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.
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 January
2008.
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