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Data Collected and Collection Methods
Personally identifiable information willfully submitted by you such as your email address, name, mailing address, phone number may be collected and archived in our databases.
We also track information about how our Site is used by you through cookies (log files, server logs). For example, your Internet browser automatically transmits to us information such as the URL of the website you just came from and the Internet Protocol (IP) address and the browser version your computer is currently using.
If you have actively sent us your name or other personally identifiable information to receive content, offers or products from us, we may combine such information with tracked information for the purposes set forth below.
Disclosure
We keep your personally identifiable information confidential and we generally do not disclose it. But, please note the following clarifications and exceptions:
Our employees and independent contractors have access to some of your personally identifiable information for the purpose of helping us run our business (and not for their own purposes). They access and use such data subject to our instructions, on a "need to know" basis and under confidentiality and security obligations.
If we ever sell this website, we may disclose your personally identifiable information to a (prospective) buyer on the condition that such buyer agrees to comply with this Privacy Policy.
We may also share your personally identifiable information to respond to law enforcement requests, court orders or other legal process or if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent or respond to illegal activities, fraud, physical threats to you or others or as otherwise required by any applicable law or regulation.
Data Usage
We collect information about you for site improvement purposes and to provide content that you may like or find interesting (on our Site, in newsletters, via email and otherwise).
Security
We take reasonable steps to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. But, you should keep in mind that no Internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from the Site..
Terms of Use
Note also that your use of the Sites is subject to our Terms of Service, which contain disclaimers, limitations of liability and a choice of California law.
Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective April 1, 2008. We reserve the right to amend it from time to time and if we change it, we will post a revised version on the Site.
Please check back periodically, and especially before you provide any personally identifiable information to us.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any other data, including, without limitation, data that we collect offline or data that others collect on websites that are linked to the Site. |
