This Privacy Policy, together with the Contest Rules and Regulations posted on our Website (s), sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website (s) and all Interactive services we may provided. Depending on your activities, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
We keep this Privacy Policy posted on our Website (s) with exception of technical difficulties and you should review it regularly, as it will change from time to time. A notice will be posted at the top of this Policy when any policy within this policy is changed. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the Revised Privacy Policy.
Welcome to Fern Mountain Productions and our subsidiaries RU Clueless.Com and Duffys Fly Art.Com. From this point forward Fern Mountain Productions and its subsidiaries may be referred to as ("us", "we", or "our").
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us. We have adopted this ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected, how Fern Mountain Productions may use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. If, at any point, we decide to use your personally identifiable information in a manner materially different than what was stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you of this change by
E-mail to the last e-mail address provided to us. You will have a choice (by means of an “opt out” opportunity) as to whether we use the information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which your information was collected if you opt out of the new policy.
1. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT
We collect two (2) types of information about you: Information that you provide that personally identifies you; and information that does not personally identify you, which we automatically collect when you visit our Website (s) or that you provide us.(a) Non-Personal Information: Our definition of non-personal information is any information that does not personally identify you. Non-personal information can include certain personally identifiable information that has been de-identified; that is, information that has been rendered anonymous. We obtain non-personal information about you from information that you provide us, either separately or together with your personally identifiable information. We also automatically collect certain non-personal information from you when you access our Website (s). This information can include, among other things, IP addresses, the type of browser you are using (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.), the third party website from which your visit originated, the operating system you are using (e.g., Windows 7, Vista, XP, Mac OS, Vista, etc.), the domain name of your Internet service provider, the search terms you use on our Website, the specific web pages you visit, and the duration of your visits. (b) Personally Identifiable Information: Our definition of personally identifiable information includes any information that may be used to specifically identify or contact you, such as your name, postal address, phone number, etc. As a general policy, we do not automatically collect your personally identifiable information when you visit our Website (s). Certain information may not be personally identifiable when standing alone (e.g., your age), but may become so when combined with other information (e.g., your age and name). Whether or not you provide this information is your choice; however, in many instances this type of information is required to participate in the particular activity, realize a benefit we may offer, or gain access to certain content on our Website (s). In certain circumstances, we may request, allow or otherwise provide you an opportunity to submit your personally identifiable information in connection with a feature, program, promotion or some other aspect of our interactive business(s). For instance, you may: provide your name, postal/shipping address, email address, and phone number (s) when registering with our Website (s), using our online store, in connection with a contest entry or post a general comment and/or recommendation on our Website (s). (c) Your California Privacy Rights: Residents of the State of California, under certain provisions of the California Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed certain personally identifiable information as defined under California law during the preceding year for third party direct marketing purposes. You are limited to one request per calendar year. In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. You may request the information in writing at:
Fern Mountain Productions, 2521 Hilltop Drive #281, Redding, Ca. 96002
2. INFORMATION COLLECTED AND HOW WE USE AND SHARE IT
(a) Personally Identifiable Information: The personally identifiable information you submit to us is generally used to carry out your requests, respond to your inquiries, better serve you, or in other ways naturally associated with the circumstances in which you provided the information. We may also use this information to later contact you for a variety of reasons, such as customer service, providing you promotional information for our products or those of Fern Mountain Productions, our parent company, subsidiaries or other affiliated companies (“"affiliated companies”"), or to communicate with you about content or other information you have posted or shared with us. You may opt-out from receiving future promotional information from us or our affiliated companies, or direct that we not share your information with any affiliated companies, as set forth below.
In certain instances we may also share your personally identifiable information with our third party vendors performing functions on our behalf (or on behalf of our affiliated companies) – e.g., vendors that process credit card orders, deliver our merchandise, administer our promotions, provide us marketing or promotional assistance, analyze our data, assist us with customer service, etc. Our vendors agree to use this information, and we share information with them, only to carry out "our requests". In addition, we may share your personally identifiable information with participating sponsors to a program or promotion (e.g., a sweepstakes or contest) you enter and with third parties who assist us in using the content or other information you have posted or shared with us (e.g., production companies we may use). Further, we may share your personally identifiable information with third parties such as our co-promotional partners and others with whom we have marketing or other relationships. Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, our Rules and Regulations or as set forth when you submit the information. Your personally identifiable information will not be shared or sold to any third parties without your prior approval.(b) Non-Personal Information: OTHER USES & INFORMATIONAn IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Internet. Web servers (computers that "serve up" web pages) automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When visitors request pages from our Website, our servers typically log their IP addresses. We collect IP addresses for purposes of system administration, to report non-personal aggregate information to others, and to track the use of our Website (s). IP addresses are considered non-personal information and may also be shared as provided above. It is not our practice to link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable; that is, the visitor's session will be logged, but the visitor remains anonymous to us. However, we reserve the right to use IP addresses to identify a visitor when we feel it is We use non-personal information in a variety of ways, including to help analyze site traffic, understand customer needs and trends, carry out targeted promotional activities, and to improve our services. We may use your non-personal information by itself or aggregate it with information we have obtained from others. We may share your non-personal information with our affiliated companies and third parties to achieve these objectives and others, but remember that aggregate information is anonymous information that does not personally identify you maybe necessary to enforce compliance with our Company rules or to: fulfill a government request; Conform with the requirements of the law or legal process; Protect or defend our legal rights or property, our Website (s), or other users; In an emergency to protect the health and safety of our users or the general public.(c) Cookies, etc.: "Cookies" are small text files from a website that are stored on your hard drive. These text files make using our Website (s) more convenient for you. Cookies themselves do not typically contain any personally identifiable information. We may analyze the information derived from these cookies and other technological tools we employ (such as clear gifs/web beacons) and match this information with data provided by you or another party.
