Privacy Policy
1. Our Commitment to Privacy. This notice describes our Privacy
Policy. Our 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.
We are an information provider and we
recommend our visitors to merchants or
affiliates who can provide further
information, products or services. The
visitor will by their own will or decision
visit any external sites for further
information, products or services. We use
your IP address to help diagnose problems
with our server, and to administer our web
site.
This website contains links to other sites
and merchants. If you click those links, you
will be taken to a third party site. You
will be subject to the Privacy Policy of the
third party site. This website is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of such web sites.
We sometimes employ the services of AWeber
for our email list and newsletters. We agree
not to sell or rent the email addresses of
any email subscriber to any third party.
Users have options for removing their
information from our mailing list database
to not receive future communications or to
no longer receive our service. Every email
we send contains instructions on how to be
removed from our list and receive no further
communications from us.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time
to time without any prior notice. All
changes will be updated to this site.
2. What Information is Collected.
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(c) “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:
(a) to improve the content of our site;
(b) to customize the content and/or layout of site pages for each
individual visitor;
(c) used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site;
(d) shared with other reputable organizations to help them contact
consumers for marketing purposes;
(e) 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
October 15th 2008.
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