Privacy policy

Your privacy is important to us. We want you to feel comfortable with the practices we use to protect your personal information. This Privacy Statement covers Heart Patterns, Inc.'s treatment of your personal information. This Statement does not apply to the practices of companies that Heart Patterns, Inc. does not own or control, or to people we do not employ. This website is owned and operated by Heart Patterns, Inc., a California corporation.

Information collection

In order to use this website, you must be an adult at least 18 years of age (or older if the lawful age in your state, nation, or locality, is higher than 18); you must read and agree to the Terms and Conditions of Use; and you must complete the registration information on our website (where applicable). When you register with us, you are required to provide contact information (such as an email address) and unique identifiers (such as username and password, etc.). You are also required to provide your credit card number and billing address so that we can charge your credit card for agreed upon one time and recurring monthly fees. You may change your registration information online and you may cancel your membership at any time. If you cancel your account, certain personal information will be kept. It will be treated with the same level of precaution as that of our current subscribers.

Information use

We use information collected to operate this website, deliver the services you have requested, improve our services, customize your user experience, contact you, and conduct research. Heart Patterns, Inc. does not sell or rent your personally identifiable information.

Public information

Public information you submit is meant to be viewed by the public. We monitor public information, and we reserve the right to remove, edit, delete or refuse any submission to a public or private area of the site.

Private information

Private information (such as email address, IP address, and physical address) is not displayed on the public areas of the site and is not available to other persons. Email addresses are used to email account information and for internal marketing purposes.

Information automatically collected

This website automatically receives and records information from your browser including your IP address, browser type and cookie information. Your IP address is a series of numbers which identify your computer. We use it to help maintain our site. It does not provide personally revealing information about you.

Cookies

Cookies are small files stored by your browser in your computer when you visit our site. We use cookies to improve our site and make it easier to use. Cookies permit us to recognize users and avoid repetitive requests for the same information when you change pages on the site. We use session cookies that are automatically deleted after each visit. Most browsers will accept cookies until you change browser settings to refuse them.

Third party advertising

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you are on the website. The companies use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to this and other web sites to provide ads about goods and services of potential interest to you. We do not have access or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers. Non-personally identifiable demographic information may also be shared for survey purposes.

Security

Heart Patterns, Inc. follows reasonable technical and management practices to protect the confidentiality of information stored on our system, but Heart Patterns, Inc. does not guarantee confidentiality. Your account on our website is password-protected for your privacy and security. If you have reason to believe that your account is no longer secure, you must promptly change your password.

User submissions

Be aware that any personally identifiable information you choose to disclose on this site, in public on your profile or in private through email to other members, is done at your own risk and that it may be collected or used by others. Caution and good sense should always be used in disclosing your personal identity to others and in selecting the type of information that you post on the website or release to others. Heart Patterns, Inc. is not responsible for the use of any personal information that you may choose to disclose while on or off the website.

Jurisdiction

This website may be viewed from many locations. Nonetheless, you understand and agree that this website is owned and operated by Heart Patterns, Inc., a California corporation, and as such complies only with US, Federal and California laws.

Legal disclaimer

Heart Patterns, Inc. will disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law, if necessary to protect the personal safety of users or the public, to protect and defend the rights or property of Heart Patterns, Inc., or if we find that your actions on our website violate the Heart Patterns, Inc.'s Terms and Conditions of Use. We are not responsible for death, personal injury, pain and suffering, loss of work or any other loss suffered by your use of this site.

General

By using this site, you agree to this Statement and the Terms and Conditions of Use. We may change this Statement by posting a new version on our website. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement in order to be informed of how Heart Patterns, Inc. is protecting your information. You agree to sign a non-electronic version of this document upon our request.

If you have privacy questions about this website, please email us at privacy@heartpatterns.com.