ads from Summerpet Online Store. You can opt out of Google's use of these cookies by visiting Google's Ads Preferences Manager. View Google's advertising privacy policies.
Summerpet Online Store also makes advertising space available through the DoubleClick AdExchange to other advertisers. If those advertisers use remarketing, you may see ads related to other websites you have previously visited.
Membership removal
If you wish to have your registration removed from our directory for any reason, you may send us an email requesting this.
Internet statistics and analytics
Summerpet Online Store uses Google Analytics to better understand the behaviour of visitors to our website, and to improve our website. For example, it helps us to identify how many users visit a particular page, and how many take a further step, such as bidding. We have opted out of Google Analytics' data sharing settings. For more information, view Google Analytics' information on safeguarding your data.
Updates to our information practices
From time to time, we make changes to our information practices or alter the functionality of our website. We always update this statement accordingly, so we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on privacy practices at Summerpet Online Store.
If you have any questions about our privacy policies or any other matter, please contact us.