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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is to help you in understand how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site, products and services.

The Information We Collect:

By visiting our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: 1) personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and 2) Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and other users browse our Web site.

Personal Information You Choose to Provide to Us:

Registration Information. You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you register to be a member of Micro-Pig.com, register for services, or register for email newsletters and other alerts. You may also provide additional comments on how Micro-Pig.com can service your needs and interests.

Email Information. If you choose to correspond with us via email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our replies.

Web Site Use Information. Like other commercial Web sites,  Micro-Pig.com uses a standard technology named "cookies" (see definition below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to obtain and collect information about how our Web site is used. Information collected with cookies and Web server logs may include the time and date of visits, pages viewed, amount of time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited right before and immediately after visiting Micro-Pig.com . We, our advertisers and ad serving companies may also employ the use of small technology or pieces of code to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen displayed and how users responded to those advertisements and promotions.

How We Use the Information That You Provide to Us:

Generally speaking, we use the personal information for purposes of running our business and increasing our productivity, implementing customer service goals and making available other products and services to our customers and potential customers. Some times, we may also use the information we collect to notify you of significant changes to our Web site, new services and offers we feel you might find valuable. You may notify us if you do not wish to receive this correspondence by emailing us here.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are very small text documents, which may includes an anonymous and unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that web site's computer asks your computer for the permission to store this file in a part of your hard-drive specifically designated for storing cookies. Each Web site can only send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, and not the cookies sent to you by other web sites.  Many of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies originating from their sites. We do not have access or control over those cookies.

How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?

As you visit and use Micro-Pig.com, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from the other users. Sometimes, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or to require you to log in more than once for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us to calculate the number of people visiting Micro-Pig.com and which sections of the site are most popular. This allows us gather feedback in order to constantly improve the site and provide a better user experience. Cookies do not allow the gathering any personal information about you and we do not usually store any personal information that you give to us with your cookies.

Third Party Cookies:

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
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Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

We may enter into alliances, partnerships or other business arrangements with third parties who may be given access to your personal information including your name, address, telephone number and email for the purpose of providing you information regarding products and services that we think might be of interest to you. In connection with alliances, partnerships or other arrangements, we may also provide certain information to third parties if we feel that the information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible third party. We also use third parties to facilitate portions of our business, including, but not limited to, sending and receiving emails and processing credit card payments. In connection with these offerings and business operations, our partners and other third parties might have access to your personal information for use in connection with our and their business activities. As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of arrangements and transactions. We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.

Notice of New Services and Changes

Sometimes, we also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web sites, new services and special offers we think you might find valuable. As one of our customers, you will be given the opportunity to notify us if you do not want to receive offers by sending us an email request here.

How Do We Protect Your Information? How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?

Email is not as a secure medium of communication. So, we ask that you not send private information to us via email. Some of the information you may enter on our Web site may be transmitted securely via "Secure Sockets Layer SSL", 128 bit encryption services. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs in the address bar of your browser that start with "HTTPS" instead of "HTTP". Please contact us if you have any questions about this.

How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?

You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect by sending a message here.

Certain Disclosures:

We might disclose your personal information if required by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with the legal process served on us or affiliated parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of our site, and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of our site, us, or third parties.

About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site:

We are not responsible for the practices employed by other web sites linked to or from Micro-Pig.com nor the information or content contained therein. Many times links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that might be useful to the visitors of Micro-Pig.com.

Remember that when you use a link to go from Micro-Pig.com site to another Website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction in and on any other Web site, including Web sites that have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site's own rules terms and policies. Please be sure to read over those rules, regulations and policies before proceeding.

This web site is a sponsored web site created or supported by a company, organization or group of organizations. This web site accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this web site. That content, advertising space or post may not always be identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) and writers and partners of this web site may be compensated to provide his or her opinion and/or experiences with  products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) and writers and partners of this web site receive compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always try to give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this web site are purely the reviewers' own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This web site does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content may not always be identified.

Your Consent

By using Micro-Pig.com you do consent to our collecting and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If our privacy policy or procedures change, we will post those changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we do collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we might disclose it.

A Special Note About Children:

Children are not eligible to use our services unsupervised and we ask that children (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with permission and guidance from your parents or guardians.

Policy Modifications

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes here, so be sure to check back periodically. However, please be assured that if the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the personal information you have submitted to us under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, without your prior consent.

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