Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. We do not purposely sell, lend or share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products or services, or protect our rights.

Who we are

This website is operated by P.G. Smith Design Studio. Our postal address is 2047 N. Silverwood St., Orange, CA 92865. You can also reach us by email at [email protected] or by phone at (714) 282-7097.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, P.G. Smith Design Studio collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. P.G. Smith Design Studio’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how P.G. Smith Design Studio’s visitors use its website. From time to time, P.G. Smith Design Studio may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

P.G. Smith Design Studio also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments. P.G. Smith Design Studio only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to P.G. Smith Design Studio’s websites choose to interact with P.G. Smith Design Studio in ways that require P.G. Smith Design Studio to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that P.G. Smith Design Studio gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. In each case, P.G. Smith Design Studio collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with P.G. Smith Design Studio. P.G. Smith Design Studio does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

P.G. Smith Design Studio may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. P.G. Smith Design Studio may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, P.G. Smith Design Studio does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

P.G. Smith Design Studio discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on P.G. Smith Design Studio’s behalf or to provide services available at P.G. Smith Design Studio’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using P.G. Smith Design Studio’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. P.G. Smith Design Studio will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, P.G. Smith Design Studio discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when P.G. Smith Design Studio believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of P.G. Smith Design Studio, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a P.G. Smith Design Studio website and have supplied your email address, P.G. Smith Design Studio may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with P.G. Smith Design Studio and our products or services. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. P.G. Smith Design Studio takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. P.G. Smith Design Studio uses cookies to help P.G. Smith Design Studio identify and track visitors, their usage of P.G. Smith Design Studio’s website, and their website access preferences. P.G. Smith Design Studio s visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using P.G. Smith Design Studio’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of P.G. Smith Design Studio’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If P.G. Smith Design Studio, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that P.G. Smith Design Studio goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of P.G. Smith Design Studio may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by P.G. Smith Design Studio and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, P.G. Smith Design Studio may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in P.G. Smith Design Studio’s sole discretion. P.G. Smith Design Studio encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

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