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Herdthinner has created this Privacy Policy to inform you how we collect and use the personal information you share with us while visiting our website. By visiting our website (herdthinner.com), signing up for an account, or accepting our Terms of Service, you accept the terms in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy went into effect on the date that it was last updated on May 30, 2021.
This Privacy Policy describes how Herdthinner (“Herdthinner” or “we” or “us” or “our”) collects, shares, and treats the information that we receive from you when you access our website herdthinner.com and any other related Herdthinner links that include any electronic messages between you and our website. All terms in our Privacy Policy carry over to our Terms & Service.
Collectible Information
Herdthinner receives specific data about its website visitors when the information is provided voluntarily, this includes when you sign up for an account, place an order, or request further services. When website visitors request information, provide information for employment opportunities or send us an e-mail, we also collect information about the visitor. If you contact us through the website, we will maintain copies of the correspondence. We may also ask for responses to surveys and reviews for research purposes, the information provided to Herdthinner will be maintained and possibly shared on our platforms.
Information We Collect
We collect personal information such as name, contact information, payment information (credit or debit card information), IP address, cookie information, information about your devices (browser type and device type), information about how you use our website (the time you viewed, the items you clicked, the location from which you accessed), your answers to surveys, and information about your internet connection.
How We Use Your Information
• To present Herdthinner and its goods to you.
• To provide you with products or services that you request from us.
• To process transactions including the sale and return of goods.
• To inform you about changes happening at Herdthinner, including our website.
• To allow us to address your needs for customer service purposes.
• To perform surveys, promotions, or contests.
• To fulfill our obligations and carry out contracts entered into between you and us, including billing and collection.
• To fulfill any other need for which you gave us the provided information to which you gave consent.
Email Marketing Program
We respect your privacy. We provide various means to allow you to opt-in to our email marketing newsletter on our website and social media channels to take advantage of new product announcements, exclusive offers, and other subscriber benefits and promotions. You can unsubscribe at any time using the links provided in any marketing email we send you. Emails related to order confirmation, shipment notifications, refunds, or other business-related transactional emails will not be affected by unsubscribing from our marketing emails.
Third-Party Trusted Partner
Herdthinner works with trusted third-party partners to better serve the need of our customers. In these instances, we may share relevant personal information so that Herdthinner may better serve you. The parties that we currently share your information with and their privacy policies can be found below:
Email Marketing Partner: https://convertkit.com/terms
Analytics Partner: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
Data from Automatic Collection Technologies
We use automatic data collection technologies to collect information about your interactions with our platforms. We use the following sources:
Cookie Collection
When you visit our website, we may send you cookies, which are small amounts of information that are downloaded to your computer or device when you visit certain websites. For example, we use cookies to track what items you look at most on our website. They help us to understand your preferences based on your activity, which allows us to tailor our business to you. A cookie does not collect personal information about you. We use essential and nonessential cookies. Essential cookies are cookies that strictly provide an online service that you requested. Nonessential cookies are used to analyze behaviors, personalize websites, and direct emails to the user’s interests. We also share information about your use of our website with our social media and advertising partners and combine it with other information you have provided them with. You consent to our cookies if you continue using our website and do not opt-out.
Advertising Cookies
Herdthinner may collect your email address via cookies and pixels on the website through the use of a third-party partner. They may combine your email information with other information they have access to such as mailing addresses so that we may serve relevant marketing offers to you by email and direct mail.
Social and Content Cookies
Finally, Social and Content cookies are placed by many social media plugins (for example the Facebook ’like’ button), and other tools meant to provide or improve the content on a website (for example services that allow the playing of video files, or that create comments sections). We integrate these modules into our platform to improve the experience of browsing and interacting with our websites. Please note that some of these third-party services place cookies that are also used for things like behavioral advertising, analytics, and/or market research.
