HANGTIDE.COM Privacy Policy

General Privacy:
* All information received via e-mail or forms will be deemed private and will never reach any other person outside HANGTIDE.COM

* HANGTIDE.COM never has and never will share your information with any third party company.

This website collects information for hangtide.com, Awards Program, Poetry Korner Caf'e, The Publications, Beacon Trail Greetings, and Hangtide Publications Mailing List. All information collected here is not to be sold to any third party company. We will only use your e-mail to promote our site when you subscribe to Hangtide Publications Mailing List.

Awards Program:
* When submitting your web site for an award you are giving HANGTIDE.COM permission to post a link to your web site on our winners page.Along with your award graphic. The only information that may be posted with an award winning site is the name, URL, maybe a screen shot of the winning site, a brief statement you give on your part about giving the award,  information about the applicant's site, and possibly the designers/webmaster's name if they win an award. We will not use this information for anything else.

* If you for some reason choose not to be listed anymore in our database, please send an e-mail letting Hangtide.com know. All your information will then be deleted from our database and your information will not be found on this site any longer.

Detailed Privacy:
The webmaster of this website is committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of its visitors. Because your privacy is important, we will not sell, rent or trade your personal information with any third party organization. This site may contain links to other websites. The webmaster is not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. This site makes use of a third party monitoring tool to collect the following data: IP-address, browser type, operating system, resolution & colors. This information is only used to keep track of the popularity, type of visitors and abuse of this site.

Hangtide is COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) compliant.

Disclaimers:
For the most part, on a best effort basis we have designed this site to be suited for general audiences. We do not have control on outside links we refer visitors to. In the event anyone comes across a site that is Adult Oriented (X rated - Nudity) or Offensive (Racial or Hate Oriented) please report it to us so that we can remove the links.

We use a best effort basis, in order to assure that there are no copyright infringements occurring on this site. We invite everyone to send in their favorite content to be posted, on the condition that none of the text or multimedia material infringes on copyright or registered trademarks with out proper written permission to use.

We will remove from our site any "Content" which includes Letters, Animations, Sounds, E-Cards or Graphics that infringe copyrights, publicity rights, privacy rights or other intellectual property rights.

How to Report Infringements:
To report a content posting which infringes your rights and which you want removed, please send an email message to hangtide@hangtide.com

In the email, please provide:
Your name and personal email address
The complete URL of each image
Some evidence demonstrating that you own the rights to the images listed above, for example:
Your watermark or logo embedded in the image
A link to a Web site that you operate that demonstrates ownership (such as an artist's site)
The name of a publication which contains the image

We investigate reported infringements and take appropriate action within 14 business days after receipt of infringement notices.