At hummingbird101.com, we respect the privacy of our users and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information from you when you visit or use our website.
Information We Collect
We may collect both personal and non-personal information from you when you visit our website.
Personal Information
Personal information refers to any information that can be used to identify you personally, either alone or in combination with other information. The personal information we collect from you may include:
- Contact information such as your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address when you register for an account, subscribe to our newsletter, contact us with questions, or place an order.
- Payment information such as your credit/debit card number and billing address when you make a purchase on our website. This information is processed securely through third-party payment processors.
- Profile information such as your username, password, interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
- Photos, comments, and other user-generated content that you submit to our website.
- Communication records and history between you and hummingbird101.com.
We only collect personal information from you on a voluntary basis. You can browse our website without providing any personal information, but we may not be able to provide certain services to you in that case.
Non-Personal Information
We may also collect non-personal information about your use of our website through the use of cookies, web beacons, and other technologies. This can include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information, pages viewed, links clicked, time spent on pages, and other anonymous website analytics. Our use of non-personal information is discussed further below.
How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect from you for a variety of purposes, including:
- To operate, maintain, enhance, and provide features of our website.
- To understand the interests, usage patterns, and demographics of our users. We analyze non-personal information in aggregate form to better understand our audience.
- To communicate with you and provide updates, offers, surveys, contests, and other information we think you might find valuable. You can opt-out of these communications at any time.
- To process and fulfill orders, registrations, and other requests you make on our website.
- To investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities on our website.
- To customize and tailor content we display on our website for you.
- For other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect or use your information, such as to fulfill the purpose you provided the information.
Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, share, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties for their commercial purposes without your consent. We may disclose your personal information to the following parties for the purposes described above:
- To our third party service providers who help us operate, maintain, enhance, and analyze our website and business. These third parties are required to maintain the confidentiality of any personal information shared with them and are restricted from using it for any purpose other than to provide services on our behalf.
- To comply with legal obligations, court orders, subpoenas, or other legal process requirements.
- To investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions, unauthorized access, and other illegal activities on our website.
- To enforce our website policies, terms of use, and other legal rights.
- In connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange, or other disposal of part or all of hummingbird101.com or our assets. We cannot guarantee that any entity receiving your information in connection with one of these transactions will comply with all terms of this Privacy Policy.
- With your consent or at your request and direction.
We may share non-personal, aggregated, or de-identified information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics, and other purposes, provided it cannot be linked back to any particular individual.
User Choices
You may access, correct, update, and delete your personal information through your account settings page. You may also unsubscribe from promotional emails by clicking the “unsubscribe” link they contain. Note that we may retain certain information as required or permitted by law, such as to fulfill transactions, maintain proper business records, or comply with legal obligations.
We use cookies and similar technologies to analyze site traffic, understand user activity, and display personalized content and ads. You can control the use of cookies through your browser settings and other tools. Declining cookies may impact your ability to use some features of our website.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer period is required by law. We will then dispose of your information securely or anonymize it so that it no longer identifies you.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. However, no security measures can be 100% effective, so we cannot guarantee the security of all information submitted to or collected by our website.
International Data Transfers
Hummingbird101.com’s server is in the United States. If you use our website from outside the U.S., your personal information may be transferred to and stored on our servers in the U.S. The data protection and privacy laws in the U.S. may differ from those in your country of residence. By using our website, you consent to this collection, transfer, storage, and processing of your information in the U.S. We will take steps to ensure that your personal information continues to receive adequate protection as required by applicable laws.
Children’s Privacy
Our website is not directed at children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 without parental consent. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at [email protected].
California Resident Rights If you reside in California, you have certain privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). These include:
- The right to know what personal information we collect, use, and share about you.
- The right to request deletion of your personal information.
- The right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. As noted above, we do not sell your personal information.
To make a request related to your California privacy rights, please contact us at the above email.
Changes to this Policy
We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy as needed to reflect changes in our practices, services, or legal requirements. The updated version will be posted on our website with an updated “Last updated” date. We encourage you to check back periodically to stay up-to-date on our privacy practices.
Contact Us If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at the above email.
Hummingbird101.com (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our Terms of Use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting hummingbird101.com you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site hummingbird101.com (our site) or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our service, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site, enter a competition, promotion or survey, and when you report a problem with our site. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information, personal description and photograph.
- Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
- information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
- Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. [We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.]
COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy [LINK].
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- Information you give to us. We will use this information:
- to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
- to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
- to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, we will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data;
- to notify you about changes to our service;
- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- Information we collect about you. We will use this information:
- to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
- to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
- to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
- Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may share your information with selected third parties including:
- Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you.
- Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others.
- Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.
- Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If Hummingbird101.com or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use or Terms and Conditions of Supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Hummingbird101.com, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers.
Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services.
By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted [using SSL technology]. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at Hummingbird101.com, or [email protected].
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of $10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.