Privacy Policy
Hainesville.com (“Hainesville”) is committed to safeguarding
your privacy online. Please read the following Privacy Policy (“Policy”)
to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make
full use of our many offerings. As Hainesville reserves the right to
amend this Policy from time to time, please check back periodically.
Please keep in mind that some of the products or services
mentioned specifically in this Policy might not be available
on future international Hainesville sites.
As used below “Hainesville” shall be defined
as Hainesville and its affiliates, subcontractors and agents
who have already signed a confidentiality agreement.
This Policy will answer the following questions:
- What personally identifying information does Hainesville
collect from me?
Hainesville collects information in several ways from
different parts of our network of web sites.
Some personal information is gathered when you register. During registration,
Hainesville asks for your name, email address, birth date, gender,
zip code, occupation, industry and personal interests. The more information
you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better we are able
to customize your experience. Once you register you are no longer anonymous
to Hainesville - you are given a Hainesville ID and are able to take
full advantage of Hainesville's many offerings.
In addition to registration we may ask you for personal information
at other times, including (but not limited to) when you enter a sweepstakes,
contest or promotion sponsored by Hainesville and/or our partners;
when you make a purchase using Hainesville Shopping; when you post
a Hainesville Classified ad; when you submit a listing for a web site;
and when you report a problem with one of our sites or services. If
you contact Hainesville we may keep a record of that correspondence.
Hainesville also occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we
use for research purposes. Wherever Hainesville collects personal information
we make an effort to include a link to this Policy on that page.
- What are cookies and how does Hainesville use them?
As part of offering and providing customizable and
personalized services, Hainesville uses cookies to
store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie
is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser
from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive.
All sites on Hainesville where you are prompted to log-in
or that are customizable require that you accept cookies
Generally, we use cookies to:
(1) Remind us of who you are and to access your account information
(stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more
personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or "Sign
In" and is modified when you "Sign Out" of our services.
Hainesville also uses cookies to store your zip code for other services,
such as Yellow Pages.
(2) Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing Hainesville
is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent
of repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered
user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and
behavior.
(3) Assist merchants in Hainesville Stores to track visits to and business
at their stores, and to process the items in your shopping basket.
This information collected by cookies is sometimes called "clickstream" or "click
trail" and may also describe which pages you have seen in each
merchant's store.
(4) Track your progress and number of entries in some of our promotions,
sweepstakes and contests. When a Hainesville-hosted promotion uses
cookies, the information written to the cookie indicates the player's
progress through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions,
and status in prize drawings.
(5) Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of Hainesville's
network of web sites you have visited and your visiting patterns in
the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits
are similar or different from one another so that we can make each
new experience on Hainesville a better one. We may use this information
to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you
and other users will see on our sites.
Advertising networks that serve ads onto Hainesville may also use their
own cookies and may collect personal identifying information on such
cookies. Hainesville shall not be responsible, in any way, for the
use of such cookies by advertising networks and other similar entities.
Hainesville also collects IP
addresses for system administration and to report aggregate information
to our advertisers. In addition, Hainesville Mail includes IP addresses
in outgoing mail message headers.
- How does Hainesville use my information?
Hainesville's primary goal in collecting personal information
is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience
on our network of sites. This includes personalization
services, interactive communications, online shopping and
many other types of services, most of that are completely
free to you. In order to provide services free of charge,
we display advertisements. By knowing a little about you,
Hainesville is able to deliver more relevant advertisements
and content, and hence better service, to you.
In our role of delivering targeted advertisements, Hainesville plays
the middleman. Advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the
type of audience they want to reach (for example, males over 35 years
old). Hainesville takes the advertisement and displays it to users
meeting those criteria. In this process, the advertiser never has access
to individual account information. Only Hainesville has access to individuals'
accounts. This kind of advertisement targeting is done with banner
ads as well as promotional email through Hainesville Delivers. You
will only receive special offers via email from Hainesville if you
have indicated in your account preferences that you would like to receive
them. You can change your account preferences at any time.
Hainesville does research on our users' demographics, interests, and
behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration,
during a promotion, from our server log files or from surveys. We do
this to better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled
and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Hainesville may share this aggregated
data with advertisers or business partners.
- Who is collecting information?
When you are on a Hainesville site and are asked for
personal information, you are sharing that information
with Hainesville alone, unless it is specifically stated
otherwise. For example, some Hainesville services, like
Hainesville Travel, are offered in conjunction with a partner
company. In order to provide this co-branded service to
you, it is necessary for us to share your personal information
with our partner company. If data is being collected and/or
maintained by any company other than Hainesville, you will
be notified prior to the time of the data collection or
transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you
can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that
particular service.
