**Privacy Policy for Schades Tree Service**
Effective Date: 1/1/24
At Schades Tree Service, we are dedicated to safeguarding your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you use our services or visit our website at https://www.schadestreeservice.com.
**1. Information We Collect**
When you visit our site or engage our tree trimming services, we may collect the following types of information:
- **Personal Identification Information**: This includes your name, email address, telephone number, physical address, and any other information you provide when you contact us via email, phone, or through our contact form on the website.
- **Payment Information**: If you make a transaction with Schades Tree Service, we will collect information necessary to process the payment. We do not store credit card information - this is processed and held by our third-party payment processors.
- **Technical Information**: When you visit our website, we may collect non-identifying information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and information about your site usage.
**2. How We Use Your Information**
We use your information to:
- Provide and manage the tree trimming services you have requested.
- Communicate with you about your service requests, questions, and comments.
- Process payments for our services.
- Improve our website and service offerings.
- Comply with applicable laws and regulations.
**3. Information Sharing**
Your personal information is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described below:
- **Service Providers**: We engage other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include processing payments, sending postal mail and email, and providing customer service. These service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but may not use it for other purposes.
- **Business Transfers**: If Schades Tree Service is involved in a sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, or similar event, your information may be part of the transferred assets.
- **Legal Compliance**: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Schades Tree Service, our users, or others.
**4. Your Rights**
You may choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. You also have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you.
- Request the correction or deletion of any personal information we have about you.
- Express any concerns you have about our use of your information.
**5. Security Measures**
We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error-free, so please take care in deciding what information you send to us in this way.
**6. Changes to This Policy**
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date of the last revision will always be included at the top of this policy.
**7. Contact Us**
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, you can contact us using the following details:
- Email: schadestreeservice@yahoo.com
- Phone: 440-882-3838
- Website: https://www.schadestreeservice.com
