Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to serving our members.
The Policy is designed to assist you in understanding
how we collect, use, and safeguard the personal information you provide to
us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and
our products and services.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our site you may provide us with two types of information:
personal information you actively choose to disclose ("Active Information");
and usage information collected, in a way not visible to you, on an aggregate
anonymous basis as you and others browse our site ("Passive Information").
No Use of Our Site by Persons Under 13
No person under 13 should disclose information on this site. You may learn
more about protecting children's privacy online by visiting
www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy.
Active Information You Choose to Provide
In order to receive updates via email, we require you to disclose the following
information:
If you supply us with your postal address on-line, you will only receive the
information for which you provided us your address.
Other Active Information would include any other information volunteered
by you, such as survey information and/or site registrations.
Passive Information Collected
For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes
and collects only the consumer’s domain name and/or IP address, (where possible), but
not the e-mail address. Passive information, such as what pages consumers
access or visit, is also collected.
How Do We Use the Information Collected?
Broadly speaking, persons we employ directly, or as contractors or agents
at our direction, use Active Information for purposes of administering our
business activities and providing customer services such as support. We
use Passive Information to gather information about our users and to enhance
and design our site to make it easier, faster, and friendlier to use. We
do not connect any Passive information to your personal information or email
address. The Passive information we collect is used for internal review
to improve the content of our Web page and is then discarded. Active information
is used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site. It is not shared
with other organizations unless authorized by this organization for the
benefit of our members and site users. If at any time you do not wish to
receive such information, please send us an email at the address shown at the bottom
of each page at this site or contact us in writing at the postal address shown there.
Your Information In Relation to Others We Link To
You are able to access other websites through this site.
When you do so you are doing so subject to their policies regarding privacy
and data collection and you should read those sites' privacy policies to
make sure you agree to them before using such sites. When you choose to
shop at such sites, you should read their privacy policies to make sure
you agree to them before making purchases.
Sharing Information with Advertisers or Other Third Parties
We do not disclose information about our users, their habits, characteristics,
or user patterns, to any other party.
Sharing Information with the Government or As Otherwise Required by
Law
We may be required by law or government agency to disclose the Active Information
you have provided to us.
How Do We Secure Active Information and Passive Information?
We secure your personal information submitted by you by using reasonable
efforts to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss
or destruction, of Active Information and Passive Information. Communications
you may have with us via email or U.S. Mail may not be secure unless we
advise you that security measures are in place prior to your sending information.
Therefore, if you choose to communicate with us through these means you
are assuming the risk of doing so and we request that you do not send or
post sensitive information through these means.
We reserve the right to revise this policy at our discretion. Please
check back on this site as this policy may be revised from time to time
without notice to you.