PRIVACY STATEMENT FOR BlackHillsWebHosting.com
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What
personally identifiable information is being collected?
When you visit the BlackHillsWebHosting.com Web site, in order for us to provide you with the products or services that you
have requested, you may be asked to provide us with personally identifiable
information. For example, when you order a product, we will ask you to become a
registered user of our site, during which you will be asked for your shipping
and billing addresses, your email address, or other payment-related information.
If you request one of our newsletters or send an inquiry to one of our customer
service representatives, we will also store a record of your request along with
your email address. In addition, our Web servers track various technical details
about your visit, such as you computer’s IP address and which pages you
visited, however that information does not typically contain any personally
identifiable information about you.
How is the information
being used?
The information we collect is used to provide
the products and services that you have requested or that we think you might
have an interest in. It is also used to improve the content of our Web site, to
notify you of problems with your requests, or to update you about changes to our
Web site.
With whom do we share
your information?
In order to operate this Web site and in
order to provide you with the products and services you have requested, we need
to share information with third parties. We may transmit your personal
information to service providers who assist us in processing orders, shipping
products to you, processing your payment information, sending you catalogs,
conducting surveys, processing job applications, conducting on and offline
sweepstakes and sending you emails and newsletters. We have agreements with
these service providers that they will protect your privacy in accordance with
our standard Privacy Statement. Some of those organizations may have their own
Privacy Statements which may give you additional protections, so you are
encouraged to read those statements when presented to you.
How do I access, update,
or delete my personally identifiable information?
If you are a registered user of the Web site,
you can manage many aspects of your registration information. For security
reasons, however, some parts of your personal information may not be changed
online and may require you to call or write to us in order to verify your
identity before such changes can be made. The online registration area will also
permit you to exercise control over the use of your email address, allowing you
to opt-out of future email messages from this Web site. Unfortunately, due to
various legal and recordkeeping requirements, we may be required to maintain
records about your purchases or other activities on this website. However, you
will always be permitted to opt-out of any marketing uses of information stored
about you. If you prefer to manage your personal information via other means,
you may contact us by postal mail at the address shown (below) or by e-mailing
us at gman@blackhillswebhosting.com.
What information will be
disclosed if required by law?
If required by law, we may provide any and
all information we have about you to law enforcement or other government
agencies, pursuant to a subpoena, warrant, or other order by a court of
competent jurisdiction. In all cases, we will require written documentation of
the request, proof of the identity of the law enforcement official making the
request, and we will take steps to authenticate the validity of the request. Any
law enforcement or government agency request submitted with less than a
court-issued order will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis according to the
need and urgency, as well as the particular law enforcement agency making the
request.
What are cookies and
how do we use them?
A cookie is a block of text placed in a file
on the user's hard drive by a Web site you've visited. These types of cookies
cannot identify an individual user specifically, such as by name or address,
unless the cookie data is attached to personally identifiable information such
as online registration.
What
choices are available to you regarding the collection, use and distribution of
the information and how you can correct any inaccuracies in information?
If you do not want to receive email from us
in the future, please let us know by calling, sending an email, or by writing to
us at the below postal address and telling us that you do not want to receive
e-mail from our company.
If you provide us with your email address,
you may receive messages about your order status, issues regarding the
operations of this Web site, and messages from subsidiaries of BlackHillsWebHosting.com
and other companies with operational relationships to BlackHillsWebHosting.com. You may modify your email preferences at any time by
clicking the following link:
If you provide us with your postal
address, you may receive periodic catalogs from us, or other notices containing
information about new products and services or upcoming events. WE DO NOT make
our email and postal mailing address lists available to subsidiaries and
affiliated companies. WE DO NOT share email addresses with any outside
organizations for marketing purposes. If you do not wish to receive postal
mailings from BlackHillsWebHosting.com, please let us know by calling, sending
an email, or writing to us at the below postal address. Please provide us with
your exact name and postal address and state which lists you wish to be removed
from so that we can be sure your information is removed from those mailing
lists.
We will request your telephone number
or facsimile (FAX) number, and if you provide it, you may receive telephone or
FAX contact from us with information regarding your orders or requests for
information. We do not share phone or FAX numbers with third parties for
marketing purposes.
Gmanoutdooradventure.com values your business
and is committed to doing everything possible to make our online ordering
process secure.
Gmanoutdooradventure.com, uses PayPal Secure
site to manage all online transactions. Any credit card information you enter on
PayPal site is strongly encrypted by industry-standard protocol, SSL (Secure
Sockets Layer). The PayPal site uses SSL to communicate with secure browsers
like Netscape and Internet Explorer. These browsers encrypt your credit card and
personal information in a way that makes it extremely difficult for anyone to
intercept and misuse while being transmitted between your computer and PayPal
server. Don't worry if your browser is secure or not - if it is insecure, you
will not be able to purchase on our online store.
Once you have completed your order
online, our security procedures do not end. We take appropriate precautions to
protect the security and privacy of the information stored on our computer.
If you are still unsure of giving your
credit card over the Internet, please feel free to phone, fax, or mail your
order to us. For telephone ordering or assistance, please call BlackHillsWebHosting.com
at 1-605-863-0908. Or, send your order to:
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In accordance with federal law, we do not
knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under age 13
without the verifiable permission of a parent or guardian. If you are under age
13, you are welcome to browse our Web site. However you are not permitted to use
any of the features of our site that require the collection of any personally
identifiable information. If we determine that we have erroneously collected a
child’s information, we will immediately undertake to delete that data from
our records.