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Our Privacy Policy
ESC!Publications
Michael R. Potter
P.O. Box 115
Huntley IL 60142-0115
Domains Covered by this Privacy
Policy:
escwebs.com, escmagazine.com, escpublications.com
Introduction:
Any information gathered on this site will be kept
strictly confidential. ESC! Publications, will never sell, re-use,
rent, loan or otherwise disclose any information on you to any third
party. We will never use the information you provide in any ways to
which you have not specifically consented. We will use the utmost care
in protecting the sanctity and security of your information.
If
you do not want your personal information collected, please do not
submit it to us.
The guidelines at this site are applicable only to
this domestic web site. Information submitted solely in a business
capacity is not covered by these guidelines.
Our privacy policy applies only to our web site and
not to sites that may be linked to ours. You should refer to those
sites' own privacy policies to learn how they collect and use
information about you.
Use of Information:
ESC!
Publications, does not sell, rent, loan, trade, lease or otherwise
transfer any personal information collected on our site, including
membership forms or e-mail lists, to any third party. We will treat
any information you provide as confidential information and will not
disclose it to any third party.
Browser information collected on our
web site:
As part of the operation of this site ESC! Publications
maintains server logs regarding visits to our web site. Most companies
and web sites maintain such server logs as a function of operating web
sites. ESC! Publications analyze such logs in an effort to constantly
improve the value of materials on the site. The logs do not contain
personally identifiable information. ESC! Publications does not make any
attempt to link the traffic information on the site with the
individuals who actually visit the site. From time to time, ESC! Publications,
may break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain
name, browser type, and MIME type by reading information from the
browser string (information contained in every user's browser). Again,
we make no efforts to associate this information with individual
users.
Cookies:
A cookie is a small data file that certain web sites
write to your Web browser (your computer's hard drive) so it can later
be read back from that browser. A cookie file can contain certain
information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages
you have visited on that site.
Privacy of Our E-Mail Lists:
ESC! Publications, maintains e-mail lists, but only of
those individuals or organizations that have specifically opted to
receive updates and other information from ESC! Publications. These
lists include clients, members of the media and interested members of
the general public who have specifically requested to be kept informed
about breaking events.
Individuals must affirmatively request to be placed on
our lists. Any personal information provided by such individuals will
be used only to send the users such information.
We do not sell, rent, loan, trade or lease the
addresses on our lists to anyone. In addition, we configure our list
server software to refuse to divulge the e-mail addresses of our list
subscribers to anyone but authorized staff, including other list
subscribers.
If you send us e-mail with a question or comment, we
will use your e-mail address only to respond to you. We will store
your e-mail, e-mail address and a copy of our response for archival
purposes only. We will archive such information only for the length of
time necessary to fulfill these archival purposes.
PGP-Encrypted E-mail is Encouraged:
We encourage the use of encryption to communicate with
ESC! Publications. You can find a copy of our PGP public key here.
Correction and Update Policy:
Please send us e-mail at Changes
to ask us for any information we may have collected about you during
your visits to our site. You may also use that address to correct
and/or update information that we may have on file.
ESC! Publications, allows users to review and agree to
the Privacy Policy before submitting any personally identifiable
information. In addition, because at least one link to the Privacy
Policy appears on each page of this site, it is readily accessible to
users.
Children:
No part of this site is directed towards children. We
will never knowingly collect information from users under the age of
13.
Delete/Deactivation Policy:
If you wish to completely delete any personal
information you submitted to ESC! Publications, you may do so by
contacting us at Delete.
We will notify you of our receipt of your request. We will use
reasonable efforts to functionally delete all such information from
our database within five working days from the date of the receipt of
your request. Please note that it may be impossible to delete a user's
entry without some residual information because of backups and records
of deletions.
Length of Time Data Will Be Stored:
Unless you request that we delete any of the
information you submitted to ESC! Publications, when you registered
for any electronic updates and/or newsletters we may offer, we will
store such information for an indefinite period of time. At the
conclusion of that time, all such information will be deleted.
What Else Should You Know?
Please be careful and responsible whenever you're
online. If you post personal information online that is accessible to
the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in
return. While we strive to protect your personal information, ESC! Publications,
cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit
to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Third-party Internet sites and services accessible
through escwebs.com have separate privacy and data-collection
practices, independent of us. ESC! Publications, has no responsibility
or liability for these independent policies or actions. Please refer
to those sites' own privacy policies to learn how they collect and use
information about you.
Effective Date:
July 19, 2002
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