Effective Date: September 14, 2022
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from HotMarcus.com (the “Site”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).

It is our policy to protect your personal information and to use it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please take a few moments to review our Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at anytime without notice, we recommend reviewing our Privacy Policy on a regular basis for such changes.

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for HotMarcus.com. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information We Collect

HotMarcus collects information that personally identifies you when you voluntarily request information from HotMarcus or supply information through the Site, including any and all materials submitted by you when you create an account; place an order; enter your zip code to determine your growing zone; sign up to receive special offers, savings and care tips; fill out a submission form, questionnaire, or inquiry (“Personal Information”). “Personal Information” includes information your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, payment information (such as your credit or debit card number and expiration date, account information or gift card information), login credentials (your username and password created when you sign up for an account with us).

Please note that we may also obtain Personal Information from other sources and combine that with information we collect through our Site. For example, we may collect information about you from sources such as social media, our business partners, vendors, subcontractors, other advertising companies and publicly available sources. If you choose to login to the Site with your social media profile, you will receive prompts requesting access to specific user data. The information we receive from social media services depends on your privacy settings on the applicable social media service.

We also collect Usage Data (defined below) through the Site that does not, on its own, identify a specific individual. When we link Usage Data to your Personal Information, we will treat Usage Data in accordance with this Privacy Statement. When you use the Site we may, like most website operators, automatically collect certain non-identifying information about you, referred to as “Usage Data”, such as the type of browser or operating system you use, your IP address, or the domain name of the website from which you linked to the Site, the activity of the your browser when the you are viewing the Site; your site path; and the time you come to the Site.

We, like many site, use cookies and similar technologies such as web beacons to enhance your experience on our Site. These technologies are small text files that allow us to store information on your mobile device or computer hard drive so that we can recognize your browser and capture certain information, such as browsing history and activities conducted while using the Site. A cookie enables us to remember your growing zone or specific page you have visited so the next time you return to our Site you do not have to select that growing zone or page again. You can adjust how your Internet browser responds to cookies (e.g., to warn you every time a cookie is sent, or to turn off all cookies). See your browser’s Help menu for these instructions. Users who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before accessing the website. By disabling your cookies, please understand you will not have access to some of the features that enhance your user experience on the Site.

We also use third party cookies and third party tracking tools on our Site to measure traffic to our Site and how users interact with our Site and for targeted advertising. We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics utilizes cookies to gather information regarding use of our Site, which Google uses to generate reports for us regarding our Site. To find out more about how Google uses data when you use our Site and your options for controlling the information collected by Google from this Site, please click here. You may opt-out of having your activity on the Site made available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics browser add-on, available here. 

HotMarcus may collect your email address via cookies and pixels on the Website through the use of trusted third party partners. These partners may combine your email information with other information they have access to such as mailing address so that HotMarcus may serve relevant marketing offers to you via direct mail. If you do not want HotMarcus to collect information about you, please contact HotMarcus to opt out.

Uses of Information – Purposes

We may use your Personal Information as follows:

• To provide and deliver products and fulfill your orders;
• To establish and manage business relations with you;
• To respond to inquiries, requests and comments from you;
• To operate, improve and personalize the products and services we offer, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us;
• To communicate special offers, promotions and information about our company and service offerings to you via email or To your mailing address, if you have provided one;
• To publish public product and customer reviews submitted by you;
• To send you newsletters and information about products, services and promotions of our business partners and affiliates;
• For customer service, security, to detect fraud or illegal activities;
• To prevent or investigate activity we think may be potentially illegal, unlawful or harmful;
• For archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the services;
• To better understand how you access and use the Site, for the purposes of trying to improve the Site, diagnose problems, administer our Site and respond to user preferences; and
• To enforce our other applicable policies.
  In general, we gather Usage Data about all of our users collectively, and not on an individual basis, for purposes such as determining which parts of our website users access most frequently. This Usage Data helps us determine which parts of our website are most beneficial for users, and how we can continually create a better overall experience for you. If we link Usage Data with Personal Information in a way that renders the Usage Data personally identifiable, we will treat it as Personal Information in accordance with the terms of this Statement.

