Hawaii Busy Bee

Privacy Policy

(Revised 9/16/2023)


Cookies
Information Access
Non-Instrusive Advertising Policy
Terms Of Usage For Our Materials
Terms Of Usage Of Our Marks
Terms Of How We May Use Information That You Provide To Us
Endorsements
Content And Liability Disclaimer
Monitoring Of Materials Transmitted By You
Services Liability Disclaimer
Deletions From The Service
Virus Protection
E-Mail And Communications
Children
Security
Discussion Areas
Links To Other Sites
Revisions

At Hawaii Busy Bee we are committed to maintaining the privacy policy that we will not collect personal information about our Web site users. You may visit our web site and remain anonymous. Our software does not collect information that indicates to us your identity or your Web surfing habits. We limit the collection of information about our web site users to how many anonymous users viewed materials containing information and advertisements within each business category or web pages. Our advertisements are fixed in graphic format within the materials and are non-intrusive.
We recognize that our web site users have a right to maintain their privacy when using our web site. Hawaii Busy Bee collects only publicly available information about businesses in order to publish the information in an Internet business directory format for free public access. The following discloses our Web site information gathering and use practices.
It is important to note that this privacy statement applies only to this site and not to the web sites of our advertisers or of other companies or organizations to which the Web site links. All references to Hawaii Busy Bee throughout this policy statement include, unless otherwise stated, all Hawaii Busy Bee affiliated companies, successors and assigns.

COOKIES:

Hawaii Busy Bee does not use cookies (or similar technologies) that provide data about our users other than the cookies used by standard web usage statistic generating programs. A cookie is data that a Web site can send to your browser, which is stored on your computer hard disk drive. We understand that many users do not want anything installed in their computers because of justified concern about privacy abuse issues. Although cookie technology can enable a web site to perform many positive things, there have been published cases of privacy abuse using this technology. This is why we have established our privacy policy to provide our users with anonymity.
Users may set their browsers to notify them or decline the receipt of a cookie; however, certain features of other web sites may not function properly or be available when browsers are configured to disable cookies. Users must exercise caution when deciding to permit the use of Cookies, trusting that the permitted Web site will not abuse their privacy rights. There are several Internet firewall programs that have software to manage Cookies and that permits users to refuse or remove Cookies.
We collect and use only publicly available information for publishing Internet business directories.
Users of the Maui Busy Bee's business directory remain anonymous. Our Web server usage programs may collect information about visitors such as the domain names where they originated from, (for example aol.com) but not e-mail addresses or anything that can identify a user. This information may be processed to measure such things as the number of pages viewed, and which pages are used the most. Hawaii Busy Bee uses such information to evaluate the use of our web site, and to continuously improve the content and services being provided. The general usage information collected cannot identify individual users and is useful only for measuring advertising exposure and web server performance.
Information collected by our web server: As you use the site, our web server collects information about your visit, not about you personally. Via web server logs, we monitor statistics such as:
How many anonymous users visit our web site
Which pages have the most users
What domains our visitors come from (example aol.com)
Which browsers people use to visit our site
We collect, verify and publish business information to enable the publication of free access Internet business directories. Information provided by individuals submitting new business listings, additional information or corrections will be published upon verification of the information and the identity of the person submitting it. The verification of the identity of persons providing information for publishing is necessary in order to avoid unauthorized persons entering data into the business directory.


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INFORMATION ACCESS:

We will not make individual-specific information that is gathered on our web site available to other persons or organizations for commercial purposes unrelated to the business of Hawaii Busy Bee. All individual-specific information consists of voluntary communications from our users concerning Hawaii Busy Bee Web site and business.
Certain federal, state and local laws or government regulations may require us to disclose non-public personal information acquired by us. In these circumstances, we will use reasonable efforts to disclose only the information required by law, subpoena or court order to be disclosed.

NON- INSTRUSIVE ADVERTISING POLICY:

We will not permit intrusive forms of advertising to enter our web site. The advertisements contained within the Hawaii Busy Bee web site are passive graphic images with links to the advertiser. Note that when advertisements or links are clicked on, the user is transported to the web site of the advertiser and the terms of usage of that web site apply.
All advertisements displayed within Hawaii Busy Bee Web site must conform to our anonymous user privacy policy while they reside on the Hawaii Busy Bee Web site, however we cannot control the process of users clicking a link that takes them to another Web site. In these cases the terms of usage of the other Web sites apply and users should exercise caution by protecting themselves with the appropriate Internet security software for guarding privacy.

TERMS OF USAGE FOR OUR MATERIALS:

You may use, copy and distribute the materials found on Hawaii Busy Bee Web Sites for personal or business informational purposes only. All copies that you make of the material must bear any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice that pertains to the material being copied. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, patent, trademark or other intellectual property right in the material or the products, technology, processes or services described therein. All such rights are retained by Hawaii Busy Bee its subsidiaries and/or any third party owner of such rights

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TERMS OF USAGE OF OUR MARKS:

All trademarks and service marks herein are the property of their respective owners. It is not authorized to use any Hawaii Busy Bee name or mark in any advertising, publicity or in any other commercial manner without the prior written consent of Hawaii Busy Bee. Requests for authorization should be addressed to info@hawaiibusybee.com

TERMS OF HOW WE MAY USE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE TO US:

Do not provide us with any confidential or proprietary information. Any correspondence, e-mails, telephone calls, questions, answers, suggestions, ideas or comments that you provide to us will be treated as being non-confidential and non-proprietary. We assume no obligation to protect such information from disclosure and will be free to use, reproduce and distribute the information to others without restriction. We will also be free to use any ideas, techniques, know-how or concepts contained in information that you send us for any purpose whatsoever including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products and services incorporating such information.

