This site is owned and operated by The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company, we want to make your online experience satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should understand the terms and conditions concerning the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
Message Boards/Discussion Forum/E-Mail
The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company collects information that users provide as a result of their optional, voluntary participation in our message boards, discussion forums or our “e-mail to a friend service.” We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:
1. Message Boards/Discussion Forum
Users of the web site's Message Boards and Discussion Forum must register separately for this service (free of charge) to post messages, although they need not register to visit the web site. During registration, the user is required to supply a username, password, and an e-mail address.
2. “E-mail this to a friend” Service
Our web site users can forward a link, page, or documents by clicking “e-mail this to a friend.” The user must provide his or her e-mail address and the recipient’s e-mail address. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the e-mail. This information is not used for any other purpose.
Information We Collect and Store
For each visitor to our web site, our web server automatically recognizes the visitor's domain name, but not the visitor’s e-mail address (where possible). The information we collect is used to improve the content of our web site and is not shared with other organizations.
Personally Identifiable Information
The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company’s web sites only collect personal information that you knowingly and voluntarily provide when, for example, you order products or sign up to receive information. If you provide us your postal or e-mail address online, you may receive periodic communications from us with information on services or upcoming events.
Children’s Online Privacy
We do not knowingly solicit information of any kind from children under the age of 13.
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly contact, request or collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Offline Information: We do not collect personally identifiable offline contact information from children under the age of 13.
Third Party Distribution: We do not distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
Outside Links
Links to other web sites are occasionally provided as a convenience for our users. Their inclusion neither implies nor represents that the The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company endorses or is responsible for the content of such web sites. Please carefully read all terms and conditions of each web site you visit.
Usage tracking
The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company uses information voluntarily provided by our users to enhance their experience with our web site, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
We use tracking information to determine which areas of our web sites users like and which areas they do not like. We do not track what individual users read but, rather, how well each page performs overall. This helps us to provide a better service for you. We track search terms entered in the “Search” function as one of the many measures of our users’ interests. However, we do not track which terms a particular user enters.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your computer to track user traffic patterns. A cookie is a tiny piece of data stored by a user’s browser that helps a web site or service recognize that user’s unique computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this web site, but in order to post to the forum cookies must be turned on. The site functionality requires that you turn on cookies to participate actively in message boards, discussion forums, polling and surveys.
Sharing of the Information
The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not divulge any information about individual users to any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
Security
The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our users.
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
How to Remove Yourself from the Forum Mailings
If you do not wish to receive information from The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company, please let us know by using the contact information above. If you are contacting us via e-mail at admin@thehcc.org, please label the e-mail with the subject “OPT-OUT.” Remember to provide us with your exact name and address so that we can remove your name from our list.
If you prefer to stop receiving postal mailings in general, you can send your name to:
The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company
Membership Coordinator
114 Deer Spring Road
Williamsburg, VA 23188
How to Reach Us
For comments about this web site contact the webmaster at admin@thehcc.org.
Postal address:
The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company
5 Foxcroft Road
Williamsburg, VA 23188
E-mail: admin@thehcc.org
This Privacy Policy was last updated March 22, 1010. Future updates to our policy will be noted here.