Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement sets forth the information gathering, use, and dissemination practices of Sur Flicka. in connection with the World Wide Web site located at www.surflicka.com (the “Site”). This Privacy Statement addresses Sur Flicka’s practices regarding information collected only directly through or from the Site. It does not address or govern any information gathering, use, or dissemination practices related to information collected other than directly through or from the Site, including, without limitation, from or via telephone, facsimile, postal mail, personal delivery, or other or additional offline means or media.
Your access or use of the Site constitutes your legally binding acceptance of, and agreement to, this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement may be changed at any time. It is your obligation as a user visiting the Site to familiarize yourself with this Privacy Statement. Any change to this Privacy Statement shall also be effective as to any visitor who has visited the Site before the change was made.
Sur Flicka can be contacted by mail at 2026 NW Market Street, Suite 200, Seattle, WA, 98107, or by e-mail at contact@surflicka.com
1. Collection of Personal Information from Site Visitors
Sur Flicka may collect or track (1) the home server domain names, e-mail addresses, type of client computer, files downloaded, search engine used, operating system, and type of Web browser of visitors to the Site, (2) the e-mail addresses of visitors that communicate with Sur Flicka via e-mail, (3) information knowingly provided by the visitor in online forms, registration forms, surveys, e-mail, contest entries, and other online avenues (including, without limitation, demographic and personal profile data), and (4) aggregate and user-specific information regarding which pages Site visitors access.
Sur Flicka may place Internet “cookies” on visitors’ hard drives. Internet cookies save data about individual visitors, such as the visitor’s name, password, user-name, shopping cart, screen preferences, and the pages of a site viewed by the visitor. When the visitor revisits the Site, Sur Flicka may recognize the visitor by the Internet cookie and customize the visitor’s experience accordingly. Visitors may decline Internet cookies, if any, by using the appropriate feature of their Web client software, if available.
When a visitor performs a search within the Site, Sur Flicka may record information identifying the visitor or linking the visitor to the search performed. Sur Flicka may also record limited information for every search request and use that information to solve technical problems with the services available directly or indirectly in connection with the Site and to calculate overall usage statistics.
2. Use of Personal Data Collected
Personal data collected by Sur Flicka may be used by us for many reasons. Examples may include, editorial and feedback purposes, for marketing and promotional purposes, for a statistical analysis of users’ behavior, for product development, for content improvement, for fulfillment of a requested transaction or recordkeeping, or to customize the content and layout of the Site. Aggregate data on visitors’ home servers may be used for internal purposes, and individually identifying information, such as names, postal and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information which visitors voluntarily provide to Sur Flicka may be added to Sur Flicka’s databases and used for future contact and mailings regarding Site updates, news, new products and services, and upcoming events.
Sur Flicka may also use Site visitor data to contact the Site visitors regarding account status and changes to the submissions agreement, privacy statement, and any other policies or agreements relevant to Site visitors.
3. Disclosure of Personal Data to Third Parties
Sur Flicka will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information to third parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Sur Flicka may disclose or distribute identifiable or non-identifiable data to a third party under certain situations including:
- As necessary for the conduct of normal business. For example, Sur Flicka may disclose your personally identifiable information in connections with order fulfillment, custom order production, or shipping, by a third party.
- As part of Sur Flicka entering, or reasonably anticipating entering, into a corporate transaction. For example, Sur Flicka may disclose your personally identifiable information in connections with a merger, consolidation, acquisition, or asset purchase.
- As required by law. For example, Sur Flicka may disclose your personally identifiable information to a third party pursuant to a subpoena, court order, or other form of legal process.
- As determined by Sur Flicka in its sole judgment that disclosure or distribution is appropriate to protect the life, health, or property of Sur Flicka or any other person or entity. For example, Sur Flicka may disclose your personally identifiable information in response to a request by or on behalf of any local, state, federal, or other government agency, department, or body, whether or not pursuant to a subpoena, court order, or other form of legal process.
While Sur Flicka may undertake efforts to ensure that such third parties use the personal data solely for the purposes for which the data was disclosed, Sur Flicka is not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties and will not be liable for any use of disclosure, by a third party, of any user’s personal data.
This Site may contain links to other World Wide Web sites or advertisements for or placed by third parties. Sur Flicka is not responsible for the privacy practices of such Web sites, advertisers, or third parties, or for the content of such sites or advertisements. It is possible that these links or advertisements, themselves, may be used by third parties or others to collect personal or other information about Site visitors. It is solely the visitors’ obligation to review and understand the privacy practices and policies of these other Web sites and of these advertisers and third parties.
4. Security Measures
Sur Flicka has implemented security features to prevent the unauthorized release of or access to users’ personal information. For example, credit and debit card details are sent by secure SSL encrypted means to process the payment of any and all orders. Please be advised, however, that the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted to or from Sur Flicka via this Site or e-mail cannot be guaranteed. Accordingly, Sur Flicka is not responsible for the security of information transmitted via the internet. As an alternative to communicating with Sur Flicka via e-mail or the internet, visitors can contact Sur Flicka by mail at 2026 NW Market Street, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98107.
5. Your Opt-Out Right
You can always choose to withhold any information you do not want to provide, even though the information may be needed in order for you to make a purchase or to take advantage of a surflicka.com feature.
In addition, except as necessary for Sur Flicka to provide the services, information, or products requested by a visitor, the visitor may opt out of having his or her personally identifiable information, which has been voluntarily provided to Sur Flicka through an account registration, customer order, or electronic news or information subscription, prospectively retained by Sur Flicka, used by Sur Flicka for secondary purposes, or disclosed by Sur Flicka to third parties by contacting Sur Flicka in writing via postal mail, at the addresses set out above. (This does not apply to collection of the type of Web browser of the visitor to the Site or to information provided or collected that does not meet the above description.) Such request may result in Sur Flicka declining to conduct further business with the visitor making the request.
6. Your Access to and Ability to Correct Personal Data
Upon a visitor’s written request via postal mail, Sur Flicka will provide to the visitor a summary of any personally identifiable information retained by Sur Flicka regarding the visitor, which information has been voluntarily provided to Sur Flicka through an account registration, customer order, or electronic news or information subscription. A visitor may modify, correct, change or update their personally identifiable information by contacting Sur Flicka in writting via postal mail, at the address above.
7. Compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COOPA).
The Site is not directed at children under the age of 13. Sur Flicka complies with COPPA and to the extent that Sur Flicka is able to determine the age of users by their submissions to or communications with the Site, Sur Flicka will not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personally identifiable information from individuals under the age of thirteen (“Children” or “Child”) without their parent’s or guardian’s consent. Sur Flicka does not provide products or services to Children without parental consent. If you are under 13, you may use the Site only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
Sur Flicka is prohibited from conditioning a Child’s participation in an activity on the Child’s disclosure of more personally identifiable information than is reasonably necessary to participate in such activity.
If there are no age restrictions on a contest which requires registration, and if a Child wins, notification and prizes will be sent to the parent(s) or guardian(s) identified in the initial registration process.
8. Sur Flicka’s Right to Contact Users
Sur Flicka reserves the right to contact Site visitors regarding account status and changes to the subscriber agreement, privacy statement, and any other policies or agreements relevant to Site visitors.
9. Sur Flicka’s Right to Change Privacy Statement Terms
Sur Flicka may change this Privacy Statement at any time. It is the obligation of users visiting the Site to familiarize themselves with this Privacy Statement. Any change to this Privacy Statement shall be effective as to any visitor who has visited the Site before any change was made.
