PRIVACY POLICY
Heartwood is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Heartwood website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Heartwood website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Heartwood collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Heartwood also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Heartwood. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Heartwood for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Heartwood website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Heartwood public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Heartwood does not read any of your private online communications.
Heartwood encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Heartwood so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Heartwood is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Heartwood and Heartwood family of websites.
Use of your Personal Information
Heartwood collects and uses your personal information to operate the Heartwood website and deliver the services you have requested. Heartwood also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Heartwood and its affiliates. Heartwood may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Heartwood does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. However, Heartwood does share certain personal information (such as your first and last name, email, and address) with certain third-parties. Heartwood primarily shares this information as it believes that the third-party’s products or services may be of interest to you. All such third-parties are provided this information so that is can provide you with emails and mailings concerning their products and/or services. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except as noted above, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. Heartwood may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Heartwood may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Heartwood, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Heartwood does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Heartwood keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Heartwood, in order to determine what Heartwood services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Heartwood to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Except as noted above, Heartwood websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Heartwood or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Heartwood; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Heartwood, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Heartwood website use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Heartwood Life pages, or register with Heartwood site or services, a cookie helps Heartwood to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Heartwood website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Heartwood features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Heartwood services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Heartwood secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Heartwood secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Heartwood will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Heartwood encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Heartwood is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Heartwood welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Heartwood has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Heartwood at marketing@heartwoodlife.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.