Privacy Policy

We at BreedTrader want our users to thoroughly understand our policies. If there are any questions or further necessary information needed please contact us through one of the above methods. Your privacy is very important to us. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. Please read this privacy policy to better understand our protection of your personal information.

By visiting this website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree please do not use or access our Site.

By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement when purchasing your site, you expressly consent to our use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you are under the age of 18, you may only purchase through this Site in conjunction with and under the supervision of your parents or guardians. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the BreedTrader User Agreement. This Privacy Policy is effective upon use of this site, and is otherwise effective on May 13th, 2004 for all users.

We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary to set up your site. If you choose to use our services, we may require you to provide contact and identity information, billing information, shipping information and other personal information as indicated on the sign up forms on our site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. We may additionally use your credit card information to verify the accuracy of your name, address, and other information, as well as to bill you for your use of our services.

We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the Site. We use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and our community. Our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible). This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on the Site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on the Site or not), your computer browser information, and your IP address. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties. We use cookies to record session information.

Your personal information may be used to measure consumer interest in our products and services, inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; collect fees owed to BreedTrader specifically; enforce our User Agreement; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. With respect to Ad Servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies

You agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize the site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve the site and better tailor it to meet your needs, so as to provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while using the site.

If you establish a credit account with us to pay the fees we charge, we collect some additional information, such as a billing address, a credit card number and a credit card expiration date and tracking information from checks or money orders. We use your personal information to facilitate the services you request. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line.

We may use third parties that we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of the business, product and service operations that we provide to you (e.g., search technology, bill collection, co-branded credit cards, credit card account information) and therefore we may provide some of your personal information directly to these internal service providers. Additionally we may supply unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or password) , transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about our customers.

These internal service providers' are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use of the information we provide them for any other purpose except to facilitate the specific outsourced BreedTrader related operation, unless you have explicitly agreed or given your prior permission to them for additional uses.

In some instances, the internal service provider may collect information directly from you (such as for BreedTrader surveys or for a co-branded credit card). In these cases, you will be notified of the involvement of the internal service provider, and all additional information you provide them and their additional uses will be strictly up to you. If you provide additional information to an internal service provider directly, then their use of your personal information is governed by their applicable privacy policy.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

You agree that we may use your personal information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Site. By accepting the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive these communications, we encourage you to opt out of the receipt of certain communications by e-mail, writing, or phone notification using the above information.

Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, financial information, unique identifiers, communications that the consumer/visitor has directed to the site. Consumers can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, writing to us at the above address.

As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any of your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We go to great lengths to ensure our customer’s privacy.

Use of your user I.D. and password provided by BreedTrader is your responsibility. Be cautious. If more than one person (being you) has use of your password you are responsible for what they enter or amend on your site. It is best to never give out your password to ensure the security of your information and business.

BreedTrader cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights, to help protect you and the BreedTrader community from fraud. Therefore, in response to a verified request by law enforcement or other government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your name, city, state, telephone number, email address, UserID history, fraud complaint, and usage history without a subpoena. Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community free from fraud, we will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement or other government officials without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to: prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss; or report suspected illegal activity. Further, it is at our sole discretion if believed necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity to disclose any information.

Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose personal information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the Site. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.

Your information is stored on BreedTraders servers, located in the United States. We use procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy, we treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We always use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site, we have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

We want our customers to thoroughly understand our Privacy Policy. We take the privacy of customer information very seriously. If further inquiries are necessary please contact us at the above phone number, e-mail, or postal address.

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amend terms on the site. All amended terms shall automatically be effective immediately after they are initially posted on the Site. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.