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Website Privacy Policy

We will collect no personal identifying information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us.

 

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

  1. The internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private/corporate Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address ( an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website.
  2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
  3. The date and time you access our site;
  4. The pages you visit;
  5. If you linked to this website from another website, the address
    of that other website.

We use this information to monitor visitor traffic patterns and site usage to help develop the design and layout of this site.

 

If You Send Us Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with personal information by sending an e-mail to us, or by filling out a form with your personal/company information and submitting it through our website, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get the information you have requested. We may also use the information we collect to occasionally notify you about important functionality changes to the Web site, new services, or special offers we think you'll find valuable. If you would rather not receive this information, please notify us of such.

 

Cookies

This site uses cookies only for the following: We use Google Analytics to understand visitor traffic patterns and to understand which pages on our site are most popular. Google Analytics employs cookies to define user sessions - Google Analytics uses only first-party cookies for data analysis. This means that Google Analytics will only use that cookie data for high-level, anonymous statistical analysis related to your browsing behavior on our website. According to Google, the data collected cannot be altered or retrieved by services from other domains. If you choose, you can opt out by turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser. For more information on Google Analytics, please visit the Google Analytics web site.

 

Will we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. There is an isolated remote chance that we could choose to do so in the future with trustworthy third parties, but you can tell us not to by sending an e-mail message to remove your name (if you use more than one e-mail address, send this message from each e-mail account you use). Also, we may provide aggregate statistics about traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information. We may release information when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, or (ii) protect the rights, property or safety of our content, or others.

 

Linking to our website

Please obtain permission before linking to any pages on our website. We usually approve most linking requests, however please ask first as we like to know who is linking to us!