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A Touch of the Tropics at HypnoticBlooms cares about your privacy. We want you to know exactly what personal information we collect and use. When you do business withA Touch of the Tropics at HypnoticBlooms,you are giving us your trust. We appreciate your business and we will protect your privacy completely. We will not sell, loan or share any of your information with any other party except as necessary to complete your order. This notice describes our privacy policy.

Secure transactions for A Touch of the Tropics at HypnoticBlooms are performed using a thawte Digital Certificate to ensure secure transmission of your information. Please see the details of our certificate by clicking on the thawte Trusted Site Seal at the bottom of this page.

Information You Give Us: We receive and store information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. We use the information you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, improving our store, and communicating with you. Statistics may be kept on the number and type of sales in a certain state, for example. If you have made an order, we will use the shipping and billing addresses to complete your request. We will use your email address to confirm orders, send loss passwords and to provide you with tracking information of your deliveries directly from shipping companies.

Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses our store. Examples of the information we have access to include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously and we want you to be aware that these tools exist.

Payment Information: We offer the following methods of payment, all with equivalent levels of security.

Visa or MasterCard: You may prefer to use your credit card directly through our secure payment processor. Your financial information is never stored in any part of our database or server. Your financial information is encrypted (see How to Know You Are on a Secured Site) and transmitted without ever pausing in our system. The total amount of your order will be reserved on your credit card at the time you make the order but your account will only charged after your order has been shipped.

Please note that it is quite common for a single website to have a mixture of secured and unsecured pages. Many of the informational pages within A Touch of the Tropics at HypnoticBlooms are unsecured as there is no reason to encrypt that information. As an example, the Privacy Policy page you are viewing now is a secured page. And, of course, inside our store all pages that display or accept personal or financial information are secured by thawte.

There are two methods to visually confirm you are doing business within a secured site. First, the URL (website address) will begin with https:// rather than the more common and unsecured http://. The second is the existence of a small padlock in the lower right corner of your browser window. If you double click on the padlock you will be able to verify the identity of the remote computer you are communicating with.

This website is secured using a thawte Digital Certificate. This ensures that all information you send to us via the World Wide Web will be encrypted. Please click on the thawte Trusted Site Seal at the bottom of this page which demonstrates our commitment to your security.