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privacy policyEffective Date May 8, 2007
At flaame.org, we recognize the importance of privacy to the visitors of our Web site. This privacy policy explains what type of information is collected from you when you visit flaame.org and how that information may be used.
Gathering of Information
flaame collects personally-identifying information (such as your name, e-mail address, address, telephone number and/or credit card information) from the flaame Web site only if you choose to provide that information to us.
flaame may ask visitors to provide certain personal information when they e-mail a page of the flaame Web site to another person or when they make a purchase from the flaame Shop. flaame also may ask visitors to provide personal information in other limited circumstances specified at the time the information is gathered. Testimonials sent to flaame may become public, and will be edited to reduce, or eliminate personal information, per the writer’s preference.
Like all other Web servers, flaame's Web server automatically creates log files for each visitor who accesses our site. These "access logs" allow us to make our site more useful to our visitors. The access logs do NOT record a visitor's name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, or any other personally-identifying information. Rather, they contain some or all of the following information:
- The Internet Protocol (IP) Address of the machine which accessed our Web site.
- The date of the visit.
- The time of the visit.
- The path taken through our Web site.
- The browser being used.
- A list of files downloaded or viewed.
- The amount of time spent listening to RealAudio or Windows Media files.
- Any errors encountered.
Cookies
flaame may elect to use 'cookies' to collect information. A cookie is a string of characters that can be written to a file on the user's hard drive when the user visits a Web site. Only the Web site that set the cookie can read it, and it can only be used as a record keeping device to store information that the site already has. It cannot, for example, be used to read other information from the user's hard drive.
Should flaame employ the use of cookies, they will be used to track user activity through the site in order to improve the site's architecture, to offer the user interactive features that would not be possible without them, and to recall specific information to save the user time during subsequent visits to the site. Site sponsors and partners, may also use their own cookies. If you wish to prevent certain or all cookies from being set to your hard drive you may disable them in your browser's preferences, although your browser might then be unable to accommodate certain functionalities on flaame.org.
Use of Information
The use of personally-identifying information is limited to the following: responding to user e-mails; listing name and location (city, state and/or country) information provided by users when publishing user e-mails or other submissions; fulfillment of information requests; fulfillment of flaame Shop orders; contest management; editorial purposes such as contacting users for an online survey; sending communications, including marketing and promotional communications, from flaame or select flaame Partners to users who have 'opted in' to the receipt of such communications; other internal flaame or select flaame Partner purposes; and other purposes specified at the time the information is gathered.
In addition, if you send an e-mail, testimonial, essay and/or other submission ("Submission") to flaame through our Web site, we may print that Submission, or an excerpt from it, on the flaame Web site or otherwise publish it in any other medium, together with your name and location (city, state and/or country) if you provide that information to us.
Personally-identifying information collected by flaame is not provided to outside parties except select flaame Partners (contact flaame for a list of select Partners), flaame service vendors (such as the flaame Shop fulfillment service, and flaame's email list manager), and other third parties when the user specifically consents to such distribution. In these circumstances, the information is provided for the sole purpose of -- and only to the extent necessary for -- delivering the requested information or goods to the user, delivering communications from flaame or flaame select Partners to users who have 'opted in' to the receipt of these communications, or serving other internal flaame or flaame select Partner purposes.
flaame also may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law or with legal process, (b) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the flaame Web site, or (c) protect the personal safety or property of flaame Web site users, the public or flaame and its employees and volunteers.
If you do not want your personally-identifying information to be collected or used for any of these purposes, you can simply 'opt out' according to the process described below.
flaame uses non-identifying aggregate information to analyze use of and better design the flaame Web site and to share with third parties in aggregate form only as appropriate. For example, we may tell a third party that a certain number of users accessed a particular Web page. However, we will not disclose any information that could be used to identify those users.
Security
flaame has in place what we believe to be appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Credit card information provided to the flaame Shop is protected against unauthorized use by 128-bit encryption and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security features, which scramble your personal information so that only your web browser and our Web site's server can decipher it.
Children
Under 13: You must be at least 13 years old in order to register for the Discussions, order flaame publications, or place an order on the flaame Shop. If you are under 13 years of age, please do not send any information about yourself, including your name, address or e-mail address. If we discover that we have collected any personally-identifying information from a child under the age of 13, we will remove that information from our database as soon as possible.
13-18: Unless otherwise specified, you must be at least 18 years old in order to participate in any online contests. Visitors between the ages of 13 and 18 must obtain permission from their parents or guardians before registering for the Discussions, ordering flaame items, placing an order on the flaame Shop, or otherwise sending any personally-identifying information.
Corrections to Personal Data; Opting Out
Please contact us to a) correct or update any personal information in the flaame database that you state is erroneous or b) opt-out of future communications from flaame. The user understands that it may be impossible to delete personal information entirely because of backups and records of deletions.
Acceptance of Privacy Policy Terms
flaame reserves the right to change this policy. Any changes to this policy will be posted to this page as soon as reasonably possible, so please check this page periodically. Use of the flaame Web site constitutes consent to any policy then in effect. Please make sure that you read flaame's Terms of Use to understand additional terms and conditions which apply to the use of our Web site.
If you have any questions or comments concerning our privacy policy, please contact us via e-mail or send a letter to:
flaame
33 River Street
River level
Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022
Links to other Sites
It is important to note that the flaame Web site contains links to other sites that may not follow the same privacy policies as the flaame Web site. For instance, clicking on a Partner link on flaame.org will take you to an entirely different site. These sites may use cookies, collect data, and use the data in ways that flaame.org would not. flaame is not responsible for the privacy practices or any information or materials on these other sites. Please visit these sites if you wish to review their privacy policies.
E-mail: webmaster@flaame.org