Privacy Policy

Updated as of November 14, 2008

Hotwings Resources, Inc. knows you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust. We take your privacy very seriously. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want to help you understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. These privacy practices apply to the Web site that you were viewing when you clicked through to this policy, which is operated directly by us, by our partner, or by our affiliate.


What information does Hotwings Resources, Inc. collect?

Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services. Several of the services and features that we offer on our site(s) require you to provide us with information as a condition of usage. These include access to member-only areas, the ability to post opinions or other content, participation in contests, subscriptions to email newsletters and participation in message boards.

We collect personally identifiable information, such as your name or nickname, email address, postal or zip code, postal address, gender, phone number and mobile number when you provide it to us. From time to time, we may also collect other sensitive information such as username and password. Once you register with one of our Hotwings Resources, Inc. sites you are no longer anonymous to us.


What is Hotwings Resources, Inc.'s practice regarding cookies?

Your Internet browser has a feature called cookies, which stores small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of our sites. You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit most of our sites, although active participation in certain areas of our sites may require cookies. Cookies alone tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information, in which case we use the information to enhance your services in the ways described below. By adjusting your settings on your browser, you may elect not to allow cookies to be collected.

We also use technologies, including server logs, and metric analysis programs—that allow us to track general user-traffic patterns. We also automatically receive and record information from our servers and from your browser, including your IP address, the time of your visit to pages on our site, and information about pages you visited. The information we gather through the use of tracking technologies cannot be matched with any personally identifiable information about you.

We use cookies and tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:

  1. Keeping count of return visits to our site or our advertisers' or partners' sites;
  2. Accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass), statistical information on Web-site and advertisement usage;
  3. Determining which features our overall user population likes best;
  4. We preserve unique login information so you don't have to re-enter your password each time you visit our sites;
  5. Displaying the most appropriate advertising or content based on your interests.

We allow other companies that are presenting advertisements on our sites and, sometimes, in our newsletters to use tracking technology on your computer. We do not give any personally identifiable information to them as part of this relationship. Unless you visit the Web site of these companies and provide them with personally identifiable information about yourself, these tracking technologies tell those advertisers nothing about who you are. Our advertisers' use of tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies.


How does Hotwings Resources, Inc. use the information?

We use the information we gather for three general purposes:
  1. To enhance the user experience on our websites. We use tracking information to determine how well each page performs overall based on aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to those pages. This helps us continue to build a better service for you;
  2. To fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling you to participate in paid services, polls, contests, and message boards;
  3. To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.

How does Hotwings Resources, Inc. share the information?

Personally identifiable information
We will make your personally identifiable information available to others when:
  1. You have elected to allow us to share that information at the time that you registered with us or provided us the information, or through a subsequent affirmative election through our website.
  2. You volunteer information or create a public profile in the course of your participation in our community features such as registration memberships, forums, user opinions and reviews, chat rooms, photo sharing or other forms of public communication and interaction.
  3. We may hire third-party vendors to provide specialized services such as customer support; email message deployment; suppression, merge and de-duplication services; data processing; and special products or services that you have requested. These companies are only allowed to use the information in order to help us fulfill our services to you. We do not provide your information to these companies for their own, permanent use.
  4. You are the winner of a contest that is co-sponsored with a third party and that third party needs your information in order to manage the prize fulfillment process.
  5. When required by law, such as when we respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process.
  6. We believe that your actions violate applicable laws, Hotwings Resources, Inc.' Terms & Conditions Policy or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others.

Business transfers
We are always seeking to improve our network of Web sites and our business. In accomplishing these objectives, we may buy or sell a company, or one or more of the companies in our corporate family may merge with or be acquired by another company. If we sell a business, we may transfer some or all of your information as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue or for other business purposes.

 

What are my options?

Users who would rather not provide any of the user data requested by our registration process do not need to register with us. You can still view much of the content and use many of the services offered by our sites without registering.

 

How can I review and update my personally identifiable information?

You can review, correct, or change the information collected during registration for any of our sites. Users may change information at any time and as often as necessary using the account tools provided after logging in. Users who are experiencing problems with our services or who have questions about how our services work can contact us using the contact form on our website.

 

Privacy of children

None of the sites within our network is directed to children under the age of 14. We do not permit registration by, and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from, anyone under 14 years of age. This requirement is clearly posted during the registration process.

 

Questions, Comments

Questions regarding this privacy statement or any other aspects of our network of Web sites should be sent to:

Hotwings Resources, Inc.
111 - 535 8th Ave SE
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
T2G 5S9

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