Privacy Policy

THEBUGSYSHOP.COM is committed to respecting your privacy and recognizes your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you share with us. THEBUGSYSHOP.COM has established this Privacy Policy to let you know what information we may collect from you on the publicly available portion of THEBUGSYSHOP.COM (the “Site”) and through various other interactions with you, and how we may use and share that information. Please take a moment to review the terms of our Privacy Policy. By using the Site and/or providing us with Personal Information, you agree to accept the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site or provide us with any Personal Information. This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect on the Site and to information which we may collect by other “offline” means, including, without limitation, sales calls and other business transactions. A description of the information we collect on behalf of our advertiser clients through our advertising services is set out in our Notice of Marketing Practices.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Information We May Collect

Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, a home, business, or other physical address, a phone number, and an email address. We collect Personal Information from our Site users and customers only when such information is voluntarily provided to us, including, without limitation, in connection with inquiries about our services through the “Contact Us” page, as part of signing up for our email subscriptions, or in the process of your business transactions with us. To make our content more relevant to you, we may also ask for information about your present place of employment, such as company name, size, industry sector and number of employees. We also offer a variety of email subscriptions where you can get information about online marketing and promotions and special offers. You can subscribe to these emails and you can manage your email preferences. If you become a customer of THEBUGSYSHOP.COM Services, we will always retain the right to email you regarding the Site or services that we’re providing to you.

How We May Use Your Information

If you provide us with Personal Information, we may retain and use that information for several purposes, including facilitating and otherwise addressing your inquiry, request, subscriptions, or business transactions and relationship with THEBUGSYSHOP.COM Services. For example, we may use your Personal Information to respond to your questions or requests for information about THEBUGSYSHOP.COM Services. We may also use Personal Information to ensure compliance with our policies and applicable law.

With Whom We May Share Your Information

We may sometimes use other businesses to perform certain services for us, such as maintaining the Site and our e-mail services and processing inquiries. We may provide Personal Information to those businesses when that information is necessary for them to complete a requested transaction or otherwise perform their duties. THEBUGSYSHOP.COM Services will take reasonable steps to ensure that these third-party service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on THEBUGSYSHOP.COM Services’ behalf. THEBUGSYSHOP.COM Services will not sell or share your Personal Information with any unaffiliated third parties for marketing purposes. If THEBUGSYSHOP.COM Services or all its assets are acquired, all the data collected by THEBUGSYSHOP.COM Services through the Site and through other means and services provided by THEBUGSYSHOP.COM Services would be among the transferred assets. We reserve the right to disclose such information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other visitors, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. We also reserve the right to disclose such information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

Non-Personal Information

From time to time, we may collect general, non-personal, statistical information about the use of the Site, such as what sites visitors are coming from when they visit our Site, when they first visited our Site, their IP address, how many visitors visit a specific page on the Site, how long they stay on that page and which hyperlinks, if any, they “click” on. We may use the IP address to infer information about such visitor, including its company, city and state. We collect this information using “cookies” and other tracking technologies. We collect this information to determine which areas of the Site are most popular and to enhance the Site for visitors. We may group this information into aggregate visitor data to describe the use of the Site to our existing or potential business partners, sponsors, advertisers, or other third parties, or in response to a government request. However, please be assured that this aggregate data will in no way personally identify you or any other visitors to the Site.

COOKIES USED

THEBUGSYSHOP.COM Services collects data through cookies, web logs, web beacons (also known as pixel gifs or action tags) and other monitoring technologies to enhance your browsing experience on our website. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive to collect information about your activities on our website. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users or within an email for transferring information and are not stored on your computer. We use cookies and web beacons to deliver our ads, improve and measure the usability, track visits from our affiliates and partners, performance and effectiveness of our Website, improve and measure the effectiveness of our marketing programs, learn how customers use our website, estimate our audience size, and to customize your browsing experience. Examples of the type of information that we collect through these collection devices, includes: total visitors to the website, pages viewed, unique visitors, time spent on our Website and on certain web pages, etc. We may authorize third parties to use cookies, web beacons and other monitoring technologies to compile information about the use of the Website or interaction with advertisements that appear on the Website. We do have access or control over these cookies. We do not link the information we store in cookies or collect from web beacons to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. We use session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period. You are always free to decline cookies if your browser permits (You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file); although, by declining the use of cookies you may not be able to use certain features on the Website.

SECURITY NOTICE

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. We restrict access to personal information to THEBUGSYSHOP.COM Services employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

CHILDREN'S POLICY

This Site is not intended for use by children under 14. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under 14 years of age. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 14, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICIES

The terms of this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy by posting a notice on the homepage of the Site for a reasonable period after such changes are made that this Privacy Policy has been updated and by changing the “Last Modified” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

CORRESPONDANCE

If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence, including your email address. This relates to your correspondence with us only – we do not gather users’ email addresses as part of our online agency business.

If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at 

Contact@TheBugsyShop.Com, or Shop@TheBugsyShop.Com

We hope this information shows that we TREAT YOU WELL!!!

Joanne Cooper, CEO The Bugsy Shop

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