BarkItUpCafe.COM
Privacy Policy

This is the privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), effective as of August 28, 2006, for the Web site located at http://www.barkitupcafe.com (the “Site”) made available by Bark It Up Café and Nicholas Gasiorowski, the legal owner of the Site, (“Bark It Up Cafe”, “we”, “us” or “our”). This Privacy Policy sets forth our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of certain information relating to your use of the Site. Your use of this Site signifies your understanding and acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Bark It Up Café understands and respects your concerns about privacy. We created this Privacy Policy to provide you with notice of what information Bark It Up Cafemay collect, how such information may be used or shared with third parties, and how such information relates to the operation of our Site. We collect no personally identifiable information about you when you visit our site unless you choose to provide that information to us or as specifically outlined in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is subject to the Terms of Use (the “Terms of Use”) posted on the Site.

This Privacy Policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our customers’ needs. As we update and diversify our products and services, this Privacy Policy may evolve. Please check this page for updates periodically. We will try to post any changes to this Privacy Policy before they become effective. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here. You are responsible for checking this page periodically for changes and updates to the Privacy Policy. Your use of the Site following any posted changes to the Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of such changes.

By providing any personal information to this Site, you fully understand and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in the United States and/or any other country.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or wish to exclude your personal information from our direct marketing purposes, please feel free to contact us at nick@barkitupcafe.com or by writing to us at Bark It Up Café , Attn: Privacy Policy, 287 Mc Intosh Almont MI 48003-8786.

What personally identifiable information Bark It Up Cafe collects from you, and how Bark It Up Cafe uses the information

Bark It Up Cafe collects the personal information that you enter in the fields to create an account with our Site. This information may include your legal name, email address, physical address, telephone number(s), user identification name, user password and other self-identifying information. We collect this information in order to provide you with our products and services more easily, and in a more personalized manner.

Bark It Up Cafe also may request certain information using online order forms for products and services. On the order forms, we may collect contact information, financial information, demographic information, method of payment and, if applicable, a credit or debit card number. We may also collect information about the searches you perform and the pages you visit on the Site. Bark It Up Cafe may also monitor, on an anonymous aggregate basis, patterns of use in connection with emails that it sends out, including which links are clicked on in our email communications, so that we may use such information to better personalize the content of the Site and our mailings for our users. All such information will be protected in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Bark It Up Cafe reserves the right to request any additional information necessary to establish and maintain your account for use of the Site.

If you elect to receive our newsletter, Bark It Up Cafe may use your information to send you promotional materials about bark It up Cafe. We may also use your information to contact you about an order if necessary.

With whom your information may be shared

Bark It Up Cafe will not sell, rent, barter or disclose your personal information other than to its business partners as set forth herein. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, Bark It up Cafe’s “business partners” include (i) Hostway Corporation, the party responsible for hosting this Site, (ii) PayPal Corp., the party responsible for processing credit and debit card transaction on this Site, and (iii) the United States Postal Service and any other shipping carriers that we elect to use to send you your ordered products. In each instance, Bark It Up Café will only disclose as much information as is necessary for a designated business partner to perform its obligations for our Site and on your behalf.

Each of our business partners has a posted privacy policy and we encourage you to review them if you have any particular questions or concerns. Each partner must agree to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of your information in order to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.

In the event that Bark It Up Café is merged, or in the event of a transfer of our assets, Site or operations, Bark It Up Café may disclose or transfer your personal information in connection with such transaction. In the event of such a transfer, Bark It Up Café will notify you via email or by posting a prominent notice on our Site of any such change in ownership of Bark It Up Cafe resulting in a change of control of your personal information.

We reserve the right to disclose any information if such action is necessary (a) to conform to the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process or subpoena served on Bark It Up Cafe, (b) to protect and defend the legal rights or property of Bark It UP Cafe, the Site, or its users, or (c) in an emergency, to protect the health and safety of its users or the general public. We further reserve the right to release any information concerning any user if that user participates (or is reasonably suspected of participating) in any illegal activity, even without a subpoena, warrant, or other court order. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who may be using our servers or services for illegal activities. We also reserve the right to report any suspected illegal activity to law enforcement for investigation or prosecution.

