Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Who we are

Our website address is: https://hermitcrabpets.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Intellectual Property Rights

Other than the content you own, under these Terms, hermitcrabpets.com and/or its licensors own all the intellectual property rights and materials contained in this Website.

You are granted limited license only for purposes of viewing the material contained on this Website.

Restrictions

You are specifically restricted from all of the following:

publishing any Website material in any other media;
selling, sublicensing and/or otherwise commercializing any Website material;
publicly performing and/or showing any Website material;
using this Website in any way that is or may be damaging to this Website;
using this Website in any way that impacts user access to this Website;
using this Website contrary to applicable laws and regulations, or in any way may cause harm to the Website, or to any person or business entity;
engaging in any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting or any other similar activity in relation to this Website;
using this Website to engage in any advertising or marketing.

Certain areas of this Website are restricted from being accessed by you and hermitcrabpets.com may further restrict access by you to any areas of this Website, at any time, in absolute discretion. Any user ID and password you may have for this Website are confidential and you must maintain confidentiality as well.

Your Content

In these Website Standard Terms and Conditions, “Your Content” shall mean any audio, video text, images or other material you choose to display on this Website. By displaying Your Content, you grant hermitcrabpets.com a non-exclusive, worldwide irrevocable, sub licensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute it in any and all media.

Your Content must be your own and must not be invading any third-party’s rights. hermitcrabpets.com reserves the right to remove any of Your Content from this Website at any time without notice.

No Warranties

This Website is provided “as is,” with all faults, and hermitcrabpets.com express no representations or warranties, of any kind related to this Website or the materials contained on this Website. Also, nothing contained on this Website shall be interpreted as advising you.

Limitation of Liability

In no event shall hermitcrabpets.com nor any of its authors, employees or associates, be held liable for anything arising out of or in any way connected with your use of this Website and shall not be held liable for any indirect, consequential or special liability arising out of or in any way related to your use of this Website.

Indemnification

You hereby indemnify to the fullest extent hermitcrabpets.com from and against any and/or all liabilities, costs, demands, causes of action, damages and expenses arising in any way related to your breach of any of the provisions of these Terms

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid under any applicable law, such provisions shall be deleted without affecting the remaining provisions herein.

Variation of Terms

hermitcrabpets.com is permitted to revise these Terms at any time and by using this Website you are expected to review these Terms on a regular basis.

Assignment

hermitcrabpets.com is allowed to assign, transfer and subcontract its rights and/or obligations under these Terms without notification or permission. However, you are not allowed to assign, transfer or subcontract any of your rights or obligations under these Terms.

Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between hermitcrabpets.com and you as a user of this Website, and supercede all prior agreements and understandings.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. We have no control over other websites. We are merely providing information we hope to be helpful to our visitors on this site.

Governing Law & Jurisdiction

These Terms will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of us, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in us for the resolution of any disputes.

Email and Privacy

We are committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of the personal information of all Users of this site. This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which hermitcrabpets.com, it’s authors and associates, collects, uses, discloses and maintains information collected from users (each, a “User”) of this website (“Site”). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by and associated with hermitcrabpets.com and all contributors to this site.

This site respects the privacy concerns of the users of its website hermitcrabpets.com and the services provided herein by (the “Site”). The Company thus provides this privacy statement to explain what information is gathered during a visit to the Site and how such information may be used.

Your use of the Site and Company service and website is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) and also within Terms of Use. PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE COMPANY SERVICE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF SERVICE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO SUCH TERMS, EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE COMPANY SERVICE.

You have the option of opting in or out, subscribing or unsubscribing from our email list. By subscribing and opting in, you agree to receiving newsletters, updates or responses from us. This information is kept private and we do not share, sell or trade your email information with third parties except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy.

We don’t currently offer goods or services to individuals living in the European Union as outlined in the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). If you are in the EU and opt in to our email list or any product or service then you will be consenting to it. You may opt out and unsubscribe if you wish not to receive any email from us.

If you are not in the EU then you will be automatically subscribed to receive our email newsletter once you opt in to receive any of our free products or services and/or purchase any products or services. You can opt out or unsubscribe if you wish to no longer receive emails from us. The handling of these subscriptions is through a third party email marketing system which remains in full compliance of GDPR and Can-Spam Act of 2003.

The security of your personal information is important to us. We strive to follow industry standards to protect your privacy and personal data submitted to us voluntarily and/or automatically. Please consider nothing over the internet is 100% secure and we are unable to guarantee absolute security. We use third party vendors and email marketing systems which adhere to the strictest industry standards possible.

Emails or newsletters that we send electronically via a third party (ie Mailpoet) may use techniques to improve the reader’s experience, such as the use of cookies and generally monitoring the number of emails that are opened, whether they were forwarded or printed, the type of device from which they were opened, and the location (e.g. city, state, and county) associated with the applicable IP address. We do not control and are not liable for the actions of any third parties who we may use the services of, promote and/or link to from this site.

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The Terms of Use Policy plus any Disclosure is hereby incorporated by reference as part of this Privacy Policy. If any part of this Privacy Policy is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in a manner consistent with applicable law to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties, and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. This privacy policy is effective as of 10/01/21 and will be modified and updated as needed. Users of this website are responsible for reviewing this page periodically to check for any future updates to these policies.

By using this website you agree to hold us harmless from any security breach or any unauthorized use of your personal data or information by third parties. You agree that we cannot be help responsible for any disclosure of your data or information through this website without our knowledge or consent.