Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. Any information you provide will never be distributed or sold for marketing use.
Webserver logging
When you visit this website, we automatically collect information concerning traffic patterns, your browser, operating system and IP address. More information about web server logging is below.
Cookies
Cookies are bits of information stored by your web browser that can be accessed by our computer as you visit our website. Cookies allow us to provide the ordering and shopping cart and “My Album” portions of the this website.
Your Information
If you would like to access, change or remove the information that you have provided to us, just log in to the site and click the “My Account” link. You will be required to have your user ID and password in order to access your information. If you have questions, please contact our webmaster.
Security
The security of the information that you’ve provided is very important to us. Hence, we have taken several measures to protect your information. All transactions involving sensitive information, such as your credit/debit card number, are conducted using a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connection. This connection provides increased security to the information as it is transmitted to our website. We will only use your credit/debit card number for the processing of our payment it will not be stored or retained by us. Other sensitive information that we may collect will not be disclosed to third parties unless we are required to do so by law. In the event that our security system is breached, we will attempt to notify you as soon as possible.
Changes
We will post any substantial changes in this privacy policy at least 30 days prior to the change taking effect. Any information collected under this current policy will remain bound by the terms of this privacy policy. After the changes take effect, all new information collected, if any, will be subject to the revised privacy policy.
Contacting Us
If you have questions about this policy or feel that we have acted in violation of this policy, please contact us.
Webserver Logging
In order to improve our service and to aid in site management, information about our visitors is collected for statistical purposes. We use software to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas. An example of the statistical data we keep follows. The line below is similiar to the log entries we use to generate our statistics. Each aspect of the log entry is explained below.
xxx.yyy.com – - [28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500] “GET /sitename/news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0” 200 16704 Mozilla 3.0/www.altavista.digital.com
xxx.yyy.com (or 123.123.23.12) — this is the host name (or IP address) associated with the requester (you as the visitor). In this case, (….com) the requester is coming from a commercial address. Depending on the requestor’s method of network connection, the host name (or IP address) may or may not identify a specific computer. Connections via many Internet Service Providers assign different IP addresses for each session, so the host name identifies only the ISP. The host name (or IP address) will identify a specific computer if that computer has a fixed IP address.
[28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500] — this is the date and time of the request
“GET /sitename/news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0” — this is the location of the requested file
200 — this is the status code – 200 is OK – the request was filled
16704 — this is the size of the requested file in bytes
Mozilla 3.0 — this identifies the type of browser software used to access the page, which indicates what design parameters to use in constructing the pages
www.altavista.digital.com — this indicates the last site the person visited, which indicates how people find this site Requests for other types of documents use similar information. No other user-identifying information is collected.