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At HawaiianStockPhotography.com (Hawaiian Stock Photography and BSJ Inc.), we respect your right to privacy and we understand that visitors to HawaiianStockPhotography.com Sites need to control the uses of their personal information. The privacy policy below details the measures taken by HawaiianStockPhotography.com to protect your privacy in connection with your use of all sites owned and operated by HawaiianStockPhotography.com (HawaiianStockPhotography.com Sites). HawaiianStockPhotography.com does not intend to collect any personal information from children under 13 unless HawaiianStockPhotography.com believes such collection to be permitted by law; please read below for HawaiianStockPhotography.com's policy with respect to children under 13.


How is my personally identifiable information used by HawaiianStockPhotography.com?
Customized experience. HawaiianStockPhotography.com may gather user information to provide you with a customized experience on our sites. Your user information helps us tailor the content, services, goods and advertising to your current and future needs. For this reason, we may ask you to register or to provide personal information when you register, order a product, download coupons, enter a contest, subscribe to a newsletter and/or visit certain areas of the HawaiianStockPhotography.com site. If you choose not to register you may not have access to areas that require personal identification.

E-mail. If you register with any of the BSJ Inc. Sites or purchase products from us, from time to time we may e-mail you with messages about our services or third party products and services we believe may be of interest to you, such as new products, features, services, special offers and updated information. The newsletters may contain code that enables our database to track your usage of the newsletters, including whether the email was opened and/or what links (if any) were clicked. We will combine that information with other information we have about you and may use that information to improve your site experience and/or provide customized e-mail communications to you. In addition, if you register with the HawaiianStockPhotography.com site or purchase products you may automatically receive emails confirming your registration and/or purchase and providing you with necessary information relating to the access or use of your registration and/or purchase. With the exception of the emails described in the preceding sentence which are necessary to provide customer support and deliver products and services to you, you may opt-out of receiving email from us as described below under "What are my options to control the use of my personally identifiable information?"


When does HawaiianStockPhotography.com collect my information, including personally identifiable information?

Registration
When you purchase a product, HawaiianStockPhotography.com will ask you for one or more of the following: your e-mail address, a user selected user name, and other information such as credit card information and home address.. (HawaiianStockPhotography.com's policy with respect to children under 13 is below)

Order Forms and Products Store
HawaiianStockPhotography.com also uses an order form for users to request information, products and services. For that order form, we collect a user's contact information (e-mail address) and necessary financial information to process the order (i.e. credit card number). Contact information from the order (including email) is used to deliver products and information from HawaiianStockPhotography.com. HawaiianStockPhotography.com may use third parties to accept and process orders and credit card purchases for merchandise and products, including software. HawaiianStockPhotography.com currently uses the services of PayPal for credit card processing. PayPal collects information from consumers solely to process payment transactions on behalf of its merchants and will only share consumer information with the merchant who originated the transaction, vendors, processors, banking institutions, and credit card associations as necessary to process payment transactions. PayPal does not sell or rent this information, and will only share it as stated in its Privacy Policy. For more information about PayPal's use of your information, please read their Privacy Policy.

Special Contests or Promotions
HawaiianStockPhotography.com may occasionally present a special contest or promotion that is sponsored by another company. To qualify for entry in that contest or promotion, we may ask you to provide personal information. If we plan to share that information with the sponsor(s) or with others, we will provide a statement to that effect in the contest or promotion terms.

IP Address
All communication on the Internet takes place between pairs of IP Addresses. Our Web servers will log the IP address that any connection is made from. We may use these IP addresses to help diagnose technical problems or prevent abuse of our systems or other site users. Your IP address may also be used to gather aggregate demographic data and target advertisements accordingly.

Cookies
A "cookie" is a small line of text that is stored with your Web browser for record-keeping purposes and to help us provide better service to you. Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice when a cookie is sent. We use cookies to save your password (in an encrypted format) on your machine so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and track purchases from the HawaiianStockPhotography.com Sites.

Information from Other Sources
For reasons such as improving member experience and providing customized communications to our users, we may receive information about you from third party sources and our web logs (see the "Web Logs" section below) and add it to the information that we have received from you.

Weblogs
Web logs automatically record anything a web server sees, which may include email addresses you enter into a form or pages viewed by a user at a particular IP address. If you are not a registered user of the HawaiianStockPhotography.com Sites or if you have elected to Opt-Out of receiving email from us, we will not use the information from web logs to market to you. If you are a registered user of the HawaiianStockPhotography.com Sites and have not elected to Opt-Out of receiving email from HawaiianStockPhotography.com, we may use web log information about your use of the HawaiianStockPhotography.com Sites in order to inform you about content, products, or services in accordance with your email options.


Who does HawaiianStockPhotography.com share information with?
We will not share your personally identifiable information with third parties, aside from entities that perform services for us, such as fulfilling orders or processing payment, that either are bound to comply with our privacy policy or have privacy policies that protect your information unless you have "opted-in" to such sharing. If you have previously opted-in to such sharing under a prior privacy policy version, you are still considered to have opted-in under this Privacy Policy. As stated, and whether or not you have opted-in, HawaiianStockPhotography.com may use third parties to accept and process orders for merchandise and products, including software, and such third parties may get access to your personal information for the purposes of providing services or products to you on HawaiianStockPhotography.com's behalf. In addition, if you Opt-Out, as discussed below, we may share that information with third parties who send emails on our behalf so that they do not email you.