ENDORSEMENTS:

All trademarks, product and service marks contained herein that are not Hawaii Busy Bee marks are the trademarks of their respective owners. References that we make to any names, marks, products or services of third parties or hypertext links to third party sites or information do not necessarily constitute or imply our endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation of the third party, information, product or service.

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CONTENT AND LIABILITY DISCLAIMER:

Material on Hawaii Busy Bee Web Sites may include wrong information, typographical errors or other mistakes. Changes including but not limited to deletions and additions will be periodically incorporated into this material. Hawaii Busy Bee may make improvements and/or changes in the products, services and/or programs described in these materials at any time without notice. The materials on The Hawaii Busy Bee Web Sites are provided "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you. IN NO EVENT SHALL HAWAII BUSY BEE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES OR DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, USE, OR DATA WHETHER BROUGHT IN CONTRACT OR TORT, ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH ANY HAWAII BUSY BEE WEB SITE OR THE USE, RELIANCE UPON OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY MATERIAL CONTAINED IN OR ACCESSED FROM ANY HAWAII BUSY BEE WEB SITE.

MONITORING OF MATERIALS TRANSMITTED BY YOU:

Hawaii Busy Bee is under no obligation to monitor the material residing on or transmitted to this server. However, anyone using this server agrees that Hawaii Busy Bee may monitor the server contents periodically to comply with any necessary laws, regulations or other governmental requests. Hawaii Busy Bee reserves the right at its sole discretion, to reject, eliminate or modify any material residing on or transmitted to its server for any reason including its belief that the materials are unacceptable or in violation of the law or these terms and conditions.

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SERVICES LIABILITY DISCLAIMER:

THE USER OF THIS SYSTEM ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR THE USE OF THIS SERVER AND THE INTERNET IN GENERAL. HAWAII BUSY BEE ITS AFFILIATES AND LICENSEES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO THE INFORMATION ACCESSED FROM, OR VIA, THIS SERVER OR THE INTERNET, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

HAWAII BUSY BEE DOES NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE COMPLETENESS, USEFULNESS OR ACCURACY OF ANY INFORMATION, PROCESS OR PRODUCT DISCLOSED ON THE SERVER OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE FROM THE SERVER. IN NO EVENT SHALL HAWAII BUSY BEE BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA, REVENUE OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT, CONTRACT NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE INFORMATION ON THIS SERVER OR THE INTERNET IN GENERAL.

DELETIONS FROM THE SERVICE:

Hawaii Busy Bee will delete any materials at the request of users that submitted the materials and that have the legal right to the material. Hawaii Busy Bee reserves the right to delete or to refuse to include any materials at its sole discretion. This includes but is not limited to, material that it determines is detrimental to its business or that in Hawaiii Busy Bee's opinion may be in violation of applicable laws, infringing or defamatory.

VIRUS PROTECTION:

Each party that submits materials agrees that in transmitting data to the system it will use only computer systems employing reasonable means to check for and prevent the spread of computer viruses and other harmful programs.

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E-MAIL AND COMMUNICATIONS:

Hawaii Busy Bee's policy is not to disclose private e-mail communications that are transmitted to Hawaii Busy Bee except to respond, or as required to operate the service, as set forth in the terms of use and policies established from time to time governing the service, or as otherwise required by law.

CHILDREN:

Hawaii Busy Bee recognizes the importance of children's safety and privacy on the Internet. For this reason and to comply with certain laws, we do not intentionally collect personal, individually identifiable information from children under the age of 16, nor do we offer content targeted to children under 16. Children should always ask their parents or guardians for permission before using Internet web sites or disclosing any information online. We recommend that parents install and update software programs that control children´s access to the Internet.

SECURITY:

Hawaii Busy Bee maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect the confidentiality of personal information provided by you at our Web site. When doing business with others, such as advertisers to whom you can link from our site, you should consider the separate security and privacy policies of those other sites.

DISCUSSION AREAS:

This site may provide discussion areas so that customers and visitors can communicate freely and share ideas. It is important to always remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and that it is necessary to exercise caution when disclosing any information. These discussion areas may be monitored occasionally in order to enhance the safety and respect for all of our customers and visitors, and off-topic, unlawful or otherwise inappropriate content of materials of which we become aware may or may not be removed from the site during the course of such monitoring. However, Hawaii Busy Bee is not responsible for any information posted or remaining on these discussion areas.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES:

Hawaii Busy Bee web pages contains links to business Web sites. We receive a variable commission percentage from Our Affiliate Friends when you click and make a purchases on those websites. We are not responsible for the content, products or services offered or the privacy and security practices employed by these other Web sites. Users must exercise caution when using any Web sites and should investigate their privacy policies.

REVISIONS:

Because of the evolving nature of the technologies that we use and the way that we conduct business, we may amend this policy from time to time. We will post any revisions on this site and we recommend that you review it periodically. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about privacy practices on this site, please contact us at Email: info@hawaiibusybee.com

8. TRIVIA: In which one of the three films made in Hawaii starring Elvis Presley does he sing "Aloha Oe" ? "Blue Hawaii"

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