Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to https://hwcontracting.net/ and HW Contracting and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to HW Contracting include https://hwcontracting.net/. The HW Contracting website is a Business Services site. By using the HW Contracting website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Sharing Information with Third Parties
HW Contracting does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

HW Contracting may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. HW Contracting may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to HW Contracting, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

HW Contracting may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on HW Contracting or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of HW Contracting; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of HW Contracting, or the public.

Tracking User Behavior
HW Contracting may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within HW Contracting, in order to determine what HW Contracting services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within HW Contracting to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by HW Contracting. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the HW Contracting website.

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.

Security of your Personal Information
HW Contracting secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. HW Contracting uses the following methods for this purpose:

– SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Children Under Thirteen
HW Contracting does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications
From time to time, HW Contracting may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from HW Contracting or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from HW Contracting, you may opt out of such communications by Clicking the Unsubscribe Link in the Email.

Changes to this Statement
HW Contracting reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information
HW Contracting welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that HW Contracting has not adhered to this Statement, please contact HW Contracting at:
HW Contracting
110 Cumberland Park Dr. Ste 106
St. Augustine, Florida 32095

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
As a provider of web site hosting and other Internet-related services, HW Contracting offers its customer (also known as “Subscribers”) and their customers and users the means to acquire and disseminate a wealth of public, private, commercial and non-commercial information. HW Contracting respects that the Internet provides a forum for free and open discussion and dissemination of information. However, when there are competing interests at issue, HW Contracting reserves the right to take certain preventive or corrective actions. In order to protect these competing interests, HW Contracting has developed an Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”), which supplements and explains certain terms of each customer’s respective service agreement, and is intended as a guide to the customer’s rights and obligations when using HW Contracting’ services. This AUP will be revised from time to time.

One important aspect of the Internet is that no one party owns or controls it. This fact accounts for much of the Internet’s openness and value, but it also places a high premium on the judgment and responsibility of those who use it, both in the information they acquire and in the information they disseminate to others. When subscribers obtain information through the Internet, they must keep in mind that HW Contracting cannot monitor, verify, warrant or vouch for the accuracy and quality of the information they acquire. For this reason, the subscriber must exercise his or her best judgment in relying on information obtained from the Internet, and also should be aware that some material posted to the Internet may be sexually explicit or otherwise offensive. Because HW Contracting cannot monitor or censor the Internet, and will not attempt to do so, HW Contracting cannot accept any responsibility for injury to its subscribers resulting from inaccurate, unsuitable, offensive or illegal Internet communications.

When subscribers disseminate information from the Internet, they must keep in mind that HW Contracting does not review, edit, censor or take responsibility for any information its subscribers may create. When users place information on the Internet, they have the same liability as other authors for copyright infringement, defamation and other harmful speech. Also, because the information created is carried over HW Contracting’ network and may reach a large number of people, including both subscribers and non-subscribers of HW Contracting, subscribers’ postings to the Internet may affect other subscribers and may affect HW Contracting’ goodwill, business, reputation or operations. For these reasons, subscribers violate HW Contracting policy and the Service Agreement when they, their customers, affiliates or subsidiaries engage in the following prohibited activities:

Spamming:
Sending unsolicited bulk and/or commercial information over the Internet. It is not only harmful because of its negative impact on consumer attitudes toward HW Contracting, but also because it can overload HW Contracting’ network and disrupt service to HW Contracting’ subscribers. Also, maintaining an open SMTP relay is prohibited. When a complaint is received, HW Contracting will investigate and shutdown the account that is SPAMing. A $250 charge for violating this policy will be charged to the person initiating the SPAM. Furthermore HW Contracting reserves the right to prosecute for this violation. A $1.00 charge will be assessed PER EMAIL sent should HW Contracting choose to pursue and prosecute.

Audio/Video Streaming:
Audio/Video Streaming is not hosting friendly. As such, HW Contracting does not allow any streaming of audio or video content. Offending accounts will be suspended without noticed or terminated.

Adult-Oriented Content:
HW Contracting does not allow adult content and will suspend/terminate any offending account.

Large File Policy:
HW Contracting is not for file hosting and distribution – as such, customers may not host any files larger than 50MB in size that are observed to be available for the sole purpose of download. Such files include but are not limited to .ISO, audio/video files, .EXE files. If you are unsure whether your file is against this policy, please e-mail [email protected].

Obscene Speech or Materials:
Using HW Contracting’ network to advertise, transmit, store, post, display, or otherwise make available child pornography or obscene speech or material is prohibited. HW Contracting is required by law to notify law enforcement agencies when it becomes aware of the presence of child pornography on or being transmitted through its network.

