EFFECTIVE DATE: June 30, 2018
Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. At Hyperantique.com 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.
Middle Cove Antiques, llc. (“Middle Cove Antiques”) operates several websites including hyperantique.com, labcouriernews.com, and deadfinger.com. It is Middle Cove Antiques’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Middle Cove Antiques 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. Middle Cove Antiques’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Middle Cove Antiques’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Middle Cove Antiques may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Middle Cove Antiques also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Middle Cove Antiques 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 Middle Cove Antiques’ websites choose to interact with Middle Cove Antiques in ways that require Middle Cove Antiques to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Middle Cove Antiques 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 hyperantique.com updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Middle Cove Antiques collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Middle Cove Antiques. Middle Cove Antiques 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
Middle Cove Antiques may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Middle Cove Antiques may monitor the most popular pages on the Hyperantique.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Middle Cove Antiques may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Middle Cove Antiques does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Middle Cove Antiques 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 Middle Cove Antiques’ behalf or to provide services available at Middle Cove Antiques’ 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 Middle Cove Antiques’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Middle Cove Antiques 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, Middle Cove Antiques discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Middle Cove Antiques believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Middle Cove Antiques, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Middle Cove Antiques website and have supplied your email address, Middle Cove Antiques 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 Middle Cove Antiques 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. Middle Cove Antiques 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. Middle Cove Antiques uses cookies to help Middle Cove Antiques identify and track visitors, their usage of Middle Cove Antiques website, and their website access preferences. Middle Cove Antiques visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Middle Cove Antiques’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Middle Cove Antiques’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Middle Cove Antiques, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Middle Cove Antiques 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 Middle Cove Antiques 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 Middle Cove Antiques 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, Middle Cove Antiques may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Middle Cove Antiques’ sole discretion. Middle Cove Antiques 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.