MBAUGH.NET
PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE MBAUGH.NET is strongly committed to protecting your privacy online when visiting our Site. MBAUGH.NET knows that you care how information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. MBAUGH.NET further recognizes your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information (" Personal Information ") you share with us. This Privacy Policy Notice outlines the information MBAUGH.NET will collect on the MBAUGH.NET Site and how we will use that information. By visiting http://www.mbaugh.net (the "Site"), you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy Notice. TYPES AND USES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, a home or other physical address, an e-mail address or other contact information, whether at work or at home. For each user to the MBAUGH.NET Site, our web server automatically recognizes and collects the individual's domain name and IP address, not their email address. The domain and IP address reveal nothing personal about you other than the IP address from which you have accessed our site. We use this information to examine our site traffic in aggregate, but do not collect and evaluate this information for individuals. The only Personal Information MBAUGH.NET obtains about individual users to its Site is that supplied voluntarily by users (e.g. name, company name, title, e-mail address, physical address) . In cases when MBAUGH.NET may need additional Personal Information to provide users with customized content or to inform them about new features or services, users are explicitly asked for that information. Your Personal Information is used in the following ways: · User IDs and Passwords. Provides you with access to your profile areas and to protected content. · Account Information. These tell us more about who you are, how to contact you, and your shipping and billing information. Also contains any preferences you have provided, such as language, email format and interests. · Customer Feedback and Support. Provides a mechanism for requesting information from MBAUGH.NET. Also used to tell us how we can improve our products, services and site designs. · Email Correspondence. Used to raise and respond to issues and inquiries of all types. Also used to distribute information about MBAUGH.NET, our products, and services. · Transactions. Shows which products and services you have requested. MBAUGH.NET also collects certain Personal Information with respect to its consumers in order to provide you with its services. Personal Information collected by MBAUGH.NET is kept confidential and is used for internal purposes only, including, without limitation, providing you with requested services, improving our marketing and promotional efforts, statistically analyzing Site usage, improving our content and Site offerings and to customize our Sites' content and layout. MBAUGH.NET also uses your information to create aggregate reports; however, these reports do not contain any Personal Information. We believe these uses allow us to improve the MBAUGH.NET Site and better tailor them to meet our users' needs. If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you will see additional examples of the type of information we collect. MBAUGH.NET may send your Personal Information to other companies or people when · We have your consent to share the Personal Information; · We need to share your Personal Information to provide the product or service you have requested; · We need to send the Personal Information to companies who work on behalf of MBAUGH.NET to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the Personal Information we provide beyond what is necessary to assist us.); or · We find that your actions on our Site violate the Terms and Conditions or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services. EXCEPT AS DISCLOSED IN THIS PRIVACY NOTICE, MBAUGH.NET does not sell, lend, rent or otherwise disclose any personal information to any third parties. HOWEVER, YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED WITH AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR CONTRACTORS OF MBAUGH.NET . BUSINESS TRANSFERS As we continue to develop our business, MBAUGH.NET or substantially all of its assets may be acquired. In such a transaction, customer/user information will of course be one of the transferred business assets. IP ADDRESSES An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. All computer identification on the Internet is conducted with IP addresses, which allow computers and servers to recognize and communicate with each other. MBAUGH.NET collects IP addresses in order to conduct system administration, report aggregate information and to conduct site analysis. If a user requests pages from MBAUGH.NET, the MBAUGH.NET servers enter the user's IP address into a log. To maintain user anonymity, MBAUGH.NET does not associate IP addresses with records containing Personal Information. However, MBAUGH.NET will use IP addresses to identify any users who refuse to comply with MBAUGH.NET's rules or terms of service, to identify users who threaten our service, Site, customers or others, to enforce our legal rights or when required to do so by law enforcement authorities. COOKIES. Our Site places a text file called a " cookie " in the browser files of your computer. " Cookies " are pieces of information that a web site transfers to an individual's hard disk for record keeping purposes. Our Site uses cookies during your on-line session to deliver content specific to your interests. Cookies allow us to avoid showing you the same ad or other message repeatedly and allow us to tailor our Site or to better match your interest and preferences. Our cookies enable MBAUGH.NET to relate your use of the Site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided to our Site. Most internet browsers enable you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. REGISTRATION To gain access to certain portions of our website a user may be required to provide contact information such as name e-mail address, ZIP code, sex, age or income level. This information is only collected with your permission and on a voluntary basis, The customer's contact information is used to contact the user when necessary. Users may choose (opt-in) to receive future mailings; see the choice/opt-in section below. Demographic and profile data are also collected at our Site. We use this data to tailor the user's experience at our Site, showing the user content that reflects their stated preferences. DISCLOSURE REQUIRED BY LAW. Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot insure that all of your private communications and other Personal Information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this privacy policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Further, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your Personal Information or private communications will remain private. EXTERNAL LINKS In order to provide users with greater value, MBAUGH.NET may provide links to various third-party sites. However, even if a third-party affiliation exists between MBAUGH.NET and that destination site, MBAUGH.NET exercises no authority over linked sites, each of which maintains independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. MBAUGH.NET assumes no responsibility or liability for these independent methods or actions and is not responsible for the independent policies or procedures of destination sites. Similarly, MBAUGH.NET cannot take responsibility for the privacy initiatives or the content of such sites. These destination links are provided only for your convenience, and as such, you access them at your own risk. You should read the privacy policies of each site you visit to determine what information that site may be collecting about you. However, MBAUGH.NET wishes to ensure the integrity of the MBAUGH.NET Site and its destination links, so any comments pertaining to the MBAUGH.NET Site or any sites accessed through MBAUGH.NET links are greatly appreciated. SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES Our on-line surveys and questionnaires may ask users for contact and demographic information. If you agree to participate in any surveys, you will be asked to review and accept certain additional terms and conditions relating to use of the information you furnish. These terms and conditions are in addition to the privacy practices set forth herein, including sharing such Personal Information with market research firms with which we have a business relationship. Additionally, the customer's contact information is used to contact the user when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-in/removal section below. E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS, NEWSLETTERS AND RELATED SERVICES With your permission, MBAUGH.NET may send you informational e-mails or surveys. In addition, the Site provides you with the opportunity to receive certain other communications from us or third parties. To stop receiving communications, see the Removal of Information section below. Please be aware that Internet and e-mail communications are not confidential. It is possible that information transmitted via e-mail may be read or obtained by other parties. AGGREGATE INFORMATION MBAUGH.NET may provide its partners and entities with which it has a business relationship, general traffic, site usage, and length of stay information. This sort of information is shared only on an aggregated basis and does not personally identify you. For instance, MBAUGH.NET may tell one of its advertisers that X number of men visited a certain area of the Site, but MBAUGH.NET will not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals. PUBLIC FORUMS MBAUGH.NET may provide its users with chat rooms, forums, message boards and/or news groups. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your Personal Information. SECURITY, INTRUSION AND VIRUS DETECTION The MBAUGH.NET Site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. MBAUGH.NET employs strict security measures to safeguard on-line transactions; Personal Information is stored in a secured database and always sent via an encrypted Internet channel. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY MBAUGH.NET understands the importance of protecting childrens' privacy in the interactive, on-line world. MBAUGH.NET does not intentionally target or solicit to children thirteen (13) or younger for purposes of collecting Personal Information. The MBAUGH.NET Site may link to certain web sites which may target or solicit to children thirteen (13) or younger and may collect Personal Information. Those web sites are not governed by this privacy policy, but will (or should) have their own privacy policies that more fully explain how they respect and protect the privacy of children while providing them information, goods or services. Check out the FTC's site (1) for more tips on protecting children's privacy online. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE AND NOTICES . If you choose to visit the Site, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Notice and our Terms and Conditions , including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the State of Nebraska . If you have any concern about privacy at MBAUGH.NET, please send us a thorough description to privacy@mbaugh.net, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly. This Privacy Notice and the Terms and Conditions will change also, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Site frequently to see recent changes. CHOICE / OPT-IN / REMOVAL OF INFORMATION Our Site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the user. This Site also gives users the following options for removing their information from our database in order to stop receiving communications or our service. • You can send e-mail to: privacy@mbaugh.net. CORRECT/UPDATE This Site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided: • e-mail contact: privacy@mbaugh.net INQUIRIES . Should you have other questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices of this Site, or your interaction with this Site, please send us an email at privacy@mbaugh.net AUTOMATIC INFORMATION. Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase history; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; products you viewed or searched for. AMENDMENTS AND UPDATES . Please note that we review our privacy practices from time to time, and that such practices are subject to change. MBAUGH.NET reserves the right to change this privacy notice at anytime by posting revisions on this Site. We ask that you periodically review this page to insure familiarity with the most current version of our privacy notice. However, this privacy policy is not intended to, and does not, create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party. |