Effective July 3, 2008
Here at Fox&Hounds Daily ("Fox&Hounds", "we" and "us"), we understand and respect your concerns about the use of your personal information. We believe that you should know what information about you is collected when you use our Website, as well as how that information is used, maintained, and, in some cases, shared. Therefore, we have created this Privacy Policy to set forth our privacy practices and policies. By using or accessing our website www.foxandhoundsdaily.com (our "Website"), in any way or by transmitting information to Fox&Hounds by email or other electronic means, you assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not engage in the foregoing activities.
INFORMATION COLLECTED ABOUT YOU AND OUR USE OF SUCH INFORMATION
Personal Information
We collect your contact information when you register for our website, newsletter, promotions or other services, when you transmit information via our website or by email, when you respond to surveys and other studies for marketing and planning purposes and when you otherwise use our website. Specifically, we may collect and store in a database your name, email address and any other information you provide to us.
We may use this information to track the types of questions and comments that we receive, to contact you with regard to your account or to respond to any inquiries you may submit to us. We also use your contact information to help operate our Website through marketing analysis, evaluation of our services and future planning. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to your use of our Website, such as service announcements, administrative messages and communications regarding your account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. However, you may opt-in to receive site notifications, newsletters, or certain other information via email. If you opt-in to receive such messages, you may remove yourself from such services at your discretion. Any email sent to an "opt-in" list will include directions for how you may remove yourself or herself from the list, or a URL where you may find such directions.
With respect to information collected from such surveys or studies, and in the event that responses are to be publicly disclosed, you will be notified at the time you take the survey and Fox&Hounds will disclose only aggregate information regarding its users and not personal information identifying any specific individual. Fox&Hounds reserves the right to disclose text information provided by you through such a survey, provided that no personal information identifying you is disclosed.
Website Usage Information
Our Website collects and stores information that is generated automatically as you navigate through the Website. This aggregate information is collected site-wide, and includes anonymous website statistics. Our Website also employs browser cookies to store user preferences and record session information. Any cookies sent by our site will be marked so that they will be accessible only by Fox&Hounds subject to this Privacy Policy. "Cookies" are bits of information that are stored by your browser on your hard drive. This technology allows for the storage of user preferences, user ID and password, if applicable, and remembers you when you take action on our Website. You can turn off the "cookie" function at your sole expense and responsibility through most standard browsers; however, some features on our Website may not function properly or at all if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
In addition, when you browse our Website, our system automatically collects information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, domain names, referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of these page views, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the Website, improve the design of our Website, track user movement, and otherwise enhance the services we provide.
Fox&Hounds lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one.
WHEN YOUR INFORMATION WILL BE SHARED OR DISCLOSED
We will not share your personally identifiable information with other parties for their commercial or marketing use without your consent; provided, however, we may disclose information to other companies that we contract with to create, support, manage, maintain or improve our Website or software and the features on our Website. We may provide aggregate data, such as the number of users who have visited our Website and the domains from which they visit our Website, to other parties.
We will comply with any subpoenas, court orders or other legal processes for any of the information about you in our possession, and we may use such information to establish or exercise our legal rights, or to defend against legal claims. We reserve the right to disclose information about you, including data on which pages you have visited, to third parties if we feel it is necessary to protect our systems, Website, business, users or others.
Information about you in our possession may also be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of company assets or transition of service to another provider, as well as in the unlikely event of insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which your personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company. We do not guarantee that any entity receiving such information in connection with one of these transactions will comply with all terms of this Privacy Policy.
In addition, when you use certain features on our website, such as posting or visiting our community forums or comment areas, your "user name" and other information you disclose will be viewable by other users of our website.
SECURITY
Whenever Fox&Hounds handles information that you disclose on our Website, regardless of where this occurs, we take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Fox&Hounds uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. Unfortunately, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems but we do not accept liability for unintentional disclosure. While this Privacy Policy expresses our standards for maintenance of private data, we are not in a position to guarantee that the standards will always be met. There may be factors beyond our control that may result in disclosure of data. As a consequence, Fox&Hounds disclaims any warranties or representations relating to maintenance or nondisclosure of private information.
THIRD PARTY INFORMATION
You agree that you have provided notice to, and obtained consent from, any third party individuals whose personal information you supply to us with regard to: (a) the purposes for which such third party’s personal information has been collected; (b) the intended recipients or categories of recipients of the third party’s personal information; (c) which of the third party’s information is obligatory and which information, if any, is voluntary; and (d) how the third party can access and, if necessary, rectify the information held about them.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
If you are under the age of 13, please do not use or access our Website in any way. We will not knowingly collect or use any personal information from any children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected any personal information from children under 13, we will promptly delete such information from our databases.
OTHER WEBSITES
For your convenience, our Website may contain links to other websites, or you may be otherwise referred to other websites, including websites administered by Fox&Hounds or its affiliates or administered by other companies on behalf of Fox&Hounds, as well as to websites unrelated to Fox&Hounds. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these linked websites. Each website should be checked for its own privacy policy.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
Fox&Hounds may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. In the event that Fox&Hounds merges with, or is acquired by another company, a change to this Privacy Policy may result. Whenever a change to this Privacy Policy is significant, we will place a prominent notice on our Website.
GOVERNING LAW
Our Website is controlled and operated by California Main LLC from our offices within the State of California, United States of America. By choosing to visit our Website or otherwise provide information to Fox&Hounds, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Privacy Policy will be governed by the laws of the State of California. If you are accessing our Website from any region with regulations or laws governing personal data collection, use or disclosure that differ from United States laws or regulations, please note that through your continued use of our Website, which is governed by the laws of the State of California and the United States of America and this Privacy Policy, you are transferring personal information to the United States of America and you consent to that transfer. You also consent to the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with our Website in the federal and state courts of Los Angeles County in the State of California. You also agree to attempt to mediate any such disputes.
UPDATE INFORMATION / SUGGESTIONS
If you would like to update or correct any information that you have provided to Fox&Hounds through your use of our Website or otherwise, or you have suggestions for improving this Privacy Policy, please send an email to [email protected].