Privacy Policy      




  

                                    

Hippiepad.com is strongly committed to protecting your privacy.  Please read our complete Privacy Policy below and contact us if you have any questions.


COLLECTION AND TRACKING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may browse our site without revealing your identity or personal information.  However, we may collect your IP address, referring web site address, web site traffic statistics, and other related marketing data in order to do marketing analysis, gauge user trends to determine what parts of our site are most popular with users, and to enhance our services for you.

We only collect personal information such as your email address, first name, and demographic information such as age, gender, city, state, and country, which are optional, when you choose to sign up to receive promotional email notification of special sales and information about new products.   A user may, at any time, opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us by clicking on "unsubscribe" links in each of our emails.

Other personal information, such as name, email address, mailing address, and transaction information is collected and stored in our records when you purchase any items from us and are used only in regards to the sale and shipping of those items.


THIRD PARTIES

You should be aware that this Privacy Policy does not apply to information users consent to give to third parties not affiliated with Hippiepad.com.  Any information users give to another party is governed by the rules of that party's privacy policy, which may differ from our Privacy Policy.  Hippiepad.com is not responsible for information given to other parties.  Please review their privacy policies prior to providing any information to third parties.

Banner ads displayed in our web site are provided by our partners, which are outside companies.  We use a reputable third party to serve some or all of the advertisements placed within our site.  Although we may receive a fee from our partners when you access their services, we never give out your name or personal information at any time without your permission.

We may, at times, provide information to advertisers about our users such as demographic, age, and usage information.  This allows us to work with our advertisers to provide content and offers that are more relevant to our users.  We never include any personal information from our users in these reports.


DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your personal information will never be sold, rented, leased, or disclosed in any manner to any person or agency without your consent, unless required by law.  We reserve the right to disclose personal information without notice or consent to satisfy any law, regulation, or legal request; to carry out our policies, conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches of law; to protect the integrity of our site and our property; to protect the rights, property, and safety of our visitors or others; to fulfill your requests; or to cooperate in any legal investigation.  To protect your privacy we will not disclose your personal information to any governement agency or law enforcement official, or any other third party, without a court order, search warrant, subpoena, or other reasonable instrument of due process, except when we believe that the disclosure of said information is necessary to prevent the physical and/or financial harm of another.  We will respond in the same manner to a relevant discovery order in a civil litigation setting.


USE OF COOKIES

Your browser offers "cookies" which store small amounts of data on your computer when you visit a web site.  They do not contain any personal information about you.  They only assist us in tracking which parts of our web site you like best.  Cookies also enable us to customize our content according to your preferences.  You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser.  Our web site is viewable if you disable cookies on your browser, but if you do so it may interfere with your use of our site by making some advanced or customized features of our site unavailable to you.

Banner ads displayed in our web site by outside companies also contain cookies.  Cookies received with banner ads are collected by our advertisers
and we do not have access to this information.  As stated above, we use a reputable third party to serve some or all of the advertisements that are placed within our site and they may use information (not including personally identifiable information) about your visits to our site to assist in serving relevant advertisements to you.


VISITORS FROM OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES

Our web site and the servers that make this site available worldwide are located in the United States.  Any information you provide will be transferred to and stored in the United States.  By visiting our site and submitting information, you authorize this transfer.


AMENDMENTS TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We will occasionally amend this Privacy Policy to maintain the highest protection for our users and to comply with changing laws and/or regulations. Please check our policy regularly to be sure you are informed of and understand any changes.  All amendments will take effect no more than 30 days after they are posted on our site.  We will not make changes in how we handle previously collected personal information unless legally required to do so.


CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please email us at: hippiepad@cox.net.

Or you may contact us by telephone at:
(480) 219-0114                                                                   


Effective 09/01/08