Hydrant Cafe - Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: November 18, 2008

Information Practices

The Hydrant Cafe understands that security and privacy are important issues for visitors to our website and recognizes our obligations to keep your information secure and confidential. That is the reason that we maintain standards to help protect information that personally identifies you. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy (the "Policy") at any time and we encourage you to frequently review the Policy. We will always apply the Policy under which your information was collected.

Acceptance of Terms

This Policy sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you interact with our website. By accessing our website (the "Site"), you acknowledge and understand this Policy and freely consent to the information practices described in this statement.

Privacy of Children

The Hydrant Cafe encourages parents and guardians to be aware of and participate in their children's online activities. We strictly adhere to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and will not knowingly collect, use or disclose Personal Information from any child under the age of thirteen in any manner that violates this law.

Link Policies

Links from this website have their own privacy policies which can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective website. Third-party merchants are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, as The Hydrant Cafe does not have direct control over the policies or practices of third-party merchants, we are not responsible for those policies. We urge you to review the privacy policies of other sites prior to providing any personal information or completing any transaction with such parties.

Information Collected by our ISP

The internet hosting provider for this Site records non-personal information about its visitors, including (but not limited to) their ISP name, state or country of location, pages accessed, dates and times of access, web browser type, computer operating system, IP address, and referring site information. This data may be disclosed to The Hydrant Cafe via access to server-based statistics logs, and we may use this information to maintain the Site and analyze its usage.

Use of Email Addresses

By supplying The Hydrant Cafe with your email address in order to subscribe to our newsletter, you expressly consent to the receiving of such communications. In each newsletter communication, we will attempt to provide a method to remove your email address from our database, should you wish to do so.

The Hydrant Cafe does not sell or provide email information to third-parties for marketing purposes.

We will not disclose this personally identifiable information to third parties without your permission except when necessary, such as:

When required by a court order, statute, law, or regulation
To identify, contact, or bring action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with our rights or property or with other users of the Site
To effect a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of the company

Use of Web Beacons or GIF files

The Hydrant Cafe does not use web beacons or single-pixel GIF files to track visitors.

Use of Cookies

The Hydrant Cafe does not use cookies. However, third-parties that advertise on our Site or to whom we provide links may choose to use cookie technology. As The Hydrant Cafe does not control the use of this technology by third parties, we cannot be responsible for their actions or policies.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings, then this may disable some of the functionality of third-party websites.