Happiness Information.com - Privacy Policy

Latest Revision 10/22/2010

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Happiness-Information.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

Happiness-Information.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers', consumers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.

Personal Information:

Happiness-Information.com collects personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information collected on a voluntary basis may include name, postal address, email address, company name and telephone number.

This information is collected if you request information from us, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, and sign up to join our email list or request some other service or information from us. The information collected is internally reviewed, used to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries.

Once information is reviewed, it is safely discarded or stored in our files. If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties.

Use of Cookies and Web Beacons:

Happiness-Information.com uses advertisements from third parties to support the website, and our advertisers may use certain technologies to collect data.

Cookies are tiny bits of code that are placed by a website on your personal computer to collect non-identifying information.

Although we do not use cookies directly on our site, some of our business and advertising affiliates do use cookies.

Google Adsense for example, use cookies as follows:

  • Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve relevant ads you, based on the content you are reading on our site.
  • Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and other sites on the Internet.
  • You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Reasons to use cookies range from the ability to personalize information, to help with on-line sales, or simply for the purposes of collecting demographic information that help track trends as a whole. Cookies help developers and programmers to keep site content fresh and relevant to the user's interests. Your decision regarding the use of cookies is totally within your control, and can be changed in your browser’s preference settings. We do not have direct access to this information and do not have control over the use of third party cookies.

Web Beacons are transparent image files used to monitor your journey around a single website or within a collection of sites. Although Happiness-Information.com does not use web beacons directly on the site, we do use some other third party services to monitor traffic and navigation to improve the quality of the experience at Happiness-Information.com. These may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of our web site.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act:

This website is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.

Non-Personal Information:

In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

Release of Information:

If (website/company name) is sold, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information:

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please click on this link and/or use our Contact Us page.

Updates and Effective Date:

(website/company name) reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms:

If you do not agree to (website/company name's) Privacy Policy as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.

Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy.

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