1. INTRODUCTION
Outdoor Hookah: https://outdoorhookah.com appreciates your business and trust. We are a “Rat Pack Clubhouse” based company to enhance your hookah smoking experience. Please read this Privacy Policy, providing consent to both documents to have permission to use our services.
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 5/17/2023
Welcome to OutdoorHookah.com (“We”, “Us”, or “Our” website). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of OutdoorHookah.com, including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through OutdoorHookah.com. By using the website, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
When you visit our website, we may collect certain information about you such as:
– Personal data like names, email addresses, and personal account preferences when you register or make a purchase on our site.
– Anonymous data such as IP addresses, browser types, referring pages, pages visited, and time spent on the site.
– Purchase information related to transactions made on the site.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect from you to:
– Improve our website and provide a better user experience.
– Process transactions.
– Send periodic emails, including newsletters, updates, and occasional company news.
How We Protect Your Information
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of people who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential.
Cookies
We use cookies to help us remember and process items in your shopping cart and understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent or you can choose to turn off all cookies through your browser settings.
Third-Party Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties unless we provide you with advance notice.
Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update our Privacy Policy at any time. All changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.
Contact Information
If you have questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at ratpack@outdoorhookah.com
3. EMBEDDED CONTENT
Pages on this site may include embedded content, like YouTube videos. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you 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. Below you can find a list of the services we use:
The Facebook page plugin displays our Facebook timeline on our site. Facebook has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from Facebook and your IP is not sent to a Facebook server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: Facebook Privacy Policy .
We use the Twitter API to display our tweet’s timeline on our site. Twitter has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. Your IP is not sent to a Twitter server until you consent. See their privacy policy here: Twitter Privacy Policy
YOUTUBE
We use YouTube videos embedded on our site. YouTube has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from YouTube, and your IP is not sent to a YouTube server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: YouTube Privacy Policy.
4. COOKIES
This site uses cookies – small text files placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies retain user preferences, store information for shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third-party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.
NECESSARY COOKIES (ALL SITE VISITORS)
- cfduid: Is used for our CDN CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. See more information on privacy here: CloudFlare Privacy Policy.
- PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.
NECESSARY COOKIES (ADDITIONAL FOR LOGGED IN CUSTOMERS)
- wp-auth: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication, and user verification.
- wordpress_logged_in_{hash}: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication, and user verification.
- wordpress_test_cookie Used by WordPress to ensure cookies are working correctly.
- wp-settings-[UID]: WordPress sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your user ID from the user database table. This is used to customize your view of the admin interface and possibly the main site interface.
- wp-settings-[UID]:WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your user ID from the user database table. This is used to customize your view of the admin interface and possibly the main site interface.
5. WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR DATA
If you are not a registered client for our site, there is no personal information we can retain or view regarding yourself.
If you are a client with a registered account, your personal information can be accessed by:
- Our system administrators.
- Our supporters when they (in order to provide support) need to get the information about the client accounts and access.
6. THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO YOUR DATA
We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like email, name, etc. The only exceptions to that rule are for partners we have to share limited data with in order to provide the services you expect from us. Please see below:
ENVATO PTY LTD
For the purpose of validating and getting your purchase information regarding licenses for our theme, we send your provided tokens and purchase keys to Envato Pty Ltd and use the response from their API to register your validated support data. See the Envato privacy policy here: Envato Privacy Policy.
TICKSY
Ticksy provides the support ticketing platform we use to handle support requests. The data they receive is limited to the data you explicitly provide and consent to being set when you create a support ticket. Ticksy adheres to the EU/US “Privacy Shield” and you can see their privacy policy here: Ticksy Privacy Policy.
7. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
When you submit a support ticket or a comment, its metadata is retained until (if) you tell us to remove it. We use this data to recognize you and approve your comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.
If you register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except by changing your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
8. SECURITY MEASURES
We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personally identifiable information PII is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization.
In case of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take all needed steps to ensure system integrity, will contact affected users, and will attempt to reset passwords if needed.
9. YOUR DATA RIGHTS
GENERAL RIGHTS
If you have a registered account on this website or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we retain, including any additional data you have provided to us.
You can also request that we erase any of our stored personal data. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. In short, we cannot erase data that is vital to you being an active customer (i.e. basic account information like an email address).
If you wish that all of your data is erased, we will no longer be able to offer any support or other product-related services to you.
GDPR RIGHTS
Your privacy is critically important to us. In the future, with the GDPR we aim to support the GDPR standard. OutdoorHookah permits residents of the European Union to use its Service. Therefore, it is the intent of Outdoor Hookah to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation. For more details, please see here: EU GDPR Information Portal.
10. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
Outdoor Hookah (Rat Pack Clubhouse) may post links to third-party websites on this website. These third-party websites are not screened for privacy or security compliance by Outdoor Hookah (Rat Pack Clubhouse), and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third-party websites.
All social media sharing links, either displayed as text links or social media icons, do not connect you to any associated third parties unless you explicitly click on them.
Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, do not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of the Service or Site. Outdoor Hookah (Rat Pack Clubhouse) bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third-party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third-party links.
11. RELEASE OF YOUR DATA FOR LEGAL PURPOSES
At times it may become necessary or desirable to AncoraThemes, for legal purposes, to release your information in response to a request from a government agency or a private litigant. You agree that we may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is desirable to do so for the purposes of a civil action, criminal investigation, or other legal matter. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you, and release your information to, third parties where we believe that it is prudent to do so for legal reasons, such as our belief that you have engaged in fraudulent activities. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants.
Any passing on of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with laws of the country you reside in.
12. AMENDMENTS
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update this page accordingly and require you to accept the amendments in order to be permitted to continue using our services.