Our privacy policy reflects our commitment to privacy. We want you to understand what information we gather, and how we gather and use it. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact us.

1. We value your privacy: We do not rent or sell any personally identifiable information about any of our readers, such as names, e-mail and street addresses, etc.

2. Personally Identifiable Information Obtained Only When Voluntarily Provided: Information that identifies the individuals who access this web site, such as name, e-mail and street addresses, payment information, and other such information, is obtained solely when voluntarily provided to us, such as when registering with us or sending e-mail. If an individual has registered with us, cookies (see No. 3, below) may track information related to the visitor's traffic patterns within the site so we can make informed decisions regarding improving our content and services to better serve our readers. If you provide personally identifiable information about another person, this information will be used solely to provide that person the information that you wish to be sent to them by us, and to provide such other person information concerning this site.

3. Cookies: Internet "cookies" are very small files that are placed on visitors' hard drives and may save data which a visitor may have provided or generated, such as the visitor's name, password, user name, shopping cart, preferences, the pages of a site viewed by the visitor, and the advertisements viewed or clicked by the visitor. When a visitor revisits our site, the site recognizes the visitor by the Internet cookie and customizes and facilitates the visitor's experience accordingly, such as allowing the visitor access to the protected material on this site without requiring the visitor to log-in each time protected content is accessed. If a visitor disables Internet cookies in the visitor's browser while visiting this site, the benefits to the visitor of enabling cookies may not function properly, and the visitor may not be able to access the protected areas of this site which require cookies in order to be accessed. We may provide links to credit card processing and other third-party web sites, and these sites may use cookies when you access their sites.

4. Non-Personally Identifiable Data: Web servers, such as the web server hosting this web site, collect in server logs certain non-personally identifiable aggregate data about visitors to a web site. This information is not tied to any particular identifiable visitor, and includes things such as the referring site; IP addresses, types of browsers, computers, monitors, and operating systems used; and, traffic through the site. Similarly, certain automated features of this site keep track of usage data on an aggregate basis that does not involve any personally identifiable information. For example, the script used for the search function on this site may record the terms searched for on an aggregate basis that is not tied to any particular identifiable individual.

5. Use of Information Collected: We do not rent or sell any personally identifiable information that is provided to us. Personally identifiable information that is provided to us is used in connection with providing the subscription or other service with respect to which that information was provided, to obtain payment for such subscription or other service, to provide information concerning this site, and for internal purposes. If an individual has registered with us, cookies (see No. 3, above) may track information related to the user's traffic patterns within our site so we can make informed decisions regarding improving our content and services to better serve our readers. Non-personally identifiable data (see No. 4, above) may be used, and disclosed to others, in connection setting advertising rates; marketing, advertising and promotion of this site; and for internal purposes in connection with improving our content and services to better serve our readers.

6. This is the current version of our privacy policy, effective as of Monday, August 4, 2003. We may change this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice, and reserve the right to do so. If this policy is changed, the current modified version will be posted here on this site. Your use of this Site after the posting of any amended Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of such amended Privacy Policy.