By visiting this site, you agree to the terms of this policy as they may be amended from time to time. As we update and expand our services, this policy may change, so check back to this page from time to time.
Purpose
Your privacy is a serious matter to BG&G Enterprises. Sometimes we may ask you for personal information. Please take a few minutes to read our privacy policy so that you understand how we treat your personal information.
User Provided Information & Site Usage Information
We use the information that you provide us for responding to your requests, customizing the material presented to you based on your past visits to our web site, to communicate with you, and to improve the content of our web site. The primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you customized services, features and content, and give you an efficient personalized experience that best meets your needs. Personal information collected for the purpose of placing an order at BG&G Gift shop is taken over a secure server. Please read our shop policy for more information. Your personal information is never rented, sold, or shared with third parties. This site contains links to other sites not owned or managed by BG&G Enterprises. BG&G Enterprises is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites.
Attention Kids
If you are under the age of 13 (12 or younger), you may not provide any information about yourself to this Site. While you may view content on the Site, you may not register with the Site, enter any of our sweepstakes or contests, or participate in any of our chat rooms, bulletin boards or other activities that would let you enter information about yourself. If we learn that you have provided information about yourself to this Site, we will delete such information.
Note to Parents
BG&G Enterprises will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from kids under 13. If you have any concerns about this Site or its related services, wish to find out if your child is a member of one of our services, or wish to cancel your child's membership (13 or over), please contact us at support@bgge.com.
Cookies
We try to provide you with services, products and offers customized to your interests. In order to do that, we use "cookies" to keep, and sometimes track, information about you. Cookies are small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not gather any Personally Identifying Information about you; they simply track where you travel on the BG&G Enterprises site and what you look at. In doing so, a cookie may enable us to relate your use of the web site to Personally Identifying Information that has already been submitted. Many other web sites use cookies for very similar purposes.
Most web browsers can be set to inform you when a cookie has been sent to you and provide you with the opportunity to refuse that cookie. Refusing a cookie will not interfere with your use of a BG&G Enterprise site. You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. These cookies are sent from third-party computers and are subject to such third parties' policies.
IP Address
Our server automatically collects data about your server's domain address when you visit us. This information, known as an Internet Protocol address, or IP Address, is a number that's automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider whenever you're on the Web. When you request pages from BG&G Enterprises, our servers log your IP Address. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us, e.g., a search engine. Our server cannot automatically record your name or address.
How is the Information Used?
We will use the Personal Information you provide to our Web sites to fulfill a specific purpose. For example, Personal Information will be used to enter you in a sweepstakes or contest, to send to an e-newsletter or fulfill a product or service order. We may also use your Personal Information to maintain our internal record keeping. In addition, we may send you e-mail notices about products, services, companies and events that we think might interest you. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings from us by following the instructions in the e-mail you receive from us or sending an e-mail to the e-mail address provided in the Opt-out section below.
We use cookies to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver better and more personalized services; estimate our audience size for our advertisers; assist in processing items in your shopping basket; track the number of entries in our promotions, sweepstakes and contests; and identify which areas of our site you have visited. We analyze this data both in the aggregate and in connection with individual users. This information lets us give you the services you want that are connected with your interests.
Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider (i.e. AOL, Earthlink, etc.). Furthermore, if will be used to report abusive activity when using some of our services such as, but not limited to, our "Business Link Directory" and "Your Community" message board. In the event of abusive activity, your IP address will be permanently banned and reported to the proper authorities.
Right to Opt-Out
You have the right to "opt-out" of certain uses of your Personal Information. At the time you are requested to provide Personal Information on this Site you will automatically be placed in our newsletter database. The same is true when family, friends, and associates uses the "recommend us" feature. However, you will be able to opt-out of future promotional material. You may also make this request by sending an e-mail to support@bgge.com. In this e-mail, please use "Unsubscribe Me" in the subject line. BG&G Enterprises has a NO SPAM policy. Please understand that if you opt-out of receiving newsletters from us, we may still contact you by e-mail in connection with any account you may have with us.
E-mail
If you contact BG&G Enterprises by e-mail, you should be aware that e-mail transmission might not be secure. A third party could view information you send by e-mail in transit. BG&G Enterprises has no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties during transmission.
Legal Authorities
We may disclose user information to government authorities at our discretion. We also may disclose user information when we have reason to believe that someone is causing injury to or interference with our rights or property, other BG&G Enterprises site users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
Business Transfer
In the event that BG&G Enterprises or substantially all of its assets are acquired by one or more third parties as a result of a merger, sale, consolidation or liquidation, customer Personal Information may be one of the transferred assets.
Consent to Processing
By providing Personal Information to this site, you understand and consent to the collection, maintenance, processing and transfer of such information in and to the United States and other countries and territories.
Access to Other Sites Through BG&G Enterprises Website
When you are on a BG&G Enterprises page, you will have the opportunity to visit, or link to, other sites not operated by us. These sites, some of which are BG&G Enterprises' advertisers and partners, may collect personally identifiable information about you. BG&G Enterprises does not control sites that are operated by others and is not responsible for the information practices of these sites and this privacy statement does not address the information practices of those web sites or advertisers.
BG&G Enterprise's Right to Change this Policy
BG&G Enterprises reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy, or any other BG&G Enterprises policy or practice, at any time without notice to any users of BG&G Enterprises websites Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to the website.
Security/Enforcement
BG&G Enterprises will take reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of all personal information provided to BG&G Enterprise's website. However, due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle, BG&G Enterprises. cannot guarantee that this information will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers. Any unauthorized access to or use of the BG&G Enterprises website or information collected and maintained by BG&G Enterprises website should be immediately brought to the attention of BJ Gray at the customer service e-mail address above. BG&G Enterprises will investigate, and if necessary take action to prevent or halt, any violation of this Privacy Policy of which it becomes aware.
REMEMBER - DO NOT DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION IN CHAT ROOMS, THROUGH VOICE CHAT OR ON MESSAGE BOARDS. WHENEVER YOU DO SO, ALL OF THAT INFORMATION CAN BE COLLECTED AND USED BY OTHERS. IF YOU POST PERSONAL INFORMATION IN PUBLIC PLACES, OTHERS MAY SEND YOU UNSOLICITED E-MAIL MESSAGES. BE CAREFUL AND BE SMART WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. | 
