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We are committed to providing you with excellent service.
Because we respect your right to privacy, we have developed this Privacy
Statement to inform you about our privacy practices for the entire Happy
Birdy web site. As we update and improve our services, new
features may require modifications to this Privacy Statement. Any
changes to this Privacy Statement will be posted here with the effective
date at the bottom of this page.
OVERVIEW
Privacy is of great concern when using the Internet, and is a
critical part of an enjoyable and satisfactory visiting experience. We
are acutely aware of and sensitive to the privacy
concerns of our subscribers and visitors to our web site. We assure you
that we do not collect personal information from you unless you provide
it to us.
If you request information on our web site you may be asked to provide
certain personal information which we will use for the limited purpose
of authenticating your identity in order to complete your online
transaction.
This web site may contain links to other sites, including
those of our business associates. While we seek to link only to sites that
share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible
for the privacy or security practices employed by other sites. Please
contact those businesses for their privacy and security practices.
INFORMATION WE GATHER FROM YOU
Personal Information
Personally identifiable information is information about you,
such as name, address, telephone number, or email address. Other
personal information may be required depending on the product or service
you request. We do not collect any personal information from you unless
you explicitly and intentionally provide it. If you are simply browsing
our site, we do not gather any personal information about you.
We use links throughout our site to provide you with the opportunity to
contact us to ask questions, request information and materials, register
or sign up for Happy Birdy Newsletters, Happy Birdy Tips, or provide
comments and suggestions. You may also be offered the opportunity to
have us contact you personally to provide
additional information about our products or services. To do so, we may
request your name and telephone number, to help us satisfy your request.
Depending on the type of information or service that you request, you
may be asked to provide different personal information. For certain
information and services, we may require your name, address, telephone
number, or email address. Other information and services may require
different or supplemental information from you in order to apply.
Statistical Information About Your Visit
When you visit our site, our web computers may automatically
collect statistics about your visit. This information does not identify
you personally, but rather about a visit to our site. We may monitor
statistics such as how many people visit our site, the visitor’s IP
address, which pages people visit, from which domains visitors come
and which browsers they use. We use these statistics about your visit
for aggregation purposes only. These statistics are used to help us
improve the performance of our web site.
Use of Cookies
Sometimes this web site, like many other commercial web sites,
may utilize a standard technology called cookies to collect information
about how this site is used. A cookie is a piece of information that
this
web site sends to your browser, which then stores this information on
your computer. If a cookie is used, this web site will be able to remember
information about you and your preferences either until you exit your
current browser window or until you disable or delete the cookie. Many
visitors prefer to use cookies in order to help them navigate a web site
as seamlessly as possible. You should be aware that cookies contain no
more information than you volunteer, and they are not able to invade
your hard drive and return to the sender personal or other information
from your computer.
Temporary Cookies
If you are accessing our services through one of our online applications,
our web server may automatically send your browser a temporary cookie,
which is used to help your browser navigate our site. The only
information contained in these temporary cookies is a direction value
that lets our software determine which page to show when you hit the
back button in your browser. This bit of information is erased when you
close your current browser window. If you come to this site from one of
our business associates, our web server may also send your browser a
temporary cookie that reflects an origination code for that business
associate. We use this information for statistical and marketing purposes
only.
Stored Cookies
We may also make use of stored cookies in support of authenticating the
person of certain web applications. Similarly, if you
are a registered user of a page providing our services and have a user
ID and password, We may use stored cookies so that we can provide
personalized information based on preferences you have indicated while
using our web site. This type of cookie is not temporary. Although you
have the ability to modify your browser to either accept all cookies,
notify you when a cookie is sent, or reject all cookies, it may not be
possible to utilize certain services on this site which require
registration if you reject cookies.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE GATHER
Collecting Information
We do not collect personal information, including your email
address, unless we first ask you for it. At times, we may request that
you voluntarily supply us with information, including your email
address, street address, telephone number or other information so that
we may enhance your site visit or follow up with you after your visit.
Whether you provide any information is entirely up to you.
Sending You Responses And Updates
If you have voluntarily provided personally identifiable
information, we may from time-to-time send you mail or email regarding
products and services. If you do not want to receive such offers and
mailings, you can easily indicate that by checking the appropriate box
on the submission form.
We respond to all email questions, requests for product or service
information, and other inquiries that we receive. We may use the
information you submit to contact you to discuss our services or
products. We may
also retain this correspondence to improve our products, services, web
site, and for other disclosed purposes. Frequently we retain contact
information so that we can send you updates or other important
information about our services and products.
In situations where you have supplied your information in connection
with a question or request for information about a product or service
offered by a trustworthy business associate, we may send
the information you have supplied to the business
associate that offers such products or services.
We do not sell or rent personal information collected through this site
to anyone.
Disclosure by Law and Protection of
Happy Birdy and Others
If we are required by law to disclose certain information to
local, state, federal, national or international government or law
enforcement authorities, we will do so. In addition, we may
share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action
regarding illegal activities or suspected fraud, or enforce or apply our agreements.
Surveys
From time-to-time we may request information from you via
surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary. Survey
information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use
of and satisfaction with this web site, and improving our customer
service and offerings.
Your Ability to Opt-Out of Further
Notifications
From time-to-time, we notify our subscribers of new information,
announcements and services. If you would like to opt-out of being
notified, please contact us at
privacy@happybirdy.com.
Protecting Your Information
We exercise great care to protect your personally identifiable
information. This includes, among other things, using industry standard
techniques such as firewalls, intrusion detection, site monitoring, and
128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption.
We consider the protection of all personally identifiable information we
receive from our web site visitors and subscribers as critical to our
business mission. Please be assured that we have security measures in
place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of any
information we receive from you. As with any transmission over the
Internet, however, there is always some element of risk involved in
sending personal information.
If you are using this web site for which you registered
and chose a password, we recommend that you do not divulge your password
to anyone. We will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited
phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of the
registered site and close your browser window when you have finished
your work. This ensures that if other people have access to your
computer they cannot access your personal information and
correspondence.
Updating or Correcting Your Information
If you would like to update or correct any information in our
records, please contact us via email at
privacy@happybirdy.com. You may
correct or update any information in your profile by accessing your
account and making these changes.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
If a material change is made to this Privacy Statement and/or the
way we use our customers' personally identifiable information then we
will post prominent notice of the nature of such change on the first
page of this Privacy Statement and also on our home page.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this privacy statement, you
should contact us at
privacy@happybirdy.com.
Effective Date: 11/20/2007 |
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