Information
Collection and Use
Hobby-estore.com the sole owner of the information collected on
this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to any
outside parties, except as outlined in this policy. Hobby-estore.com
collects information from our users at several different points on
our website in order to process orders and better serve you with pertinent
information. Information collected includes name, shipping address,
billing address, telephone numbers, e-mail address, and payment information
such as credit card. Hobby-estore.com also requires you to submit
a user name and password of your choice for future access to your
information. Your user name and password is to remain confidential
and you should not share this information with anyone.
Registration
In order to process your orders using this website, a user must first
complete the registration form. During registration a user is required
to give their contact information, which include name, e-mail, telephone
number and physical address. This information is used to contact the
user about the services on our site such as sending automated order
status updates.
Order
Most of the information collected in the registration process will
be used to process orders. In the order process, a user must provide
additional financial information such as credit card number, expiration
date, money order, wire transfer or check information. This information
is used for billing purposes and to fulfill customer' s orders. If
we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used
to get in touch with the user. We do not share your personal and financial
information with any third parties. The only exception is when processing
your credit card information with the merchant bank for authorization
and approval. This process is protected by an enhanced security system.
See Security paragraph for more details on security measures and procedures.
Cookies
With respect to cookies, we use cookies to customize Web page content
based on visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor
sends. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site,
however you will be unable to use our shopping cart to purchase items
online. This is because cookies are used by the shopping cart to retain
information necessary to process your order. If you disable cookies,
we will not be able to accept your order online. We do not share any
information with any third party sites. Cookies are used strictly
for the purpose of enhancing your personal experience with our site.
When you close your browser, the cookies will be terminated.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track
user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
We do not distribute or share IP information with any third parties.
Sharing
We use outside shipping companies to ship orders, and a credit card
processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies
do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information
for any secondary purposes.
Hobby-estore.com is a California Corporation and shall abide by all
federal and state laws. Hobby-estore shall disclose any personally
identifiable information when required to by law.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware Hobby-estoreis
not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We
encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read
the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to
information collected by this Web site.
Rating Products and Reviews
Hobby-estore provides a product-rating feature that allows customers
to rate the quality of the product. Our review system also allows
for customers to leave written comments to further elaborate their
experience with the product. All ratings and review comments are pre-screened
by a moderator before posting to the site. The moderator may choose
to disregard or eliminate comments that do not meet the guidelines.
Guidelines include that all comments are truthful and non-offensive.
Guidelines do not permit the posting of personal information or information
for the purpose of personal gain.
All posted rating information and review comments are viewable to
all customers browsing the Hobby-estore.com site. This information
is exclusive to the Hobby-estore.com site and is not sent to any
third party sites. Hobby-estore is not responsible for the comments
or actions of customers based on the information posted on the site.
128-Bit SSL
Hobby-estore' website takes every precaution to protect our users'
information. When users submit sensitive information via the website,
your information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information
(such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is
protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL.
Our SSL technology is the most advanced 128bit encryption by Geotrust.
To learn more about SSL, follow this link www.geotrust.com.
Special Offers
If you choose to receive special offers, Hobby-estore may send you
such pertinent information. Our special offers are sent only to customers
who grant Hobby-estore permission to send such information. Hobby-estore
does not share your information with third parties and does not solicit
outside parties to send special offers on our behalf.
Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option
to not receive these types of communications. At the time of your
order, you may opt to not receive special offers and news by un-checking
the appropriate field. Furthermore, all special offers are sent via
e-mail and have a "remove link" if you wish to no longer
receive special offers and news. Otherwise, customers may occasionally
receive information on products, services, special deals or news.
Please see our choice and opt-out below for further details of how
to be removed from our mailing list.
Correction/Updating/Reviewing Personal Information
Customers may change or review their recorded account information
such as address or e-mail thought our website at or by going to the
home page at www.Hobby-estore.com and clicking on the "my account"
button. You must have your username and password in order to access
your account.
Choice/Opt-out
Hobby-estore does not use customer's information for contact other
than Hobby-estore.com pertinent business. Hobby-estore.com does
not share our customer's personal information with any outside parties.
However, for customers who wish to opt-out or be removed from Hobby-estore.com
special offers and related news, Hobby-estore.com provides several
methods to accomplish this request. Users who no longer wish to receive
our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these
communications by un-checking the permission to send field when processing
their order. They may also send us email to service@hobby-estore.com
with a request to be removed. Finally, they may also use the link
provided with all communications to automatically unsubscribe.
