This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which The Thoughtful Occasion collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from you in connection with your use of the site or other The Thoughtful Occasion services.  By utilizing the site you consent to our collection of such information.  This consent can be withdrawn at any time by contacting us at [email protected].  The Thoughtful Occasion is committed to safeguarding the information its customers entrust to it in compliance with applicable law. 

This site is designed for and targeted to U.S. audiences and is governed by and operated in accordance with U.S. laws.  If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please note that we endeavor to comply with the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), which give you certain additional rights, including among other things to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing.  For purposes of this policy, personal data is defined as information that can be used to directly or indirectly identify an individual, which may include names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and so forth (Personal Data).  In processing Personal Data we comply with the following guiding principles of the GDPR: 

1. Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: We obey the law, endeavor to process Personal Data in a way that people would reasonably expect and are open about our data protection practices;
2. Purpose limitation: we normally only process Personal Data for the specific reason it was collected;
3. Data minimization: We don’t process any more Personal Data than what is needed;
4. Accuracy: We try to make sure that any Personal Data held is accurate;
5. Storage Limitation: we don’t store Personal Data for longer than needed; and
6. Integrity and Confidentiality: we take reasonable steps to make sure that Personal Data is securely processes.

If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us, please contact us at [email protected]. If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes the GDPR, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.  

Contact Information:

The Thoughtful Occasion may collect Personal Data from you in a variety of ways, including through online forms and other instances where customers are invited to volunteer such information. Additionally, contact information may be collected during any correspondence relating to customer support, as well as in connection with products and services offered on the site. The Thoughtful Occasion keeps track of this information in order to give you a more enjoyable and convenient service experience, however it is not necessary to provide us with information in order to view The Thoughtful Occasion’s site. When you fill out our contact form you will be asked for your name and e-mail address so that we can provide you with the information you have requested. In addition, we use this information for internal purposes and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed to our staff and to third parties involved in the completion of your inquiry or the support of your use of the thethoughtfuloccasion.com web site, and it may be released when we are required to do so by law, court order, law enforcement authority or regulatory agency. We may use your e-mail address to contact you if we have questions about your inquiry. We may also use your e-mail address to notify you about new services or special promotional programs, or send you offers or information as authorized. E-mails are sent only to those who have chosen to receive them (opted-in). At any time, you may stop receiving these e-mails (opt out) if you desire. Under no circumstances will we use the information collected from you for anything else not described in this Privacy Policy.

Cookies:

The Thoughtful Occasion utilizes “cookies” in an effort to give you the best experience while visiting our site. Cookies are bits of electronic information placed over the Internet onto your computer. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server, which assigns a unique tracking number to each computer accessing our site and enables us to recognize and keep track of each user. Through cookies we can customize our site to your individual preferences in order to create a more personalized, convenient experience. Cookies let us know that you are a prior visitor, so that we may tailor information for you and provide certain features you might enjoy. We may share data captured via cookies with Google or our other third-party partners. However, if you wish, most browsers can be set to prevent cookies or to notify you when one is being placed. If you choose to prevent cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the web sites you visit. Although cookies are not necessary to view our site, The Thoughtful Occasion recommends their use for the best experience possible. 

Information We Collect:

In an effort to make The Thoughtful Occasion’s site as effective and enjoyable as possible, the computers that operate the site will collect certain information each time you visit the site and store these statistics. These statistics do not identify you personally, but will give us information regarding the type of user who is accessing the site and certain browsing activities of that user. Information collected in this way includes the IP address of the user accessing our site (i.e. the unique I.D. number of the user’s computer), the type of browser (Edge, Firefox, etc.) and operating system (system software) used to access our site, the website the user last visited before linking to our site, how long the user accessed our site in any given session, and the date and time of access. We may make extensive use of these non-personally identifiable aggregated data in order to understand how our site is being used and will share them with advertisers, sponsors, investors, strategic partners, and others in order to develop, promote, and expand our business.

