The following describes the Privacy Policy for our
website.
Your Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To
better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online
information practices and the choices you can make about the way your
information is collected and used. You agree to agree to these policies
by virtue of using our website in a way that leads to you providing us
with personal information.
State Law & Accompanying Rights
Please understand that you may have additional rights originating from
State laws based on where you live. These State-based rights may
augment, strengthen, or otherwise somehow compliment any privacy rights
you have inherently or under Federal law. Our policy is to comply fully
with the privacy policies of every jurisdiction in which we operate.
Accordingly, you are free to use our Contact information to reach us at
any time to assert any State rights.
Our Commitment To Children’s
Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially
important. For that reason, our website will never collect or maintain
information at our website from those we actually know are under 18, and
no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 18.
Under our Terms of Service and Conditions of Use, children under 18 are
not allowed to use our website and access our services. It is not our
intention to offer products or services to minors.
Collection of
Personal Information
When visiting our website, the IP address used
to access our website may be logged along with the dates and times of
access. This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer
our website, track users movement, and gather broad demographic
information for internal use such as statistical assessments and website
improvement. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked
to personally identifiable information.
Other information may be
collected as well, which is rather typical of most websites. For
instance, the source that referred you to our website is generally
known. Likewise, your duration on our website, and your destination when
you leave our website can also be tracked. Other common data collected
includes the type of operating system the computer you are using to
access our website has. Similarly, the type of web browser is often
noted. Again, this is common data collection, and helps ultimately
produce a better end-user experience.
Cookies are another common
internet practice. Cookies are a key means of improving user experience
by allows us to customize your use of our website. Simple information is
transferred to your computer to allow the content and experience to
reflect your actions, preferences, and so on. You should simply make the
assumption our website uses cookies, and note that you are free to make
adjustments in your web browser to disable these or otherwise receive
notification of cookies so you can take whatever desired action you so
choose. Please understand that refusing cookies may cripple some of our
website features and render some aspects useless to you.
At
times, you will be fully aware of information received, as you are the
direct source providing it. For instance, you may comment on a blog
post, reply to an email (whether broadcast message or autoresponder),
provide an email address, complete a survey, requests SMS, or otherwise.
Likewise, purchases necessarily involve collecting certain information,
such as credit card information, Paypal addresses, your physical address
for billing and/or shipping, phone number, and so on. Refusing to
provide some of this information may lead to us being unable to provide
you with the products or services you’ve requested.
A prime
example of limited access to our website is where content may be
protected by a username and password. Whether a username and password is
generated by our website, or created by you, these will almost always be
connected with some other information related to or connected with you.
This is true since much content that is protected on the internet is
subscription based, often paid for. Thus, the username and password must
necessarily be tied to your other account data. Usernames and passwords,
by their very nature, should be kept private.
Handling of
Personal Information
Note that any personal information you provide
to others apart from us or our vendors is wholly optional. As an
example, you might disclose something in a blog post comment. That
“private” information is now “public,” and we have no control over that.
In like fashion, you sharing information with any other third party not
functioning as a service provider to us puts that information beyond our
control and becomes subject to the policy that party has in place.
Our primary intention for collecting personal and private
information from you is simply to conduct our business. We can use this
internally to better serve you. Accordingly, we see no reason to share
your personal information to other parties and outside interests unless
you have authorized us to do so. Of course, there are instances where
your information is stored with third party service providers, such as
email service providers, as they provide services that are
industry-leading in quality and security and are far more beneficial to
our end user than attempting such services “in-house.” However, you are
never required to deal with any such third party directly, they are
limited in how they use your information, and they cannot sell or
transfer it to others in any way.
However, of course, your
information does comprise part of an overall whole. This aggregate of
information, by contrast, may be used to understand our overall user
base. Further, we may share this information about our website visitors
as a whole, not individually, with third parties for various purposes,
in our sole discretion.
While we are staunch privacy advocates,
there are times when even we may be forced to abandon these ideals. Just
as major search engines face ongoing compulsion to provide data against
their will, so too may the same occur with our website. Illegal activity
or other serious acts or allegations could create legal liability for
our website. In those cases, we reserve the right to share your
information, or else may simply be compelled to do so by law. On the
other hand, there may be times when we would need to share your private
information in order to protect our own interests. For instance, in
cases of suspected or alleged copyright infringement or other
intellectual property violations, it may be necessary to share personal
information.
Google Adsense and the DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, may use cookies to serve
ads on this website. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to
serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this
website, including past visits, as well as other websites on the
internet.
To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google
ad and content network privacy policy at the following url
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through the
DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.
Other Third Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to
track users activities on this website to measure advertisement
effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own
privacy policies, our website has no access or control over these
cookies that may be used by third party advertisers. However, you can
opt out of some, though likely not all, of these cookies in one easy
location at http://ww.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
Links to Third Party Websites
We have included links on this
website for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the
privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy
policies of these websites may differ from our own.
CHANGE
NOTICE: As with any of our administrative and legal notice pages, the
contents of this page can and will change over time. Accordingly, this
page could read differently as of your very next visit. These changes
are necessitated, and carried out, in order to protect you and our
website. If this page is important to you, you should check back
frequently as no other notice of changed content will be provided either
before or after the change takes effect.
COPYRIGHT WARNING: The
legal notices and administrative pages on this website, including this
one, have been diligently drafted by an attorney. We have paid to
license the use of these legal notices and administrative pages for your
protection and ours. This material may not be used in any way for any
reason and unauthorized use is policed via Copyscape to detect
violators.
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS: If you have any questions
about the contents of this page, or simply wish to reach us for any
other reason, you may do so by using our Contact information.
