Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting our web site and reviewing our privacy policy.

AnnetteColby.com owns and operates this website. AnnetteColby.com provides a variety of online and offline services and products, which may include subscription, newsletter, downloadable special reports and articles (“Services”), to subscribers and users via email, at www.AnnetteColby.com.

AnnetteColby.com respects the privacy and security of users of this website. Accordingly, AnnetteColby.com has prepared this statement disclosing its privacy practices. This statement sets forth what personal identifying information of yours AnnetteColby.com might collect, how AnnetteColby.com might use your information, how AnnetteColby.com protects your information, who has access to your information, and how you can correct inaccuracies in your information.

PLEASE NOTE THAT BY USING THE SERVICES OR VISITING THE SITE, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR AGREEMENT WITH THIS POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY, YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICES AND PLEASE REFRAIN FROM VISITING THE SITE.

The Policy applies only to AnnetteColby.com, but not to other websites to which we may link, or to advertisers on the Site. Additionally, your use of the Services or the Site is governed by AnnetteColby.com Terms and Conditions of Use, as well as by any other published rules pertaining to either a particular Site or Service.

AnnetteColby.com is committed to fair information practices. In order to provide you with a personalized Internet experience that delivers the information, resources and services that are most relevant and helpful to you, AnnetteColby.com sometimes collects information during your visits to understand what differentiates you from each of our many other users. We will not disclose the information we collect during your visit to any person or organization outside AnnetteColby.com, except as described in this Privacy Policy.

The Information We Gather and How We Use It.

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site, do searches, read pages, or download information, we will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally. No information about users/visitors will be sold, shared, or utilized in any commercial way. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

Web server logs:

When you visit AnnetteColby.com Web sites, AnnetteColby.com may track information to administer the site and analyze its usage in order to improve AnnetteColby.com’s web site and better serve its customers.

Examples of information AnnetteColby.com may track include:

  1. The Internet domain (for example, "company.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our web site;
  2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
  3. The date and time you access our site;
  4. The searches you make;
  5. The pages you visit; and
  6. If you linked to this site from another web site, the address of that web site;
  7. Search terms.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site, what part of the site they are interested in, how long they use the site, and the types of technology our visitors use. WE DO NOT TRACK OR RECORD INFORMATION ABOUT THE IDENTITY OF INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR VISITS.

Cookies:

Our Web sites use cookies (i.e., small bits of text that our servers place into a file on your computer's hard drive). This is used to save your preferences and login information, and provide personalized functionality. You can reject cookies by changing your browser settings, but be aware that this will disable some of the functionality on our Web sites.

Personal information users give us:

On some of our Web sites, visitors can register to purchase products or services, receive personalized content and participate in surveys or contests. When you register, we will ask you for some personal information.

If you purchase a product, we will request financial information (E.g., your name and credit card number). Any financial information we collect is used only to bill you for the products and services you purchased. If you purchase by credit card, this information may be forwarded to your credit card provider.

For other types of registrations, we will ask for your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number. We may then contact you with information about other AnnetteColby.com products and services.

Finally, you may be asked to disclose personal information to us so that we can provide assistance and information to you. For example, we may collect personal information from you (such as an e-mail address, system information and problem descriptions) in order to provide online technical support and troubleshooting.

Children.

AnnetteColby.com encourages parents and guardians to monitor and participate in their children's online activities. No information should be submitted to this site by users under 13 years of age, and users under 13 years old are not allowed to register for newsletters, clubs or activities. Users under 18 years of age are not allowed to make purchases or participate in contests. Where appropriate, AnnetteColby.com may ask you to indicate your age to verify compliance with these policies. AnnetteColby.com does not knowingly collect information from our guests under 13 years of age or provide any personally identifying information from such guests to any third party for any reason whatsoever. We do not allow guests known to be under 13 years of age to receive direct marketing communications from AnnetteColby.com or from third parties.

How We Protect Your Information.

All emails that we send to our customers who have voluntarily provided us with their email address include a simple and straight forward way to "opt out" of receiving future emails.

Links to Other Companies' Sites.

Our web site has links to many other sites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site. This includes the sites that you may link to through our search engine. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those sites, and we encourage you to use caution when visiting them. In particular, we recommend you view the privacy policy posted on each site.

Privacy Policy Changes.

If our information practices change in a significant way, we will post and highlight the policy changes.

Your Consent.

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by AnnetteColby.com. AnnetteColby.com may change this policy from time to time without notice to better serve you, so please review this policy periodically.

Questions.

Please relay any questions you may have pertaining to our above stated policies by sending an e-mail message to Annette@AnnetteColby.com.