You should also be aware that courts of equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, may have the authority under certain circumstances to permit your personal information to be shared or transferred to third parties without your permission.

By providing any personal information to us, you fully understand and unambiguously consent to the transfer of such personal information to, and the collection and processing of such personal information in, the United States and other countries or territories. Your personal information will be stored and processed on our business partners’ computers in the United States. The laws on holding personal information in the United States may vary and be less stringent than laws of your state or country. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to hold and transmit your personal information in a safe, confidential and secure environment. If you object to your personal information being transferred or used in this manner please do not register with or use the Site.

What choices you have regarding the collection, use and distribution of your information

If you submit an account registration form with the box for newsletters checked, you thereby consent to being placed on Bark It Up Cafe mailing list. You may subsequently contact us to request to be removed from this list. In every update that we send, we may include an option to discontinue receipt of future updates. Bark It Up Café reserves the right to limit or reject any account registration on our Site to users who do not agree to accept our information or who refuse to provide any information required by Bark It Up Cafe during the registration process.

Regardless of whether or not you elect to receive newsletters or promotional or marketing correspondence from us, such election will not: (a) preclude us from corresponding with you, by email or otherwise, regarding your existing or past relationship with us, and (b) preclude us or our business partners from accessing and viewing your personal information in the course of maintaining and improving the Site.

What cookies are, and how Bark It Up Cafe uses them

As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, Bark It Up Café uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. All portions of the Site that prompt you to log in or that are customizable require that you accept cookies. We may use cookies technology to reduce the time required for you to submit your requests and for Bark It Up Cafe to respond to such requests. Cookies will not be used by us to retrieve any information about you, or from your computer, that you have not voluntarily given to us. Cookies may also be placed on your computer when you link from the Site to our partners’ Web sites. Cookies placed on your computer by third parties by or through the Site, if any, are not within Bark It Up Café immediate control and are not subject to the Terms of Use. If you have any questions concerning third-party cookies, please contact the third party placing such cookies to find out what information is collected and how it is used. Bark It Up Cafe ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY COOKIES.

Please be aware that although you may be able to elect not to accept cookies through certain browser functionality, the features of our Site may not function properly if you do not accept cookies.

How Bark It Up Café protects your personal information

Bark It Up Cafe utilizes GeoTrust encryption technology (including 128-bit SSL or Secure Socket Layer encryption) to securely process your financial information and PayPal employs its own secure encryption technology when processing orders on our behalf. In addition, where appropriate, we password protect. Hostway stores personal information for our Site on a secure server, and uses procedures designed to protect the personal information we collect from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.

Although we will take (and require our business partners to take) reasonable security precautions regarding your personal information collected from and stored on the Site, because of the open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that any of your personal information stored on Hostway’s servers, or transmitted to or from a user, will be free from unauthorized access, and we disclaim any liability for any theft or loss of, unauthorized access or damage to, or interception of any data or communications. By using the Site, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.

How you can access, update or delete your information

As part of your use of the Site, you are responsible for maintaining and updating, as applicable, your account registration data with current, accurate and complete information. You may view, update and/or edit such registration data that you previously provided to Bark It Up Café by logging in to your account and following the appropriate instructions provided therein.

What else you should know about your online privacy

The Site may also contain links to other Web sites and advertising. The privacy policies of other Web site operators or advertisers may significantly differ from our Privacy Policy. We urge you to contact third party Web site operators or advertisers directly if you have any questions or concerns about their data collection or privacy policies. Bark It Up Cafe ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY WEB SITE OPERATORS’ OR ADVERTISERS’ DATA COLLECTION PRACTICES OR THEIR FAILURE TO ABIDE BY THEIR PRIVACY POLICIES.

How you can contact us

Any questions about our Privacy Policy should be directed to:

Bark It Up Cafe
Attn: Privacy Policy
287 Mc Intosh, Almont MI 48003



nick@barkitupcafe.com