Promotions that run on Hainesville may be sponsored by companies other
than Hainesville or may be cosponsored by Hainesville and another company.
Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the
sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the
time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate
in the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared. Currently,
most Hainesville promotions are limited to United States or North American
residents.
Please be aware that Hainesville Internet access partners, advertisers,
and web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifying
information about you. The information practices of those Internet
access partners, advertisers, and web sites linked to Hainesville are
not covered by this privacy statement.
- With whom does Hainesville share my information?
As a general rule, Hainesville will not disclose any
of your personally identifying information except when
we have your permission or under special circumstances,
such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires
it or under the circumstances described below. Please see
the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for each of our
products and services for more detailed information about
how your personal information may be shared. The following
describes some of the ways that your information may be
disclosed.
Business Partners & Sponsors: Hainesville may disclose
your personal information to business partners or sponsors,
but this is specifically described to you prior to data
collection or prior to transferring the data. Details
of shared use can be found in specific Terms of Service
or Use Agreements, and sweepstakes and promotions rules.
Some or all data collected during a Hainesville promotion
may be shared with a sponsor. If personally identifying
data about you will be shared, we will tell you before
we collect or transfer the data.
Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information
from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give Hainesville
permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so
they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your email
address will be shared. If more information will be shared with the
sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.
Hainesville Stores & Shopping: If you make a purchase from a
store hosted by Hainesville Store, or a merchant in Hainesville Shopping,
the information obtained during your visit to those stores, and the
information you give such as your credit card number and contact
information, is provided to the merchants. This is to enable transactions
to take place.
Merchants listed in Hainesville Shopping or site or in Hainesville
Stores have separate privacy and data collection practices. Hainesville
has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies.
For more information regarding the merchant, their store, and their
privacy policies, return to that store's home page and click on their
Information link.
Hainesville Auctions: To the extent that Hainesville provides any
auction services, we shall provide the information necessary to facilitate
the auction transaction between the buyer and the seller, including
but limited to personal identifying information.
Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate: Pursuant to signed
confidentiality agreements, Hainesville may match user information
with third party data. Also, Hainesville discloses aggregated user
statistics (for instance, the percentage of male or female users)
in order to describe our services to current and prospective partners,
advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive
materials or special offers from third parties. If you opt-in to
receive information from these third parties, Hainesville will (with
your permission) share your name and email address with them.
Other: Hainesville may also disclose account information in special
cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information
is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone
who may be violating Hainesville's Terms of Service or may be causing
injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally)
Hainesville's rights or property, other Hainesville users, or anyone
else that could be harmed by such activities. Hainesville may disclose
or access account information when we believe in good faith that
the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that
we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products
and services.
- What are my choices regarding collection, use, and
distribution of my information?
Hainesville may, from time to time, send you email
regarding our products and services. In addition, if you
indicated upon registration that you are interested in
receiving offers or information from Hainesville and our
partners, we may occasionally send you direct mail about
products and services that we feel may be of interest to
you. Only Hainesville (or agents working on behalf of Hainesville
and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these
direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not
object to these offers. If you do not want to receive such
mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal
information. Or, at any time you can easily edit your Hainesville
Account Information to no longer receive such offers
and mailings. You will need your Hainesville ID and Password
in order to access your Hainesville Account
Information.
On some types of Hainesville promotions, we will ask for your email
address in order to update you on your score, entries, and status in
prize drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions,
you automatically receive promotion-related email, unless you choose
the no-email option that some promotions offer. Occasionally these
promotion-related email messages might include targeted advertisements.
You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser
preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified
when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject
all cookies you will be unable to use those Hainesville services that
require registration in order to participate. These services include
(but are not limited to): Hainesville Mail and Message Boards. You
can still use Hainesville Shopping and Hainesville Auctions and many
other Hainesville sites even if you do not accept cookies.
Hainesville does not sell or rent user information to anyone, except
as expressly stated herein. We will notify you at the time of data
collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party
and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer.
If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose
not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions
or contests.
- What is Hainesville's policy on allowing me to update,
correct, or delete my personally identifying information?
You may edit your Hainesville Account Information and
your public Hainesville Profile at any
time by using your Hainesville ID and password. If you
have forgotten your password, please click
here to request a new password. For all other problems
signing in to Hainesville, please click here and
complete this form.
Your Hainesville account can be deleted or deactivated, but doing so
will result in not being able to access any members-only area of the
Hainesville network, including your Hainesville Mail account (if you
have one). If you saved the confirmation email you received when you
first created your Hainesville account, you can use the URL provided
in that message to delete your account at any time. Please contact Hainesville.com/privacy for
further instructions about deleting or deactivating your Hainesville
account. Residual information will remain within our archive records.
