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5102 Plomondon Street Vancouver, WA 98661 Phone: (360) 901-0065 (text is welcome) Send me an Email Business Hours: Monday to Sunday - 10AM to 2PM By Appointment Only. After hours available. (Open on some Holidays) If you need more information or assistance, contact me through my inquiry form or the above contact information. |
PRIVACY
Clients Right to Privacy
Spa of The Earth takes seriously the privacy of those that visit our web site. We have established this Privacy Policy to communicate what information we collect and how that information is used and safeguarded.
Our goal in collecting visitor information online is to provide the best web site experience to meet your needs by delivering information, resources and services that are most relevant to you about our company. To achieve this goal, part of the operation of the Site includes the gathering of certain types of information about Site users. Because we understand that your privacy is important, we wish to explain the types of information we gather and the way in which we use it.
By accessing this website www.SpaOfTheEarth.com and any related web sites, you acknowledge the terms and conditions expressed herein. We reserve the right to change this policy at our sole discretion and without notice.
What information is collected, and why?
We receive and store any information you enter on our web site or give us in any other way. When a user visits our website, we collect information about the visit that does not identify the user personally, including date and time of the visit and the pages viewed. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of certain features on our web site. We also receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many web sites, we use cookies, and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses our company web sites.
Sometimes we ask a user to voluntarily provide personally identifiable information (PII). This information generally includes, but is not limited to, name, e-mail address, postal address, and telephone number. We request this information when the user requests one of the following:
- To register to attend an on-line seminar or demonstration
- To receive specific information from us such as a whitepaper or code sample
- To sign up for a mailing list
- To correspond with us
- Or any other such activity that we deem necessary
How is the information used?
Non-personally identifiable information (non-PII) is collected to allow us to analyze how our website is used and to improve the content and service the website provides.
Personally identifiable information is collected for analysis to improve the content of the website and the services we provide the user.
Spa of The Earth owns the collected information and will not sell, trade, or rent the information to others. We may use the information to continue contact with the user. This may include contact such as follow-up calls, e-mail correspondence, or mail correspondence to follow-up on the contact or to provide marketing information about promotions, new services, or important website changes. Spa of The Earth may share this information with its business partners for the specific purpose of a promotion or service offering.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are used on this web site to collect non-personally identifiable visitor information. This information allows us to customize your experience on our web site and is used internally to track site usage and provide business insight regarding how users utilize content on the web site. This allows us to improve the content and design of our web site. Cookies" are small pieces of information that are placed on a web user's hard drive. Spa of The Earth web sites use gifs, cookies and reverse IP technology to collect non-personal information regarding use of our sites such as pages read, content downloaded, product interest, time spent, frequency of visits, the service provider, operating system and IP address. Cookies are a small numeric identifier for record keeping purposes known as a Unique Visitor Cookie which differentiates one user from another. Users are identified only by a randomly assigned number, not by personally identifiable information. Cookies can make the Web more useful by storing information about your preferences for a particular site. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and many major Web sites use them to provide useful features for their customers. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of the functionality of the Spa of The Earth site if you do so. If you do not wish to have a cookie on your system, you can modify your browser settings to disable cookies.
Security
You personally identifiable information is safeguarded through various means. Keeping your information secure is important to us, which is why we use a secure server and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Spa of The Earth utilizes industry standard methods and mechanisms such as firewalls, intrusion monitoring, and passwords to protect electronic information. Multiple physical security methods such as locking devices and 24 hour premise monitoring are also employed. When entering the checkout area of our web site, your computer will automatically begin to communicate with our server in secure mode. SSL technology encrypts your personal credit card information during the reservation or purchase process, to protect it from being read by others during online transmittal. Access to PII is limited to a small number of personnel and on a need-to-know basis.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
Affiliates
Any personal information you provide to us on our web site when you register for emails, make a reservation or enter a contest or promotion is maintained in private files on a secure Web server. Spa of The Earth shares this information only with its affiliated companies in order to help us provide better service to you. These affiliates are required to maintain your information in the strictest confidence.
We may also share non-personally identifiable information with third party companies to help manage and optimize our online web site and email communications. A web service company is used to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our site. Pixel tags (gifs) are small graphics used along with cookies to allow our web service company to track usage patterns and page views of users visiting our web site.
As we continue to develop Spa of The Earth, we might sell or buy properties or other businesses. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing privacy notice. Also, in the unlikely event that all or substantially all of the properties in Spa of The Earth are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our [Conditions of Use] and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of http://www.spaoftheearth.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
Links to Other Web Sites
When using links found on our site to other web sites not affiliated with Spa of The Earth, please be aware those sites have their own privacy policies, which may be different from our own. Spa of The Earth is not responsible for services or products that are offered on these web sites. Spa of The Earth neither controls nor endorses external sites and is not responsible for the content of such sites. This policy does not cover the privacy policies and data collection practices of non-Spa of The Earth web sites.
Registering for Email Specials
Your email address will not be sold or shared with outside companies. By signing up for email specials, you will be notified of special offers and events. You may choose to opt-out by unsubscribing upon receipt of any email special.
Changing Email Preferences
If you provide us your email address for email specials or when you make a reservation, your email address will be added to our guestbook and you will receive specials and promotions via email.
How to opt out of correspondence
Based on the information a user has provided, Spa of The Earth may send e-mail correspondence to the user. Each correspondence will contain an easy means to opt out of further correspondence.
Policy Changes
From time to time, Spa of The Earth may update its Privacy Notice. Please be aware that whenever a change is made, the updated Privacy Notice will be posted on this site.