Privacy Statement
The Garden has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our
firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information
gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.grdn.com
IP Addresses
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to
administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and
your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information in the
interest of improving our site and service.
Cookies
A cookie is a unique identifier collected by the site to verify a return
visitor's identity, or to understand how visitors navigate the site. The
use of cookies is standard on the Internet and many major web sites use
them. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies; however, you can
usually change your browser to prevent or notify you whenever you are sent
a cookie. This gives you the chance to decide whether or not to accept the
cookie.
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The "cookie" itself does not tell us who you are, your
email address, or any other personal information. We use the
information it provides to help us improve the site and our
service, and to provide our visitors with a better experience,
while on the site.
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Even without accepting a cookie you can still access most of the
features on the site. There will, however, be limitations on your
use of some site functions. For example, if you choose to disable
cookies you will not be able to view your orders on-line, store or
update your user profile, or take advantage of promotional
discounts.
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Some of our business partners who provide services associated
with our site, like banner advertising or email promotions, may
use cookies. Since these partners set and read cookies using their
own servers, we have no access to, or control over them. However,
their cookies do not permit access to confidential personal
information about site visitors; rather they are used to keep
track of traffic to the site.
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Meet and Greet
Your personal information is collected and displayed as a personals
section of our website. All members have the ability to not show
their personal information. To contact another member you must be a
member, no exceptions will be allowed. We are not responsible for
people that are misinformed or abused by the meet and greet section, but
we will like to be notified and deal with the people if it does occur.
Please contact The Garden's web administrator at: webmaster@grdn.com
This service is provided free to all people who sign up for this service.
We do not modify or manage this service in anywhy unless directed for help by a member.
A member will recieve help for critical matter within a 24 hour time span from the origional request.
Your email can be used for mass event mailings.
If you do not use your Garden member's account for 6 months, all your
information will be permanently removed.
Photos and Images
For events and promotional reasons we take photos at certain times and post them in our gally section.
If you find your image on this website and would like to have it removed, you may email our
webmaster at webmaster@grdn.com.
We will have that image removed as soon as possible if we have all of the information needed.
Since our image library is quite large please provide the event and image name(s)
[right click on the image a view the properties to get the name].
If we do not have this information we will not remove that image.
The Garden is listed as a public place not a private establishment and we do not need special
permission to post photos.
The Garden has a mixed crowd of people, and a photo in the gallery is not indication of a persons sexual orientation.
Registration Forms
Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information
(like their name and e-mail address), financial information (like their
account or credit card numbers), and demographic information (like their
zip code and state). We use customer contact information from the
registration form to send the user information about our company. The
customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when
necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future e-mails; see the
choice/opt-out section below. Financial information that is collected is
used to check the users' qualifications for registration. Demographic and
profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to help us
improve this website and our service.
Business Partners
This site contains links to other sites. The Garden is not responsible for
the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Information collected on this web site is available to certain business
partners of The Garden. Each such business partner enters into a
confidentiality agreement with The Garden. This insures that data we
collect from our customers will not be sold, rented, or otherwise
distributed to parties unknown to The Garden; nor used for purposes other
then those expressly sanctioned by The Garden.
Order Forms
Our site uses an order form for customers to request information,
products, and services. We collect visitors' contact information (like
their e-mail address), financial information (like their account or credit
card numbers), and demographic information (like their zip code and
state). Contact information from the order form is used to send orders,
and information about our company. The customer's contact information is
also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary. Users may
opt-out of receiving future e-mails by going to the remove website page
listed on the bottom of some emails. We use this data to help us improve
this website and our service.
Online Surveys and Contests
From time to time, we may conduct online surveys to help us better
understand and serve the needs of our customers. Our online surveys may
ask visitors for contact information (like their e-mail address),
financial information (like their account or credit card numbers), and
demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income level). We
may use contact data from our surveys to send the user information about
our company. The customer's contact information is also used to contact
the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future e-mails
by going to the remove website page listed on the bottom of some emails.
From time to time, we may run contests on our site in which we ask
visitors for contact information (like their e-mail address), and
demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income level). The
customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when
necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future e-mails; see the
choice/opt-out section below. Unique identifiers are collected from Web
site visitors to verify the user's identity. We use this data to help us
improve this website and our service.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to choose how information you
provide to us can be used by The Garden. Those choices are described
below. Choices may be changed subsequently, at the user's discretion, by
using the Customer
Service/Profile Management section of the site. It gives users the
following options for telling us how you would like your information to be
used, or for changing and modifying information previously provided.