Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us, and we have no interest in collecting your personal or financial information for any reason whatsoever, nefarious or otherwise. However, this is an e-commerce website, and information is collected. So we want to be as up front with you as possible as to what information is actually collected and stored here on www.planetbonehead.com, and what is done with it.
Website Visitors
Like most websites, Planet Bonehead 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.
Planet Bonehead also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users. This information is never shared with anyone, and is used solely for the purpose of tracking which content is most popular on this website. That way, we can focus our efforts on making more of what people actually like.
E-commerce
If you make a purchase at Planet Bonehead, you will be asked to provide additional personally-identifying information required to process the transactions. This includes your name, billing address, and email address. You may optionally provide the organization you work for, and your phone number if you like.
However, no personal financial information is stored or shared with, or otherwise made available to Planet Bonehead. Your product choices are made within this website, but all financial transactions are conducted securely with Stripe. Companies like Stripe, known as “payment gateways” give all your sensitive information directly to the payment processor.
In other words, we know your name and address, but your credit card number and security code are never stored on this website. We don’t want to know that.
What Will We Do With Your Personally-Identifiable Information?
Collecting your email address allows us to send you periodic emails. In some cases, these will be system-generated emails to share information with you about your purchases and account. For example, these may include emails with information to help you reset your password, or send you an invoice for a recent purchase.
We may also send you occasional marketing emails to let you know of new units that are available, or ask for input on topics to cover in the future. These emails are voluntary on your part, and you may opt out of the list at any time. We also would not send these out more than once or twice in a month.
We don’t need your phone number so feel free to leave that blank during checkout. We’re busy people, and we don’t like the phone anyway. So don’t hold your breath waiting for a phone call from us.
Your physical address is only used to help us see where our units are being used geographically, or to ship your merchandise to you when we start selling things like t-shirts or notebooks.
Security
If you look in the address bar of your web browser while on Planet Bonehead, you will see the lock icon and the “https” prefix. That means this site is using the secure protocol. This is standard security procedure, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
In other words, we have https security set up, but we’re not a team of techs making sure Russian spies aren’t seeing that you’re watching a cartoon about recycling. We don’t know why they’d want to do that, but who knows any more?
Links To External Sites
Some pages on Planet Bonehead may have links to other websites. Let’s agree that when you click a link to another website, you understand that you are taken to another website, and we have no control over their privacy policy. We’re important people here, but we don’t control every website on Earth. Yet.
Retargeting Ads
Have you ever visited a website, then seen ads for that company on Facebook, or other places around the Internet? That’s called retargeting. When you visited the original website, you activated a Facebook tracking pixel, or a cookie, so that the website owner could show you ads when you visited Facebook.
Well guess what? Planet Bonehead may use the retargeting services to advertise on third party websites (including Facebook) to previous visitors to this site. This is simply a way for us to remain connected to visitors who may check out the site, or even join, but then forget about it. People are busy, and we forget to go back to a site sometimes. Retargeting ads are a little reminder to “stay in touch”, that’s all.
You can set preferences for how Facebook advertises to you using the Facebook privacy settings, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
This next paragraph is legalese:
Planet Bonehead 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 Planet Bonehead's behalf or to provide services available at Planet Bonehead's website, 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 Planet Bonehead's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Planet Bonehead 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, Planet Bonehead discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Planet Bonehead believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Planet Bonehead, third parties or the public at large.
In other words, when you share your name and address in checkout, that information is shared with Stripe or PayPal to complete the transaction. But I’m not selling or sharing your information with telemarketers or used car salesmen (no offense if you’re a used car salesperson).
Affiliate Disclosure
This site may use affiliate links to earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay. That’s true universally. When someone shares an affiliate link with you for a product or service, you still pay the same price. The seller shares some of the profit with the affiliate in exchange for sharing the link to their product. It’s a win-win situation for the seller and affiliate, and makes no difference to you, the buyer.
Cookies
Planet Bonehead uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, and store your preferences on your computer.
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. Planet Bonehead uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of planetbonehead.com, and their website access preferences. Planet Bonehead visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Planet Bonehead's websites.
Again, there is nothing sinister here. Let’s say you add a product to the shopping cart, but have to leave the site before buying it. When you return to the website later, you find that the items you wanted to buy are still waiting for you in your shopping cart. Cookies are what made that possible. If you had cookies disabled, then your cart would have been empty when you returned.
Cookies also allow your browser to remember your username and password whenever you visit the website so you don’t have to type them in every time.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Planet Bonehead's use of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
From time to time, we may update these privacy policies. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
