Privacy

Your privacy is critically important to us.

At Thinking Of You we have a few fundamental principles:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
• In our blogging products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

We’ve decided to make make use of the privacy policy of Automattic, Inc., which is available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license.

If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team.

Thinking Of You operates the website ThinkingOfYouGift.com  It is Thinking Of You’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Thinking Of You collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Thinking Of You’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Thinking Of You’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Thinking Of You may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Thinking Of You also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. Thinking Of You only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Thinking Of You’s websites choose to interact with Thinking Of You in ways that require Thinking Of You to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Thinking Of You gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask those who engage in transactions with Thinking Of You – by purchasing breath ballons, for example – to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Thinking Of You collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Thinking Of You. Thinking Of You does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Thinking Of You may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Thinking Of You may monitor the most popular blogs on the ThinkingOfYouGift.com site. Thinking Of You may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Thinking Of You does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Thinking Of You discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that:

    (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Thinking Of You’s behalf or to provide services available at Thinking Of You’s websites, and 

    (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Thinking Of You’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. 

Thinking Of You will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Thinking Of You discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Thinking Of You believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Thinking Of You, third parties or the public at large. 

If you are a registered user of an Thinking Of You website and have supplied your email address, Thinking Of You may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Thinking Of You and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.

 If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Thinking Of You takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Thinking Of You uses cookies to help Thinking Of You identify and track visitors, their usage of Thinking Of You website, and their website access preferences. Thinking Of You visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Thinking Of You’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Thinking Of You’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Thinking Of You, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Thinking Of You goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Thinking Of You may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Thinking Of You and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to our Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives or missed spam, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives and missed spam.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Thinking Of You may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Thinking Of You’s sole discretion. Thinking Of You encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a WordPress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Change log:

16-Jan-2017: Initial version