Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. At Halfling13 Hobbies we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Halfling13 Hobbies (“Halfling13 Hobbies”) operates several websites including halfling13.com. It is Halfling13 Hobbies’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Halfling13 Hobbies collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Halfling13 Hobbies’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Halfling13 Hobbies’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Halfling13 Hobbies may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Halfling13 Hobbies also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Halfling13 Hobbies only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Halfling13 Hobbies’ websites choose to interact with Halfling13 Hobbies in ways that require Halfling13 Hobbies to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Halfling13 Hobbies gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Halfling13 Hobbies updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Halfling13 Hobbies collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Halfling13 Hobbies. Halfling13 Hobbies does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Halfling13 Hobbies may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Halfling13 Hobbies may monitor the most popular pages on the halfling13.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Halfling13 Hobbies may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Halfling13 Hobbies does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Halfling13 Hobbies discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Halfling13 Hobbies’ behalf or to provide services available at Halfling13 Hobbies’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Halfling13 Hobbies’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Halfling13 Hobbies will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Halfling13 Hobbies discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Halfling13 Hobbies believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Halfling13 Hobbies, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Halfling13 Hobbies website and have supplied your email address, Halfling13 Hobbies may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Halfling13 Hobbies and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Halfling13 Hobbies takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Halfling13 Hobbies uses cookies to help Halfling13 Hobbies identify and track visitors, their usage of Halfling13 Hobbies website, and their website access preferences. Halfling13 Hobbies visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Halfling13 Hobbies’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Halfling13 Hobbies’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Halfling13 Hobbies, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Halfling13 Hobbies goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Halfling13 Hobbies may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Halfling13 Hobbies and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Halfling13 Hobbies may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Halfling13 Hobbies’ sole discretion. Halfling13 Hobbies encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
