Protecting your personal privacy is very important to us at Hartz. Below you will find a statement of our commitment to ensuring the privacy of your personally identifiable information (such as your full name, address, e-mail address, telephone number and/or other identifying information). This privacy policy statement is applicable to the Hartz.com(SM) web site (the "Site").

Gathering and Use of Information

Hartz will never willfully disclose any personally identifiable information about our visitors to any third party without first receiving the user's (or if a child, the parent's or guardian's) permission. We do not collect personally identifiable information from our visitors other than what is supplied to us on a voluntary basis. Visitors may provide personally identifiable information to Hartz during (1) subscription registration or (2) a contest or sweepstakes registration. In addition, personally identifiable information may be voluntarily provided by the user in connection with certain content submissions, community postings (i.e., chats or bulletin boards), comments and suggestions, or voting.

This Site makes available to its users chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups. Any information that you disclose in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise extreme caution when deciding to disclose such information.

Hartz may use such information for its internal purposes, including but not limited to, editorial feedback, marketing and promotional purposes. Hartz may also use this information to deliver to you information about our company and promotional material from some of our partners, and for trend analysis, pattern detection, and site administration. In addition, Hartz may collect Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses for the purposes of system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web. Hartz does not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable so your use of our Site remains anonymous.

Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings from Hartz and other entities by visiting the About Us page on the Site, clicking on FAQs, and then clicking on “Modify Profile” and following the directions.

Users may change or modify information previously provided by visiting the About Us page on the Site, clicking on FAQs, and then clicking on “Modify Profile” and following the directions.

Only persons 13 and older may provide personally identifiable information to Hartz. Persons 13 and younger may visit the Site but may not register or otherwise provide any personally identifiable information.

California Privacy Rights

Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California have the right to request from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business relationship, certain information with respect to the types of personal information the business shares with third parties for direct marketing purposes by such third party and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year. Under California law, California residents who have an established business relationship with The Hartz Mountain Corporation may choose to opt out of the disclosure of personal information about them to third parties for marketing purposes. You may make a request for the information you are entitled to receive under Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code by sending a letter to such effect to: Legal Department, The Hartz Mountain Corporation, 400 Plaza Drive, Secaucus, New Jersey 07094.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make web-surfing easier for you by saving your subscription information and personal preferences while you are at our Site. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and you will find cookies at most major web sites. Cookies also help Hartz to see which areas are popular and which are notpopular and allow Hartz to make improvements and updates to the Site based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies.

Hartz never uses cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie. Hartz does not use information transferred through cookies for any promotional or marketing purposes, nor is that information shared with any third parties whatsoever.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can change your browser settings to refuse cookies. However, in so doing, you may not be able to fully utilize the Hartz Site or may experience difficulties accessing parts of the site.

Security

Our site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Although there is no “perfect security” on the Internet, Hartz will take all reasonable steps to ensure the safety of your personal information.

Hyperlinked Sites

No hyperlinking is permitted to the Site without the express written permission of Hartz.

Your use of the Site does not give you permission to use any of Hartz' names, logos, designs, slogans, product trademark or service marks (“Hartz’s Marks”) in any manner, or to use Hartz’s Marks or any other words or codes in any "metatag" or or to use other information location tools to identify and select sites, without Hartz' express written permission for a particular use.

If you have any comments, questions or requests, please write to legal@hartz.com