However, HawaiianStockPhotography.com may disclose information you provide if required to do so by law or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process served on HawaiianStockPhotography.com; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of HawaiianStockPhotography.com; or (3) act in an emergency to protect someone's safety.

We may request demographic information from you (for example, your age, education level or household income) from time to time. We will not share that information in a manner that identifies you as an individual with any other entity, unless we let you know that at the time of collection or we have your permission. When we share demographic information with third parties, we will give them aggregate information only.

In the event that HawaiianStockPhotography.com is acquired by another company, your personal information may be part of the assets transferred to the acquiring party.


What are my options to control the use of my personally identifiable information?
If you provide us with your e-mail address, and do not opt-out of receiving e-mail from us, we may e-mail you with information from HawaiianStockPhotography.com, including information about selected third parties. If you do not want to receive information from HawaiianStockPhotography.com, you may decline to receive it (or "Opt-Out") either when you provide personal information to HawaiianStockPhotography.com or you may sign in and update your profile. You may also choose to Opt-Out from certain types of email by following the unsubscribe instructions that appear on each newsletter. You may also contact HawaiianStockPhotography.com by postal mail at the address below. Note that you might be signed up for multiple email preferences, and you should be sure that you unsubscribe only from the ones you no longer want to receive. Please note that there might be a brief delay between when you submit your request to Opt-Out and when it is processed and reflected in our systems; accordingly you might continue to receive emails from us for a few days after you unsubscribe. We maintain records of those users who Opt-Out of specific email options so that we do not email them with respect to those types of emails and we may share this information with third parties who send emails on our behalf so that they do not email you; this information may also be contained in web logs (see above).


What about kids' personally identifiable information?
The HawaiianStockPhotography.com Sites are general audience sites and are not directed to children under the age of 13. HawaiianStockPhotography.com assumes products purchased through credit card means are purchased by adults. HawaiianStockPhotography.com respects the privacy of parents and children and is committed to complying with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). On those areas of the Sites that ask for age, HawaiianStockPhotography.com does not collect personal information from individuals who identify themselves as under the age of 13 except in those limited circumstances where HawaiianStockPhotography.com believes that such collection is permitted under COPPA.

If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal information to HawaiianStockPhotography.com, he or she can contact us via e-mail or postal mail as listed below. HawaiianStockPhotography.com will promptly delete the information upon learning that it relates to a child under the age of 13. Please note that it is possible some of this information may remain archived in web logs and back-up archives after HawaiianStockPhotography.com deletes the information from its active database (see the Web Logs paragraph above, and the Archived Information paragraph below).

HawaiianStockPhotography.com believes that parents should supervise their children's online activities and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a kid-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from otherwise disclosing online their name, address and other personal information without parental permission.


What else should I know about my privacy?

Security
HawaiianStockPhotography.com has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. These include a firewall to prevent unauthorized access to our systems and maintenance of registration information in a separate database. Although we will exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between your computer and our servers, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet and we accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure. We will protect the transmission of credit card information through industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

Tell a Friend. If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site or particular features or content, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. HawaiianStockPhotography.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the HawaiianStockPhotography.com Site. HawaiianStockPhotography.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

Your personal information is password-protected, and you should take appropriate measures to protect the secrecy of your password. If you use a computer in a public place or share a computer with others, remember to sign out and close your browser window when you finish a session with HawaiianStockPhotography.com in order to prevent others from accessing your personal information.

Archived Information
HawaiianStockPhotography.com maintains archives of its web logs, database, and other systems and information. Please note that it is possible some of this information may remain archived after HawaiianStockPhotography.com deletes the information from its active database (see the Web Logs paragraph above). HawaiianStockPhotography.com maintains archives for disaster recovery, legal and other non-marketing purposes.


How can I update my Profile?
You can help HawaiianStockPhotography.com maintain the accuracy of your profile by notifying us when you change your name, zip code, country of residence, age range, or e-mail address. If at any time you wish to update your information or stop receiving communication from HawaiianStockPhotography.com, sign in to the applicable HawaiianStockPhotography.com Site and then select 'update your profile' to change your newsletter preferences.

Contacting HawaiianStockPhotography.com
HawaiianStockPhotography.com would like to receive your comments and questions about this Privacy Policy. Please address comments or questions regarding HawaiianStockPhotography.com's Privacy Policy to us via e-mail or postal mail.

You can e-mail us at: support@hawaiianstockphotography.com.

You may also contact HawaiianStockPhotography.com by mail at:
BSJ Inc.
1019 Wai Lae Street
Wailuku, HI 96793 USA

Acceptance of Privacy Policy.
Your use of the HawaiianStockPhotography.com Sites, including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this Privacy Policy and HawaiianStockPhotography.com's Terms of Service. By using the HawaiianStockPhotography.com Sites, you are accepting the practices set out in this Privacy Policy and those Terms of Service. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. Please check the revision date at the bottom of this page to determine if the policy has been modified since you last reviewed it. Your continued use of any portion of the HawaiianStockPhotography.com Sites following posting of the updated Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.

Updated as of 10-31-08
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