Privacy and Security Statement
Thank you for visiting the BeardConferences
Website and reviewing our privacy and security statement. The company
is strongly committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal
information and the security of our computer systems. With respect to
the collection, use and disclosure of personal information,
BeardConferences makes every effort to ensure compliance with
applicable Federal law, including, but not limited to, the Privacy Act
of 1974, the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and the Freedom of
Information Act.
As a general rule, BeardConferences
does not collect personally-identifying information about you when you
visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us.
The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our
site.
If you visit our site to read or download information, we collect and store the following information:
- The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, BeardConferences.com).
- The date and time you access our site.
- The Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.
The
above information is used by software programs on our website to create
summary statistics which allow us to assess the number of visitors to
the different sections of our site, identify what information is of
most and least interest, determine technical design specifications,
monitor system performance, and help us make our site more useful to
visitors.
If you identify yourself by sending an E-mail containing personal information:
You
also may decide to send us personally-identifying information, for
example your mailing address, in an electronic mail message requesting
that information be mailed to you. Information collected in this manner
is used solely for responding to requests for information or records.
If you link to other sites outside BeardConferences:
Our
Website has many links to other sites. When you link to any of these
sites, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy
policy of the new site.
Cookie Use Notice
On
a limited number of its web pages, BeardConferences employs "cookies"
to provide better service to its customers. We do not use cookies to
collect any personally identifying information from users or to track
user activities beyond our web site. We do not maintain copies of
cookies on our web site after you leave our web site.
Cookies
are small pieces of temporary data that are exchanged between a web
site and a user's computer which enable a "session", or "dialog", to be
established between the two machines. With the session established,
BeardConferences is able to tailor its responses (i.e., identify and
provide you with the information you want) and help you traverse our
web pages in the most efficient and effective manner possible.
BeardConferences
limits its use of cookies to "session cookies"... types of cookies that
are temporarily stored in your computer's memory. Session cookies are
normally deleted from a user's computer when the user logs off the
computer or the user exits the browser. The company does not issue
"persistent cookies"...types of cookies that could be stored
permanently on your workstation and reused each time you visit our web
site.
For
security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to
all users, our website also employs software programs to monitor
network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, or otherwise cause damage.
Unauthorized
attempts to upload information or change information on this service
are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure
Protection Act of 1996.
Last Modified Date: June 2006