Privacy Policy

Policies

The Policies, Terms and Conditions described below govern the use of this site referred to as “site” or “shady-maple.com”. Your placement of any order and/or use indicates your acceptance of these Conditions.

Privacy Policy

We, “Shady-Maple.com” endeavor to keep your personal information private and secure. When you subscribe to our birthday club, loyalty club, and/or make a purchase from our site, you provide your name, address, email address, credit card information and phone number. We use this information to process your requests/orders, to keep you updated on your orders and to personalize your shopping experience. Customer information will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company, without the consent of the customer, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested by the customer.

Our secure servers protect your information using advanced encryption techniques and firewall technology. Customer will not receive any continual email solicitation from Shady Maple, unless the customer consents to the solicitation when creating their account or by subscribing to such solicitation.

Collecting and Tracking Visitor Information

Shady Maple collects two types of information about users:

•Information users provided through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in loyalty clubs, birthday clubs, our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:

•Information Shady Maple gathers through tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our websites. This information allows us to better tailor our content and our advertising to user’s needs.

Children

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Usage tracking

Shady Maple tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our websites. We do break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

Shady Maple sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that user’s enter in our Search function. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

Cookies

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Shady Maple does use cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates. Our advertising system and our product recommendation feature may use cookies to collect information on the pages you visit on our site to provide personalized recommendations.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.

Privacy on Links and Other Web Sites

Other sites accessible through our site have their own data collection practices and/or privacy policies. Please consult each site to view their privacy policy. We, “Shady-Maple.com” will not be responsible for the actions of third parties. This site contains links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third parties. You acknowledge that Shady-Maple.com is not responsible for the operation of or content located on or through any such site.