Privacy Policy:
Prickly Pear Solutions ("Prickly Pear Solutions") operates pricklypearsolutions.com and may operate other websites. It is Prickly Pear Solutions' policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Prickly Pear Solutions collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Prickly Pear Solutions' purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Prickly Pear Solutions' visitors use its website. From time to time, Prickly Pear Solutions may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Prickly Pear Solutions also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on pricklypearsolutions.com blogs/sites. Prickly Pear Solutions only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Prickly Pear Solutions' websites choose to interact with Prickly Pear Solutions in ways that require Prickly Pear Solutions to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Prickly Pear Solutions gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at pricklypearsolutions.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Prickly Pear Solutions are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Prickly Pear Solutions collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Prickly Pear Solutions. Prickly Pear Solutions does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Prickly Pear Solutions may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Prickly Pear Solutions may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Prickly Pear Solutions does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Prickly Pear Solutions discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Prickly Pear Solutions' behalf or to provide services available at Prickly Pear Solutions' websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Prickly Pear Solutions' websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Prickly Pear Solutions will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Prickly Pear Solutions discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Prickly Pear Solutions believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Prickly Pear Solutions, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Prickly Pear Solutions website and have supplied your email address, Prickly Pear Solutions may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Prickly Pear Solutions and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Prickly Pear Solutions takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Prickly Pear Solutions uses cookies to help Prickly Pear Solutions identify and track visitors, their usage of Prickly Pear Solutions website, and their website access preferences. Prickly Pear Solutions visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Prickly Pear Solutions' websites, with the drawback that certain features of Prickly Pear Solutions' websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Prickly Pear Solutions, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Prickly Pear Solutions goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Prickly Pear Solutions may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Prickly Pear Solutions and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Prickly Pear Solutions may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Prickly Pear Solutions' sole discretion. Prickly Pear Solutions encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a pricklypearsolutions.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.