Pixel Tracking
In addition to using Cookies, the Website may employ “pixel tracking,” a common process which may be used in connection with advertisements on other sites. Pixel tracking involves the use of pixel tags that are not visible to the user and consist of a few lines of computer code. Pixel tracking measures the effectiveness of advertisements and compiles aggregate and specific usage statistics. A “pixel tag” is an invisible tag placed on certain pages of websites that are used to track an individual user’s activity. We may access these pixel tags to identify activity and interests that may allow us to better match our goods, services, and other offers with your interests and needs. For example, if you visit our Website from an advertisement on another website, the pixel tag will allow the advertiser to track that its advertisement brought you to the Website. If you visit our Website, and we link you to another website, we may also be able to determine that you were sent to and/or transacted with a third-party website. This data is collected for use in our marketing and research.
Log File Information
Log file information is automatically reported by the browser each time you access a webpage. When you view herdthinner.com, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information.
Web Beacons
A web beacon is a clear picture file used to keep track of your navigation through a single website or a series of websites. No personally identifiable information is collected using these files. We may also use them in emails or newsletters sent to our users to understand what emails are opened by the receiver. The information is used to understand the accuracy of our marketing efforts and make the website more user-friendly for our users.
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Other than what is described in this Privacy Policy, Herdthinner does not disclose personal information of its users to any outside parties unless permitted or required to do so by law or subpoena. Without limiting the foregoing, we may disclose personal information (a) to conform to the law, comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (b) to take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, or to protect the security or integrity of our Website or our products and promotions; and (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the Company, its employees, agents or assigns, or others. Please note that we do not consider “outside parties” our subsidiaries and affiliates, contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use in the operation of our website, conducting Herdthinner business, or servicing you, so as long as those parties also agree to keep that information confidential.
In the future, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings from third parties. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or dissolution.
Except as contemplated in this Privacy Policy, we do not rent or sell your personal information for marketing or sales purposes. We do not share credit card information with third parties except for the purpose of processing your order payment and as required by law.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
The CCPA is a data privacy regulation designed to protect California consumers and to motivate all organizations that deal with California resident information to take their responsibility to safeguard consumer data. Under California Civil Code sections 1798.83-1798.84, if you are a resident of California, you may make a written request to Herdthinner about how we have shared your personal customer information with select third parties for their direct marketing purposes. In response to your written request, Herdthinner will identify the categories of information shared and will include a list of the third parties and affiliates with which it was shared, along with their names and address.
As a resident of California, you have the right to opt-out of the “sale” of your personal information to “third parties”. We do not transfer your information to third parties in exchange for money and we will not do so. However, Herdthinner does transfer personal information to certain third parties in order to operate our business.
As a resident of California, you may request that we provide you for the past 12 months a list of categories of personal information we have collected about you, the categories from which it was collected, the business purpose for collecting or “selling” the information, and the categories of “third parties” to whom we disclosed or “sold” that information. You may also request that we provide you in a machine-readable format a copy of the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you in the past 12 months. You may make a request to know up to two times in a 12-month period, subject to limitations described in the law. For a list of general categories of information that we have collected and shared in the past 12 months, please see the Privacy Policy.
You may request that we delete any personal information that we have collected from you. However, the law exempts certain information from deletion. For example, we may keep information necessary for security and fraud detection. We also may keep information needed to provide you goods or services. When we respond to your request to delete, we will explain what (if any) information we have kept and why. Please note that the law does not consider anonymized information to be “personal information,” and we may “delete” your information by anonymizing it.
Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of young children is important to Herdthinner. For that reason, Herdthinner does not knowingly collect or solicit information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to Herdthinner. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.
Trademark Notice
In general, all trademarks, logos and service marks (collectively the “Trademarks”) which appear on this Website are registered and unregistered Herdthinner trademarks or are licensed for use by Herdthinner by third parties. Other trademarks are proprietary marks and are registered to their respective owners. Nothing contained on the Website should be construed as granting, by implication or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark displayed on this Website without the prior written permission of Herdthinner or such third party who owns the trademark. Misuse of any Trademark displayed on the Website, or any other content on the Website, except as provided herein, is strictly prohibited.
Notification Procedures
It is our policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business-related purposes, to you via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on our Website, as determined by us in our sole discretion. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to you, provided that you may opt-out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat out users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes, as they are binding on you upon posting.
Security
The security of your personal data is important to us. We use reasonable efforts to store and maintain your data in a secure manner. We take steps to protect the data that you provide to us by limiting the dissemination of your Data to only designated staff and other personnel and contractors as we see necessary.