Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes the information and data collection, storage and use practices and policies of AkuessonHI on the website at https://AkuessonHI.org (along with all subdomains, collectively, the “Website”). This Privacy Policy is only applicable to the Website and not to any other websites that you may be able to access from the Website, each of which may have data collection, storage, and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Privacy Policy. When you leave the Website via a link to another website, you are subject to that site’s Privacy Policy, Terms of Use and other policies (“Third Party website policies”) applicable to that site and you should review the Third Party website policies.

Information Collection and Use Practices

Types of Information Collected

Personal Information Collected. In order for you to access and purchase products offered through the Website or to make a donation via the Website, we may require you to provide information that personally identifies you (“Personal Information”). Personal Information may include the following categories of information: (1) Contact Data (such as your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number(s)); (2) Financial Data (such as your account or credit card number); and (3) Demographic Data (such as your zip code and age). If you communicate with us by email, post messages to any of our chat groups, bulletin boards, or forums, or otherwise complete online forms, surveys, or contest entries, any information provided may be collected as Personal Information.

Traffic Data Collected. We may automatically track and collect the following categories of information when you visit our Website: (1) IP addresses; (2) domain servers; (3) types of computers accessing the Website; and (4) types of web browsers used to access the Website (collectively “Traffic Data”). Traffic Data is anonymous information that does not personally identify you but is helpful for improving your experience on the Website.

Uses of Information Collected. We may use your Personal Information to send you information about our company and our products, to request a donation, or to contact you when necessary. We may also share your Personal Information with our partners who may contact you about goods and services they offer. We use your Financial Data only to verify your purchase of products or pledge of a donation and to bill you for same. We do not use your Financial Data for any other purpose.

iii. Technology we and Our Third Party Advertising Vendors Use and Internet-Based Advertising

AkuessonHI uses tools such as Google AdWords and Google Display remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our Website. This could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our Website, for example by using the contact form to make an inquiry. This remarketing could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Good Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies (described more fully below) to serve advertisements based on someone’s past visits to the Website. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy and Google’s privacy policy.

AkuessonHI and its third-party advertisers may also use cookies and web beacons, which are small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. AkuessonHI collects information through cookies and web beacons about your web browsing activities such as the address of the page you are visiting, the address of the referrer page you previously visited, the time you are viewing the page, your browsing environment, and your display settings. We may use cookies and web beacons on our Website for the following purposes:
Understanding traffic patterns and the number of visitors to the Website and other websites that we partner with;

AkuessonHI and its third-party advertisers may also use Clear Gifs, which are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, used to track the online movement of a Website visitor.

Please note that cookies, web beacons and clear gifs may be placed by a third-party service provider who performs these functions for us. These third-parties may have their own privacy policies.

AkuessonHI may also use Basket Recovery, which is a technology we use to identify abandoned shopping carts and to send follow up email communications. If you do not want to receive shopping cart recovery email communications, do not type your email address into any product order or donation form or you may also click the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email.

AkuessonHI does not use cookies, web beacons, clear gifs or basket recovery to collect or store any Personal Information.

We may also share Traffic Data with advertisers and other third parties who may use it for advertising purposes, including to serve targeted advertising on non-affiliated third party sites. Some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information about your online activities on the Website or other websites over time. For example, anonymous information collected across multiple sites may enable the ad network to predict your preferences and show you ads that are likely to be of interest to you. Please note that we do not share any information that identifies you personally with the third party service providers who serve ads on our behalf. To opt out of these types of ads, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) for information about how to opt-out of interest-based advertising by their members. See http://www.networkadvertising.org for general information about the NAI and http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp for the opt-out page. You may also visit http://www.aboutads.info/consumers/ to learn about interest based advertising and how to opt-out from online behavioral ads served by some or all participating companies.

If we or some or all of our assets are acquired by another company, including through a sale in connection with a bankruptcy, that company will possess the information collected by us, and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose Personal Information or other data to comply with the law or legal requirements, enforce or apply our Terms of Use and Terms & Conditions of Sale/Donations and other agreements, or protect our rights, property, the safety of our users, or others.

Sharing of Personal Information

We may share Personal Information with advertisers and other third parties. The other parties with whom we share Personal Information may send information to you about products. We do not share your Financial Data with these third parties. We may share Financial Data with business partners who assist us by performing core services (such as hosting, billing, fulfillment, or data storage and security) related to our operation of the Website. Those business partners agree to uphold the same standards of security and confidentiality described in this Privacy Policy, and they will only use your Financial Data to carry out their specific business obligations to AkuessonHI.

If you do not want us to share your Personal Information with any third parties, please email us at info@AkuessonHI.org or select the “opt out” box on our online forms. In addition, we maintain a procedure for you to review and request changes to your Personal Information, described below.

Email Marketing

By submitting your email address through the Website, you are expressly consenting to receive emails from AkuessonHI, including from AkuessonHI’s affiliates, and from third parties concerning offers and advertisements unrelated to AkuessonHI. To opt-out of receiving email messages from us, from our affiliates or from other third parties, click on the “Unsubscribe” link contained in each email. Please allow up to 10 business days for us to process your request. Please note if you decide not to receive marketing emails from us, you may still receive transactional email messages regarding your order(s) or donation (i.e., order confirmation, shipping information, customer care notifications, etc.). If you have questions or concerns regarding this provision, please contact us at info@AkuessonHI.org.

Contests, Sweepstakes, Surveys

AkuessonHI may conduct or co-sponsor contests, sweepstakes, or other offerings. In such circumstances, the information we obtain from you may be shared with our co-sponsor. Our co-sponsors will have the right to use your information for their own purposes, in accordance with their own privacy policies. If you do not wish for the information we obtain from you to be shared with our co-sponsor, please do not participate in these offerings.

Confidentiality and Security of Personal Information

User Ability to Access, Update, and Correct Personal Information
At any time you may contact AkuessonHI via email at info@AkuessonHI.org to update your Personal Information or request that your Personal Information no longer be shared by AkuessonHI. In the case that your credit card, user name, or password is lost, stolen, or used without permission, promptly contact AkuessonHI at info@AkuessonHI.org to update the Personal Information we have on file for you.

Your California Privacy Rights

AkuessonHI may make your Personal Information available to third parties for their marketing purposes as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not wish to share your Personal Information in this way, send your request to info@AkuessonHI.org.

iii. Security

AkuessonHI uses reasonable security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under AkuessonHI’s control.

Public Information

The Website contains links to websites not operated by AkuessonHI. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Please review the privacy policies of each site you visit. We may also make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and news groups available to you. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes accessible to the public. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your Personal Information in a public forum.

Updates and Changes to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to update or modify this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such update or modification on the Website. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the Website. You consent to such changes through your continued use of the Website.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to contact us, please send an email to Info@AkuessonHI.org

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