Privacy Policy Home | User Agreement | Site Rules | Contact Us Your Privacy. VetReviewsOnline.com believes that trust is an important component of the service we provide to our customers. To ensure that we earn and keep that trust, VetReviewsOnline.com makes every effort to protect your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information. This Privacy Policy is provided to inform you about VetReviewsOnline.com's collection, use and disclosure of information you choose to share with us through this site. This Privacy Policy is considered to be a part of VetReviewsOnline.com's User Agreement. By using this site you agree to the terms and conditions of the User Agreement, including this Privacy Policy. By using this site, you are also consenting to VetReviewsOnline.com's privacy practices, including the use and disclosure of any personally identifiable information that you have shared with us, as described in this Privacy Policy. Minor's Privacy. This site is not targeted towards, or intended for use by anyone under the age of 18. By using this site you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older. We reserve the right to terminate your subscription in the event that VetReviewsOnline.com becomes aware you are under 18. Persons under 18 may not submit any personally identifiable information to us, and if we discover that we have inadvertently gathered such information, we will take the appropriate steps to delete it. What Information We Collect Use of Information by VetReviewsOnline.com. Information you provide to us through this site is used by VetReviewsOnline.com to operate this site, provide you with information and services you request, and to communicate with you. We may, for example, use information you provide to target ads that we think you may be interested in, or send emails to you including newsletters and alerts. Your information may also be used to contact you when necessary (such as to assist you in your use of this site). You may always choose not to provide us with this information; however, this may limit our ability to provide you with a specific service. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time (see the Choice/Opt-Out section below); however, you may not opt-out of some administrative emails (such as emails about User Agreement changes) while you are a subscriber with us. Sharing and Disclosure of Information Third party ad servers (including DoubleClick) may place or recognize a cookie and, using the cookie or otherwise, collect and use data from your visits to this site and other websites to serve ads to you. For more about DoubleClick's practices and your options regarding their data collection and use, see DoubleClick's Privacy Policy. Other. We may share your information with our affiliates, consultants, vendors and service providers, who assist us in maintaining this site and providing related services such as online registration for events. Other Disclosures. In addition, we may share data with any parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and other companies under a common control or acquirers. As our business evolves, VetReviewsOnline.com may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including personally identifiable information, in connection with a merger, reorganization, or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy. In such an event, personal and anonymous information may be one of the assets transferred. We may disclose information when required by law or under the good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to conform to applicable law, comply with legal process served on VetReviewsOnline.com, or to protect the property or interests of VetReviewsOnline.com, its agents and employees, personal safety, or the public. Under such circumstances, VetReviewsOnline.com may be prohibited by law, court order or other legal process from providing notice of the disclosure, and VetReviewsOnline.com reserves the right not to provide such notice in its sole discretion. Other Use and Disclosure of Information for this site Your review ratings and trust statements are displayed publicly. Your subscriber name is automatically displayed with reviews and comments you publish. We, and our licensees, can republish your content as described in our User Agreement. We publish product ratings and use them to develop aggregate ratings, personalize site views and merchandise products. We use your review ratings and web of trust to personalize site views and identify/feature popular subscribers. Email Tools. If you send emails through our site, your email will include your email address and any personal message you include. Although we do not retain, in any easily-retrievable way, the addresses that you are emailing, these emails are not private communications. Also, you may not use these tools to send spam or content that violates the User Agreement. Feedback. We may ask for your feedback through a survey, and we may use the results for our internal development and marketing research. We may also share the results with our affiliates, consultants, vendors and service providers. Links to Other Sites. This site contain links to other web sites. VetReviewsOnline.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites. If you have concerns about how other web sites collect and use information about you, make sure to read that site's own privacy policy. Changing or Deleting Information About You. Registered subscribers may update or edit personal information or delete their membership account by accessing their Member Profile or Account information. We try to implement changes to our databases as quickly as possible. However, not all databases may be updated immediately, and some old data may remain in our archives and records. Also, we may be unable to send changes you make to partners, vendors or third party service providers who have already received your data or content. If your account or membership is being terminated or suspended, we may maintain some data to prevent re-registration. We will retain in our files information you have requested to delete in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, analyze programs and enforce our User Agreement. Furthermore, such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored "back up" systems. Choice/Opt-Out of VetReviewsOnline.com Email Communications. At any time (and except for administrative emails discussed above), you have the ability to opt-out of receiving communications from VetReviewsOnline.com and our partners. To unsubscribe from the VetReviewsOnline.com email newsletter, contact Customer Support and let us know that you would like to discontinue this service. In addition, each of our email messages contains a link at the bottom of the email for purposes of adjusting your email subscription preferences or to be removed from our mailing list. Notification of Changes. This Privacy Policy may be revised over time as our business grows and evolves. We will post any new privacy policy, along with the date of its last revision, prominently so that you will always know what information we gather, how we use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. Please check this site regularly for information about revisions to our privacy policy. Anti-Spam Policy. VetReviewsOnline.com is 100% opposed to unsolicited commercial email or spam. We do not send emails to anyone without permission and we do not sell or provide email addresses to any unauthorized third party. If you receive any unsolicited emails from spammers, please be assured that VetReviewsOnline.com did not provide your email addresses to such parties. This does not mean that we can prevent spam from happening on the Internet. If you believe that you have received an unsolicited email from us, please contact our Privacy Department and we will investigate. |
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