NO! Never! No exceptions at all! All personal information you send to us will only be used by Pine Cone Gifts to best fulfill your order, and inform you about the status of your purchase (shipping, tracking information, etc... ). We store your information on our own secure servers and do not share it with others for other purposes than to fulfill your order.
In order to better provide you with numerous products and services, Pine Cone Gifts collects two types of information about its visitors: Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Our primary goal in collecting information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience while using our site.
Personally Identifiable Information: This refers to information that lets us know the specifics of who you are. Personal information is requested when you register and set up an account, order a product or service, register for a Gift certificate, enter contests or sweepstakes, fill out surveys, and send us feedback. For example, this information might include your name, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card or other payment information, and product details. With this information, Pine Cone Gifts can fill your orders and better provide you with personalized services.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information: This refers to information that does not by itself identify a specific individual. We gather certain information about you based upon where you shop on our site in several ways. This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis. For example, this information may include the Web site's URL that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your IP address. Computers require IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the Internet, browse and shop.
On an aggregated basis, we collect anonymous data related to the pages, products, downloads and other content that is sampled, clicked on, streamed, searched for, transferred from and downloaded. Except as otherwise limited in this Policy, we may disclose, sell, trade, or rent Non-Personally Identifiable Information to others without your consent.
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide Pine Cone Gifts's visitors with a superior customized online experience. We use the customer contact information to fill orders, contact purchasers to inform them of their order status, to send promotional information, to enhance the operation of our site and administer our systems. Demographic data also may be collected at our site from third party advertising servers, content servers, or web site analysis agents who provide us with the zip code and area code associated with a visitor's server, along with pages viewed on our site. We review the actions of the Pine Cone Gifts visitors on an aggregate basis to determine customers' preferences. Pine Cone Gifts also does research on our visitors' demographics, interests, and pages viewed based on the information provided to us during ordering, a promotion, from our server log files, from our web site analysis agents, or from contests, drawings or surveys. We will use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site use, to improve our product offerings, and to customize our site's content, layout, and services. We receive reports from third party ad servers, content servers, or web site analysis agents that tells us how many ads were presented and clicked upon or what content was served or viewed.
Shopping: We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to gather broad demographic information, to enable ads to be served on our site, to report Non-Personally Identifiable Information to our advertisers, and to monitor the level of activity on our site. We collect information from visitors to our site regarding the URLs they came from, domain types (e.g., .com or .org), their IP addresses, the date and time of their visit or order, the number of visits and orders, the number of visits per browsing session, the server type, the operating system and browser type used to come to the site, the country, state and telephone area code where their servers are located, the pages and page titles of our site that visitors viewed during their visit, whether the visitor's computer is enabled for Java or cookies, browser language, applications and plug-ins, and any search terms entered on our site.
Ordering: When you order from us, we collect personally identifiable information from you. If you order one of our products or services, we will collect and maintain your name, e-mail address, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, product selections, credit card or other payment information, order number, referring URL, IP address, page you bought from and a password. We collect this, and other information, as disclosed in this Policy, in order to fill your order, to communicate with you about your order and to send you promotional materials. Before confirming your order, you will have the opportunity to review the product order form and make changes and additions to the information it contained and these changes will be automatically kept for future use.
Gift Certificates: If you purchase a gift certificate from our site, you will give us the recipient's name and e-mail address if you wish to send the certificate by e-mail. If you wish to send a certificate by regular mail, you will give us the name, mailing information and phone number for the recipient. The recipient information you give us will only be used to send the gift certificate and for no other purpose.
Online Surveys and Polling: In order to improve our services to you, we ask some of our customers to voluntarily complete surveys, which may be collected by an independent third party. Individual survey answers are confidential, although Non-Personally Identifiable Information is collected and disclosed to third parties. If you do not wish to participate in a survey, simply decline to participate when asked.
Contests and Sweepstakes: When you enter a contest or other promotion, we may ask you for contact information such as your name, address and e-mail address in order to administer the contest, to send you promotional e-mails, notify winners and make the winners' list publicly available pursuant to certain states' laws. Your consent to such promotional use and disclosure of this information is a condition of your participation. As a condition of receiving any prize, you will be required to submit an Affidavit of Eligibility, for us to ensure that you are eligible to receive the prize according to the Contest Rules.
Newsletters & Promotional E-mails: We offer free newsletters and promotional e-mails as a service to our customers. We will send you newsletters and e-mails periodically listing current specials and deals. To stop receiving our newsletter, click here to Un-subscribe.
Contact Information and Third Party Data: If you contact Pine Cone Gifts or our customer service representatives by telephone, e-mail or letter, we may keep a record of your correspondence or comments. If you report a problem with our site, we may collect such information in a file specific to you. If you contact us through our feedback area or by calling one of our customer service representatives, we may ask for your name, e-mail address and order information in order to send you a reply.
Affiliate Program: Our Affiliate Program is administered by a third party, on a third party's Web site. Any information collected by them is not governed by this Policy.
Web Site Use: We also track customers' traffic patterns throughout their online session, including which pages, information and advertisements a customer views while using the site and what items they place in their basket or purchase. We use your IP address to diagnose problems with our servers, software, to administer our site and to gather demographic information. We may share aggregated statistics about pages viewed on our site, sales and other shopping information with third parties. (This does not include your personal information
Fulfillment: The information collected by Pine Cone Gifts, is used for processing orders, keeping you informed about your order status, for statistical purposes, for improving our site and its performance, to serve ads, and to notify you of products or special offers that may be of interest to you. We will disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties to charge your credit card, fill your order, deliver your order, provide customer service and deliver promotional e-mails to you from Pine Cone Gifts. For example, we must release your credit card information to the card-issuing bank to confirm payment; and release your address and telephone information to the delivery service to deliver products that you ordered.
