Privacy
Your privacy is critically important to us. Please take the time to understand our privacy policy
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Operation Happy Hour collects non-personally-identifying information
of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the
browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each
visitor request. Operation Happy Hour’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information
is to better understand how Operation Happy Hour’s visitors use its website. From time to
time, Operation Happy Hour may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate,
e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Operation Happy Hour also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet
Protocol (IP) addresses. Operation Happy Hour does not disclose such information, other than under the
same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information,
as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Operation Happy Hour’s websites choose to interact with Operation Happy Hour in
ways that require Operation Happy Hour to gather personally-identifying information. The amount
and type of information that Operation Happy Hour gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.
For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at
operationhappyhour.com to provide
a username and email address. From time to time, those who engage in transactions with Operation Happy Hour will be asked to
provide additional information, including as necessary the personal
and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case,
Operation Happy Hour collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate
to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Operation Happy Hour. Operation Happy Hour
does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with
the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Operation Happy Hour may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites.
For instance, Operation Happy Hour may monitor the most popular blogs on the operationhappyhour.com
site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Operation Happy Hour
may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Operation Happy Hour
does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Operation Happy Hour discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying
information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations
that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Operation Happy Hour’s behalf
or to provide services available at Operation Happy Hour’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed
not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated
organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Operation Happy Hour’s
websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Operation Happy Hour will
not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information
to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations,
as described above, Operation Happy Hour discloses potentially personally-identifying and
personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Operation Happy Hour
believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property
or rights of Operation Happy Hour, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered
user of an Operation Happy Hour website and have supplied your email address, Operation Happy Hour may
occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback,
or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Operation Happy Hour and our products.
If you send us a request (for
example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the
right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to
help us support other users. Operation Happy Hour takes all measures reasonably necessary
to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially
personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Map Location Privacy
Operation Happy Hour allows you to see other users on the site who are near to your location. In order
for other users to see how close you are to them, the map location privacy setting must be disabled. This
functionality simply shows other users how far away from them you are, it does not expose other personal
data such as your email address. If you do not wish to register your exact location but still wish to use
the service to allow other users to locate you, we suggest using an "approximate" location near your real
location that does not disclose your actual address or location. We do not verify or qualify the location of
any of our users, and have no intention of introducing that policy.
Region & City Location Privacy
Your Region and City selections allow us to provide content specific to your local area. If you wish,
you can be listed in our member directory by location by enabling this setting. Your Country listing will be
listed in discussion boards, your profile and other pages.
Use of Map, Country and Region Location Information
Operation Happy Hour collects your Map location, Region and City details to
personalise content to your location. Personalised content matched to to your location is solely
generated for your use of the website and associated services. Your proximity to content is not tracked
or shared with any third party, subject to the Location Privacy clauses above. Content may include
advertisments and 3rd Party information from affiliated organizations that is relevant to your location.
Operation Happy Hour will not share any of your personal information (including location) with affiliated organizations,
subject to your location privacy settings (above) and the Aggregated Statistics clause (for instance, we would provide
affiliated organizations with the percentages geographic spread amongst our users).
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer,
and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.
Operation Happy Hour uses cookies to help Operation Happy Hour identify and track visitors, their usage
of Operation Happy Hour website, and their website access preferences. Operation Happy Hour visitors
who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers
to refuse cookies before using Operation Happy Hour’s websites, with the drawback that certain
features of Operation Happy Hour’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Operation Happy Hour may change its Privacy
Policy from time to time, and in Operation Happy Hour’s sole discretion. Operation Happy Hour encourages
visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If
you have a operationhappyhour.com account, you should also check your user preferences page for
alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this
Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.