Children’s Privacy and Parental Controls:

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13 years of age and our site is only intended for use by general audiences that are 13 or older. If you are not 13 or older, you are not authorized to use our site without the consent of your parent or legal guardian. Parents should be aware that there are parental control tools available online that you can use to prevent your children from submitting information online without parental permission or from accessing material that is harmful to minors.

How You Can Remove Yourself from Our Contact Lists:

Our mailing lists and e-mail notification are available on an opt-in basis. If you would like to opt out of all e-mail communication, click on the unsubscribe link in any of our emails or contact us at [email protected].

How You Can Access or Correct Information:

You may also contact us at [email protected]requesting access to or correction of your Personal Data.

With Whom Do We Share Your Information?

Information about our visitors is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information in the following ways and only as described in this policy.

1. Service Providers:

The Thoughtful Occasion may use various outside agencies (third party service providers) to make our web site operate as smoothly as possible. For example, we may use third parties to host our web site, operate various features made available on our web site, send e-mails, analyze data, provide search results and links, and assist in fulfilling your orders. Some of these third parties may need access to your information in order to make the services provided through our web site work. Information will only be disclosed to these service providers on a need to know basis, and they will only be permitted to use such information for the purpose of providing the particular services provided by such entities in connection with our web site. We may use third party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous.

2. Strategic Alliances:

From time to time, The Thoughtful Occasion may enter into strategic alliances to enhance and expand the scope of the services we are able to provide. Some of these strategic alliances may involve operating co-branded web sites or web pages with a strategic partner. When you see web sites or web pages that are co-branded with The Thoughtful Occasion (meaning it would have both The Thoughtful Occasion logo and the logo or trademarks of another organization), you should be aware that these sites’ privacy policies might vary from ours. Please consult the privacy policy of the web site you are visiting.

3. With Your Consent:

Other than as set forth in this policy, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

Is There Any Other Way That User Information Might Be Disclosed?

The Thoughtful Occasion may disclose information in order to comply with a subpoena, court order, administrative or governmental order, or any other requirement of law, or when The Thoughtful Occasion in its sole discretion, deems it necessary in order to protect our rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to fight fraud and credit risk reduction or to enforce or apply our web site terms of use. Personal Data may be transferred as an asset in connection with a merger or sale (including any transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change in control. Other than as described in this Privacy Policy, we will not share or disclose your information to anyone.

How We Protect Your Information:

The Thoughtful Occasion is committed to protecting the information we receive from you. We follow reasonable technical and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our web site reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved. We monitor our systems, which are protected using industry-standard security measures.  Our site encrypts your Personal Data using secure socket layer (SSL) technology to provide for the secure transmission of the information from your PC to our servers. In addition, only those employees who need access to your information in order to perform their duties are allowed such access. Any employee who violates our privacy and/or security policies may be subject to disciplinary action, including possible termination and civil and/or criminal prosecution. We use SSL and encryption technology, digital certificates, and authentication to ensure that your Personal Data is secure online. However, The Thoughtful Occasion cannot guarantee that the information submitted to, maintained on or transmitted from our systems will be completely secure.

Changes in Policy:

You acknowledge that this Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use and you unconditionally agree that using this site signifies your assent to The Thoughtful Occasion’s Privacy Policy.  If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our site. Your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages and application of the law of the Commonwealth of Virginia. If you have any concern about privacy at The Thoughtful Occasion, please send us a thorough description to [email protected], and we will try to resolve it. The Thoughtful Occasion reserves the right to change the terms of use and this Privacy Policy at any time in its sole discretion. We will post any changes so that you are always aware of our policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you. Please note: This Privacy Policy covers The Thoughtful Occasion’s web site, as well as our activities on the co-branded websites (joint websites containing our logo along with another organization’s) where this Policy is posted. Please check the privacy policy of the web site you are visiting since activities of The Thoughtful Occasion in connection with other co-branded web sites may be subject to different privacy policies.