Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.horsepowerstrategies.com

Website Privacy Policy

Horsepower Strategies LLC takes your privacy seriously, and we want you to know how we collect, use, share and protect your information. In addition to this privacy policy, users of the Horsepower Strategies site should consult the Horsepower Strategies site terms and conditions of use as well as any product specific terms and conditions that apply. This policy applies to Horsepower Strategies.com and other websites under Horsepower Strategies’ control.

What Information We Collect

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Information you give us

When you interact with our site, certain information about your use of our site is automatically collected. This information includes computer and connection information, such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from our sites, referral URL, ad data, your IP address, and device identifiers. This information also may include your transaction history, and your web log information, how you search for our sites, the websites you click on from our sites or emails, whether and when you open our emails, and your browsing activities across other websites.

Information we collect automatically

Much of this information is collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies, as well as through your web browser or device (e.g., IP address, MAC address, browser version, etc.).

Email Communications and Related Services

Horsepower Strategies.com provides you with the opportunity to receive communications from us or third parties. You can sign up for a free Horsepower Strategies communications and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Email communications that you send to us via the email links on our site may be shared with a customer service representative, employee, contractor or agent that is most able to address your inquiry. We make every effort to respond in a timely fashion once communications are received. Once we have responded to your communication, it is discarded or archived, depending on the nature of the inquiry.

The email functionality on our site does not provide a completely secure and confidential means of communication. It is possible that your email communication may be accessed or viewed by another internet user while in transit to us. If you wish to keep your communication private, do not use our email.

You may decide at some point that you no longer wish to receive communications from our site. To stop receiving communications, contact us using the information below.

Surveys

We occasionally survey visitors on our site. The information from these surveys is used in aggregated, de-identified form to help us understand the needs of our visitors so that we can improve our site. The information may be shared with third parties with whom we have a business relationship. We generally do not ask for information in surveys that would personally identify you; if we do request contact information for follow-up, you may decline to provide it. If survey respondents provide personal information (such as an email address) in a survey, it is shared only with those people who need to see it to respond to the question or request, or with third parties who perform data management services for our site. Those third parties have agreed to keep all data from surveys confidential.

How We Use The Information We Collect

We use the information we collect for things like:

Optimizing the performance and user experience of our sites
Operating, evaluating and improving our business
Fulfilling orders and requests for products, services or information
Processing returns and exchanges
Tracking and confirming online orders
Delivering or installing products
Marketing and advertising products and services, including identifying you on our websites and tailoring advertisements and offers to you (both on our websites and on other websites) based on your interactions with us in our stores and online
Conducting research and analysis
Communicating with you about your account, special events and surveys
Establishing and managing your accounts with us

We may combine this information with any other information we have about you, including, if you are a Horsepower Strategies client, any personal information we have about you. If we combine this information with your personal information, we will treat all of that information as personal information, and will only use or disclose that information as set forth in our Notice of Privacy Practices.

Data Retention

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We May Share Information With Third Parties

We may share the information we collect about you with third parties who we have engaged to help us provide the services. In each case, we will ensure that these third parties have agreed to safeguard your data.

We may provide third parties with aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns and related site information. These data reflect site-usage patterns gathered during visits to our website each month, but they do not contain information that personally identifies you unless you have given us permission to share that information.

We may use or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or on the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or our sites; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the sites or our users, or (c) act to protect the personal safety of us, users of the sites or the public.

Interest-Based Advertising and Your Choices

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Our sponsors and advertisers and their ad servers may use cookies when you view pages on our site. They use those cookies to collect information as a way of measuring the effectiveness of their advertising, or to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you or to avoid running the same ads to you over time. Such information may include your browser type, your operating system, web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed and other clickstream data. We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies or how they manage the information they gather through them. If you click on an advertisement on HorsepowerStrategies.com and visit a site maintained by one of our sponsors or advertisers, please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of that site. You should read the privacy policies of each site you visit to determine what information that site may be collecting about you.

Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. At this time, we do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.

Opting out

You can learn more about the companies we work with that collect information on our websites and who serve advertisements to you on our websites using the links below. The resources below also contain opt-out links.

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., on our sites. Google Analytics uses cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use the sites, compile reports on the sites’ activity, and provide other services related to sites activity and usage. The technologies used by Google may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor and any referring website. The sites do not use Google Analytics to gather information that personally identifies you. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/?hl=en. To learn more about Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt out of tracking of analytics by Google click here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Please note that opting-out of advertising networks services does not mean that you will not receive advertising while using our sites or on other websites, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from third parties that do not participate in these programs. It will, however, exclude you from interest-based advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms. If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Your choices

By contacting us using the information below, you may:

Stop receiving marketing or promotional emails, direct mail, phone and mobile marketing communications from Horsepower Strategies.
Update and correct your personal information.
Cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services.

Other important information

Security

Whether you are visiting the Horsepower Strategies site or with one of our representatives, we use reasonable security measures to protect the confidentiality of personal information under our control and appropriately limit access to it. We use a variety of information security measures to protect your online transactions with us. The Horsepower Strategies site uses encryption technology, such as https which protects information you submit via our website, such as ordering information including your name, address and credit card number.

That being said, Horsepower Strategies cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. We have taken reasonable steps to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personally identifiable information that you may provide. You should understand, however, that electronic transmissions via the internet are not necessarily secure from interception, and so we cannot absolutely guarantee the security or confidentiality of such transmissions.

Protecting Children’s Privacy

We are committed to protecting children’s privacy on the internet, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Links To Other Websites

Our websites link to other websites, many of which have their own privacy policies. Be sure to review the privacy policy on the site you are visiting.

Privacy Policy Updates

We may need to update our privacy policy as technology changes and Horsepower Strategies evolves. If we make significant changes to the privacy policy, we will post a prominent message on our websites.

Your California Privacy Policy

We do not share your personal information with unaffiliated third parties for their direct marketing purposes. You have the right to contact us and opt-out of such sharing for marketing purposes.

Contact information

If you have a question or concern regarding your privacy, please contact Horsepower Strategies using the contact form below.