Privacy Notice

Privacy Notice and Commitment To Privacy

The Scope and Goal of This Privacy Notice is to advise you of the online privacy practices of Boss Hawg Blawg.  Boss Hawg Blawg’s Privacy Notice also describes the choices you have about the information collected on this website and how it is used.

Please note that the Privacy Notice does not apply to our commercial customers.  And, if you indicate your residence is located outside the United States, you hereby mutually agree, by use of this Boss Hawg Blawg website, to remain bound to the Terms of Use and Privacy Notice Conditions set forth herein and maintained by Boss Hawg Blawg, its subsidiaries if any, its partners, its advertisers, and its affiliates that may or may not have their own online privacy notices.

Boss Hawg Blawg’s primary goals in collecting personal information about you are to give you a personalized website experience to facilitate the services relevant to potential consumers and users like you.  The types of information we gather is information that you explicitly provide in order to post comments, establish an account, register products, or to participate in Boss Hawg Blawg’s various online programs and features.  You may be asked to provide personally identifiable information to Boss Hawg Blawg such as your name, user name, mailing address, e-mail address, and phone number(s).  If you choose to purchase products or services, you will be asked to provide a valid credit card number, expiration date and security code along with billing and shipping address information.  If you choose not to provide the requested information, you may not be able to participate in Boss Hawg Blawg’s comments, services and offerings as they may apply to you.

Information We Automatically Collect through use of common internet technologies such as cookies and beacons to ensure the integrity of this website and to customize portions of the website for you.

Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive.  Boss Hawg Blawg cookies do not contain any personal information, but are used primarily as follows.  Cookies allow us to keep track of the information, and links that you upload and download; register you in programs and emails, such as Boss Hawg Blawg user forums, comments to articles posted and surveys.  Cookies allow Boss Hawg Blawg to remember you when you login to the places on its website that require user identification or membership to help us understand our users and traffic usage patterns; to collect and record information about what you viewed on the website and what you viewed in our e-mail; to manage and present site information, pictures, etc…that is displayed on your computer, and to deliver information specific to your interests or purchases.

Boss Hawg Blawg participates in third party advertisements, at random, in cookie-based ad networks operated by advertising affiliates.  These companies use some anonymous information about your visits to Boss Hawg Blawg and other websites to display ads on this website and other websites that are most likely to be of interest to you. Boss Hawg Blawg does not permit these companies to collect any personal information about you.  However, these companies may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, or other technologies to collect information about the effectiveness of their advertisements, and anonymous information about your visits to Boss Hawg Blawg, such as the number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, email address or other personal data).  For more information about these specialized cookies and other technologies, and how to “opt out” of information collection by these companies, we suggest you visit the Network Advertising Initiative offers useful information about Internet advertising companies (also called “ad networks” or “network advertisers”), including information about how to opt-out of their information collection at www.networkadvertising.org/optout/ .

Web Beacons: We place “beacons” or small “tracker gifs” on many of the pages on Boss Hawg Blawg, in online advertising with third parties, and in our e-mail.  We use these beacons, in connection with cookies, to collect non-personal data on the usage of our site including but not limited to the date and time of the visit, the pages visited, the referring web page, the type of browser, the type of operating system, and the domain name of the visitor’s Internet service provider.  This information is collected about thousands of site visits and analyzed as a whole.  This information is useful for tracking the performance of Boss Hawg Blawg’s online advertising such as, but not limited to, online banner ads and to determine where to place future advertising on Boss Hawg Blawg  and other websites.

Disabling Cookies and Beacons: If for any reason, whatsoever, you are uncomfortable with the collection of such information through the use of cookies and beacons, Boss Hawg Blawg suggests disabling these features through your browser’s security preferences.  However, please understand this may limit the functionality and performance of the Boss Hawg Blawg website.  Your internet browser documentation should provide you with specific procedures for disabling cookies and beacon support.

IP Address: Boss Hawg Blawg analyzes IP addresses, in the aggregate, for system administration purposes and to gather broad demographic information.  Boss Hawg Blawg does not link IP addresses to your computer’s User ID.  However, in the following exception, if and when you place an order using Boss Hawg Blawg’s online electronic checkout process, Boss Hawg Blawg will record your computer’s IP address along with your order to assist with identifying and prosecuting fraudulent credit card use.  This information will be presented to the financial institution that issued the credit card with which an order was placed and with law enforcement authorities if we determine, or are notified, that the use of the credit card was fraudulent.

Affiliate Site ID: If you entered Boss Hawg Blawg through a promotion on another website or by clicking a link on another website, or if you used a website that provides universal registration services to sign up for Boss Hawg Blawg’s website use, services, and products, Boss Hawg Blawg will store the ID of the affiliate site in its database along with your computer’s User ID.  Boss Hawg Blawg takes this action to ensure that the affiliate site receives proper credit.  This information may also be used in conjunction with your activities on Boss Hawg Blawg to assist with identifying what services, products, and offers that may be of interest to you.

Information from Other Sources: Boss Hawg Blawg may obtain additional information about you, such as lifestyles info and demographics, from other sources and merge it with information we have collected on Boss Hawg Blawg.  This information may be used as stated below.

