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PRIVACY POLICY
Our
Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was
developed as an extension of
our commitment to combine
quality products and
services with integrity in
dealing with our users. 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
use 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 gain use of the
site (become a “user”), we
require you to disclose the
following information:
Name
Address
Email address
If you choose to
post information on our site
or maintain email, snail
mail or telephone contact
with us, we may retain such
information also.
Passive
Information Collected
Our site utilizes a standard
technology called “cookies”
to collect information about
how our site is used.
Passive Information gathered
may include the date and
time of visits, the site
pages viewed, time spent at
our site, the sites visited
just before and just after
our site. Passive
Information is collected on
an aggregate basis without
any association to your
personal information so that
you remain anonymous.
If you do not wish to
transmit “cookie”
information about yourself,
you may turn off the cookie
function in your web
browser; please consult the
“Help” section of your
browser to correctly do so.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are a
feature of web browser
(Internet Explorer, Netscape
Navigator, etc.) software
that allows web servers to
recognize the computer used
to access a site. They are
small pieces of data that
are stored by a user’s web
browser on one site to
simplify subsequent
interactions with that site
by the same user or to use
the information to
streamline the user’s
transaction on related web
pages. This makes it easier
for a user to move from site
to site and to complete
transactions over the
Internet. Cookies should
make your online experience
easier and more
personalized.
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, providing
customer services such as
support, and making
available other products or
services we think may be of
interest to our users. We
may use the Active
Information or Passive
Information you provide to
us to contact you about
changes to our site, new
services, features or
products we offer, or other
information we think you
shall find valuable. If at
any time you do not wish to
receive such information,
please send us an email to
awalton@midwesternresearch.com
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.
Additionally, cookies help
us know information about
how many people visit our
site, when they visit and
how they use our service.
We do not connect any of
this information to your
personal information or
email address.
Your Information In
Relation to Others We Link
To
You may be able to access
other websites through our
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 may disclose anonymous
information about user
habits, characteristics and
user patterns, based on
aggregate user statistics to
advertisers on our site.
Sharing Information with
the Government or As
Otherwise Required by Law
We may be required by law or
government agency to
disclose both Active and
Passive 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. Your postings
on this site and other
communications you may have
with us via email or snail
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.
How Can You Choose Not to
Receive Information About
Products or Services By Us
or to Correct, Delete or
Access Your Information
If you desire not to receive
information about products
or services we think may be
of interest to you or if you
wish to access, delete or
correct you information,
please send us an email to
awalton@midwesternresearch.com
.
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.
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