Privacy Policy

 

I. This Document

 

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) by calling 877-992-2842, or emailing [email protected]  or writing to: ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association), 637 Soda Creek Rd. Spicewood Tx. 78669

 

 

II. Privacy

 

 This Privacy Policy governs the manner in ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) uses, maintains and discloses information collected from its customers and users of its websites.

 

 

III. Information We Collect

 

ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) may request or collect personal information from online users in a variety of ways, including through online forms for ordering products and services, and other instances where users are invited to volunteer such information.

 

 

The data we collect is information that identifies you personally.. This information is used for billing and service purposes. With this information, you can expect to receive billing notices, renewal reminders and important service related correspondence. If you do not wish to provide us with this information or do not wish to receive communications from us, do not signup.

 

 

ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) may also collect information about how users access the website using a tracking ID unique to each user through the use of cookies. This information is for internal use only and does not personally identify you in any way. Cookies may also be used by third party affiliate sites to verify any purchase you might make so that they make rightfully earn their duly earned commissions. The affiliate tracking cookies only tag your purchase from their referral site to ours and do not personally identify you in any way to the third party. At no point in time will any third party obtain any personally identifiable information.

 

IV. What are Cookies?

 

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For session ID cookies, once you close your browser or log out, the cookie terminates and is erased. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your computer's hard drive for an extended period of time. Your browser's help file contains information and instructions for removing persistent cookies. Session ID cookies may be used by ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) to track user preferences while the user is visiting the website. They also help to minimize load times and save on server processing. Persistent cookies may be used by ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) to store whether, for example, you want your password remembered or not, and other information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

V. Log Files

 

Like most standard websites, we use log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. None of the information stored in the log files is linked to personally identifiable information.

 

 

VI. How we use this information

 

ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) may use the personally identifiable information collected by ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) to contact customers regarding products and services offered by ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) and, by its affiliates, independent contractors and business partners. We may also use this information for research purposes regarding the effectiveness of our website services, marketing, advertising and sales efforts. 

 

VII. Disclosure of Information

 

ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) may also disclose aggregate, anonymous data based on information collected from users to investors and potential partners. In case ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) is sold, the information collected from users may be transferred to the new owners.

 

 

ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) may from time to time engage third parties, including its own subsidiaries and affiliated companies, to preserve, analyze or otherwise store or manipulate data received by ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) from its customers. In all such cases, third party service providers will be required to treat all such data with the same degree of care as ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) and they will be prohibited from disclosing such data to any other person or party, except as otherwise provided for in this Privacy Policy.

 

 

We use United Bank Card credit card and will soon be transferring to Moneris processing company to bill you for our services. This company dose not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes. No other third party services are used to provide the services you purchase from us, thusly no personally identifiable information is provided beyond our service.

 

VIII. Special Offers and Updates

 

If do not wish to receive our newsletter, promotional communications or any other non-service related communication, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at [email protected].

 

 

On some occasions, it may be necessary to send out service-related announcements. In most cases, users may not opt-out of these communications. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account. You may deactivate your account by creating a cancellation request ticket in your administration control panel, or by emailing us at [email protected].

 

 

IX. Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

The ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. The ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) Privacy Policy as described herein applies solely to information collected by ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association).

 

 

X. Maintenance and Security of Information

 

The information provided to ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) is saved and may be stored on one or more databases directly or indirectly maintained by ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association). ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association) employs industry-standard security measures and is certified to protect the confidentiality of the information. These machines are heavily secured and firewalled, protected on an internal network. Backups are kept physically protected in secure locations.

 

 

While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur; we make every effort to prevent such occurrences. Any other particularly sensitive information, such as credit card numbers collected for commercial transactions, is encrypted prior to transmission by you to ACTHA (American Competitive Trail Horse Association).

 

 

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about SSL, follow this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssl

 

 

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at [email protected].

 

 

XI. Access to Personally Identifiable Information

 

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may [correct, update, delete or deactivate it] by making the changes within your administration control panel. Alternatively, you may inform us of any changes by emailing us at [email protected] or by contacting us by telephone at 877-992-2842.

 

XII. Your Responsibility

 

You are responsible for the security of your User ID and passwords. Make sure you keep them in a safe place and do not share them with others. Always remember to log out after your session ends to ensure that others cannot access your private personal information. You should take this precaution even if you are not using a public computer, such as at a library or internet caf?, but even when using your private computer in your home.

 

 

XIII. Changes to this Policy

 

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, your user control panel and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

 

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page or within your administration control panel.