Privacy Policy
Hainesville (“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 including Hainesville and Dynamic Arts. 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.
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 tracking visits
to and business at their stores related to Hainesville
merchandise, 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, may
be 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 Shopping: If you make a purchase
from a store hosted by Hainesville, 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 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 and its designated agents are
authorized to 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 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 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. Hainesville
does not knowingly permit a child under age 13 to register
with us, unless a parent or guardian establishes 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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