PRIVACY
POLICY - OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This
site is owned and operated by Speight
Marshal & Francis. Your
privacy on the Internet is of the
utmost importance to us. At Speight
Marshal & Francis, 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 our policy and 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.
INFORMATION
Speight Marshal & Francis GATHERS
AND TRACKS
Speight
Marshal & Francis 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 Speight Marshal
& Francis 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. Because
Speight Marshal & Francis
derives its revenue mainly from advertising,
providing such aggregated demographic
data is essential to keeping our website
user friendly and applicable to our
markets. Under no circumstances does
Speight Marshal & Francis
divulge any information about an individual
user to a third party.
Speight Marshal & Francis
Gathers User Information In The Following
Processes:
Optional
Voluntary Information
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
Speight Marshal & Francis
tracks user traffic patterns throughout
all of our sites. However, we do not
correlate this information with data
about individual users. Speight
Marshal & Francis 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).
Cookies
We
may place a text file called a "cookie"
in the browser files of your computer.
The cookie itself does not contain
Personal Information although it will
enable us to relate your use of this
site to information that you have
specifically and knowingly provided.
But the only personal information
a cookie can contain is information
you supply yourself. A cookie can't
read data off your hard disk or read
cookie files created by other sites.
Speight Marshal & Francis
uses cookies to track user traffic
patterns (as described above). Our
advertising system delivers a one-time
cookie to better track ad impressions
and click rates.
You
can refuse cookies by turning them
off in your browser. If you've set
your browser to warn you before accepting
cookies, you will receive the warning
message with each cookie. You do not
need to have cookies turned on to
use this site. However, you do need
cookies to participate actively in
message boards, forums, polling and
surveys.
Privacy
Policy Use
USE
OF INFORMATION
Speight
Marshal & Francis 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.
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
Speight
Marshal & Francis uses
the above-described information to
tailor our content to suit your needs
and help us 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
Speight
Marshal & Francis 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.
AGREEMENT
By
using this site, you consent to the
collection and use of this information
by
Speight Marshal & Francis.
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.