Privacy Policy
This site is owned and operated by Dutch Hollow Service & Supplies
Inc. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.
At Dutch Hollow Supplies, we want to make your on-line experience
safe and satisfying.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we
feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions
surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy
statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
Dutch Hollow Supplies gathers two types of
information about users:
» Information users provide through optional, voluntary
submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our
electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or
forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and
surveys.
» Information Dutch Hollow Supplies gathers through aggregated
tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views
throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor
our content to our viewer's needs and to help our advertisers and
sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Under
no circumstances does Instawares divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
Dutch Hollow Supplies gathers information in the
following processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some type of
voluntary submission of personal information by users:
Electronic Newsletters (Dispatches)
We may offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Dutch Hollow
Supplies gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily
subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by
following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to
the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the
newsletters at the time of registration.
Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share
their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks
about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are
aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. Dutch
Hollow Supplies may use a system to "tag" users after they have
voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag
is not correlated with information about individual users.
Surveys
Dutch Hollow Supplies may occasionally conduct user surveys to
better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the
aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our
sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this
information about specific individuals with any third party.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally
identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without
requesting parental consent.
Usage Tracking
Dutch Hollow Supplies occasionally tracks user traffic patterns
throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this
information with data about individual users. Dutch Hollow Supplies
does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's
domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information
from the browser string (information contained in every user's
browser).
Dutch Hollow Supplies sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms
users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never
associated with individual users. We use tracking information to
determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based
on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users
read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us
continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of
your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal
Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this
site to information you have specifically and knowingly provided.
But the only personal information a cookie can contain is
information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your
hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Dutch Hollow
Supplies uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described
above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better
track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If
you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you
will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need
to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need
cookies to participate actively in polling and surveys.
Use of Information
Dutch Hollow Supplies uses any information voluntarily given by our
users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether
to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to
better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information users voluntarily provide in
order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to
participate in polls and surveys. We send out newsletters to
subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and
occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers
might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Dutch
Hollow Supplies never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third
parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites
users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not
track what individual users read, but rather how well each page
performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service
for you. We track terms entered in the Search function as one of
many measures to learn what interests our users. But we don't track
which terms a particular user enters.
Dutch Hollow Supplies creates aggregate reports on user demographics
and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This
allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and our users
to receive advertisements pertinent to their needs. Because we don't
track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or
sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We
will not disclose information about any individual user except to
comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the
personal safety of our users or the public.
Sharing of Information
Dutch Hollow Supplies uses the above-described information to tailor
our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better
understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping
our service free. We will not share information about individual
users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or
valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users
or the public.
Security
Dutch Hollow supplies operates secure data networks protected by
industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our
security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced
as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the
information provided by our customers.
Opt-out Policy
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices
include:
» Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
» Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which
completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable
information from our users
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this
information by Dutch Hollow Supplies. if we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you
are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and
under what circumstances we disclose it.
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