This site is owned and
operated by Gruenfelder Design. Your privacy on the Internet is
of the utmost importance to us. At Gruenfelder Design, we want
to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain
types of information about our users, we feel you should fully
understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding
the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement
discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
Information Gruenfelder
Design Gathers and Tracks
Gruenfelder Design gathers two
types of information about users:
- Information that users
provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are
voluntary submissions you provide when inquiring about
services provided by Gruenfelder Design.
- Information Gruenfelder
Design gathers through aggregated tracking information
derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites.
This information allows us to better tailor our content to
readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors
better understand the demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances does Gruenfelder Design
divulge any information about an individual user to a third
party.
Children
Consistent with the Federal
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we
will never knowingly request personally identifiable information
from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental
consent.
Usage tracking
Gruenfelder Design tracks user
traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not
correlate this information with data about individual users.
Gruenfelder Design does break down overall usage statistics
according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type
by reading this information from the browser string (information
contained in every user's browser).
Gruenfelder Design uses tracking information to determine which
areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to
those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but
rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us
continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file
called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The
cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it
will enable us to relate your use of this site to information
that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only
personal information a cookie can contain is information you
supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or
read cookie files created by other sites. Gruenfelder Design
uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described
above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to
better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by
turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to
warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning
message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned
on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate
actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
Use of Information
Gruenfelder Design uses any
information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their
experience in our network, whether to provide
interactive or personalized elements on the site or to better
prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use
information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out
electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in
polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out
newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on
the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when
we think subscribers might be particularly interested in
something we are doing. Gruenfelder Design never shares
newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including
advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking
information to determine which areas of our sites users like and
don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what
individual users read, but rather how well each page performs
overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for
you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of
many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track
which terms a particular user enters.
Gruenfelder Design creates
aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for
partners. We will not disclose any information about any
individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid
legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or
the public.
Sharing of The Information
Gruenfelder Design uses the
above-described information to tailor our content to suit your
needs and help us better understand our audience's
demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We
will not share information about individual users with any third
party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal
process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the
public.
Security
Gruenfelder Design operates
secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and
password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies
are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only
authorized individuals have access to the information provided
by our customers.
Your Consent
By using this site, you
consent to the collection and use of this information by
Gruenfelder Design. If we decide to change our privacy policy,
we will post those changes on this page so that you are always
aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under
what circumstances we disclose it.
