The Ron Hughart Website Development Team values the privacy of those who use our website, products and services and makes all commercially reasonable efforts to protect it. This Privacy Policy covers the collection, use and disclosure of personal information that may be collected any time you interact with RonHughart.com, such as when you visit our website, use or purchase our products and services, or communicate with RonHughart.com employees. Please read the following to learn more about what information we collect, what we do with that information, and how we may use your personal information.
Information Collection and Use
The primary reason that we collect certain personal information is to provide the best possible level of customer service. It enables us to deliver product announcements and special offers as well as provide convenient and personalized user access and improve the features and usability of our website. Registered RonHughart.com users can view and change their personal information at any time by visiting the RonHughart.com account information page by signing in at www.RonHughart.com.com and clicking on the “Settings” link. Unregistered users may still be able to use certain RonHughart.com services, in which case no personal information is collected.
RonHughart.com may collect information and use it for internal business purposes in a number of situations, for example:
Personal information such as name, e-mail address, contact preferences, which RonHughart.com products and services you use, and transactional information such as your payment information — to deliver and support our products and services;
Tracking information about your visit from the browser or RonHughart.com application on your computer or mobile device, including IP address, cookies and the pages you request — to analyze trends, administer the site, track your navigation of the site, deliver relevant advertisements and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use (note that IP addresses are not linked to “personally identifiable information”); and
Aggregate information from multiple users without personally identifying individuals, such as geographic region, which we may share with our business partners — to improve understanding of customer needs and provide relevant services.
You may elect to terminate your participation in the services at any time. If you cancel your account, it will no longer be accessible to you or others who may access the service, but there may continue to be residual copies of such information due to the nature of the computer system’s operation and ongoing data back-up and archiving.
You may also change your contact preferences after logging into your RonHughart.com account at RonHughart.com and going to Settings > Personal Settings > Contact Preferences. If you wish to opt out of email marketing communications from us, you may click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of an email message you receive from us.
Your RonHughart.com Username and related information
The RonHughart.com website allows you to create an “RonHughart.com Username” based on your personal information. This is required in order to take full advantage of the RonHughart.com services and any downloadable or shipped books. It also allows RonHughart.com to provide more personalized and convenient service and saves time when you want to use the RonHughart.com services, or search for RonHughart.com-related information.
Public information
Certain portions of the RonHughart.com websites and services are open to any online viewer, such as user comments and reviews designated as “public.” Any information that you post in these locations can be read, collected and used by anyone, and could enable others to send you unsolicited messages. RonHughart.com enables you to determine whether or not to post personal or otherwise sensitive information to publicly accessible areas of our site, and so you should carefully consider how you use the services. RonHughart.com is not responsible for any publication or use of any personal information you choose to post in these locations.
Information disclosure to third parties
When you post information to the RonHughart.com sites, you are granting RonHughart.com permission to use and take other actions with respect to such information (as described in the Terms of Service), in order to provide RonHughart.com’s services. We do not share, sell, rent or otherwise distribute this information to others, except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. RonHughart.com may share your information with others outside of RonHughart.com under the following circumstances:
We have your explicit consent to share the information;
We need to share your information to fulfill your product or service request;
We wish to contact you with information about products and services, which we may do unless you “opt out” of such communications by clicking the unsubscribe link found within RonHughart.com email updates or by logging into your RonHughart.com account at www.RonHughart.com and going to Settings > Personal Settings > Contact Preferences and changing your contact preferences;
We have a good faith belief that sharing or otherwise permitting access, disclosure, use or preservation of such information is reasonably necessary in order to comply with our legal obligations;
We believe it is necessary to investigate potential violations of our Terms of Service, or to enforce those Terms of Service
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Cookies and Tracking Pixels
Cookies are small data files that a website you visit may save on your hard drive that usually includes an anonymous unique identifier. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your e-mail address. The RonHughart.com website uses cookies for user authentication, keeping track of your preferences, promotional campaigns that require user identification, keeping track of our audience size and traffic patterns, and in certain other cases. We may include tracking pixels, which are small graphic images, in our email messages and newsletters to determine whether the messages were opened and the links were actually viewed.
You can configure your browser to accept cookies, reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being used. However, if you configure your browser to reject cookies, you may not be able to use RonHughart.com products or services that require you to sign in or take advantage of all the features of RonHughart.com. If you do not want to receive tracking pixels, you will need to disable HTML images in your email client, but that may affect your ability to view images in other email that you receive.
Links
The RonHughart.com website and services may contain links to other sites. RonHughart.com is not responsible for the privacy policy or other practices employed by websites linked to, or from, our website nor the information or content contained therein. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
Data Security
RonHughart.com is committed to protecting the security of your information and takes reasonable precautions to protect it. However, Internet data transmissions, whether wired or wireless, cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure and as a result we cannot ensure the security of information you transmit to us; accordingly, you acknowledge that you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your data transmission, we make all commercially reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our systems:
Your RonHughart.com password is protected by encryption and only you have access to it;
Your personal information and data stored in our systems is protected by various physical, electronic and procedural safeguards. As a rule, RonHughart.com employees do not monitor or view your personal information or content stored in the RonHughart.com service, but it may be viewed if we learn that our Terms of Service may have been violated and confirmation is required, or we otherwise determine that we have an obligation to review it; and
Certain RonHughart.com services support the use of standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions. However, this is not a guarantee that such data transmissions cannot be accessed, altered or deleted due to firewall or other security software failures.
If RonHughart.com learns of a security system breach we may attempt to notify you and provide information on protective steps, if available, through the e-mail address that you supplied during registration or posting a notice on our website. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive such notices in writing.
Contact Us
RonHughart.com welcomes your feedback regarding this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service. If you have questions, comments, or concerns about either one, please contact us by e-mail at info AT RonHughart.com or postal mail at:
Ron Hughart Website Development Team
H&P Publications
120 S. Church St., #102
Visalia, CA 93291