Privacy Policy

About Us
This website is operated for the The Hardware Shop, Inc by

As a leading website designer and host, we respect your right to privacy. We understand the sensitive nature of privacy issues and we try to ensure that your confidentiality is protected. However, our policy applies only to this website; we have no control over our affiliates, advertisers, and other websites that may be connected or linked.

Information Collected
You can use this website without revealing any personal information. The majority of our services do not require any form of visitor registration. However, some services cannot be offered without receiving information, such as how to contact you. If you are not willing to provide such information, you may choose not to participate in these programs. If you wish solely to browse our website, you will not be required to fill out any form of registration.

We collect no personal data without your knowledge. Our web server does not automatically recognize or collect information about your domain or email address. However, it tallies the aggregate number of visitors to our pages and it collects the information you provide voluntarily, such as your responses to surveys, forums, subscriptions, registrations, etc.

Information Management
The aggregate information we collect is used solely to improve the content of our website and is not shared with any other person or organization. It is used and then discarded.

The information you provide voluntarily, by filling out inquiry forms, taking surveys, and by subscribing to newsletters, email lists, etc. is also not shared with any other person or organization. This information is maintained in a secure environment. While we cannot guarantee that the data will not be lost, misused or altered, we promise to do our utmost to safeguard its integrity.

Cookies
Some of our pages use cookies or other technologies so that we can better serve you when you return to our site. The information is stored locally on your hard drive and is not stored or copied to our server. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

We sometimes use outside companies to display advertising on our website. These ads may place cookies on your computer, which are referenced by our ad companies. We do not have access to this information.

Interactive Features
Some of our interactive features, such as chat rooms and forums, ask you to provide your name and email address to identify yourself and permit other users to contact you. We do not share that information with other organizations. However, we have no control over third parties who may invade our website to harvest information for their own purposes.

Comments
If you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices, would like to stop receiving information from our website, or would like to correct or update information provided previously, please contact us by email to Webmaster Privacy.