Your Privacy is Important to Us
It is HobbyTown Santee's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to hobbytownsantee.com (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "hobbytownsantee.com"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.
Contents
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- Website Visitors
- Personally-Identifying Information
- Security
- Links To External Sites
- Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
- Aggregated Statistics
- Cookies
- E-commerce
- Privacy Policy Changes
- Other Policies
- Contact Information
1. Website Visitors
Like most website operators, HobbyTown Santee 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. HobbyTown Santee's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how HobbyTown Santee's visitors use its website. From time to time, HobbyTown Santee may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
HobbyTown Santee also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://hobbytownsantee.com blog posts. HobbyTown Santee only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
2. Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to HobbyTown Santee's websites choose to interact with HobbyTown Santee in ways that require HobbyTown Santee to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that HobbyTown Santee gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who leave a comment at https://hobbytownsantee.com to provide a username and email address.
3. Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
4. Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms of service of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
5. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
HobbyTown Santee 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 HobbyTown Santee's behalf or to provide services available at HobbyTown Santee's website, 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 HobbyTown Santee's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. HobbyTown Santee 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, HobbyTown Santee discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when HobbyTown Santee believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of HobbyTown Santee, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://hobbytownsantee.com and have supplied your email address, HobbyTown Santee 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 HobbyTown Santee and our products. We primarily use our blog 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. HobbyTown Santee takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
6. Aggregated Statistics
HobbyTown Santee may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. HobbyTown Santee may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, HobbyTown Santee does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
7. Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, HobbyTown Santee uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
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. HobbyTown Santee uses cookies to help HobbyTown Santee identify and track visitors, their usage of https://hobbytownsantee.com, and their website access preferences. HobbyTown Santee visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using HobbyTown Santee's websites, with the drawback that certain features of HobbyTown Santee's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to HobbyTown Santee's use of cookies.
8. E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with HobbyTown Santee – by purchasing HobbyTown Santee's services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, HobbyTown Santee collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with HobbyTown Santee. HobbyTown Santee 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.
9. Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, HobbyTown Santee may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in HobbyTown Santee's sole discretion. HobbyTown Santee 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.
10. Other Policies
CalOPPA, CPPA Policies for California Residents
We are committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy outlines the types of information we collect from California residents, how we use it, and the steps we take to safeguard that information. This policy applies to all users of our website and online services who reside in California.
This policy states the types of information collected from all visitors, including those from California, and details the ways in which the information is used for internal marketing and website improvement. Your data is never sold to a third-party, and we do not collect more information than is reasonably necessary for these purposes.
DO NOT TRACK: Our website does respond to 'Do Not Track' signals from web browsers. If you activate the Do Not Track setting in your browser, we will honor this request.
California residents have the right to request access to the personal information we collect about them, request deletion of their personal information, and opt-out of the sale of their personal information. You may also request correction of inaccurate personal information and limit the use of your sensitive personal data. To exercise these rights, please contact us.
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy or as required by law. Upon request, we will delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions as permitted by law.
We may collect and use certain categories of sensitive personal information as defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act. You have the right to limit the use of your sensitive personal information. To exercise this right, please contact us.
11. Contact Information
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us.