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Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting the website of Sunlawn.com and reviewing our privacy policy. The information we receive depends on what you do when you visit our site. The essence of our privacy policy is simple and clear: we will collect no personal information about you when you visit our Web site unless you voluntarily choose to provide that information to us, for example, by entering information in a voluntary online form, sending us an email, or by performing an online sales transaction with . More information is as follows:
- Overview
- Cookies
- Email and Online Forms
- Personal Information
- Links to Other Sites
- Security
- Kids' Page Safety and Privacy
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- More Information About Safe Surfing
Overview
Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website:
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information [example: PDF manuals], we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. Your Web browser software transmits this information to us. This information does not identify you personally.
We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:
- The numeric IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website. Our software can then map these IP addresses into Internet domain names, for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain
- The type of browser and operating system used to access Sunlawn.com
- The date and time you access Sunlawn.com
- The pages you visit, including graphics loaded from each page and other documents you download, such as PDF (Portable Document Format) files and word processing documents
- If you linked to Sunlawn.com from another Web site, the address of that Web site. Your Web browser software transmits this information to us.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a Web site can place on your computer's hard drive in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on the site or to make it possible for you to use an online shopping car" to keep track of items you wish to purchase. The cookie transmits this information back to the Web site's computer which, generally speaking, is the only computer that can read it. Most consumers do not know that cookies are being placed on their computers when they visit Web sites. If you want to know when this happens, or to prevent it from happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a Web site attempts to place a cookie on your computer.
Temporary cookies may be used when necessary to complete a transaction.
Email and Online Forms
If you choose to identify yourself by sending us an email or by using our online forms or by filling out some other form with your personal information and submitting it to us through our website —we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested. We treat e-mails the same way we treat letters sent to Sunlawn.
- We only share the information you give us if required by law.
- If you choose to subscribe to a feature such as a newsletter or other service we provide a way for you to unsubscribe at any time.
- Sunlawn does not collect information for commercial marketing. We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone, ever, period.
Personal Information
In addition to email, Sunlawn.com may ask for your personal information in order to process various applications available through the Sunlawn.com website. Examples include:
- Requests for site feedback, surveys, and contests.
- When paying by credit card (to verify the card we ask for the cardholder's name and address in addition to account number and card expiration date)
- For shipping of products purchased through our website such as mailing address information.
All of these activities are purely voluntary. You will always have the option of whether to perform the transaction and provide this information. Please understand, however, that in order to perform certain functions such as purchasing products, you will be required to provide some personal information. Whether to perform the transaction is up to you.
Sunlawn.com will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies, agencies, or people when:
- We have your consent to share the information;
- We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested. For example, we use a third party billing company, and we send information for billing purposes only;
- We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Sunlawn.com to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us);
- We are required to do so by law, subpoena, court order or legal process; or
Links to Other Sites
The Sunlawn.com website may contain links to other public or private website resources. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.
Security
We take very seriously the integrity of the information and systems that we maintain. As such, we have instituted security measures for all information systems under our control so that information will not be lost, misused or altered.
For site security purposes and to ensure that our Internet services remain available to all users, we employ software programs to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage. In the event of authorized law enforcement investigations and pursuant to any required legal process, information from these sources may be used to help identify an individual.
In certain areas, as with credit card transactions, Sunlawn.com uses industry-standard secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect data transmissions.
All credit card information is immediately encrypted upon receipt and uses 128-bit SSL communication.
Kids' Page Safety and Privacy
Sunlawn.com is not directed to children under 13, and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. For more information about children's privacy generally, please see the Federal Trade Commission's Kidz Privacy Web page.
We hope parents and teachers are involved in children's Internet explorations. It is particularly important for parents to guide their children when children are asked to provide personal information online.
Sunlawn.com does not sell products or services for purchase by children. If you are under 18, we specifically ask children to get their parents' permission before providing any information on line—at our site or any other site—and hope parents will always be involved in those decisions. Most importantly, in the event children do provide information through the Sunlawn.com, it is only used to enable us to respond to the writer, and not to create profiles of children
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Sunlawn.com has approved this policy. Sunlawn.com may revise this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our website. This is a statement of policy and should not be interpreted as a contract of any kind.
More Information About Safe Surfing
The Federal Trade Commission offers important information about safe surfing.
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