Hiigard.com tries to insure the protection of the information transmitted through the internet as well as respecting privacy and thus, rigorously controls the way by which personal information is used and transmitted. The present Declaration of Confidentiality details the protection policy related to personal data from Hiigard.com. By using the Hiigard.com site, you accept to comply with the practices detailed in this Declaration of Confidentiality and Security.
Data collection
In the advent of a purchase or during the registration phase for a promotional contest, Hiigard.com demands that you transmit your name, address, email address and that, if you accept, other information. The information that Hiigard.com collects about you allows it to customize and constantly improve services provided when you visit Hiigard.com. This information follows the following schedule:
Information that you provide
We receive and save all information that you have entered in the website or that you may have supplied by other means. You have the choice not to provide information, but this will prevent us from providing you with some of our services. We will use the collected data in order to, notably, answer your requests, prepare suggestions for you, offer customized purchasing, improve our stores, and contact you.
Automatically collected information
We receive and save some information every time you contact us; for example, like many other websites, we use cookies that allow us to obtain some information when you access Hiigard.com.
Information coming from other sources
It is possible that we may receive data about you from other sources and that we assign this information to your account.
Information transferred from other accounts
It may be offered to save information that you have already entered on some sites like Hiigard.com if you use the same identity. You will have the choice to accept the process or not.
Transmitting collected information
The information that is gathered by Hiigard.com on you is confidential and shall solely be shared on Hiigard.com, which allow Hiigard.com to open an account in your name, process your orders, to contact you in the event you have won a contest, to customize its relationship with you and, if you agree, to occasionally send you information about the Site and its products according to your preferences. Hiigard.com wish to specify that its advertisers will not at any time be allowed to access your confidential information. Furthermore, Hiigard.com does not sell user lists. You have the choice to no longer receive information pertaining to Hiigard.com by specifying under the section My Profile in your account.
Only those employees or representatives dully authorised by Hiigard.com can access your information, but solely has governed by their position.
Protection of personal information
Hiigard.com has implemented state-of-the-art security measures in order to protect you against loss or unauthorised use of customer information that is in Hiigard.com ‘s possession, notably information concerning your credit card. Hiigard.com ‘s servers use the latest information-transmission technology (Secure Socket Layers, or SSL), which render its transmission highly secure. In addition, Hiigard.com servers are protected by firewall technology. Hiigard.com ensures its hardware is always state-of-the-art in order to allow you to perform secure transactions on the Site at any time. However, no security mechanism is perfect and you must be aware that you are always at some level of risk that personal information transmitted to Hiigard.com may be disclosed without fault on the part of Hiigard.com and without your consent. Hiigard.com declines all responsibility regarding forwarded confidential information, except in case of negligence on the part of Hiigard.com. If you are concerned about confidentiality, related to the use of your credit card on the Internet, Hiigard.com invites you to submit your order by telephone.
Hiigard.com reserves the right to modify this policy at any time. Hiigard.com also reserves the right to transmit personal information about you to the extent Hiigard.com must do so under the law or so as to protect the copyright of the site or those of its users, partners or suppliers.
Cookies
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are harmless in that they cannot extract information from your hard disk, over which you have full control. Hiigard.com uses cookies mainly in order to determine traffic on the site, to transmit information that is highly usable by its marketing department, and to personalise the future use you make of the site. This technology does not systematically place personal information about you at Hiigard.com’s disposal. It is always possible to no longer be subject to cookies by modifying your computer’s configuration.
Controlling personal information
From the My Account page, you can at any time validate or modify your personal information; these procedures may also be completed by directly contacting the customer service desk for a boutique associated with Hiigard.com. However, if you wish to have yourself removed from Hiigard.com’s list of customers, you must contact Hiigard.com.
The safety of teenagers and children on the internet
More and more children and teenagers are using the internet and benefit from its advantages. However, as in the case of any other environment, they can be victims of crime and exploitation since they are vulnerable. This is why we strongly suggest de monitor what your teenagers and children are doing over the internet and teach them about security and common sense. Such measures often help to avoid that your children or teenagers are victims of harassment or other criminal designs. In order to limit the risk that your children and teenagers are exposed to such dangers, reasonably monitor their usage of your internet service. Your children or teenagers must be aware that they should not divulge any personal information such as their name, phone number or address over forums and blogs. It is important that your children and teenagers be encouraged to unveil their worries when they receive messages that they feel are uncomfortable or shocking. These suggestions will help your children and teenagers to browse the internet appropriately and will allow you to ensure that your children and teenagers benefit from all the components that the service provides to enrich their growth.
Security and Efficiency of the Network
Hiigard.com does not guarantee the efficiency, or total security. It is possible that a hacker manages to penetrate the server. It is thus important that you keep in mind before USING YOUR IDENTITY TO BROWSE THE SITE OR COMPLETE TRANSACTIONS on Hiigard.com that a malicious person may access the servers on Hiigard.com site and use the information about you or any other person on the site to his or her own end. IN NO CASE will Hiigard.com and its administrators be held accountable for acts of computer piracy, nor be blamed for whatever damage or lost associated with the site. Hiigard.com may have occasional outages and programming errors may be provoked by updates or events independent of the will of the administrators.
No administrator or member of the organization can be held accountable if a member is unable to browse through Hiigard.com, regardless of the reason preventing such activity from taking place (misunderstanding, defective telephone line, modem incompatibility, broken cable, bad configuration, wrong browser, etc.).
At the moment when you complete your online purchases, you can verify if you are in secure mode by looking at the URL (web address) and ensuring that it begins with https :// instead of http :// The icon displayed that looks like a padlock of the browser window confirms that you are in secure mode.
Links to other sites
Hiigard.com includes links to external web sites. When you click on these links, you leave the Hiigard.com Site. Any personal information that you transmit through these sites is subject to the personal information protection policies of each of these sites. We recommend that you pay careful attention to the personal information protection policies of these sites.
