Privacy Policy...

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    ... And Other Legal Stuff

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.nativepines.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 Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given on our website:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way.  You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact kat@nativepines.com

Orders
We may request information from you on our order form (when applicable). To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we'll use this information to contact you.

Cookies
We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Sharing
We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

And/or: We use a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond filling your order.

Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Photo & Content Submission/Use of Photos & Content

Native Pines Publishing welcomes your photo submissions our platform, to include our social media channels and this Site. Excluding your personally identifiable information, which is subject to our Privacy Policy, any photo, images, text, content, or other materials that you send or submit online to Native Pines Publishing, including but not limited to feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like ("Content"), shall be deemed non-confidential and the property of Native Pines Publishing.

You agree that you are solely responsible for any Content that you submit, post or display on or through our platform.  You represent and warrant that: (a) you own the Content that you submit to us or otherwise have the right to grant the license and rights set forth in these Photo Submission Guidelines and the Terms of Use; (b) you have the legal right and capacity to enter into and agree to the Terms of Use and these Photo Submission Guidelines; (c) you agree to pay all costs, fees or royalties owed by reason of the Content you submit to our Site and platform; and (d) your submission of Content to or through our Site and platform does not violate, misappropriate or infringe the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, privacy rights, copyrights, publicity rights, trademark and/or other intellectual property rights.

By submitting photos or other Content to us, you hereby grant Native Pines Publishing a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use all submitted photographs and other Content in their submitted form, subject to re-sizing or re-formatting to fit the platform, for publication on the Native Pines Publishing Site and social media platform for as long as the website and company exists. By submitting a photo or other Content, you represent and warrant that Native Pines Publishing may publish such Content, use it as part of its operations, and incorporate its concepts in Native Pines Publishing products without liability or compensation to you.

Copyright

Photographs and/or other Content may not be submitted, downloaded, stored, printed, manipulated, distributed, or used in any form without prior written permission from the copyright holder. Works published on this Site are protected under domestic and international copyright laws and are not considered to be public domain. By submitting photos or other Content to our publication you are stipulating to us that you own the copyright to such Content or have permission from the copyright holder to submit such Content.

Should you, for any reason, wish your photographs or Content to be removed from the Site, please Contact Us.

Please note that third parties such as educational institutions, search engines, automated data aggregators or individuals may download, save, store or archive this (or any other) website with or without our knowledge and Native Pines Publishing will have no control over such downloading and subsequent use, and you therefore agree that Native Pines Publishing is not liable or otherwise responsible for any such downloading or use.