Aardvark Hill is committed to protecting your privacy. We use the information we collect about you to process orders and to provide a more personalized shopping experience. We do not sell your e-mail address to other companies. Please read on for more details about our privacy policy.
- When you order from our site you actually pay us through PayPal so we NEVER SEE your credit card or personal financial information. PayPal is a secure, safe method of payment that is used by over 150 million people around the world. Thanks to PayPal, we don’t need or receive any sensitive personal information from you other than your name, contact information and shipping address. We do NOT receive your credit card numbers and have no access to them. PayPal provides authentication of your identity and payment for your purchase to us. That is all that is needed to purchase from us. This allows us to process and fulfill your order and to notify you of your order status. This works because PayPal trusts you and we trust PayPal. In fact, now you don’t even have to sign up for a PayPal account to order from us! – But you might as well because it will save you time, money and piece of mind knowing that your financial information is not caste all over the internet.
- When you sign up for free services like Newsletters or download certain products made available by us through our site, we need only a name to personalize your newsletter when sent to you you and an email address — which we use to send the information you requested.
We use PayPal for all online purchases and because of this, we do not receive any personal financial information such as credit card numbers and expiration dates. You don’t to worry wither or not your sensitive information is safe on our server… because we don’t have it!
Our website has a number of security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. Our computer systems have restricted access limited to only those persons and organizations necessary to the proper functioning of this site.
This access applies to all electronic and physical security measures. Highly sensitive data, including credit card information, is additionally secured through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol during transfer/authentication.
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Our site may uses cookies to speed navigation, keep track of items, and provide you with custom-tailored content. We also use cookies to remember information you gave us so you don’t have to reenter it each time you visit the site.
By showing us how and when shoppers use our site, cookies also help us see which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are based on the data derived from these cookies, such as total number of visitors and pages viewed.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you’d prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. Normally, you will should enable cookies for each site you wish to purchase from.
From time to time, we might share customer information — never credit card information — with trustworthy third parties. Also, we may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.
We may release account information when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, (ii) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements, or (iii) protect the rights, property, or safety of ourselves, our users, or others.
To unsubscribe from any Newsletter, simply hit use the link at the bottom of any newsletter message that you no longer wish to receive and you will be automatically removed from that list. If you have more than one email address that is receiving the same newsletter, you must un-subscribe each in the same way.
We are concerned about the privacy and safety of young children online and do not knowingly collect any personal information from a child under 13 in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying FTC regulations establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet.
Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13, and we have designed our sites to block our knowing acceptance of information from children under 13 whenever age-related information is requested.
We suggest that you become involved with your child’s access to the Internet and to our site to ensure that his or her privacy is well protected.
By using our web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by us. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.