Privacy Practices
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Privacy Policy
Hope Cottage ("We" or "Us") is committed to respecting the privacy rights of visitors of the Hope Cottage website (the "Site"). While visiting the Site, We may ask You ("You" or "Your") to provide information that personally identifies You ("Personal Information") for purposes of interacting with the Site.
We will take measures to ensure that the Personal Information You submit to Us remains private and is used only for the purposes as set forth herein. To further the protection of Your Personal Information, Hope Cottage has adopted a set of information management guidelines to describe the Personal Information We collect about You, why We collect it, how We use it and when We share it with third parties.
This Privacy Policy has been developed with the recognition that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving and that underlying business models are still not established. Accordingly, this Privacy Policy is subject to change. Any such changes will be posted on this page. Please see the Effective Date stated at the conclusion of this Policy.
What Kind of Information Does Hope Cottage Collect from Visitors?
We only collect Personal Information that You submit to Us, including but not limited to personal data (e.g., Your name, mailing address and email address), for example when You request further information. Additionally, We may also collect aggregate information regarding users of the Site.
Use of Cookies by Hope Cottage
There is a technology called "cookies" that can be used to provide You with tailored information from a website. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to Your browser, which may then be stored on Your computer system. This element of data is a piece of text, not a program. The Site can only access the information from a cookie sent by the Site. We cannot access other cookies sent by other websites or the information contained therein. Additionally, We cannot learn Your email address or any other information about You through the use of a cookie. The only way We would learn such information is if You specifically submit that information to Us.
Hope Cottage uses cookies to tell us the identities of visitors to our website so that we can deliver visitors a more personalized experience. This cookie is set when you register. We collect this information so when you come back to visit us again, we can tailor information to suit your individual preferences. The goal is to save you time and provide you with a more meaningful visit.
Hope Cottage collects and uses your IP addresses to track the total number of unique users, for system administration and to diagnose problems.
Users can choose to disable cookies by modifying their browser preferences to accept all cookies, be notified when cookies are set or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies, you will be unable to use those services that require registration to participate. You will still be able to use most of the features on the Hope Cottage website if you do not accept cookies.
Children's Privacy
Hope Cottage does not specifically collect information about children, but is concerned about the safety of children and their use of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, We will never knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. In the event that We receive actual knowledge that We have collected such personal information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, We will delete that information from our database as quickly as is practical.
Third-Party Hosting
Hope Cottage contracts with a third party to maintain and host the Site. Therefore, any information You submit, including Personal Information, shall be placed and stored on a computer server maintained by this third party. Your use of the Site and any provision of Personal Information You submit to the Site constitutes Your acknowledgement that such information or content could pass through and may be stored in servers outside the control of Hope Cottage. You agree that Hope Cottage has no liability or responsibility for any such pass-through or storage of same.
Effective Date and Changes
This Privacy Policy is effective as of December 11, 2006. Hope Cottage reserves the right to modify the terms of this policy at any time and in our sole discretion by posting a change notice to this page. Your continued use of the Site following our posting of a change notice will constitute binding acceptance of those changes.