We may use the Usage Data that we collect

• To operate, improve, find errors in and personalize the Site;
• To recognize returning website visitors and improve user experience;
• To provide customer service, and to detect, prevent and mitigate fraudulent or illegal activities; and
• To learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see.

Disclosing Your Personal Information to Third Parties

Any Personal Information we gather may be used for our internal business purposes and disclosed to third parties, as stated below.

Agents and Service Providers: We engage vendors, subcontractors, agents, consultants, and other service providers (“Service Providers”) to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include creating and maintaining our Site, sending postal mail and e-mail, collecting user product reviews, managing and updating customer lists, developing and delivering targeted advertising, providing analytics and site usage information, processing transactions and payments, administering our promotions, contests, sweepstakes, and surveys; providing other marketing and promotional assistance, and providing other services related to the operation of our business. These Service Providers may require the Personal Information to perform their functions on our behalf or to permit us to perform our functions. These Service Providers have agreed to keep your Personal Information confidential.
Legal Compliance and Protection. Notwithstanding any other statements or representations in this Statement or elsewhere on our Site, we reserve the right to disclose any information in our possession if we are required to do so by law or we believe, in good faith, that such a disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, court order or other government or law enforcement agency, defend our rights or property, or to respond to an emergency situation or protect the rights, property or safety of website users.
Your Consent: We may share your Personal Information with your consent or at your direction.

Security

Communications with our Website are all conducted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology. Through our use of SSL encryption technology, all information communicated between you and our website is secured.

1.We will not use the collection of users’ personal information as the main purpose.

2.Communicate with you;

3.Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud;

4.We use the information we collect to enhance your experience of our website and our products and services;

5.We do not rent or sell this information to any third-party.

6.Without your consent, we will not use your personal information or pictures for advertising.

Managing “Do Not Track” Signals

Some browsers have an optional Do Not Track (“DNT”) feature that allows you to express your preference regarding tracking of your online activity by websites. When you choose to turn on the DNT setting in your browser, your browser sends a special signal to websites, ad networks, plug-in providers, and other web services you encounter while browsing to stop tracking your activity via cookies or other tracking technologies. Our Site does not currently respond to DNT browser signals or mechanisms.

Third Party Links

The Site may contain links to websites maintained by third parties with which we have no affiliation. This Statement does not reflect the privacy practices of those sites, and you should consult the privacy policies of those sites to learn about their practices. A link to any third party site does not mean that we endorse it or the quality or accuracy of information presented on it. The social media features on our Site may allow social media providers to collect certain information. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policies of the company providing the features.

Additional Protections for Children

The Site is not designed for or targeted to children under the age of 13. HotMarcus will never knowingly solicit or collect Personal Information from a child under the age of 13 through the Site without verifiable parental consent or unless that child’s parent or legal guardian has submitted the information in connection with the Site. If we discover that a child under the age of 13 has submitted Personal Information without verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information.

You Choices About Our Collection and Use of Your Personal Information
Changing Personal Data. We strive to maintain the accuracy of Personal Information collected. If you have an online account with us, you may update your name by logging into your account. If you want to change any of your other Personal Information, we will work with you to correct any information you submitted to us upon your request. Please submit your request by email [email protected]. If may not always be possible to completely remove or modify information in our databases, although we will make reasonable efforts to do so upon your request.

Changes to This Statement

The Effective Date of this Statement is set forth at the top of this Statement. HotMarcus may from time to time make changes to this Statement to reflect changes in legal or regulatory obligations or changes in the manner in which we collect and use Personal Information. We will notify you by posting the modified Statement, and its effective date, on this page, and by emailing you if you have provided your email address to us. For this reason, you should regularly review this Statement and note the effective date.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions, comments, or complaints concerning our privacy practices please contact us at the appropriate address below. We will attempt, where practical, to respond to your requests and to provide you with additional privacy-related information.

Email: [email protected]
Address: 2064 Riversedge Dr, Lancaster, Ohio, United States
Phone: +1 929-320-7514