Defamatory or Abusive Language:
Using HW Contracting’ network as a means to transmit or post negative, defamatory, harassing, abusive or threatening language.

Forging of Headers:
Forging or misrepresenting message headers, whether in whole or in part, to mask the originator of the message.

Illegal or Unauthorized Access to Other Computers or Networks:
Accessing, illegally or without authorization, computers, accounts or networks belonging to another party, or attempting to penetrate security measures of another individual’s system (often known as “hacking”). Also, any activity that may be used as a precursor to an attempted system penetration (i.e., port scan, stealth scan or other information-gathering activity).

Distribution of Internet Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses or Other Destructive Activities:
Distributing information regarding the creation of and sending Internet viruses, worms, Trojan horses, pinging, flooding, mail bombing or denial of service attacks. Also, activities that disrupt the use of or interfere with the ability of others to effectively use the network or any connected network, system, service or equipment.

Facilitation a Violation of this AUP:
Advertising, transmitting or otherwise making available any software, program, product or service that is designed to violate this AUP, which includes the facilitation of the means to spam, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail bombing, denial of service attacks and piracy of software.

Export Control Violations:
Exporting encryption software over the Internet or otherwise, to points outside the United States.

Usenet Groups:
HW Contracting reserves the right not to accept postings from newsgroups where we have actual knowledge that the content of the newsgroup violates the AUP.

Other Illegal Activities:
Engaging in activities that are determined to be illegal, including, but not limited to, advertising, transmitting or otherwise making available ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, fraudulently charging credit cards and pirating software.

Other Activities:
Engaging in activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that HW Contracting determines to be harmful to its subscribers, operations, reputation, goodwill or customer relations.
As we have pointed out, the responsibility for avoiding harmful activities just described rests primarily with the subscriber. HW Contracting will not, as an ordinary practice, monitor the communications of its subscribers to ensure that the comply with HW Contracting’ policy or applicable law. However, when HW Contracting becomes aware of harmful activities, it may take any action to stop the harmful activity, including, but not limited to, removal of information, shutting down a web site, implementing screening software designed to block offending transmissions, denying access to the Internet, or any other action deemed appropriate by HW Contracting.

HW Contracting is also aware that many of its subscribers are themselves providers of Internet services, and that information reaching HW Contracting’ facilities from those subscribers may have originated from a customer of the subscriber or from another third party. HW Contracting does not require its subscribers who offer Internet services to monitor or censor transmissions or web sites created by customers of its subscribers. HW Contracting reserves the right to directly take action against a customer of its subscribers. Also, HW Contracting may take action against the HW Contracting’ subscriber because of activities of a customer of the subscriber, even though the action may affect other customers of the subscriber. Similarly, HW Contracting anticipates that subscribers who offer Internet services will cooperate with HW Contracting in any corrective or preventive action that HW Contracting deems necessary. Failure to cooperate with such corrective or preventive measures is a violation of HW Contracting policy.

HW Contracting will not intentionally monitor private electronic mail messages sent or receive by its subscribers, unless required to do so by law, governmental authority or when public safety is at stake. HW Contracting may, however, monitor its service electronically to determine that its facilities are operating satisfactorily. Also, HW Contracting may disclose information, including, but not limited to, information concerning a subscriber, a transmission made using our network, or a web site, in order to comply with a court order, subpoena, summons, discovery request, warrant, statute, regulation or governmental request. HW Contracting assumes not obligation to inform the subscriber that subscriber information has been provided and, in some cases, may be prohibited by law from giving such notice. Finally, HW Contracting may disclose subscriber information or information transmitted over its network where necessary to protect HW Contracting and others from harm, or where such disclosure is necessary to the proper operation of the system. However, HW Contracting will never sell information to other services or outside companies.
HW Contracting expects that its subscribers who provide Internet services to others will comply fully with all applicable laws concerning the privacy of online communications. A subscriber’s failure to comply with those laws will violate HW Contracting policy. Finally, HW Contracting wishes to emphasize that, in signing the Service Agreement, subscribers indemnify HW Contracting for any violation of the Service Agreement, law or HW Contracting policy resulting in loss to HW Contracting or the bringing of any claim against HW Contracting by any third party. This means that, if HW Contracting is sued because of a subscriber’s or customer of a subscriber’s activity, the subscriber will be responsible for payment of any damages awarded against HW Contracting, plus costs and reasonable attorney’s fees.

We hope this AUP is helpful in clarifying the obligations of Internet users, including HW Contracting and its subscribers, as responsible members of the Internet. Any complaints about a subscriber’s violation of this AUP should be sent to [email protected].