Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 18, 2015

Sword Carolina (“we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to respecting your privacy rights when you visit, use and submit information to SwordCarolina.com (“Site”). We created this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices.

1. NOTICE CONCERNING CHILDREN

This Site is a general audience website directed at individuals 18 and older. Under no condition is this Site intended for use by an individual younger than 13 years of age as defined in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. If you are aware of a child using the Site, please contact us immediately.

2. INFORMATION COLLECTION PRACTICES

2.1. WHAT PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

A. CATEGORIES OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION. When accessing the site, we may collect personally identifiable information from you in a number of ways including the following.

(i.) Registration and Membership: We collect the following personal information should you register for the Site and provide payment through PayPal for your membership.

• User name
• Password
• Email
• Payment information conveyed from PayPal

Although your user name and password are not considered personal information, we can correlate the information with the information provided from PayPal to identify you and believe in being transparent in this regard.

(ii.) Contact Us. You may contact us at any time regarding your membership, HEMA or the Site in general. In doing so, we will collect the following personal information from you:

• Your Name
• Email Address
• Any information you supply in your message to us.

B. MODIFICATION OR REMOVAL OF INFORMATION. We do not maintain an online account you can access to modify the personal information you submit to us. You can, however, use the “contact” function on the Site to request we modify or remove your information. We reserve the right to refuse such requests.

C. PRIVACY MODIFICATIONS AND UPDATES. If we modify or update this privacy policy, we will notify visitors by posting a notice on the Site and sending you an email message identifying the change. You may then choose whether to accept or reject said policy changes by continuing or discontinuing your use of the Site. Any change, update, or modification will be effective 30 days after we provide you notice.

D. “DO NOT TRACK” SIGNALS. We do not honor “do not track” signals at this time.

E. THIRD PARTY TRACKING. We use various Google services, including Google Analytics, to help us evaluate the performance of the Site. By affirmatively agreeing to this Policy, you consent to cookies being placed on your computer by Google to track you. To opt-out of these Google functions, you can visit the following pages:

• Stop Google Tracking
• Google Analytic Opt-out Browser

F. SOCIAL MEDIA AND VIDEO SITES. We may provide links to social media and video sites on the Site allowing you to share pages as well as follow us on our accounts on these online platforms. Please note anything you share is viewable to the public unless you use appropriate privacy restrictions available on the third party sites on which you share the information. Further, the social media sites can track your actions and create a data profile for you. You should perform due diligence in investigating the privacy policies for each of these sites as follows. You can visit the privacy policies for the relevant sites as follows:
• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube

3. USE AND SHARING OF INFORMATION

3.1. WHAT DO WE DO WITH COLLECTED INFORMATION?

A. PERSONAL INFORMATION. We do not share your personal information with any third parties other than vendors that assist us in providing and running the infrastructure of this Site including, but not limited to, our hosting company. We do not share your personal information with third party advertisers.

B. SALE OF SITE/COMPANY. Should we decide to sell all or part of the Site or our business at some point in the future, your personal information on record at that time will be included as an asset in the transfer.

C. AGGREGATE DATA. We use data collected from cookies to analyze visitor usage of our Site through services such a Google Analytics for the purpose of improving the user experience of the Site for you and other visitors.

D. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. We may disclose personal information about you if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:
(1) Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served upon the Site or us.
(2) Protect or defend our rights or the users of the Site.
(3) Act under exigent circumstances to protect the safety of the public or users of the Site.
(4) To investigate any allegation of improper conduct.

E. ACCESS TO INFORMATION. We do not offer an online portal for you to access your personal information on record with us. You may contact us at any time, however, if you have questions or wish to make changes to said information.

4. SECURITY

4.1 SECURITY MEASURES. The Site has reasonable security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of the information we obtain from you, but we make no warranty or guarantee about our ability to prevent sophisticated attacks and hacks.

4.2. DATA RETENTION. We retain your personally identifiable information during your membership to facilitate your access to the Site and membership payments. Should your membership be canceled, your data will be retained for legal and accounting purposes, but shall not be viewable by other members or the public.

5. WEBSITE AREAS BEYOND OUR CONTROL

5.1. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES. From time-to-time, the Site may contain links to other websites we believe may be of interest to individuals practicing Historical European Martial Arts. If you choose to visit these third party websites, please understand the policies detailed herein do not extend to those sites. You should review the privacy policies of those websites to ascertain their privacy practices.

6. CONTACT INFORMATION AND POLICY UPDATES

6.1. CONTACT US. If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us using the “Contact” function on the Site.