If you are participating in a Hainesville promotion and you wish to
update your email address on the promotion mailing list or to quit
a promotion and cease receiving promotion-related email, please contact Hainesville.com/promotions.
- How does Hainesville protect my personal financial
and health-related information?
Keeping your personal financial and health-related
information private is vitally important to
us. As with all information, Hainesville will
never rent or sell your personal financial
or health-related information without your
prior permission..
While we are aware that your use of certain services or features may
help us to offer you better and more relevant content and advertisements,
we do not make any such personally identifying information available
to any third parties without your permission. Any user statistics that
we may provide to prospective advertisers or partners regarding financial
product or service usage on Hainesville are provided in the aggregate
only and do not include any personally identifying information about
any individual user.
Please note that there are several places on the Hainesville network
of Web sites where you can transmit credit card information in order
to complete a purchase transaction or for verification purposes. Any
time we ask for a credit card number, we transmit that credit card
number in an encrypted format. We use industry-standard, SSL (secure
socket layer) encryption.
- What security precautions are in place to protect
the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?
Your Hainesville Account Information and Hainesville
Profile are password-protected so that you and only you
have access to this personal information. You may edit
your Hainesville Account Information and Hainesville
Profile by using your Hainesville ID and password.
We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone.
Hainesville will never ask you for your password in an
unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also
remember to sign out of your Hainesville account and close
your browser window when you have finished your work. This
is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information
and correspondence if you share a computer with someone
else or are using a computer in a public place like a library
or Internet cafe.
Hainesville intends to market products and services to an international
user base. Therefore, please be aware that should you give Hainesville
personal information, that information may be sent electronically to
servers outside of the country where you originally entered the information
(such as to the United States or other countries). In addition, that
information may be used, stored and processed outside of the country
where you entered that information. Whenever Hainesville handles personal
information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, Hainesville
takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and
in accordance with the relevant Terms of Service and this Policy. Common
Market and/or European Union users authorize the export of their personal
information to the United States when they provide such information.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless
network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we
strive to protect your personal information, Hainesville cannot ensure
or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from
our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once
we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its
security on our systems.
- What about children's privacy?
Hainesville is a general audience web site that complies
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. When
a child under age 13 attempts to register with Hainesville,
we require that they have a parent or guardian establish
a Hainesville Family Account. This is to
ensure that the parent or guardian consents to the collection
and use of personally identifying information from that
child. Hainesville Family Accounts allows parents to review,
edit and delete information relating to their child's Hainesville
account. If a parent wishes to refuse to permit further
collection or use of their child's information by Hainesville,
that parent can send an email to Hainesville.com/account-remove to
request deletion of their child's account.
Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, no web site operator
is permitted to require a child under the age of 13 to disclose more
information than is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity
as a condition of participation. Hainesville abides by this requirement.
Hainesville does not share personally identifying information about
users who are under the age of 13 with business partners or other third
parties. Hainesville will not contact users who are under the age of
13 about special offers or for marketing purposes. All Hainesville
account holders, including parents and children with Hainesville Family
Accounts, are subject to this Policy.
- What about links to other sites?
It is important to note that Hainesville may contain
links to other than Hainesville and that those sites may
not follow the same privacy policies as Hainesville. For
instance, if you click on an advertisement on Hainesville,
this will take you away from Hainesville to an entirely
different site. This can include links from advertisers,
content providers and partners who may use Hainesville’s
logo or the registered “infinity” logo and/or
style as a result of a linking or co-branding agreement.
These sites may sense their own cookies to you and make
collect information and make uses of it that Hainesville
will not.
- What else should I know about my privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose
personal information online - for example on message boards,
through email, or in chat areas - that information can
be collected and used by others. In short, if you post
personal information online that is accessible to the public,
you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties
in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy
of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful
and responsible whenever you're online.
Additional Information
If you have a question that was not addressed in this Policy you
may contact us at Hainesville.com/privacy or
at the following:
Hainesville
Attention: Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
(310) 471-4674
If you do not receive acknowledgement or if your inquiry has not
been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact the following:
· Electronic Frontier Foundation - a
civil liberties organization working to protect your rights online.
· Electronic Privacy Information Center -
established to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues relating
to the National Information Infrastructure.
· Privacy Issues Page - from
the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).
· The EPIC Cookies
Page - definitions, links, and news.
· How to Protect Your Privacy -
information from the Federal Trade Commission for consumers.
· Kidz
Privacy - information from the Federal Trade Commission about kids' privacy
and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Hainesville.com/privacy
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