PRIVACY POLICY
Hunting and Tactical Knives found at https://huntingandtacticalknives.com/ (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information may be collected and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.
WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED AND HOW IS IT USED?
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: Personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
Information Collect edfrom Others: Information about you from other sources, such as social media. For instance, you may link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile, in which case your name, email address and profile picture associated with that account may show.
Automatically-Collected Information: Certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, logging of your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website may occur. Also, information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
Cookies: Logging of information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website, may occur. Includes both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED
Information collected may be used in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website
- To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters; each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries
- To provide you with user support
- To track and measure advertising on the Website
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity
THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your information may be shared with third parties when you explicitly authorize the sharing of your information. Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
ANONYMOUS DATA
From time to time, anonymous data may be used, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION
If you leave a comment and/or review on the website, certain information may be publicly visible. Your email address will never be available publicly. At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website. You may also choose to link your Facebook or other social media or website. Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.
COOKIES
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, as described herein. Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers; however, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of the Website may be entirely usable.
ADVERTISING
Display Ads – Third-party advertising companies may be used to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.
Retargeting Ads – From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, or other, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Program Participation – The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Affiliate Disclaimer
I want to be as transparent as possible on the Website, so I want you to know that I will receive commissions on certain products and links to those products that you click or buy on this site. My goal is to review the best knives and accessories available on the open market and to give you my honest opinion as to educate you on those products.
I have entered into agreements with several affiliate companies, therefore you should assume that any links on this site are affiliate links and that I will receive a commission should you click on any of those product links. For example, I participate in the Amazon Associates Program, and, as an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
I may also run promotions to collect names and email addresses that are used by me ONLY for advertising special deals or to let you know about sales by certain vendors. Your email address will never be sold or used for nefarious purposes.
RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in said emails. You may also ask to be removed from the mailing list. Please note that certain information may be retained for record-keeping purposes, or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
CHILDREN’S INFORMATION
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please send a message and best efforts will be made to promptly remove such information from the records.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For questions related to this Privacy Policy, feel free to inquire for more information.
Last updated: January 4th, 2021