Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy:

Hood Farms and Sawmill ("Hood Farms and Sawmill") operates hoodfarmsandsawmill.com and may operate other websites. It is Hood Farms and Sawmill's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Hood Farms and Sawmill 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. Hood Farms and Sawmill's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Hood Farms and Sawmill's visitors use its website. From time to time, Hood Farms and Sawmill may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Hood Farms and Sawmill also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on hoodfarmsandsawmill.com blogs/sites. Hood Farms and Sawmill only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Hood Farms and Sawmill's websites choose to interact with Hood Farms and Sawmill in ways that require Hood Farms and Sawmill to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Hood Farms and Sawmill gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at hoodfarmsandsawmill.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Hood Farms and Sawmill are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Hood Farms and Sawmill collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Hood Farms and Sawmill. Hood Farms and Sawmill 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.

Aggregated Statistics

Hood Farms and Sawmill may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Hood Farms and Sawmill may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Hood Farms and Sawmill does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Hood Farms and Sawmill 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 Hood Farms and Sawmill's behalf or to provide services available at Hood Farms and Sawmill's websites, 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 Hood Farms and Sawmill's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Hood Farms and Sawmill 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, Hood Farms and Sawmill discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Hood Farms and Sawmill believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Hood Farms and Sawmill, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Hood Farms and Sawmill website and have supplied your email address, Hood Farms and Sawmill 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 Hood Farms and Sawmill and our products. If you send us a request (for example via 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. Hood Farms and Sawmill takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

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. Hood Farms and Sawmill uses cookies to help Hood Farms and Sawmill identify and track visitors, their usage of Hood Farms and Sawmill website, and their website access preferences. Hood Farms and Sawmill visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Hood Farms and Sawmill's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Hood Farms and Sawmill's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Hood Farms and Sawmill, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Hood Farms and Sawmill goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Hood Farms and Sawmill may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Hood Farms and Sawmill and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Hood Farms and Sawmill may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Hood Farms and Sawmill's sole discretion. Hood Farms and Sawmill encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a hoodfarmsandsawmill.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.