Privacy Statement

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Privacy Policy

This notice provides Smith Brothers' policy regarding the nature, purpose, use and sharing of any information collected via this web site. The information you provide on a Smith Brothers web site will be used only for its intended purpose. We will never sell or provide information about you or your session to other parties for marketing or any other purposes.

Submitting information is strictly voluntary. By doing so, you are giving Smith Brothers your permission to use the information for the intended purpose. If you do not want to give Smith Brothers permission to use your information, simply do not provide it. However, not providing certain information may result in Smith Brothers' inability to provide you with the information or services you desire.

There are several types of information we collect. These include:

  1. Automatically Collected Information
  2. Information Collected for Tracking and Customization (Cookies)
  3. Personal Information

Smith Brothers never creates individual profiles or shares your information with any other organization.

Automatically Collected Information

We collect and temporarily store certain technical information about your visit for use in site management and security purposes. This information includes:

  1. The Internet domain from which you access our web site (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from an educational domain);
  2. The type of browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) used to access our site;
  3. The operating system (Windows, Unix) used to access our site;
  4. The URLs of the pages you visit;
  5. If you visited this web site from another web site, the URL of the forwarding site.

This information is only used to help us make our site more useful for you. With this data we learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use.

No attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are retained temporarily as required for security and site management purposes only.

Information Collected for Tracking and Customization (Cookies)

When you visit our web site, we collect certain information that does not identify you personally, but provides us with "usage data," such as the number of visitors we receive or what pages are visited most often. This data helps us to analyze and improve the usefulness of the information we provide at this web site.

Like most commercial web site owners, we may use what is known as "cookie" technology. A "cookie" is an element of data that a website can send to your browser when you link to that website. It is not a computer program and has no ability to read data residing on your computer or instruct it to perform any step or function. By assigning a unique data element to each visitor, the website is able to recognize repeat users, track usage patterns and better serve you when you return to that site. The cookie does not extract other personal information about you, such as your name or address.

If you do not wish to have cookies stored on your machine, you can turn them off in your browser. However, this may affect the functioning of the Smith Brothers web site.

Personal Information

Personal information may refer to your name, location, email address or other contact information, your purchase history, or any other information you may provide in comments or other correspondence.

If you choose to provide us with personal information, through such methods as completing a form or sending us an email, we will use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information or services you have requested. Your information enables us to determine your interests, with the goal of providing better service to our customers.

We will not use your personal information to contact you with marketing or promotional materials, or solicit information or activity from you, beyond the immediate intended purpose of communication that you request.

At no time is your personal information shared with any organization outside of Smith Brothers.

Web Site Security Notice

For site security purposes and to ensure that this web service remains available to all users, this web site employs software programs that monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information. Anyone using this web site expressly consents to such monitoring and is advised that if such monitoring reveals evidence of possible abuse or criminal activity, such evidence may be provided to appropriate law enforcement officials.

Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information on Smith Brothers servers are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law, including under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996.

Accessibility Statement

We continually strive to ensure the pages on this web site are accessible to individuals with disabilities in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. If you have any difficulty viewing any page with adaptive technology, please contact the webmaster for this site.

Smith Brothers' web pages are generally accessible to users using screen reading software. Some files on this web site may be posted as Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Adobe provides their Acrobat Reader software as a free download.

Linking Policy and Disclaimer of Endorsement

Smith Brothers may link to other web sites created and maintained by other organizations. Smith Brothers provides links to these sites as a service to our users. The presence of a link is not a Smith Brothers endorsement of the site.

When users follow a link to an outside web site, they are leaving Smith Brothers and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside web site(s). Smith Brothers is not responsible for the information collection practices of non-Smith Brothers sites.

Changes to this Statement

Smith Brothers may change this Statement from time to time. When updates are made, the publication date (located at the bottom of this Policy) will also be updated to reflect that a revision occurred. We encourage you to periodically reread this Policy to see if there have been any changes that may affect you. This Statement is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

Date of publication: March 5, 2010.