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Privacy Policy
We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm and
continuing commitment to the privacy of personal information provided by those
visiting and interacting with this web site. We hold the privacy of your
personal information in the highest regard. The following discloses our
information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.
We recognizes the importance of protecting your privacy and our policy is
designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the
personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed
decisions when using our site. This policy will be continuously assessed against
new technologies, business practices and our customers' needs.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit this web site you may provide us with two types of information:
personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an
individual basis and Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as
you and others browse our Web site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration Information
If you register for any of our products, services or newsletters you will
provide us
information about yourself.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of
your email messages together with your email address and our responses.
2. Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard
technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web
server log files to collect information about how our Web site is used.
Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date
and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web
sites visited just before and just after our Web site.
In addition, third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browser,
or
using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on
this website.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.
The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address,
your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit our site
(such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which
pages you visited throughout our site. Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when
you visit our site. Their use may allow us, for example, to show you only one
popup per visit.
Advertisements
We may also use third party advertisements to support this site. Some of our
advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they
advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google
through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your
ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you
have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing
UK-based ads to someone in the UK, for example) or showing certain ads based on
specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents
cooking sites). We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you
visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not
including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your
visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about
goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about
this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by
these companies,
click here.
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which
places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site
using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements).
This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest
based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous
browsing history. DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does
NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address,
physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account
numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites
using this advertising by visiting
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our
business activities, providing the products and services you requested, to
monitor the use of the service, our marketing and promotional efforts and
improve our content and service offerings, and customize our site's content,
layout, services and for other lawful purposes. These uses improve our site and
better tailor it to meet your needs.
Furthermore, such information may be shared with others on an aggregate basis.
Personally identifiable information or business information will not be shared
with
parties except as required by law.
Occasionally, if you have opted into a newsletter we may provide, we may also
use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our
Website, new services, and special offers we think you will find valuable. You
may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing
us at the link provided on the newsletter.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique
identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computer asks your computer
for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically
designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if
your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser
only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not
the cookies sent to you by other sites. Browsers are usually set to accept
cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you may alter the
configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your
browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our site will not
function as effectively when viewed by the users. A cookie cannot retrieve any
other data from your hard drive or pass on computer viruses. You can choose to
disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your
browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet
Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as
well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or
programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising
program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit
a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you visit and browse our Web site, the site uses cookies to differentiate you
from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from having
to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our
Web server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people
visiting our Web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps
us gather feedback to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our
clients. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you
and we do not intentionally store any personal information that your browser
provided to us in your cookies.
IP Addresses
IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the
Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network
to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web
server as part of demographic and profile data known as traffic data so that
data (such as the Web pages you request) can be sent to you.
Sharing and Selling Information
We do not share, sell, lend or lease any of the information that uniquely
identify a
subscriber (such as email addresses or personal details) with anyone except to
the extent it is necessary to process transactions or provide services that you
have requested.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words,
when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection
of our legal rights. We may also disclose account information when we have
reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of
Service or to protect the safety of our users and the Public.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from
our Web site or the information or content contained therein. Often links to
other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that
may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Website to another web
site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction
on any other web site, including web sites, which have a link on our Website, is
subject to that Web site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules
and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal
information as described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to amend
this privacy policy at any time with or without notice.
Choice/Opt-In/Opt-Out
This site allows visitors to unsubscribe so that they will not receive future
messages. After unsubscribing we will discontinue sending the particular
messages as soon as technically feasible.
A Special Note About Children
Children are not eligible to use our services unsupervised and we ask that
children (under the age of 14) do not submit any personal information to us. If
you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with permission
and guidance from your parents or guardians.
Acquisition or Changes in Ownership
In the event that the web site (or a substantial portion of its assets) is
acquired,
your information would be considered part of those assets, and may be part of
those assets that are transferred.
Policy Modifications
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If/when changes are made to
this privacy policy, we may email users who have given us permission to do so.
We will post any changes here, so be sure to check back periodically. However,
please be assured that if the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not
use the personal information you have submitted to us under this Privacy Policy
in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, without
your prior consent.
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