(Last Updated 22 December 2007)
Collection of Your Personal Information
At TraditionalPhotographer.NET, we ask you to provide personal information, such
as your e-mail address and name, whenever you register for the site. We may also
collect demographic information, such as your age, gender, preferences, interests
and favorites. If you choose to subscribe to TraditionalPhotographer.NET, we will
ask for additional information, such as your billing address and telephone number.
Our payment services are handled by PayPal.
In order to access some of our services we will ask you to sign in using your login
name and password, or email address. Your password is stored in our internal database
in an encrypted form. If you forget your password, you will need to request it be
reset, as we can not unencrypt your password.
We may collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links
you click and other actions taken in connection with TraditionalPhotographer.NET.
We also deliver advertisements and provide website analytics tools on non-TraditionalPhotographer.NET
sites and services, and we may collect information about page views on these third
party sites as well.
Use of Your Personal Information
TraditionalPhotographer.NET collects and uses your personal information to operate
and improve the website and deliver the services or carry out the transactions you
have requested. These uses may include providing you with more effective customer
service; making the sites or services easier to use by eliminating the need for
you to repeatedly enter the same information; and displaying content and advertising
that are customized to your interests and preferences.
We may use some of the information we collect in order to personalize the ads we
show you. However, we designed our systems to select ads based only on data that
does not personally and directly identify you.
When we display personalized ads, we take a number of steps designed to protect
your privacy. For example, we store page views, clicks and search terms used for
ad personalization separately from your contact information or other data that directly
identifies you (such as your name, e-mail address, etc.). Further, we have built
in technological and process safeguards designed to prevent the unauthorized correlation
of this data.
We also use your personal information to communicate with you. We may send certain
mandatory service communications such as welcome emails, billing reminders, information
on technical service issues, and security announcements. If you opt into our newsletter
service, we may use your personal information to send these to you.
Personal information collected on TraditionalPhotographer.NET will be stored and
processed in the United States, and by using TraditionalPhotographer.NET, you consent
to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
Sharing of Your Personal Information
We will not disclose your personal information outside of TraditionalPhotographer.NET
without your consent. However, we may access and/or disclose your personal information
if we believe such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law or legal process
served on TraditionalPhotographer.NET; (b) protect and defend the rights or property
of TraditionalPhotographer.NET; or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of users of TraditionalPhotographer.NET or members of the public.
Use of Cookies
TraditionalPhotographer.NET uses cookies — small text files stored on your computer
by your browser. Cookies are used on the TraditionalPhotographer.NET web site so
that its servers can registered visitors and provide a more customized user experience.
Accepting the cookies used on our site does not give us access to any personal information
you have not previously provided to us.
Anonymous Information
We collect anonymous data when you visit most pages on the TraditionalPhotographer.NET.
Your visit may automatically provide us with data that is not linked to your personal
information, such as your IP (Internet Protocol) address, browser type, operating
system, domain name, access times, and referring web site addresses.
Children and Privacy
TraditionalPhotographer.NET does not market to children, and we do not knowingly
collect information from children under the age of 13. The TraditionalPhotographer.NET
web site is designed for photographers over the age of 16. We do not accept membership
from anyone under the age of 16.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time TraditionalPhotographer.NET may request information from users
via surveys, contests or for a particular service (e.g. newsletter). Participation
in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has
a choice whether or not to disclose this information.
Advertisements Displayed by Third Parties
All of the online advertisements you see on TraditionalPhotographer.NET Web pages
are displayed by TraditionalPhotographer.NET, or by third-parties such as Amazon.com
and Google.com.
Third Party companies often place a persistent cookie on your computer in order
to recognize your computer each time they display an online advertisement to you.
Because these companies may serve advertisements on many different websites, they
may be able to compile information over time about where you, or others who are
using your computer, saw and/or clicked on the advertisements they display. These
companies may use this information to make predictions about your characteristics
or preferences and to display targeted advertisements that they believe may be of
interest to you. They may also associate this information with your subsequent visit,
purchase or other activity on participating advertisers’ websites in order to determine
the effectiveness of the advertisements.
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