1. About This Website

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to hollingsworthpeonies.com, bestpeonies.us and Hollingsworth Peonies (“Company”) and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to the Company include hollingsworthpeonies.com and bestpeonies.us. The Company’s website is an E-commerce site. By using the Company website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

2. Collection Of Your Personal Information

To provide you with products and services offered, the Company may collect personal identifiable information, such as your:

• First and last name
• Mailing address
• Email address
• Phone number

If you purchase the Company’s products and services, we collect billing information and bank information (U.S. checks and money order). We never will ask you for your Social Security Number for any reason. The Company does not collect bank card, credit card, and/or debit card information. This information is collected and handled by our bank via the fully encrypted shopping cart of the online catalog. We will never request this information by phone or Email, nor do we accept this information for payment by phone, letter mail, and/or Email.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to purchase and/or use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) sending us an Email message; (c) submitting your payment by check or money order. We do not collect bank card, credit card, debit card or any other form of information that derives from electronically submitted payment. This information is handled by or bank and is subject to state and federal banking guidelines regarding this subject matter. To wit, we will use your personal information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to products and/or services you requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

3. Use Of Your Personal Information

The company collects and uses your personal information in the following ways:

• to operate and deliver the services you have requested;
• to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
• to provide you with notices about your account;
• to carry out Company’s obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered;
• to notify you about changes to our hollingsworthpeonies.com/bestpeonies.us website or any products or services we offer;
• in any other way we may describe when you provide this information;
• for any other purpose with your consent.

The company may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products and/or services available from the Company.

The Company may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you Email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange deliveries and order fulfillment. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Company, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The Company may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the decrees of the law or comply with legal process served on the Company or the site; (b) protect and defend the right or property of the Company; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of our employees, customers of the Company, or the public.

4. Automatically Collected Information

The Company may automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, defense against online crime, the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Company’s website.

5. Security Of Your Personal Information

The company secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Company uses the following methods for this purpose:

• SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites (such as the processing financial institution), it is protected using encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet, especially any transmission via wireless networks can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet that are beyond our control; and (b) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed.

6. Right To Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt to a verifiable request from you, we will:

• Delete your personal information from our records; and
• direct any service providers to delete your personal information for their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms;
• comply with State and Federal Tax documentation requirements;
• detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity;
• comply with State(s) Privacy Act(s);
• engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in public interest;
• enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations and order history, retain product warranty;
• comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with State and/or Federal law.

7. Children and Underage Persons

The Company does not serve and thus does not knowingly collect personal identifiable information on minors. If you are under the age of 18, you must ask your parents or guardians for permission to use this website.

8. Email Communications

From time to time, the Company may contact you via Email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communications.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via Email form the Company, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the unsubscribe button.

9. External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers and cloud storage provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

10. Changes To This Statement

The company reserves the right to change this Policy from time to time. For example, when there are changes in our services, changes in our data protection practices, or changes in the law. When changes to this Policy are significant, we will inform you. You may receive a notice by sending an Email to the primary Email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website hollingsworthpeonies.com/bestpeonies.us and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modification will constitute your: (a) acknowledgement of the modified Policy, and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by the Policy.

11. Contact Information

The Company welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Policy. If you believe that the Company has not adhered to this Policy, please contact the Company at:

Hollingsworth Peonies
PO Box 233
Maryville, MO 64468