PRIVACY POLICY
1. Our Commitment to Privacy. This Privacy Policy is designed to advise you
about how we collect, use, and protect the Personally Identifiable Information
you provide. By visiting this site, you are accepting the practices described in
this Privacy Policy.
2. What Information is Collected.
- Information You Provide to Us: We collect the Personally
Identifiable Information you choose to enter on various pages of our site,
or that you may choose to give us in some other way (such as by email,
physical mail, or by telephone). For example, you will be asked to provide
Personally Identifiable Information when you register for access to certain
portions of our site, sign up for newsletters or mailings, or make a
purchase. The categories of Personally Identifiable Information we collect
are your first and last name, e-mail address, physical address, and
telephone number. You can choose not to provide certain information, but you
may not be able to take advantage of our services and features.
- Automatic Information: When you visit a website, you
disclose certain information, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address
and the time of your visit. This site, like many other sites, records this
basic information about visits to our site.
- “Cookies”: Cookies are pieces of information that are
transferred to your computer from a web server. We use cookies to store
visitor preferences, record session information (such as items that you add
to your shopping cart) record user-specific information on what pages users
access or visit, alert visitors to new areas that we think might be of
interest to them when they return to our site, record past activity at a
site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site,
ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, and to
customize Web page content based on visitors' browser type or other
information that the visitor sends. Most browsers are set up to accept
cookies, but you can change your settings to have your browser notify you
when you receive a new cookie or you can change your settings to refuse to
accept cookies.
3. How and When the Information is Used. The information we collect is used
for administering our business activities as follows:
- to improve the content of our site;
- to customize the content and/or layout of site pages for each
individual visitor;
- used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site;
- shared with other reputable organizations to help them contact
consumers for marketing purposes;
- used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes.
4. How We Protect Your Information. The privacy and protection of your
information is important to us. We offer some of our services in connection with
other web sites. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and
we encourage you to read their privacy policies. Your access to some services
and content is password protected. We advise that you do not disclose your
password to anyone. In addition, we recommend you sign out of password-protected
services at the end of your session. You should also be aware that if you
voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on message boards or in
chat areas, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and
used by third parties without our knowledge and may result in unsolicited
messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond our
control and this policy.
5. Who Has Access to the Information. Information about our users is
important to us. Access to your information may be provided to third parties who
provide technical support for the operation of our site. In addition, we may
sell our business or buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses.
In such transactions, user information may be transferred along with other
assets. We may also disclose your information in response to a court order and
we may disclose your information when we believe we are required to do so by
law. We may disclose your information in connection with the collection of
amounts you may owe to us and to law enforcement authorities whenever we deem it
appropriate or necessary. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior
to disclosure.
6. Methods We Use to Protect Your Information. We use security software to
protect the confidentiality of your personal information. In addition, our
business practices are reviewed periodically for compliance with policies and
procedures governing the security and confidentiality of our information. Our
business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit
the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons.
7. Children. This website does not provide services or sell products to
children under the age of 18. If we discover we have received any information
from a child under the age of 18 in violation of this policy, we will delete
that information immediately. If you believe we have received any information
from or about anyone under the age of 18, please contact us at the address
listed below.
8. How You Can Access Your Information. You can request access to all your
personally identifiable information maintained by us by sending an e-mail to us
at the address listed below. Upon request we offer you the ability to have
inaccuracies corrected in your personally identifiable information. You can have
this information corrected by sending us an e-mail at the address listed below.
9. Consent. By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of
your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
10. Changes to Privacy Policy. If our Privacy Policy or procedures change, we
will immediately post those changes to our website. Any such changes will be
effective immediately upon being posted, unless otherwise stated in the change.
11. Effective Date. This Privacy Policy is effective as of 17 September 2007.
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