What this Privacy Policy Covers

·         This Privacy Policy covers Hipsonic's treatment of personally identifiable information that Hipsonic collects when you are on the Hipsonic site, and when you use Hipsonic's services. This policy also covers Hipsonic's treatment of any personally identifiable information that Hipsonic's business partners share with Hipsonic.

·         This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Hipsonic does not own or control, or to people that Hipsonic does not employ or manage, including without limitation, any Hipsonic affiliates or business partners.

Information Collection and Use

·         Hipsonic collects personally identifiable information when you register for a Hipsonic account, when you use certain Hipsonic products or services, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Hipsonic may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners.

·         When you register with Hipsonic, we ask for your name, email address, birth date, gender, postal code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with Hipsonic and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

·         Hipsonic also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, Hipsonic cookie information and the page you requested.

·         Hipsonic uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see on our pages, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, improve our services, conduct research, and to contact you about specials and new products or for service announcements or administrative messages relating to the Hipsonic service.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

·         Hipsonic will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.

·         Hipsonic will not share personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people unless:

o        We have your consent to share this information;

o        We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;

o        We need to share the information with companies who work on behalf of Hipsonic to provide a product or service to you. Please know that whenever we share your personal information with these trusted business partners, they work under confidentiality agreements. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.);

o        We reasonably believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required or permitted by law;

o        We respond to warrants, subpoenas, court orders or legal process or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or

o        We find that your actions on our web sites violate the Hipsonic Terms and Conditions or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.

o        We may transfer information about you if Hipsonic is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Hipsonic will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

o        When you register for a Hipsonic account, your registration information and other data will be transmitted to the United States and/or other countries for processing and storage by Hipsonic and its affiliates and may be subject to the legal jurisdiction of these countries.

Cookies and Web Beacons

·         Hipsonic may set and access Hipsonic cookies on your computer.

·         Hipsonic allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Hipsonic's cookies.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

·         You have the right to access, verify and update your Hipsonic Account Information and preferences at any time, including whether you want Hipsonic to contact you about specials and new products.

·         You may request deletion of your Hipsonic account by visiting our site, verifying your password once more and confirming your choice to terminate the account. Please click here to read about what information may possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Confidentiality and Security

·         We limit access to personal information about you to employees who, as part of their job, we believe need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you.

·         We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.

·         In the event that you believe that your personal safety is at risk or if you believe that you may be the victim of identity theft or other illegal conduct, please contact the appropriate federal, provincial or local law enforcement agencies directly.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

·         Hipsonic may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Hipsonic account or by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.

Questions or Suggestions

·         If you have questions or suggestions, or wish to contact our Privacy Officer, please complete this contact form.