Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy
Last updated Nov. 1, 2015

We strongly encourage that all patrons of this website read this Privacy Policy carefully. Your privacy is important to rocksandmineralshows.com (RMS). This policy provides you, as a guest or registered customer of the RMS website with the conditions under which this website is being made available to you. These conditions include information collected, which is addressed below. By using this website you must be aware that you agree and are bound to the stated terms of this Privacy Policy provided herein. If you do not agree with these conditions or are under the age of 13, please disconnect from this website.  If you are under the age of 18, you should review this policy with your parent or guardian and be under their supervision while using this website. At any time during your visit or in the course of doing business with RMS, if you have any questions or are dissatisfied with this policy please feel free to contact us. Our contact information is provided at the end of this document. Please review this policy often as this policy may be updated for reasons of improvements, as applied to changes in laws and regulations, or changes to the RMS website.

Accesses to third party websites linked within the RMS website are provided to you for convenience only. Accesses to third party websites linked within the RMS website are provided to you for convenience only. These links include, but are not limited to PayPal, social media sites such Facebook, Twitter, and various advertisers. Once you leave this website by clicking on one of these links, you enter a third party website and thereby are subject to their policies and standards.  RMS encourages you to review all third party policies.

If you are unsure whether this policy statement is in conflict with applicable local (USA or International) regulations or laws, you should not submit your information.

Types of Information Collected and How It Is Used

Personal Information

Through the course of regular business transactions, RMS will require standard and specific personal information to establish identity. This will include first and last name, email address, phone number(s), and address. If you choose to register for an account with RMS, you will be asked to provide a username and password and the standard personal information as mentioned above.

Please refer to the Terms and document on this website for more information on user registration and privacy/security. Once you register an account with RMS, please be aware that only the personally identifiable information mentioned above will be stored on secure servers. This information will remain in our possession only and will never be sold, rented or leased to a third party. All personally identifiable information and other information supplied during registration, mailing list subscriptions, feedback, or otherwise and changes and alterations henceforth will remain confidential. RMS reserves the right to use this information for our proprietary use to complete transactions, to contact you, or for direct marketing purposes. All correspondence between seller and buyer are confidential and protected by federal privacy laws.  The information will not be provided, sold, licensed, rented, assigned or disclosed to Third Parties, except as required by law.

Some features of the RMS website will allow you to subscribe to our mailing list, contact us through the website, provide feedback, and apply for account registration. These features will require all or part of the personal information mentioned above.

Payment Information

Information collected for purchases from RMS will include the information as mentioned above. However, RMS will NOT collect credit card information. Payment information for credit card transactions will be completed by an industry standard third party merchant such as PayPal merchant services. This merchant will collect your payment information necessary to complete the transaction with RMS. All credit card merchant services must comply with the highest degree of financial standards as regulated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.  As always we encourage you to review their policies and standards.

Non-Personal Information

Non-personal information will be automatically collected by computers. This type of information includes collective data from which individual customer identities are not known. RMS may collect the following non-personal information to evaluate how patrons use the website to more effectively improve their visit.

Aggregate Information

Information gathered automatically upon your visit to the RMS website will include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, domain names, referral data, time spent on the website, and “surfing” patterns. This information can be aggregated to produce non-personally identifiable reports which can yield demographics and traffic patterns to help improve your visit to the RMS website. Web beacons are used to track how many people are opening and accessing our website via email contact and are not used specifically on the website.

Cookies

Cookies are text files that are placed on your hard drive by a web page server. RMS website uses cookies to enhance the customer experience. Cookies cannot deliver a virus or run programs; they are not harmful and can be controlled by your browser settings. If your browser is set to not accept cookies, you will not be able to fully utilize the interactive features of the RMS website. Accepting cookies will save you time on the RMS website by remembering your password and other features for registered users.

RMS uses Google Analytics, provided by Google, Inc.  Google Analytics uses cookies to help this website analyze user general browsing habits when using this website. Google will store this information including your IP address on its servers in the United States. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Data such as browser preference, search data, trend analysis, traffic, demographics, and other general statistical “surfing” habits are captured. Specific personal identifiers are not used for this purpose. The user is encouraged to read the Google privacy policy for more information.

Information Access and Security

RMS is committed to keeping registered user information as accurate and secure as possible. We take precautions to prevent unauthorized access to your information or misuse of data about you. Registered users will have total access and control over their personal information provided to RMS. Registered users can make changes to any account information, change a password, or remove information at any time. To protect our registered user’s privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps to verify identity before granting permission to altering personal profile data.  RMS makes every effort to protect personal information including firewalls and other security measures on its server. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your user ID, password, and your personal information. RMS reserves the right to use your data if there is legal cause or subpoenas that are issued for this data.

Contact Information

Questions about this Privacy Statement can be directed to dakotamatrix@gmail.com