Commitment to Your Privacy
This site is owned and operated by LCMathews Designs.
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At LCMathews Designs,
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 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.
Definition of the Information LCMathews Designs gathers and keeps track
of.
LCMathews Designs gathers two types of information about users:
· Information that users provide through
optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our
electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to email
a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:
· Information LCMathews Designs 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.
LCMathews Designs Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary
submission of personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. LCMathews Designs gathers
the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves
from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that
points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe
to the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their
opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important
issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not
identifiable to any particular user. LCMathews Designs may use a system
to "tag" users
after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question.
This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.
3. Surveys
LCMathews Designs may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target
our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic
information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners.
We never share any of this information about specific individuals with
any 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
LCMathews Designs tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users.
LCMathews Designs 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).
USE OF INFORMATION
LCMathews Designs uses any information voluntarily given by our users to
enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive
or personalized elements on the sites 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. LCMathews Designs 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.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
LCMathews Designs uses the above-described information to tailor our
content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand
our audience's demographics. 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
LCMathews Designs 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.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
· Opting not to register to receive our
electronic newsletters.
· Opting not to participate in certain interactive
areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable
information from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information
by LCMathews Designs. 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.