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Privacy Policy

Last Modified: 10/11/19

This privacy policy (“Policy”) explains what information may be collected on this website (“Site”) and how such information may be used and/or shared with others. Your use of this Site constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions set forth below.

Some jurisdictions also require notice concerning other means of collecting personal information; for those jurisdictions, this Policy also explains our practices regarding personal information obtained from sources other than our Site, such as written or verbal communications or information collected when you visit one of our properties.

Please read this Policy carefully before submitting personal information about you to us. Also, please note that this Policy does not apply to our processing of personal information on behalf of and subject to the instructions of third parties.

This privacy policy establishes how we will handle information learned about you from your visit to our Site. Except where expressly indicated otherwise, the word “we” in this privacy policy shall refer to Hounds Town, Inc., a New York corporation located at 12 Garrity Avenue, Ronkonkoma, New York 11779. The references to “our Site” in this privacy policy shall refer to the website www.houndstownusa.com.

Please be assured that the privacy of our visitors is of the utmost importance to us. We collect no personally identifiable information about you when you visit our Site unless you choose to provide that information to us. By providing personally identifiable information through our Site, you are consenting to the terms of this Policy.

Ownership Of Information

We are the sole owner of the information we gather on our Site. We will only share your personal information with third parties, if at all, in the ways described in this Policy, or if we are required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform with the requirements of applicable law.

Information Collection And Use

Automatic Collections: As with most websites, when you visit our Site, we automatically collect and store the following, non-personally identifiable information:

• The date and time of the visit
• The type of browser and operating system used (if provided by the browser)
• The URL of the referring page (if provided by the browser)
• The object requested
• Completion status of the request
• The originating IP address
• Pages visited

This automatically collected information is used by us to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of our Site and to assist us in making our Site more useful to visitors. This includes analyzing these logs periodically to determine the traffic through our servers, the number of pages served, and the demand for certain areas of our Site and topics of interest. These logs may be preserved indefinitely by us, used at any time and in any way deemed necessary by us, and disclosed to any third party without your knowledge or consent. We do not link this automatically collected data to any personally identifiable information.

How We Use Information

We use your information as is disclosed at the time we collect the information and in the following ways:

1. To respond to your requests or inquiries. For example, we use your information to fulfill requests or inquiries.
2. To improve our products and services and for related business purposes. For example, we use information to understand our visitors and customers. This includes looking at website usage trends. We also use your information to make website and product improvements. We might also use your information to customize your experience with us. We may do these activities using the tracking tools described in this policy.
3. For security purposes. For example, we might use information to protect our website or our company. We might also use information to protect our customers or our business partners.
4. To promote Hounds Town and our related companies. For example, unless we tell you otherwise, we might send you notices of special promotions, offers or solicitations. We might also notify you about new website features or product offerings.
5. To communicate with you about your account or our relationship. For example, to let you know about issues relating to yourrelationship with us.

Voluntary Collections: As part of our normal business practice, we use our Site to facilitate communication with the general public and our business customers. In doing so, it is often necessary to collect personal information as part of that process. For example, you may request that we contact you by providing your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and a description of the question asked or services requested. All personal information submitted by you is completely voluntary. We may use this voluntarily provided information for purposes of responding to your immediate question or request and for future contact and communication with you. We may store any personal information that you provide to us solely through our Site in a secure location, until such time as you request that we delete your personal information as set forth in the “Access to Personal Information” section below or until such time as we deem such personal information no longer useful in our normal business operations. Our deletion or disposal of your personal information will be performed in a manner to ensure the utmost protection of your personal information.

Sharing Information with Third Parties: We may share any non-personally identifiable information, such as the information automatically collected when you visit our Site, with any third party without your knowledge or consent. Generally, we will not share any personally identifiable information that you provide to us with any individual outside of our organization, any other entity or organization, or any governmental agency, except with your prior written consent or as required by applicable law. We expressly reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and when we believe that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process. We may disclose your personal information to certain necessary employees, representatives and agents. We may also disclose your personal information to third parties who we contract with to support our business. We expressly reserve the right to disclose your personal information to enforce the terms of use for our Web Site or to protect the safety and security of other users.

We may transfer your personal information to a successor entity or individual upon a merger, consolidation, or other reorganization or sale of substantially all assets of the applicable business, in which we participate.

E-mail: By sending an electronic mail message to us you may be sending us personally identifiable information. In these cases, we may retain the information as long as necessary to accurately respond to your request. Please be aware that e-mail is not necessarily secure from interception or misdirection. For your own protection you may want to communicate sensitive information to us using a method other than e-mail.

Links To Other Web Sites

Our Site may contain links to websites not controlled or operated by us, including those of other private entities and organizations. Please be aware that when you follow a link to another web site, you are then subject to the privacy policy of the new web site. We do not take responsibility for, nor make any claim or representation as to the privacy policy of any other web site. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any other web site before submitting personal information to the controller or operator of such web site.

Use Of Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We may use cookies on our Site to keep track of certain information you may enter, to enable certain features of our Site, to record session data regarding your visit to our Site, and to personalize your experience on our Site.

We may also use cookies to determine aggregate usage data such as how many unique visitors come to our Site or how many unique visitors use a particular feature, to assess the technical function of our Site, and to generally help us gauge the effectiveness of our Site.

The cookies themselves will not contain any personally identifiable information, but they may be linked to any personally identifiable information that you enter on our Site.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change this in your browser settings. The “Help” feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

Access To Personal Information

If any of the personal information that you provide to us changes, or if you no longer desire for us to retain your personal information for the purposes set forth in this privacy policy, you may request the correction, update or deletion of such information by contacting us by any of the means set forth below.

Retaining Personal Information

We retain personal information about you for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law.

Security

The security of any personal information that you provide to us is important to us. We use generally accepted industry standards to protect any personal information submitted to us by you; however, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. You should always carefully protect the personal information that you submit on this Site, and you understand that transmission of any personal data is at your own risk.

Terms Of Use

By using our Site, you are bound to the terms of use for our Site. You can access those terms of use through our Site.

Changes In This Privacy Policy

We expressly reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, such changes will be posted on this page. Users of this Site following a revision of this privacy policy will automatically be subject to the new terms.

International Use

Information collected and stored on this Site shall be subject to the laws of the United States of America, regardless of the country from which the user or data originates. We make no representations that this privacy policy is appropriate for locations outside of the United States, or whether access to our Site and the provision of information through our Site from such locations is permitted. Those who choose to use our Site and provide us with information from such other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy policy, please contact us in any of the following ways:

By E-mail:
[email protected]usa.com

By Phone:
1-631-467-1643

By Mail:
Attn: Web Master
Hounds Town, Inc.
12 Garrity Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779