We take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.  To learn more about security, including the security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please read "Security Within This Web Site".

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What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This policy covers how this community treats personal information that the site collects and receives, including information related to your past use of the site. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable -- like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
   

Information Collection and Use

     General

• This site collects personal information when you register as a member, when you use the site, and when you visit some pages.
• When you register, we may ask for information such as your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests.  Once you register a member account and log in to our community, you are not anonymous to us.
• The site may collect information about your transactions within the community.
• The site automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and the pages you request.
• The site uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

• This site does not permit children to participate.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• This community does not share, sell, or rent personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've explicitly requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
  • We may provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with the community under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help the community communicate with you. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
  • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the site's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
  • We may transfer information about you if the site is acquired by or merged with another company.  In this event, the community will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Cookies

• The site may set and access cookies on your computer.
   

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

     General  

• You can edit your member account information and preferences at any time.
• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the community, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the community newsletter, that are considered part of your account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
• You can delete your account by visiting our account deletion page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Confidentiality and Security

• We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
• We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
• To learn more about security, including the security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please read "Security Within This Web Site".

Changes to this Privacy Policy

• The community may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary e-mail address specified in your  member account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

• If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us by sending an e-mail message to:
  
  
  Administrator
  
   

  Effective Date: November 11, 2005