Privacy Policy

 

This statement discloses our privacy practices and is incorporated into, and subject to the terms of, our Terms of Service. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined shall have the same meaning as in the Terms of Service. If you have any concerns about this policy, please contact ocnphys@aloha.net.

 

How We Collect Information

We do not obtain any personally identifiable information about you unless you choose to reveal it.  You voluntarily submit such information when, for example, you fill out a Survey.  We advise you not to include personally identifiable information on or in the Survey unless you want others to see it.  Thus, you are not required to disclose any personally identifiable information to us, although parts of our site may not be available to you unless you do so.  We may also receive personally identifiable information about you from other users or third parties who may communicate with us about you (such as in the case of complaints).

 

When feasible, we do automatically collect your IP address.  We also automatically collect and store statistics and other information about you and your online activities both on an aggregated, non-personally identifiable basis and in a manner that may allow us to associate such information with other personally identifiable information about you and your activities on our site.

 

How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We may use your information on an aggregated basis to do such things as operate our site and enhance our site.

 

We will not sell your personally identifiable information to third parties.  So, for example, we will not sell your email addresses to spammers or sell your name and personal demographic information to mass marketers. 

 

In some cases, we may use your personally identifiable information to provide information to you, such as to send email that you request or to personalize the site in accordance with your requests. 

 

Cookies and Other Tracking Methods

Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your hard drive, not on our site. We may use cookies on our site for a number of reasons. First, cookies can help us provide information that is targeted to your interests. Second, cookies allow us to better understand how Users use our site, which in turn helps us focus our resources on features that are most popular with our Users. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, but some parts of our site may not work properly if you do so.

 

 

Other Sites

Please note that different rules may apply to the collection, use or disclosure of your information by third party service providers or vendors or any other sites you encounter on the Internet (even if these sites are branded with our branding or framed by our site).

 

Limits on Our Abilities

Although your privacy is very important to us, due to the existing legal and technical environment, we cannot fully ensure that your private communications and other personally identifiable information will not be disclosed to third parties.

 

Security

We use industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers where appropriate. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.