This privacy policy explains how our company collects information, stores that information, and then distributes that information. Our company collects information in many ways, both online and offline. Our company generally uses this information to provide customized services for our visitors to our web site, as well as our customers who buy our products and services. Generally our company treats such information as proprietary and does not share such information with third parties. The exceptions are when we have previously obtained your permission to share your information with a third party, or when such disclosure is required by law.
Visitor information gets collected on our web sites to help us improve the effectiveness of our web sites, and does not personally identify such visitors. The information collected includes the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the visitor's Internet connection, the browser type (useragent) used, their computer screen size, operating system and pages visited. We also collect click information on our pages so we know how effective our page designs are, but such information is only collected in the aggregate (as statistical totals) and is completely anonymous. We also track which pages our visitors display in their web browser, and how long they stay on those pages, so that we can determine the effectiveness of our site's pages. It should be noted that if you violate the security of our web site or breach any of our Terms Of Service, that this information can be turned over to Law Enforcement Officials, who can use this information in combination with information provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to personally identify you.
We collect personally identifying information about our subscribers whenever they sign up to one of our newsletters or announcement lists. This information includes, but may not be limited to, the subscriber name and email address. This information is considered proprietary information, and is never shared with any third party without our subscriber's consent or as required by law. Subscribers may opt out of receiving our newsletters or announcements at any time by using the "unsubscribe link" at the bottom of every newsletter or announcement message our company sends. It is the policy of our company to fully comply with the CAN-SPAM act in all the messages sent to our subscribers by our company.
We collect personally identifying information about our customers whenever our customers purchase a product or service from us. This information includes, but may not be limited to, the customer name, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses. It is the policy of our company to never store a customer's payment information on our web site's databases. Payment information includes credit cards, debit cards or other methods of payment data. All payments for our products and services are handled by trusted third-party Payment Processors for our company who do not reveal such payment information to our company. The only information our company utilizes from our Payment Processors is the payment status. If the product or service being offered on our site is provided by a third party where our company is acting as a joint venture partner, affiliate or reseller etc., then our company policy is to provide only the minimum amount of information to our third party partners so our customer's order can be fulfilled. If a customer purchase is for a gift to someone else, then that customer may reveal personal identifying information about a third party. Our company has no control over what third party information is provided by our customers, and you should exercise care when doing so.
Our company collects aggregate information for the purposes of making our web site pages more effective and promote our products and services, where the information is in the form of statistical sums, averages or counts. No personal identifying information is revealed.
From time to time, our company may at it's discretion post surveys on our web sites. The information gathered may include, but not be limited to, a person's name and email address. This information is considered proprietary and will not be shared with any third party unless our company is directed to by law. The results of surveys will only by revealed in an aggregate way in terms of statistical sums, averages or counts. No personally identifying information will be revealed, without the survey taker's permission or as directed by law. People not associated with our company may send our company testimonials or feedback about our web site content, products or services. Our company policy is to keep such communications private, unless we have the person's permission to use their testimonials or feedback for commercial or promotional purposes.
Our company uses cookies to track sessions when a person has logged into one of our membership areas, to manage our telecommunications network and to collect, store and sometimes track visitor usage while accessing pages on our site. Cookies are little data files that can be placed on a visitor's computer hard drive when they visit web sites. These cookies do not allow any third parties to access any of your personal information. Note that our company sites where you must log in to access your membership services, will require you to enable or accept cookies in your web browser. If you click on an advertisement on one of our site's pages, or click on a hyperlink that causes your browser to load a new web site, then these external sites may use cookies as well. Our company has no control over what cookies either our advertising partners or other external web sites may place upon your computer.
Our company has a strong commitment to protecting children's privacy. It is our company's policy to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Our company restricts access to our web site to people of eighteen years or older. If you are under eighteen (18) years of age, you are not permitted to access this web site for any reason. Since this site imposes age restrictions for usage, no information obtained or monitored by this web site falls within the Child Online Privacy Act (COPA).
Any information that is provided by you in comments on our company's blogs, or in our company's forums is considered public information. Please exercise caution when disclosing personally identifiable information in these mediums of information exchange.
Our company has policies and security measures in place to prevent unauthorized tampering, hacking and alteration of data and information held by our company. Even though our company tries to ensure the integrity, reliability and security of our network and systems, our company cannot guarantee that our security mechanisms will prevent hackers, viruses, trojans or other malicious software from illegally obtaining or altering such information.
If you have any questions or comments about any of our Policies or Terms Of Service, you can contact us using the contact page on this site. We welcome your feedback so that we can make this site better at serving you.
Our company expressly reserves the right to make additions, revisions and deletions to this Privacy Policy or our Terms Of Service at any time for any reason without prior or subsequent notice.