Other Parties Generally: We may provide Non-Personally Identifiable Information about our customers' sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to third parties, but these statistics do NOT include any Personally Identifiable Information. We may release account information when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Terms of Use or to protect the rights, property, and safety of Pine Cone Gifts, our users, or others. If customers do not pay us for products ordered, we may submit their account information to a third party collection agency.
Data Analysis Agents: The information collected by or for Pine Cone Gifts may be provided to an outside company for the purpose of analysis. That analysis is to help us to improve our site and product selection, and to notify you of special offers that may be of interest to you. That data analysis agent may not share any Personally Identifiable Information with others, or use it for any other purpose than to help Pine Cone Gifts.
Compliance with Service of Process or Law Enforcement: Occasionally Pine Cone Gifts may be asked by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide Personally Identifiable Information to the appropriate governmental authorities. We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information upon receipt of a court order, subpoena, or to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation, without prior notice to you. Pine Cone Gifts fully cooperates with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we believe to be unlawful.
Sweepstakes and Drawings: Where you enter a sweepstakes, drawing or other promotion, we may provide entry information, including name, address, email address and age to the company providing the prize or sponsoring the promotion. They may use your Personally Identifiable Information to send you marketing or promotional materials or other communications.
Sale of the Company: Pine Cone Gifts and its affiliated companies each reserve the right to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information in the event that any such company is sold, in whole or in part, either as an entire corporate entity or through an asset sale that includes a customer information database. This right is reserved whether or not the customer database is sold independently of any continuing operations of such company.
In order to most efficiently serve you, credit card transactions and order fulfillment are handled by established third party banking, processing agents and distribution institutions. They receive the information needed to verify and authorize your credit card or other payment information and to process and ship your order. Within Pine Cone Gifts, your information is kept on password protected, limited access servers. Wherever possible and applicable, Pine Cone Gifts servers reside behind a corporate firewall that maintains controls on access to the system from both our internal network and the Internet.
For each product, you are given information about how many points the purchase of the product will give you, and how many points you need to purchase the product. When the product is added to the shopping cart, the points earnable by the purchase of the products are shown. In the checkout screen, you are given a choice to pay by points. After clicking on continue, you may choose to use any number of points of the available points in your account. If you decide to change the number of points used in the order, you may choose to pay by points again and add or subtract more points from the order. After the order is processed successfully, the invoice shown on the screen, as well as the invoice sent to you will have information about the value of the points used.
Yes, if the total number of points you use does not cover the entire cost, you are presented back to the checkout screen with information by the amount of points used as well as a choice to pick another payment method to complete the order.
Yes, but you must first make a user account with Pine Cone Gifts and then you must finish the checkout process. Pine Cone Gifts points are fully automated, when you finish the checkout process and payment is received, you will automatically have the earned points added to your user account.
Yes, Pine Cone Gifts offers one Free Gift Wrapping with each purchase! Each additional Gift Wrapping is only $3.00 each. Just Click Here and add it to your shopping cart.
Yes, even though Pine Cone Gifts's checkout is 100% secure you may pay by phone with your Visa or Mastercard or pay by mail with a Money Order or Personal Check. We also offer PayPal for PayPal members. It is not necessary to use the checkout to order by phone, fax or mail but it is recommended if you want to use Pine Cone Gifts's online orders history and points rewards. Order by phone: Finish checkout by choosing Phone Ordering, when order received we will call you for your credit card information. Order by fax: Finish checkout by choosing Fax Ordering, fax Order Number and your Visa or Mastercard information (card type, full name, card number, expiration date, CVV2 number) to 360-297-6721. Order by mail: Finish checkout by choosing either Money Order or Personal Check, mail Money Order or Personal Check with Order Number to Pine Cone Gifts Store, 8202 NE State Hwy Suite 103, Kingston, Wa 98346. Order using PayPal: Finish checkout by choosing PayPal and you will be forwarded to PayPal's website to make your payment and forwarded back to Pine Cone Gifts for your invoice.
Pine Cone Gifts automatically computes and displays shipping charges whenever you place an item in your shopping cart by simply entering in the destination zip code. Those charges are calculated based on your location relative to the source of shipping plus a $1.00 handling charge. Shipping charges are waved automatically when your shopping carts combined subtotal, before taxes and shipping charges, equals $125.01 or above.
Pine Cone Gifts ships orders the following business day from order received, depending on stock availability. Stock availability is indicated in each product description on our web site. Some Pine Cone Gifts products are available by pre-order only. Lead times on pre-ordered products will be stated in product descriptions. Pine Cone Gifts does not ship on Saturday, Sunday or holidays. Please allow an additional 1 to 2 business days for weekend orders.
Pine Cone Gifts ships within the continental United States only. At this time we are unable to process International shipments and orders going to Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
At Pine Cone Gifts, we promise that your information is secure.
We promise to protect your personal information. Any page at Pine Cone Gifts that asks you for personal information is highly secure. Our secure servers protect your information using advanced encryption and firewall technology throughout the ordering process. Most browsers will show a lock icon in the bottom status bar on secure pages. Look for this icon on any web page that asks for your personal information.
To further ensure your security, we use state-of-the-art(Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to protect your personal information from unauthorized use.
Fig 1: Look for the "https://www.pineconegifts.com/....." line on your address bar when placing an order (note the "s" after "http")
Fig 2: Look for the SSL secured lock icon located in or next to the address bar and on some browsers at the bottom right corner. (note the location depends on which browser you are using)
