PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® ASSOCIATES LLC WORLDWIDE WEBSITE PRIVACY STATEMENT

PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® respects your privacy and is committed to protecting any personal information that you provide to us. We intend to use such information in order to support your relationship with PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional®, to provide you with additional information on our product/service offerings and to assist us in continually improving and updating our product/service offering. To ensure accuracy and security, PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® reviews and updates this Privacy Policy from time to time as needed without notice. Therefore, you should review the terms of this policy periodically to make sure that you are aware of how PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® collects and uses personal information. By accessing and making use of PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional®’s Website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional®.

1. Personal Information. In general, you can visit our Website without providing us with any personal information. However, there are instances where we must have your personal information in order for us to grant you an access to certain password protected or secured areas. PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® may retain this information in order to keep track of the domains from which people visit us, to create a user profile to better serve you or to simply contact you either electronically or otherwise. If you decide that we should not use such personal information to contact you, please let us know and we will not use that information for such purpose. However, please do not submit any such information if you are less than 18 years of age. PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® does not knowingly solicit or collect information from individuals who are under the age of 13.

2. Usernames and Passwords. Access to certain content on our Website may require a username and/or password. In some cases, failure to provide personal information may prevent you from accessing certain PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® Website(s), information, products, services, options or promotional offers. By accessing and using our Website, you agree to maintain the confidentiality of the username and password you receive from PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® and consent to the Terms of Use.

3. Cookies. PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® uses "cookies". A cookie is a small data file that a Website can transfer to a visitor's hard drive to keep records of the visits to such Website. A cookie contains information such as your username and password that helps us recognize the pages you have visited and improve future visits, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is the information that you provide yourself. A cookie cannot read data off of your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. Information stored in cookies is encrypted. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator) to warn you before accepting cookies or you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your web browser. Even without accepting a cookie, you can still access most of the features on our Website, but we cannot guarantee that all of our Website will be available to you.

4. Disclosure of User Information. PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® does not generally sell, trade or transfer personal information to third parties. However, we may share such information with our business partners for product/service promotional purposes, or for quality assurance or control. We may also share this information with others if: we have your consent; we need to share it in order to provide you with the products and/or services you requested; we respond to a court order or request from a governmental agency or you violate our Terms of Use. You may separately agree to provide your personal information to third parties that provide content for PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® offerings, in order to use their products and/or services. If you agree to provide information to these third parties, then your personal information will be subject to their Privacy Policies.

5. External LINKS. This Website may provide links to other sites that are not maintained by PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional®. Even if such a third party is affiliated with PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® through a business partnership or otherwise, PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices or the content of such external links. When you conduct transactions with other companies providing content via this Website, you will be subject to their Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policies.

6. Terms of Use. Please also see PAWS Premium®'s Terms of Use, which describes the use, disclaimers, indemnification and limitation of liability governing the use of the entire PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® Website.

If you have questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact the PAWS Premium™ and PAWS Professional® office in Skokie, Illinois.

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