Privacy Statement
We are committed to protecting and maintaining your privacy to the best of our ability. Our goal is to provide the greatest user experience and customer service possible while keeping your information private. As a practical matter, we could not operate nor provide the level of quality our users expect without logging certain data and in some cases providing that data to others. For your understanding and protection, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy that is incorporated into and subject to our Terms of Use.
We reserve the right, in its sole discretion, to change this policy at any time. You should check back from time to time as you continue to use our website to be current on any Privacy Policy changes. By using our website, you agree in advance to accept any such changes. In this statement the terms us, our, this, the company, our organization, or referring site shall refer to the website that referred you to this privacy policy. To find who this is you should click on the back button and find the contact information of the referring site.
Aggregate Data
In the normal course of operating our website, our servers automatically gather certain non-personal information and business data pertaining to the use of the site ("Aggregate Data"). For example, we may collect the number and frequency of visitors, hits on specific pages, advertisements and promotions, access by users of partner and other web sites, revenue collection and subscriptions. We use such collective data in the aggregate to help us understand what aspects of the site are most popular so we can improve our services and features. We also may provide Aggregate Data to our partners, advertisers, members or others so they too can understand how people use our site.
Cookies
As do many websites, we may use cookies to tell us how and when pages on our site are visited. Our Website may use "cookies" to enable you to sign in to our web services and to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
The information collected by cookies is non-personally identifiable and is used generally to make the users experience more friendly and convenient. If you do not wish us to collect this non-personally identifiable information, you can "opt-out" by setting up your browser to refuse cookies.
It is possible for advertisers and others that serve ads on our website or otherwise add content to the site to use their own cookies. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or other third parties on our website because we do not have access to the information collected by third party cookies.
Use of Web Beacons
Our Web pages may contain electronic images that allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. We may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or Newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
Use of your Personal Information
We collect and use your personal information to operate our website and deliver the services you have requested. These services may include the display of customized content and advertising based upon the information we have collected. In order to provide services in conjunction with other products or services, personal information collected on our Website may in rare cases be accessed and used by other services as necessary to provide such services. Any use of such information within our Website will remain subject to the limitations of this privacy statement. We also use your personal information to communicate with you and to better supply you services. We may send certain mandatory service communications such as welcome letters, billing reminders, information on technical service issues, and security announcements. We may also occasionally send you product surveys. If we do this we may use this information to send you only information you are interested in. We do this so you are not contacted unnessasarily for things you have no interest in.
We do not sell, rent or lease our customer lists to third parties. We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Personal Data
Whether you are registering as a member, ordering a product or taking part in various activities on our site you may provide personal information ("Personal Data"), including your email address, your credit card number and billing address. In general, we do not share your Personal Data with anyone outside our organization, except:
When you have given express permission for us to do so. Such as when you elect to fill in information requested by us or another party that is specifically intended to be provided to a third party (e.g., an on-line product offering that is sent to the shipper of a book, CD-ROM, or other product.)
For legitimate business purposes, including when a third party is acting as our agent to provide customer service, focus group testing and technical services. In such cases, these third parties are bound by this Privacy Policy and may not reuse your Personal Data.
When necessary to enforce our Code of Conduct or when we are required by applicable law, regulation, subpoena, warrant or other legal process to disclose such information to law enforcement authorities or anyone else.