We are strongly committed to safeguarding members' privacy. Accordingly, at this site, we do not collect personally-identifying information from users unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly.  We operate under the following strict privacy policy:

The only information we obtain about our members is information we need for registration and to process credit card charges for upgrade member plans, products, and special events. The information collected is never revealed to third parties, sold, or made public for any reason. Personally identifiable information provided by members (name, email or home address, etc.) is never disclosed to any individual or business.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT                                                                                                

When you visit our site, your browser automatically sends us an IP (Internet Protocol) address and certain other information (including the type of browser you use).  We may use this IP address and other information to give you access to the site and otherwise administer the site. In certain parts of the site, we may ask you to provide us with your name or other information so that we can provide you with information you request, consider your application for registering with us, or take other action indicated in the part of the site where the information is requested. You are under no obligation to provide us with this information, but without it, we may not be able to take the action requested. The site also includes features that allow you and us to register or to communicate by electronic mail or otherwise.

If you choose to use these features, you will be required to provide us your e-mail address and other personally-identifying information (such as your name or street address) we may deem necessary in order to communicate with you electronically or otherwise, or review your request for membership, if applicable. When you provide any personally identifying information to us, you acknowledge that you are knowingly and voluntarily providing us the information. We may respond to the electronic mail messages you send us, take other action indicated in the part of the site where the information is requested, and use such information for any other business purpose, including sending you subsequent communications concerning this site, or our company's products, services, events and other sponsors or service providers.

You also should be aware that we collect certain usage information about our site, such as the number and frequency of visitors to certain parts of the site. This data is used only in the aggregate and does not include any personally identifying information.  We also use information in a number of anonymous or aggregated forms which do not identify individuals for the general management, marketing and improvement of our business.

COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS

Like many companies, we use "cookie" and/or "web beacon" technology on our website. Cookies may tell us whether you have visited our site before or are a new visitor and what material on our site you have viewed.  Web Beacons are tags that can monitor the behavior of a user visiting the Website or sending the e-mail.

Each time a subscriber logs into this site, we store a temporary 'cookie' in the browser files of that subscriber's computer. This cookie is used during your online session to allow you free access to the Subscribers Area, and to store basket contents, without repeatedly requiring you to re-enter your user name and password. When you log off or leave the site, the cookies file is automatically removed.

The cookies we use do not collect any personally identifying information about you orprovide us with any way to contact you, and the cookies do not extract any information from your computer.  You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from this website in order to use most functions on the site.

Information recorded through web beacons is used to report anonymous individual and/or aggregate information about our users.  Aggregate information may include demographic and usage information. No personally identifiable information about you is shared with partners or third parties from this research.  You may choose to opt-out of our using this information for this research.

EXTERNAL LINKS?

In order to provide visitors with greater value, some of our pages may provide links to various third party websites. In no case is subscriber information or 'cookies' provided to the third party sites. However, keep in mind that many sites do attempt to capture visitor information when you browse those sites. Once you leave our site, we are not able to alert you should another site attempt to gather information from your browser.

PRIVATE FORUMS & COMMUNITY

We provide our members with a multi-tiered Discussion Forum and COMMUNITY that makes sharing information with other subscribers easy. To protect your privacy when posting or replying to messages in the message board, your personal information and email is not revealed on the Discussion Forum. However, remember that any information you disclose in the message board areas can be read by all other subscribers, so exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Community information, including your profile and other pertinent personal  informatin is viewable if you agree to allow another assoicate to view your information, both personal and business.  It is your responsbility when entering this information, including your photo, web site, email, and other personal information.  So excercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.  

SECURITY

We use a variety of security measures including encryption and authentication from Thawte to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of your personal information under our control.  Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information, no system is 100% secure, especially, any which includes transmission of data over the Internet, and unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time.

CHOICE/OPT-IN?

Our site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us. You can be assured that we never reveal, sell, or make available your email address to anyone for any purpose. This site also gives users options for removing their information from our database in order to stop receiving our communications.

Events

Your attendence to events sponsored by this site are at your option to opt in.  Attendence to these events are considered voluntary on your part, either paid or free. Understanding such, opt in for such events may be part of shared joint marketing and you may or may not receive information from the joint marketing particpant.   

OTHER?

We reserve the right, at our complete discretion, to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revised terms on the site. It is your responsibility to check periodically for any changes we may make to this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site following the  changes to these terms or other policies indicates your acceptance of the changes.

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware applicable therein, without regard to conflict of laws.  You irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in the State of Delaware in connection with any action arising out of or related to these terms of use or their subject matter. You waive any objection based on lack of personal jurisdiction, place of residence, improper venue or forum non-convenience in any such action.

If any court having competent jurisdiction holds any provision of this Privacy Statement invalid or unenforceable in any respect, such provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions of this Privacy Statement shall continue in full force and effect.  No waiver of any provision of this Privacy Policy shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such provision or any other provision of this Privacy Policy.

If you have questions regarding our privacy policy, feel free to contact us.