Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

Welcome to Hotpuppy.com. This site is privately owned by Hotpuppy Inc., a Texas corporation. In order to use this stie you must agree to these terms of use. If you do not agree to our terms of use you should close your browser window.

1. Authorized Usage: You are authorized to use this site for conducting business transactions with Hotpuppy Inc. You may use this site and it's software to place orders with Hotpuppy Inc. You may also review previous orders, view our product catalog for the purpose of making a purchase, and in order to contact us. All other purposes are unauthorized and prohibited under U.S. Federal Law and applicable Texas Law.
2. Nexus: Nexus is the legal definition of where a business transaction occurs. Nexus for Hotpuppy Inc. is Houston, Harris County, Texas.
3. Copyright: Hotpuppy Inc. reserves all rights, trademarks, and copyright. Reproduction of any form including print, electronic, or broadcast is explicitly forbidden without written permission.
4. Copyright Notices: If you believe that Hotpuppy Inc. has infringed on your copyright, trademark, or other protected property you must immediately notify us of such violation. Notice can be mailed to Hotpuppy Inc, Attn: DMCA, 1333 Laird St, Houston, Tx 77008. You may also fax us at 713-861-6261. Notices must contain the page alleged to contain the violation, the name, address, fax and phone number of the property owner, action requested, and date violation was observed. We take all such notices very seriously and the information requested is necessary to redress any such issue.
5. Submissions: You agree that any submission becomes the property of Hotpuppy Inc . This includes emails, letters, faxes, and photographs. You agree that Hotpuppy Inc. will incur no obligation whatsoever by accepting any submission. Specifically photos and t-shirt suggestions while appreciated will not obligate Hotpuppy Inc. to any liability or acknolwedgement of credit.
6. User Photos: In keeping with item 5 covering submissions if you send us a photo of you in one of our T-shirts you explicitly agree that we have all right and title to said photo. You understand that we may, at our option, publish or not publish any photo in any media we choose including print, broadcast, and electronic.
7. Tax: All transactions billed or shipped to Texas are taxable unless a valid resale or use certificate is received and accepted by Hotpuppy Inc.
8. Accuracy: While every effort is made to ensure that our information is accurate, no warranty or guarantee of accuracy is made. In the event that a system error occurs we reserve the right to cancel the transaction.
9. Law Enforcement: Nothing on our site is intended to violate any statute or law. If you believe something to be in violation we request that you contact us so that we may correct such violation. No pornography should be on our systems. In the event that you are conducting an investigation we ask that you contact us prior to using our system. Your access is unauthorized unless we grant you access to our systems. We run sophisticated anti-hacking and monitoring software and may disable your access if we mistakenly identify you as a hacker.
10. Fraud, Theft, and Slime: Notice is hereby provided that we will prosecute fraud, theft, or attempts thereof, including harassment of our users and systems to the fullest extent applicable by Law. We run sophisticated monitoring systems that capture the necessary information to result in a conviction. We work closely with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Cyber Crimes division to stamp out online theft and fraud.

1. We value our clients privacy and we believe that information you give to us should not be shared.
2. We will not release, share, or sell your information to any 3rd party.
3. We may refer to data about your transaction or you as an individual when working with affiliated companies. However, we will not release your name, contact information (phone/email/address) or any other personally identifyable info. When we do refer to such data it will be for the purpose of helping retailers determine which items are popular in an area. For example: If Nifty-mart wants to carry Hotpuppy we might help them determine what types of shirts were sold in their city. We would not however tell them who sold the shirts.
4. The only case in which we will release your information is when we are served with a court order to do so.
5. We take active steps to restrict information to employees who have a need to access such information.
6. Employees are well trained in handling customer information and we actively engage employees in privacy and security training.
7. Our computer systems are audited on a regular basis by an outside unaffiliated firm to ensure that they remain secure.
8. Our computer systems are hosted in secured, controlled-access locations with access limited to persons whose job requires physical access to the systems.
9. We employ industry certified professsional information technology specialists who work to improve our systems and ensure that they remain secure.