Homebrew Headquarters respects your right to make informed choices concerning the sites you visit on the Web and the information you choose to provide. To this end, we have developed this document to inform you on how information is collected and used on the Homebrew Headquarters web site.

Automatic Collection of Information

Visits to this site are automatically recorded through our hosting provider, MasterLink. This information includes such things as the type of browser you are using, your IP, your refering links, the browser you are using, what pages you viewed, and many other similar types of statictal information. This information may help us identify your ISP but it does not identify you personnaly. It does help us determine how effective the site is and how popular some pages are to our visitors. It also helps us determine patterns of use and that helps us improve our site.

Anonymous Usage

It is possible for you to visit the site, view articles of interest, shop our product catalog, add items to your cart and remain anonoymous. We do not ask who you are nor require you to identify yourself until you decide to make a purchase. Once you decide to check out, we require that you either sign into your account or create an account with us. The creation of this account is for your benifit. Once you create it, it will save you time on subsiquent visits by filling in information for you. You can also access your account to see your ordering history. You must create an account to order products from this site.

Financial Information

During the process for making a purchace, we will ask for your credit card information. This information is not stored on our servers. We do store the last four numbers of this card for your reference but we do not store any other part of the number nor do we store the expiration date. Your credit card information must be entered every time you make a purchace.

Sharing of Information

Homebrew Headquarters is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We do not sell, share, or rent this information to any third party in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement or explained on the page where you provide that information. Homebrew Headquarters will not sell, share, or rent individual user information to any third party. We may at times offer products and services from third partys but this is strickly on an opt-in basis. Please be aware that these other parties may have a privacy policy that differes from this one. Homebrew Headquarters is in no way responsible for information that you disclose to other parties. You are advised to read any privacy policy on these other sites so that you may make an informed choice concerning the information you choose to disclose.

Legal Requirements

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to claims, or protect the rights, property or safety of our company, employees, customers, or the public.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on your machine containing bits of information. Homebrew Headquarters uses cookies at various parts in the site to help the user during navigation. Once the user closes their browser, some cookies simply terminate. Other cookies will remain on your system if you so choose so that the site will remember you next time you visit. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Most browsers allow you to decline cookies, but if you elect to do so, these pages may not display properly. You are free to delete cookies after your session, and your browser should contain instructions on how to do this.

Your Feedback

We value your opinion. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions concerning our policies please do not hesitate to provide us with your feedback. We want to ensure that our policies and practices are in keeping with our customer's needs and expectations. We ask that you use our feedback form to contact us.