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
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.
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.
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