Privacy Policy
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.