If you are concerned about the storage and use of cookies, you can direct your internet browser to notify you and seek approval whenever a cookie is being sent to your hard drive. You can also delete a cookie manually from your hard drive through your internet browser or other programs. Please note, however, that some parts of our Website (s) will not function properly or be available to you if you refuse to accept a cookie or choose to disable the acceptance of cookies.
We may provide our analysis and certain non-personal information to third parties (who may in turn use this information to provide advertisements tailored to your interests), but this will not involve disclosing any of your personally identifiable information. Please note that advertisers that serve advertisements on our Website (s) and third-party content providers that serve content on our Website (s) may also use their own cookies and other technological tools which are subject to the advertiser's privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy.
(d) Email Communications: If you send us an email with questions or comments, we may use your personally identifiable information to respond to your questions or comments, and we may save your questions or comments for future reference. For security reasons, we do not recommend that you send non-public personal information, such as passwords, social security numbers, or bank account information, to us by email. We may send you information about our other products and services; you consent to being contacted by email. You may "opt out" of receiving future commercial email communications from us through our Website (s) contact page and state you wish to "unsubscribe" or as provided below; provided, however, we reserve the right to send you transactional emails such as customer service notice.We may offer blogs, chat rooms, message boards, bulletin boards, or similar Public forums where you and others can communicate. The protections described in this Privacy Policy do not apply when you provide information (including personal information) in connection with your use of these public forums. We may use personally identifiable and non-personal information about you to identify you with a posting in a public forum. Any information you share in a public forum is public information and may be seen or collected by anyone, including third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for events arising from the distribution of any information you choose to publicly post or share through our Website.3. OTHER SITES/LINKS
Our Website (s) may link to or contain links to other third party website (s) that we do not control or maintain. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any third party. We encourage you to note when you leave our Website (s) and to read the privacy statements of all third party commerce before submitting any personally identifiable information.4. CONTACT & OPT-OUT INFORMATION
You may contact us by using the contact page of any of our website (s) if you have questions or comments about our Privacy Policy and wish to make corrections to any personally identifiable information you have provided us or if you want to opt-out from receiving future commercial correspondence. You may withdraw your consent to sharing your personally identifiable information also.
We will respond to your request and, if applicable and appropriate, make the requested change in our active databases as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that we will not be able to fulfill certain requests while allowing you access to certain benefits and features of our
Website (s).5. KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION SECURE
We have implemented security measures we consider reasonable and appropriate to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Please be advised, that while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information and privacy, we cannot and will not guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us and are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personally identifiable information. In the unfortunate event that your "personally identifiable information" “As defined by any applicable law requiring notice upon a security breach” is compromised, we may notify you by e-mail (at our sole and absolute discretion) to the last e-mail address you have provided us in the most expedient time reasonable under the circumstances; provided, delays in notification may occur while we determine the scope of the breach and restore reasonable integrity to the system as well as for the legitimate needs of law enforcement if notification would impede a criminal investigation. From time to time we evaluate new technology for protecting information and when appropriate upgrade our security systems. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, we reserve the right to disclose any personally identifiable or non-personal information about you if we are required to do so by law, with respect to copyright and other intellectual property infringement claims, or if we believe that such action is necessary to: Conform with the requirements of the law or legal process, in an emergency to protect the health and safety of our Website's users or the general public. Protect or defend our legal rights, property and our Company. Also to our users and fulfill a government requests.
6. SOLE STATEMENT
Hereunto for as stated above "This Privacy Policy" is the sole statement of our privacy policy with respect to Fern Mountain Productions and any and all Interactive services we may provided including but not limited to all of our subsidiaries: RU Clueless.Com and Duffys Fly Art.Com. No modifications or other versions thereof, in any form, are valid unless we post a new or revised policy to our Website (s).