Privacy Policy
At Fix My Hog® (FMH), Our goal is simple – to be the leading destination of high-quality, how-to content. We will never intentionally put your information at risk by giving or selling it to any unscrupulous or unknown entity, and we will never spam you or knowingly share your information with anyone who does. Below you can read all the details, and always feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns. This website is property of Fix My Hog, a division of TN Marketing L.L.C. This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time; the date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page, so check back often. Continued access of the website by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Privacy Policy.
Information Usage
FMH uses your personally identifiable information to provide you with products and services you have requested. Following are descriptions of how we use your information.
Service Providers
FMH contracts with other companies to provide certain services on our behalf, including credit card processing, shipping, e-mail distribution, and promotions management. We provide these companies only with the information they need to perform their services, and they are permitted toa use the information only for that specific purpose or as required by law, unless any additional use or sharing of the information is separately permitted under another provision of this Privacy Policy.
Promotional Uses
FMH may use your personally identifiable information to provide you with promotional information about activities, services and products offered by us or selected third parties, whose products or services are complementary to what we sell. If you would like us to stop sending promotional communications to you by mail, e-mail or telephone, please send us a letter as explained in the section entitled ‘Your Choices.’
Sharing with Other Companies
FMH may share information with carefully selected vendors, business partners and other organizations. These companies and organizations may use the information we share to provide special opportunities and offers to you.
If you provide us with your postal address, we may include that address in postal address lists that we sell or rent to third parties. However, we will not share your e-mail address with third parties for promotional purposes unless you consent to such sharing by affirmatively agreeing to it. If you would like us to stop including your postal address in such lists please send us a letter as explained in the section entitled ‘Your Choices.’ If we receive such a letter from you, we will act as promptly as possible to remove your postal address from future postal address lists that we sell or rent to third parties.
Legal Purposes; Business Transactions
FMH may disclose any user or customer information, including personally identifiable information, when we believe that doing so is required by law; may be necessary to protect the property, rights, or safety of ourselves, visitors to our websites, or other persons; or will help to enforce any terms of use or contest, sweepstakes, promotions, games or other rules. It may also be necessary to disclose our customers’ personally identifiable information to third parties, such as credit card companies, to help resolve disputes that arise in the ordinary course of business. FMH may also transfer user or customer information, including personally identifiable information, in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale.
Site & Security
Cookies
To assist us in supplying your needs better, we use ‘cookies’ to store and track user information. A cookie is a small file that is sent to your computer by a web server where it is then stored on your hard drive. Cookies enable our system to count you as a visitor to our website (using your user name and password) and to identify you when you log in so you are recognized as a returning member and can collect any benefits that which may pertain to you. Cookies are not only beneficial for you but for us as well; we will also use cookies to assess the overall efficiency of our website as well as promotions and communications.
Browser Level Information and IP Addresses
When you make use of our site, we may gather information regarding your access time and your computer design, as well as the type of browser software you use and your internet Protocol (‘IP’) address. The IP address is a number that is used by computers connected to the Internet to classify your computer so that data can be sent to you. Your IP address does not give us any personal information. We will use this specific address to collect information to see how long a user may spend on our site and which pages or features are more interesting; this will help us recognize our audience’s ‘likes’ and verify the importance of advertising on our website.
We use Google, as a third party vendor, to serve some of our ads when you visit our website. Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie to serve ads based on your interests when you visit our site. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Credit Card
FMH uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology for all online transaction, which encrypts sensitive information you input before it is sent over the Internet. We reveal only the last four digits of your credit card number when confirming an order. However, your entire credit card number is transmitted to the appropriate credit card company during order processing. Orders placed on this website will appear on your credit card statement as ….
Contests and Other Promotions
FMH
may offer contests or a variety of other promotions involving marketing or advertising partners. If you choose to involve yourself in one of these contests or promotions, you will need to provide some information about yourself (such as your name, e-mail address, home address, and phone number). Receiving promotional communications from FMH is optional. If you do not wish to receive promotional communications from FMH, or our business partners, please e-mail or write us at the address at the bottom of the policy statement.
It is also optional to allow us to share your personally identifiable information with selected reputable third parties so that they can provide you with promotional communications. If you do not wish us to do so, please e-mail or write to us at the address below.
Opt-Out
You may inform us if you wish to remove your personal information from our database, and we will comply with your request as soon as reasonably possible. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes, and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records. We reserve the right, from time to time, to re-contact former users of the Websites. We give you the following options for removing your personal information from our database in order to stop receiving future communications from the Website:
1. Follow directions on a marketing e-mail or direct mail communication from us regarding the removal of your personal information from our database.
2. You can send your request via e-mail to fmhsubscription@program-director.net.
3. You can send your request via U.S. Postal Service to the mailing address below.
Account or Personal Information Changes
You may also use this address and e-mail address to request us to update or change any of your personally identifiable information or contact us regarding privacy policy concerns or questions.
Privacy Policy Coordinator
Fix My Hog
1903 Wayzata Blvd. E.
Wayzata, MN 55391
Our Privacy Policy was last updated and posted on April 30, 2013.
