Privacy

Effective 01 January 2009

Our Commitment to Privacy

We recognize and respect your need for privacy and security as you visit our website. This policy explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this Privacy Policy easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable data may be requested.

When you visit our site, you do so without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information.

The Information We Collect

While we do not collect identifying information about visitors to our site, we do use standard software to collect information for the strict purpose of tracking activity on our site. This allows us to better understand how many people use our site and which pages and features are most popular. The only information we normally collect and store is the following:

• The name of your Internet service provider.
• The web site that referred you to us (if any).
• The date and time the pages were accessed.
• The page or pages you requested.

There are instances where you may elect to provide us with personal information. If you fill out one of our feedback or request forms or send us email, you are transmitting the information that appears to you in the form or the message. This will typically include information like your name, mailing address, email address, the kind of request you are making, and any other information necessary to fulfill your request.

You never transmit personally identifying information that you do not enter yourself. And this is always your option; this information cannot be collected unless you specifically elect to send it to us. This information is used internally only for the purpose of fulfilling the request or for contacting you directly and is not given or sold to any other organization.

When you submit personally identifying information via one of our feedback or application forms, that information is also encrypted, or scrambled, by your browser before it is transmitted back to our web site. This effectively prevents anyone from intercepting and reading any personal information about you. Note that this encryption does not take place if you send us email but only when you use your web browser with one of our site's forms.

How We Use Information

We use the information you provide about yourself only to gather feedback from you or to fulfill requests that you have initiated. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to answer questions that you may have asked of us. We may use your e-mail address to communicate with you; for example, we use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive and to respond to queries.

We may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and share with our advertising agencies. For example, we may tell an advertising agency that x number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that y number of men and z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to personally identify those individuals. If you choose to register or receive information from us, or to otherwise give us personal information, we may store some or all of that personal information and use it for marketing research and marketing purposes, which may include sharing it with various companies and organizations that provide marketing, research, or other services for us.

We will never sell your personal information to any other company.

Finally, we never use or share personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

In the event of a criminal investigation or a suspected illegal activity, we may be requested by law enforcement agencies to share certain personal information.

Use of “Cookies”

“Cookies” are small items of data that some websites either write to your hard drive upon your visit to their site(s) or store in the browser. These data files contain information the site can use to organize the pages you have visited on a particular website. Some of our websites may use “cookie” technology to measure site activity and tailor information to fit your personal interests. In this way, we can deliver tailor-made information suiting your personal interests upon your next visit to our site(s). Our use of “cookies” technology is, thus, to provide you with a more individualized delivery of information and an optimal viewing experience.

How To Contact Us

We hope you find our website useful and informative and are always willing to answer questions and receive suggestions. If you have comments, suggestions, or questions, please email the webmaster. Thank you.

Note: We reserve the right to change our privacy policy. A revised policy statement will only apply to data collected subsequent to its effective date. Any revisions will be posted at least 30 days prior to its effective date.