Policy
Hort-Couture
Web Site Privacy Policy
Hort-Couture ("Hort-Couture") is committed to protecting the privacy
of our customer's personal information. This Policy explains how we
gather and use the information that we collect from our Web site,
located at Hortcouture.co.za. This policy may change over time.
Amendments to this statement will be posted at this URL and will be
effective when posted. Your continued use of this site following the
posting of any amendment, modification or change shall constitute your
acceptance thereof.
Information Collected
As you navigate within our Web site, we will be collecting and
tracking personal information, either by asking you to tell us
something about yourself (such as your name, address or e-mail
address) or by using data-tracking software which records your IP
address and tells us what parts of the Web Site you have browsed.
Use of Information
This information is used to enhance your site experience, or to apply
special benefits. Your personal information will not be sold to third
parties for e-mail marketing or telemarketing campaigns.
The information may be used by Hort-Couture or designated site
partners to send you information that we think will be useful to you.
Due to the technology behind the Hort-Couture site, your personal
information may also be shared with designated site partners in order
to reduce the number of registrations you need to make on the
Hort-Couture site. This is an effort to make use of the
Hortcouture.co.za site more convenient for you.
You may opt-out of receiving future mailings from Hort-Couture and
other entities by following the instructions set forth in the opt-out
section below.
Personal information about you, whether obtained through collection or
tracking, may be used to contact you again either by online electronic
communication (such as e-mail), or by regular mail or telephone. We
will also be collecting and tracking information about activities in
our Web site on an aggregate (i.e., group basis). We will not know or
keep track of precisely who you are as you use the site. The data is
used to track what areas of the site are most frequently used to help
us improve the site in the future. When we share such information with
other companies, it is not traceable to any particular user and will
not be used to contact you again.
Non-personal demographic and profile data is used to tailor your
experience at our site, showing you content we think you might be
interested in. This information may also be shared with advertisers on
an aggregate non-personal basis.
We may share your information (as described above) with our business
partners to provide you with products or services that you have
requested or to provide you with promotional offers that we believe
will be of interest to you. Our business partners include all of our
affiliated companies as well as other selected businesses with which
we have a relationship and which have agreed to adhere to our strict
standards for providing quality products and services, responding to
your needs, and protecting customer information. We may also employ
other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf.
Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending
postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer
lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance (including
direct and targeted marketing), processing credit card payments, and
providing customer service. They have access to personal information
needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other
purposes.
In certain circumstances, we may share your customer information with
trusted service providers that need access to your information to
provide operational or other support services. We also may provide
information to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in
accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good
faith that the law requires it. In the event of a sale of all or part
of one of our businesses, we may share customer information related to
that business as part of the transaction.
Use of IP Address
We may use your IP Address to help diagnose problems with our server,
and to administer our Web site.
Use of Cookies
When you view our Web site we might store some information on your
computer. This information will be in the form of a "cookie" or
similar file. Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your
hard drive, not on our site. Cookies do not spy on you or otherwise
invade your privacy, and they cannot invade your hard drive and steal
information. Rather, they help you navigate a Web site as easily as
possible. We use cookies for remembering user names, to identify users
and their preferences, tracking click streams and for load balancing.
Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster service,
consistent, updated results and a more personalized site experience.
You have the option of setting your browser to reject cookies.
However, doing this will hinder performance and negatively impact your
experience on our site.
Children
We do not specifically collect online contact information from
children nor do we target or sell products for purchase by children.
Security
This Web site has industry standard security measures in place to
protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our
control. While there is no such thing as "perfect security" on the
Internet, we will take reasonable steps to insure the safety of your
personal information.
Other Web Sites; Links
This Web site contains links to other Web sites. Hort-Couture is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web
sites. If you want to know the privacy policies of the other Web
sites, please refer to the organization sponsoring such Web site.
Consent
By visiting the Hort-Couture site, you expressly consent to the
collection and use by Hort-Couture of personally identifiable
information according to this Privacy Policy.
Choice; Opt Out
You may opt-out of receiving communications from Hort-Couture or our
site partners by sending an e-mail to dave@hortcouture.co.za.
Correct; Update
Hort-Couture allows its users the ability to correct or update online
information previously provided by the users. Unfortunately, to the
extent that such information is also stored in other databases, we
cannot always ensure that such corrections or deletions will reach the
other databases. We will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that
your information is removed from or corrected in our records.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of
this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us at
dave@hortcouture.co.za..
Terms
Access to and use of HORT COUTURE Company of Art's image and text files
and data on this site are subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. The text, images, and data on The Hort Couture (the "Company")
website (the "Site") are protected by copyright and may be covered by
other restrictions as well. The Company retains all rights, including
copyright, in data, images, software, documentation, text, and other
information contained in these files (collectively, the "Materials").
Copyright and other proprietary rights may be held by individuals or
entities other than, or in addition to, the Company.
2. The Company does not warrant that use of the Materials displayed on
the Site will not infringe the rights of third parties not owned by or
affiliated with the Company. For example, some works may be under
copyright by the artist or the artist's heirs holding rights to these
works. Such works may not be used in any form; they may not be copied or
downloaded without prior permission from the holder of the underlying
copyright.
Copying or redistribution in any manner for commercial use, including
commercial publication, or for personal gain is strictly prohibited.
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