Because of our commitment to our users’ privacy, we want to fully disclose our information practices to our users and members. This privacy statement will inform you about:
- What personally identifiable information we collect about you.
- How we use the information.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact
us. We want to know about your concerns.
In order to make the best use of this Web site, we suggest completing
the registration form. During registration, you will be required to provide
contact information such as your name and e-mail address. We use this
information to contact you about livestock & dry good specials,
also new information or products available on our site in which you
have expressed an interest. We do not ask about or collect information
about your gender, race, marital status, income or other demographic
information. We do collect unique identifiers such as a username (consisting
of your e-mail address) and a password. These are used to protect your
information from unauthorized access by others and to allow FragCity
Corals to offer you a more personalized experience of this site. You
may update your information at any time.
Information Collection
The company that owns this site is the sole owner of the information
collected on this site.
To allow us to follow up requests for information, orders, complaints,
praise, suggestions and other requests, we require information about
how to contact you. If you are a member, this information will be taken
from your member registration information. If you are not a member of
this site, you will be requested to provide this information before
you can submit a contact form. If you do not wish to provide this information,
please use the phone number or address at the bottom of the page to
contact us.
We request contact information from the user on our order form. If you
are a member, this information will be taken from your member information.
Otherwise, you will be required to register in order to use any online
order forms available on this site. If you do not wish to register,
please use the phone number or contact information at the bottom of
this page.
To process your order, we will also require financial information (such
as a credit card number, expiration date, etc.). This information is
used for billing purposes and to fill your order. If we have trouble
processing an order, the information is used to contact you.
In several places on this Web site, we provide you with the ability
to add articles, listings, and other content to this site. This information
will be available for public display, together with your display name
which consists of the first letter of your first name and your last
name, city, and state. If you are not comfortable having this information
displayed, please do not post it here. By adding information, you are
agreeing to have it published on this site and are providing us with
unrestricted use and access to this information. If you are adding information
that you have already published elsewhere, please include the copyright
information in the space provided and be certain that you are legally
free to give us unrestricted use and access to this information. By
adding this information, you are warranting that you have the right
to grant us unrestricted use and that you are not infringing any copyrights
or other protections by doing so. You further agree to indemify and
hold this site harmless from any claims of copyright infringement or
other claims resulting from the display or use of this information.
To allow you and other visitors to enjoy this site and to give you a
more personalized site experience, we store information that we collect
through cookies, log files, clear gifs,
and/or third parties to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored
information that details the pages that you visit on this site and the
information that you like to see. This information may be linked to
your contact information, but most commonly we use this only as part
of an aggregate view of all site visitors. Where we link this information
to your membership information, it is used to provide offers and improve
the content of the site for you by tailoring our Web site to your needs
and preferences. We do not share your profile with other third parties
except as part of our site development effort. Our site developers and/or
advertising and promotion contractors are permitted access to all information
collected on this site, but use it only to assist us in building, maintaining,
and promoting this site and the software that powers it. Except in this
context and in order processing, your profile is shared in aggregate
form only, without personally identifiable information.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer tied to information
about you. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable
information while on our site. We use both session ID cookies and persistent
cookies. For the session ID cookie, once you close the browser, the cookie
simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on
your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can
be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. By setting
a cookie on our site, we can recognize whether you are already a member
and simply need to log in to access information or site services, or
whether you need to register before using this site. We also pass information
from one form to another, or from one page to another to save you time
and effort. If you reject the cookies that we try to place on your computer,
you will experience unexpected errors in using this site. You may still
use some areas of the site, but will be unable to add informaton to
this site or use any extended or restricted services. Some of our business
partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However,
we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given
permission for them to set cookies for advertising.
Third Party Advertising
We reserve the right to include advertising on this Web site. Any ads
appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by a third party ad
company, your Web advertising partner, or by our site developer. Information
about your visit to this site, such as the number of times you have
viewed an ad (but not your user name, address, or other personal information),
is used to determine which ads will be displayed.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by this site only and
does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet
protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP),
referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of
clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement
in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Special Offers and Updates
We send all new members a welcoming e-mail to verify password and username.
Established members will occasionally receive information on products,
services, special deals, and a newsletter.
Service Announcements
On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related
announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for
maintenance we might send users an e-mail.
Customer Service
We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services
and in regard to issues relating to their order we reply via e-mail
or phone, in accordance with your wishes.
Sharing of Information
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to
disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a
good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current
judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web
site.
