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Hydrafil.com Privacy Notice
Hydrafil.com knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will carefully safeguard your information. This notice describes our privacy policy.
By visiting Hydrafil.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal Information About Customers Does Hydrafil.com Gather?
The information we learn from our customers helps us to personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at Hydrafil.com. Here are the types of information we gather.
- Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but this might prevent you from taking advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our selection of products, and communicating with you.
- Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses Hydrafil.com.
- Information from Other Sources:We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computers hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as storage of items in your Permanent Shopping Cart between visits.
Does Hydrafil.com Share the Information It Receives About Me?
We do not sell customer information to any third parties. We share customer information only as described below, and all of our business partners are subject to maintaining the same strict privacy standards as Hydrafil.com.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
- Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy subsidiaries or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice. In the event that Hydrafil.com, Inc., or substantially all of its assets are sold, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.
- Protection of Hydrafil.com and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Hydrafil.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
How Secure Is My Information?
- We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
- We never reveal your full credit card numbers when confirming an order. We must, however, transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
- It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer, and never give your password to anyone else.
What Choices Do I Have?
- Because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of Hydrafil.coms essential features, we recommend that you leave them turned on. If you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be able to use many of Hydrafil.coms products and services.
- You can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of such Hydrafil.com features as Customer Reviews and Permanent Shopping Cart.
- You can add or update certain information on your account.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit Hydrafil.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Michigan. If you have any concern about privacy at Hydrafil.com, please contact us, and we will try to resolve the issue. As our business grows and evolves, our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use will also change. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to compromise customer information. You should check our Web site periodically for changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
Examples of Information we Collect
Information You Give Us
You provide most such information when you search, buy, post, participate in a questionnaire, or communicate with customer service. For example, you provide information when you search for a product; place an order through Hydrafil.com; provide information in Your Account; communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire; provide employer information when opening a corporate account; provide and rate Reviews. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address, and phone numbers; credit card information; addresses to which purchases have been shipped, phone numbers; and financial information.
Automatic Information
Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type, version, and time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform; purchase history, the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; products you viewed or searched for. We may also use browser data such as cookies, Flash cookies (also known as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on certain parts of our Website for fraud prevention and other purposes. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-over), and methods used to browse away from the page.
Information from Other Sources
Examples of information we receive from other sources include updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily; and credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud and to offer certain credit or financial services to some customers. |
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