Using your Information: Boss Hawg Blawg only uses your personal information to conduct business with you, such as communicating with you, answering your e-mail, notify you of other promotions and other information, sending surveys, processing, fulfilling, and following up on orders, creating and maintaining accounts, registering products, sending friends, families and colleagues information on your behalf as it pertains to Boss Hawg Blawg, regarding its services, products, and offers (see the section below entitled “Receiving Email”)  registering you in programs.

We also use this personal information to provide you with information related to your account and the products or services you may have purchased from us to better understand your needs and interests to improve our service and to personalize communications and your Boss Hawg Blawg website experience.

Personally identifiable information will not be rented or sold to any third party.  However, Boss Hawg Blawg may share your personal information with individual companies who work on behalf of Boss Hawg Blawg such as joint ventures, subsidiaries co-branded and partner pages, affiliates, business transfers, financial institutions and law enforcement to disclose personal information without your consent to comply with any law, regulation or court order, to cooperate with Government investigations, to help prevent or prosecute fraud or to enforce or protect the rights of Boss Hawg Blawg, its partners, subsidiaries, and affiliates.  In all other cases, Boss Hawg Blawg will obtain your express consent before sharing your information with third parties.

Receiving E-mail: You may receive email regarding your comments and posts, orders or your account, and in response to any questions we may have.  Boss Hawg Blawg, its partners, affiliates and subsidiaries may also send you e-mail with photos and information or special offers about services, products, raffles, and events that may be of interest to you, unless you indicate you do not want to receive them.  You will be presented the opportunity to let us know your preference regarding the receiving of promotional e-mail when you register for a service, when you provide us with your personal information, or when we send you e-mail.  If you choose not to accept promotional e-mail, you may miss the opportunity to participate in special offers, surveys, or promotions that may or may not be of value to you.  The opt out process option only applies to promotional e-mail only, as we may find it necessary to send you e-mail relating to comments that you have posted, surveys, products you have purchased or registered, and your account or your order(s).

Protecting Your Information is very important and Boss Hawg Blawg implements a variety of technical, administrative, and managerial security measures to help protect your personal information.  Boss Hawg Blawg has internal control standards regarding specific handling of personal information to include certain controls to help safeguard the information we collect online.  However, while Boss Hawg Blawg strives to protect your personal information, you must also take steps to protect your personal information. You are urged to take every precaution possible to protect your personal information while you are on the Internet. By your use of the Boss Hawg Blawg website, you hereby mutually agree to contact and notify Boss Hawg Blawg with any inconsistencies and/or issues you may have.

When you participate in a forum and/or post comments to a posted article, please use the utmost discretion when posting personal information about yourself when using these services.  Be aware that when you disclose personal information such as your name, member name, e-mail address, address, phone number, etc… that the information you disclosed may be collected and used by others to send unsolicited e-mail or to contact you personally at home or by telephone.

Boss Hawg Blawg’s website services are open to the general public age 13 and up, therefore, please be advised that what you post there can be seen by anyone.  It is not protected by Boss Hawg Blawg, and Boss Hawg Blawg cannot control the comments that you may receive while you participate in these services. You may find other people’s comments to be inaccurate, vulgar, racist, sexist, offensive, or harmful.

Children’s On-Line Privacy is especially important to Boss Hawg Blawg and we will strive to protect those under the age of 13 that are protected by federal law.  For that sole reason, Boss Hawg Blawg does not knowingly solicit, ask or permit any children under the age of 13 to become registered members of Boss Hawg Blawg, participate in forums, make comments, receive emails, or to buy goods and services, PERIOD!  Furthermore, Boss Hawg Blawg does not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children or about children under 13!

In the event that we ever include children under the age of 13 as part of our intended site audience and participants, then the specific web pages will, in accordance with the provisions of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), be clearly labeled, identified and provide an explicit privacy notice; and we will provide processes to obtain expressed parental approval, provide access to information and allow parents the sole remedy to request removal of their children’s personal information.  Boss Hawg Blawg strongly encourages parents and guardians to be with their children at all times while their children are online and to participate with their children in their interactive online activities and interests.

Outside Links on Boss Hawg Blawg are used at your sole responsibility and liability when you connect to and from website links that belong to others.  Boss Hawg Blawg is not responsible for the content, terms of use, conditions, and privacy policy or practices of others’ websites and Boss Hawg Blawg encourages you to read and ascertain the privacy policy and practices of others’ websites.

To Keep Your Information Accurate as a Registered User of Boss Hawg Blawg, you must notify Boss Hawg Blawg with any changes to your member profile, user name and password by sending an email to Boss Hawg Blawg with your updated personal information.  We will make every reasonable effort to make sure your requests are met and to protect your privacy, verifiable proof of identity is required.

If you have questions or concerns about your privacy when using Boss Hawg Blawg’s website, please contact us by e-mail and we will attempt work with you to resolve any concerns you have about Boss Hawg Blawg’s Privacy Notice or suggestions for improvement.

Please Note that Changes to this Privacy Notice are made from time to time, at Boss Hawg Blawg’s sole discretion.  Boss Hawg Blawg may be required by state or federal law to notify you of certain modifications, changes or events.  However, by your use of the Boss Hawg Blawg website you hereby agree that you understand, acknowledge and mutually agree that such notices shall be delivered with full force and effect immediately upon Boss Hawg Blawg posting them on its website and your use of the website.

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