It is Heinie Specialty Products, Inc.’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Heinie Specialty Products, Inc.’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Heinie Specialty Products, Inc.’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Heinie Specialty Products, Inc.’s websites choose to interact with Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. in ways that require Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who engage in transactions with Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Heinie Specialty Products, Inc.. Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. may monitor the most popular parts of the Heinie Specialty Products, Inc..com site. Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Heinie Specialty Products, Inc.’s behalf or to provide services available at Heinie Specialty Products, Inc.’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Heinie Specialty Products, Inc.’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Heinie Specialty Products, Inc., third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. website and have supplied your email address, Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. and our products. We primarily use our e-mail, blog and newsletters to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. uses cookies to help Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. identify and track visitors, their usage of Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. website, and their website access preferences. Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Heinie Specialty Products, Inc.’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Heinie Specialty Products, Inc.’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Heinie Specialty Products, Inc.’s sole discretion. Heinie Specialty Products, Inc. encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
