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.
