Our Commitment To Your Privacy (Oct, 2009)
HABS Inc
238 S Telegraph Rd
Suite B
Pontiac MI 48341
HABS Inc is committed to helping you make the most of your time on our website.
A large part of helping you do this is by providing you a trusted environment
where your privacy is maintained and your personal information is kept secured.
The following privacy policy discloses how we collect, protect, use, and share
information gathered about you from one of our family of web sites. We hope this
disclosure will help increase your confidence in our website, products, and
company.
Personal Information
In general, you can visit HABS Inc on the Internet without telling us who
you are and without giving any personal information about yourself. There are
times, however, when we or our partners may need information from you.
You may choose to give us personal information in a variety of situations. For
example, you may want to give us information, such as your name and address or
e-mail id, to correspond with you, to process an order, or to provide you with a
subscription.
You may give us your credit card details to buy something from us or a
description of your education and work experience in connection with a job
opening at HABS Inc that you wish to be considered for. We intend to let you
know how we will use such information before we collect it from you; if you tell
us that you do not want us to use this information to make further contact with
you beyond fulfilling your requests, we will respect your wishes. If you give us
personal information about somebody else, such as a spouse or work colleague, we
will assume that you have their permission to do so.
Using and Sharing Personal
Info
The following paragraphs describe in more detail how HABS Inc may use your
personal information and with whom we may share it. Depending on the type of
HABS Inc Web site you are visiting, one or more of the paragraphs may apply. For
example, if you order a product from an HABS Inc Web site, your information will
be handled as described in such paragraphs as Fulfilling Your Transaction
Request and Marketing Use.
Fulfilling Your
Transaction Request
If you request something from a HABS Inc Web site, for example, a product or
service, a callback, or specific marketing materials, we will use the
information you provide to fulfill your request. To help us do this, we may
share information, with others, for instance, other parts of HABS Inc, HABS Inc
Business Partners, financial institutions, shipping companies, postal or
government authorities (for example, Customs authorities) involved in
fulfillment. In connection with a transaction we may also contact you as part of
our customer satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes.
Marketing Use
The information you provide to HABS Inc on certain HABS Inc Web sites may
also be used by HABS Inc and selected third parties for marketing purposes.
Before we use it, however, we will offer you the opportunity to choose whether
or not to have your information used in this way.
Information Security and
Quality
HABS Inc intends to make every effort to protect the quality and integrity
of your personal information. We implement technical and organizational
measures, such as encryption methodologies, to help us maintain your information
securely and accurately.
Safe Shopping Guarantee
HABS Inc intends to make every effort to protect the integrity of your
transaction. In addition to our secure encryption technologies we guarantee that
every online transaction you make will be 100% safe. Our secure server software
encrypts all of the information that you give, ensuring that your transactions
with us stay private and secure. Every purchase you make at HABS Inc is backed
by our security guarantee - if any unauthorized use of your credit card occurs
as a result of your purchases with us, notify your credit card company in
accordance with its rules and procedures. If, through no fault of your own, the
credit card provider finds credit card fraud but does not completely waive your
liability, HABS Inc will reimburse you for the remaining liability up to a
maximum of US $50.00. This guarantee applies to credit card purchases made using
HABS Inc’s secure server.
Cookies, Web Beacons, and
other Technologies
We sometimes collect non-identifiable information from visits to our Web
sites to help us provide better customer service. For example, we keep track of
the domains from which people visit, and we also measure visitor activity on
HABS Inc Web sites, but we do so in ways that keep the information
non-identifiable. This anonymous information is sometimes known as "clickstream
data." HABS Inc or others on HABS Inc’s behalf may use this data to analyze
trends and statistics and to help us provide better customer service.
Also, when we collect personal data from you in a transaction, we may extract
some information about that transaction in a non-identifiable format and combine
it with other non-identifiable information such as clickstream data. This
information is used and analyzed, at an aggregate level only, to help us
understand trends and patterns about our website. This information is not
reviewed at an individual level. If you do not want your transaction details
used in this manner you can disable your cookies.
We collect the information we mentioned in the previous paragraphs through the
use of various technologies, including one called "cookies". A cookie is a piece
of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on
your computer as an anonymous tag that identifies your computer but not you.
Some HABS Inc pages use cookies, sent by HABS Inc or its third party vendors, or
other technologies to better serve you when you return to the Web site. You can
set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the
chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off
cookies. If you do so, however, our web sites may not work properly.
Some HABS Inc Web sites also use Web beacons or other technologies to better
tailor those sites to provide better customer service. These technologies may be
in use on a number of pages across HABS Inc Web sites. When a visitor accesses
these pages, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be
processed by us or by our suppliers. These Web beacons usually work in
conjunction with cookies. If you do not want your cookie information to be
associated with your visits to these pages, you can set your browser to turn off
cookies.
If you turn off cookies, Web beacon and other technologies will still detect
visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with
other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.
Online Advertising
Certain companies help us deliver interactive on-line advertising such as
banner ads. These companies may collect and use information about customers to
help us better understand the offers, promotions, and types of advertising that
are most appealing to our customers. After it is collected the information is
aggregated so it is not identifiable to a specific individual.
Disclosures Required by
Law
Under certain circumstances, it is possible that personal information may be
subject to disclosure pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas,
warrants, or orders.
Privacy Technology
Technology will increasingly help give you more control over your personal
information. It will also help organizations to manage their privacy practices
and policies. HABS Inc supports the development of privacy technologies to help
achieve goals that create greater trust and confidence in the way personal
information is handled.
Links to Non HABS Inc
Websites
HABS Inc Web sites may contain links to other Web sites. HABS Inc is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other Web sites.
Notification of Change
This privacy statement was last updated on January 25, 2004. A notice will be
posted on our Web site home page for 30 days whenever this privacy statement is
changed in a material way.
Yahoo Privacy Policy
This site is hosted by Yahoo! Store. Yahoo! hosts the store pages, ordering
system, and order data. Yahoo! automatically collects order information but may
only use this information in the aggregate. If you accessed this store through
Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! also automatically collects information about your
shopping experience. Please see the Yahoo! Privacy Policy for more information
about how Yahoo! uses this information.
Privacy Questions
If you have a question about this statement or you would like modify your
personal information, you can send an email to the HABS Inc Web site
coordinator. The address for this is sales@hydroponicsbrew.com. You can also
contact us at this address if you have a question about HABS Inc’s handling of
your information.