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Hoofpick ("Hoofpick", "we", "us" or "our") takes steps to ensure it meets privacy principles and requirements with respect to personal information under applicable privacy legislation. The purpose of this statement is to inform our customers and other individuals we deal with ("you" or "your") how we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information. Personal information is information about an identifiable individual, as more particularly described under applicable privacy legislation. This statement applies to our online collection, use and disclosure of personal information in the United States. This statement does not apply to information about our employees or to information that is not personal information.
By using this website, you agree to this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree with this policy please do not provide us any information and do not use this website.

Personal Information We Collect
Hoofpick and its agents and representatives collect personal information in a number of circumstances in the course of our business and supply of services to you. "Personal Information" we collect includes:

  1. Name, address, email address, telephone number, and other business and/or residential contact information;
  2. Financial information such as credit card number and other financial information required to complete a transaction;
  3. Purchase and transaction records (including products and price);
  4. Advertisements and Content and posting records;
  5. Preferences, requests and inquiries;
  6. Information or comments provided on our website or otherwise;
  7. Purchasing and account history; and
  8. Such other information we may collect with consent or as permitted or required by law.

Use of Personal Information or Data
Hoofpick generally uses personal information for the following purposes:

  1. Identification;
  2. Establishment and maintenance of our relationship with you, and to provide you with ongoing service and respond to your requests and inquiries; requests and inquiries are forwarded to the relevant department, and are used to respond to your request or inquiry and maintain a record of correspondence;
  3. Protect you, and us, against error and fraud;
  4. Marketing purposes, such as using purchase histories and other demographic information you may have voluntarily provided to tailor our marketing activities and to implement and maintain loyalty programs;
  5. If you apply for a career at Hoofpick, we will collect the personal information contained in, and generated in relation to, your application package, in order to evaluate your application and assess whether to offer you a position. If you are not offered or do not accept a position, we normally retain this information for a reasonable period in the event that an appropriate position becomes available or that you re-apply. If you are hired, the information will be retained in accordance with our privacy procedures applicable to the personal information of our employees;
  6. Managing, administering, collecting or otherwise enforcing accounts;
  7. Maintaining business records for reasonable periods, and generally managing and administering our business;
  8. Meeting legal, regulatory, insurance, security and processing requirements; and
  9. Otherwise with consent or as permitted or required by law.
See the section on "Your Consent" below regarding how to decline consent to marketing purposes.

Disclosure of Your Personal Information
Personal information may be disclosed to affiliated companies which include but are not limited to our current marketing agency(ies), our suppliers and contractors, our Internet merchant account provider, and our lawyers and our accountants for legal, audit, management, business, marketing, billing and/or administrative purposes.
Personal information may also be transferred to our affiliates or other outside third party agents or service providers to provide services on our behalf such as database information management, marketing, processing services, processing credit cards or other services. We take reasonable measures to ensure that your personal information that may be collected, used, disclosed or otherwise processed by these service providers or affiliates on our behalf is protected and not used or disclosed for purposes other than as directed by Hoofpick, subject to requirements in foreign jurisdictions applicable to those organizations. Note that some of these jurisdictions do not have personal information protection laws equivalent to those in the United States.
Personal information may be used by Hoofpick and disclosed to parties connected with the contemplated or actual financing, securitization, insuring, sale, assignment or other disposal of all or part of Hoofpick or our business or assets, including for the purposes of: permitting such parties to determine whether to proceed or continue with such transaction and to fulfill reporting, inspection or audit requirements or obligations to such parties. In the event that all or part of Hoofpick or our business or assets is sold, assigned or otherwise disposed of, personal information we have collected will be used and disclosed by such parties for substantially the same purposes as described in this statement.
Hoofpick may otherwise disclose personal information as necessary to meet legal, regulatory, insurance, audit, and security requirements, with your consent, or as permitted or required by law.

Our Website
In general, you can visit our website(s) and view their content while remaining anonymous by not providing any personal information; provided, however, we do collect your IP address and cookies information.
Our websites may collect non-identifiable information that becomes available to us as a result of your visit to our website. This information includes, for example, your IP address (a number automatically assigned to your computer when you visit the website, and which is logged by our servers) your Internet Service Provider ("ISP"), your web browser, the type of operating system, the domain name of the website which links you to our website and the pages you visited while you were using the website.

Cookies
We from time to time use cookies on this website. Cookies are small text files that your web browser leaves on your hard drive to recognize you as a repeat user of our website, track your use of our website and target advertising. This allows for personalization of certain aspects of your visit to our website. Information gathered from cookies in this way is only used on an aggregate basis. Unless a visitor specifically provides their identity to us, e.g., by registering at our website(s), providing information through an online form or sending us correspondence from the website, we will not know who the individual visitors are. We may use cookies to store preferences; record session information; develop information about website visitors' preferences and interests; record past activity at a website in order to provide better service when you return to our website; or customize web page content based on information you voluntarily provide.
You can disable cookies using your Internet browser settings. Please consult your browsers' help function for information on how to disable cookies. Note that if you disable cookies, certain features of our website may not function properly.

Your Consent
Consent to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information may be given in various ways. Consent can be express (for example, orally, electronically or on a form you may sign describing the intended uses and disclosures of personal information) or implied (for example, when you provide information necessary for a service you have requested) or given in some circumstances where notice has been provided to you about our intentions with respect to your personal information and you have not withdrawn your consent for an identified purpose, such as by using an "opt out" option provided, if any. Consent may be given by your authorized representative (such as a legal guardian or a person having a power of attorney). Generally, by providing us with personal information, we will assume that you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of such information for the purposes identified or described in this privacy statement, if applicable, or otherwise at the time of collection. You may withdraw your consent to our collection, use and disclosure of personal information at any time by contacting us as indicated below, subject to contractual and legal restrictions and reasonable notice. Note that if you withdraw your consent to certain uses of your personal information, we may no longer be able to provide certain of our products or services.
Hoofpick collects, uses and discloses your personal information with your consent, except as permitted or required by law. We may be required or permitted under statute or regulation to collect, use or disclose personal information without your consent, for example to comply with a court order, to comply with local, federal or foreign regulations or a legally permitted inquiry by a government agency, or to collect a debt owed to us.

Security
We take reasonable steps to help protect your personal information using physical, electronic or procedural security measures appropriate to the sensitivity of the information in our custody or control, which may include safeguards to protect against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Authorized employees, and agents of Hoofpick who require access to your Personal Information in order to fulfill their job requirements will have access to your personal information.

Links
Our website may contain links to other websites. Please recognize that we do not control these third party websites and our privacy policy will not apply to those websites. You should consult each applicable privacy policy before using another linked website.

COPPA Compliance
We are committed to protecting the privacy and rights of children online. We believe that children should be able to use the Internet in a safe, productive and efficient manner and should be afforded the highest protection available with respect to their personal information. To that end, we have made it our policy not to collect any individually identifiable information from users who are known to be under the age of thirteen (13).

How We Notify You of Changes to our Privacy Policy
Whenever we change our privacy policy, we will post a notice on our website indicating that a new version is available. If Hoofpick changes how it uses Personal Information, you will be notified by email and they may opt-out at that time. However, if you have opted-out of all communication with the site you will not be contacted, nor will your Personal Information be used in this new manner.

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