We will protect your privacy

We believe in full transparency when it comes to your personal information. We collect your data through various sources—contact or signup forms, for example—and we use that information to help us provide the best possible experience for you. To learn more about how we collect and use your data, along with your rights as a consumer, please read this Privacy Policy in full.

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to stjoecigarclub.com and governs data collection and usage.

1. Collection of your personal information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our site, Douglas Island Cigar Club, we may collect personally identifiable information, such as: (a) your first and last name; (b) your email address; (c) your phone number. Douglas Island Cigar Club may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age.

If you purchase a membership with Douglas Island Cigar Club, we require your billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.

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 giveaway 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. We will use your information for communicating with you in relation to information you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Important: if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Douglas Island Cigar Club’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Douglas Island Cigar Club cannot be held responsible for any personally sensitive information you choose to share publicly, including, but not limited to future social media sites, including the Douglas Island Cigar Club Facebook Page, the Douglas Island Cigar Club Facebook group, the Douglas Island Cigar Club Instagram Page, and/or the Douglas Island Cigar Club Twitter page.

2. Use of your personal information

Douglas Island Cigar Club collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the products and/or services you have requested.

Douglas Island Cigar Club may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Douglas Island Cigar Club and affiliates.

3. Sharing information with third parties

Douglas Island Cigar Club does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties of any kind, and we never will.

Douglas Island Cigar Club 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 Douglas Island Cigar Club, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Douglas Island Cigar Club 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 Douglas Island Cigar Club or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Douglas Island Cigar Club; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Douglas Island Cigar Club, or the public.

4. Tracking user behavior

Douglas Island Cigar Club may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Douglas Island Cigar Club, in order to determine which Douglas Island Cigar Club services, pages and/or posts are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Douglas Island Cigar Club to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

5. Automatically collected information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Douglas Island Cigar Club. 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 Douglas Island Cigar Club website.

6. Use of cookies

The Douglas Island Cigar Club website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Douglas Island Cigar Club pages, or register with Douglas Island Cigar Club site or services, a cookie helps Douglas Island Cigar Club to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Douglas Island Cigar Club website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Douglas Island Cigar Club features that you customized.

Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Douglas Island Cigar Club services or website.

7. Outgoing links

This website contains links to other sites. 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.

8. Security of your personal information

Douglas Island Cigar Club secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Douglas Island Cigar Club uses the SSL Protocol method following methods for this purpose.

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 and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) 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, by using this Site 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.

9. Users under the age of twenty-one

Douglas Island Cigar Club does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of twenty-one. If you are under the age of twenty-one, please do not use this website. By using this site, you acknowledge and agree that you are over the age of twenty-one.

10. Email communications

From time to time, Douglas Island Cigar Club may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, event information, alerts, confirmations, and/or other general communication.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Douglas Island Cigar Club, you may request removal directly by contact our Security Compliance Officer.

11. Changes to this statement

Douglas Island Cigar Club 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.

12. Contact Information

Douglas Island Cigar Club welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If at any time you believe that Douglas Island Cigar Club has not adhered to this Statement, please contact our Security Compliance Officer.