Privacy Statement for Visitors to HerpTech Associates and its client pages and organizations. This includes any pages associated with the the Hognose dot com http://www.hognose.com/

Privacy Principles
Because your trust and confidence is important to us, HerpTech Associates conducts its business under the following privacy principles:

Principle 1 - No Collection of Personal Information
HerpTech Associates does not collect any personal information such as names, ages, phone numbers, addresses or e-mail addresses from visitors to our customer's web sites.

Principle 2 - No Combination of Browsing and Web Traffic Information with Personal Information Since HerpTech Associates does not collect any personal information from website visitors, we do not combine traffic analysis information with personal information such as name, age, phone number or mailing address.

Principle 3 - No Aggregation of Individual Visitor Traffic Patterns across Multiple Sites
HerpTech Associates does not collect individual profile information for visitors across multiple sites and does not aggregate information from any other sources about browsing patterns of individual visitors across multiple sites.

Principle 4 - Collection of Non-Personally Identifiable Information
HerpTech Associates collects anonymous visitor information like IP addresses, browser types (such as Internet Explorer or Netscape), referring pages, pages visited and time spent on the web site. HerpTech Associates collects this non-personally identifiable information for the following purposes:

• (1) to gather anonymous statistical analysis of web page traffic patterns to our web sites;
• (2) to administer our web site and servers,
• (3) to allow for auditing of our services by third parties, and
• (4) to improve our services.

Principle 5 - Anonymous Use of Cookies
It is HerpTech Associates's policy to use cookies only for more accurate anonymous traffic analysis such as tracking the time/date of the visit, the page viewed, the referrer, transaction information for eCommerce pages. The cookie information does not include personal data such as name, age, phone number, e-mail address or mailing address. In addition, HerpTech Associates does not link cookies to personal data such as name, age, phone number, e-mail address or mailing address. As we do not build a database of individual visitors, the data that we do collect is never stored in any individual user profile; the data collected serves only to update aggregate counts allowing our customers to monitor traffic on their site. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set your browser to reject cookies.

HerpTech Associates Web pages may use customized JavaScript tracking code provided by WebTrends to track anonymous information about their web site visitors' activity. This code contacts WebTrends' servers, receives a response, and loads an image to the page. This 1x1 image is called a clear gif or web bug. This JavaScript tracking code does not collect personal information such as name, age, phone number, mailing address or credit card numbers from visitors to our customers' web sites. Visitors may elect to opt out of receiving tracking cookies for all sites using HerpTech Associates services.

]Principle 6 - No Individual Profiling
HerpTech Associates does not create individual profiles of visitors. We do not have a database of individual profiles of each visitor. HerpTech Associates collects data in aggregate form and data is not recorded or stored about individual visitors.

Principle 7 – Third Party Access
HerpTech Associates and the owner, Dennis Desmond has exclusive control and access to HerpTech Associates traffic analysis reports. HerpTech Associates does not provide access to anyone else. HerpTech Associates anonymous traffic data for its web site may be provided to an auditing service if the need so arises.

For More Information
If you have any questions or comments about this policy, our services, or your experience with HerpTech Associates, you can use the Feedback page on our site, or write to us at:
HerpTech Associates
Attn: Technical Support
PO BOX 276
Bluemont VA 20135