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Privacy Statement
The American
Karaoke Guild website publication is another community
service of Westward Connections Inc. We have established
this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment
to honoring your rights to privacy. The following discloses
the information gathering and dissemination practices for
this web site:
Information
Automatically Logged
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer
our Web site operations. Your IP address is also used to to gather broad
demographic information and to help identify you when registering for access
to restricted areas, placing an order, participating in a survey, entering
a contest, or shopping in any online store we currently publish or may publish
in the future.
Cookies
We may elect to use cookies on this site to insure
that you do not repeatedly see certain information, including
but not limited to advertising or promotional messages.
While we currently do not offer a shopping cart at this
site, we will most likely be using cookies for any we build
in the future so that we can track your transaction to
its successful completion. We may also use cookies to deliver
content specific to your interests, and to save your password
so you don't have to reenter it each time you visit our
site. Cookies are primarily created for your convenience
and you control which cookies you wish to keep on your
computer after you leave this site.
Advertisers
From time to time we may use an outside ad management service to display
third-party ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we
use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner
ads are collected by the ad management company, and we do not have access
to this information.
Registration
Forms
Our site visitor and restricted access area registration forms requires users
to give us contact information (i.e. your name and addresses for e-mail and
postal delivery), unique identifiers (other than your social security
number), and demographic information (i.e. zip code, age, or income level). Contact
information from the registration forms is used to get in touch with the
registrant as necessary.
Any
registrant may opt-out of receiving future mailings
at any time. See Your Choice: Opt-Out section below
for further information.
Unique identifiers
(other than social security numbers) are collected
from Web site visitors to verify the user's identity,
and for use as account numbers in our record system.
Demographic
and profile data is also collected at our site. We use
this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site
showing them content that we think they might be interested
in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.
Order
Forms
Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products,
and services. We collect contact information (like their e-mail address),
financial information (like their account or credit card numbers), unique
identifiers (other than your social security number), and demographic information
(like your zip code, age, or income level).
Contact
information from the order forms is used to ship purchases,
information about our company. Customer contact information
is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary.
Any financial
information collected is used to bill for products and
services. Unique identifiers (other than social security
numbers or drivers license numbers) are collected from
Web site visitors to verify identity, and for use in
setting up accounts with us.
Demographic
and profile data is also collected at this site. While
we may supplement the information you provide with information
that is received from third parties, we share information
in aggregate numbers only unless we have your written
permission to do otherwise. We may also use this data
to tailor our Web site visitor's experience, serving
content we think our visitors might be interested in,
according to what they have requested previously.
Users may
opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out
section below.
Surveys
Our online surveys may ask visitors for contact information (i.e. e-mail
address), unique identifiers (other than social security numbers),
and demographic information (i.e. zip code, age, or income level). Contact
information from the surveys is used to get in touch with the visitor
when necessary. Unique identifiers (other than social security numbers)
are collected from Web site visitors to verify the user's identity.
Demographic
and profile data is also collected at our site. We share
this information with advertisers on an aggregate basis
only. We also use this data to tailor our visitor's experience
at our site, showing them content that we think they
might be interested in, according to their preferences.
Contests
We may run contests on our site in which we ask visitors
for unique identifiers (i.e. social security number), and
demographic information (i.e. zip code, age, or income
level). Unique identifiers (other than social security
numbers) are collected from Web site visitors to verify
the user's identity, and for use as account numbers in
our record system.
Demographic
and profile data is also collected at our site. This
information may be shared with advertisers or other third-parties
on an aggregate basis. We use this data to tailor our
visitor's experience at our site showing them content
that we think they might be interested in, and displaying
the content according to their preferences. We never
disclosure any personal contact information you shared
with us in confidence without your permission.
External
Links
This site contains links to other sites. The publisher of this site is
not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Public
Forums
This site may offer chat rooms, forums, message boards,
and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember
that any information that is disclosed in these areas is
available to the general public, whether or not they may
be accessing this Web site. You should exercise caution
before disclosing any personal information in a public
forum.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and
alteration of the information under our control. We use secure server
services to encrypt certain transactions and and confidential information
you share with us.
Your Choice:
Opt-Out and Modifying Information
You
have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving promotional/marketing
information sent from our site, whether it has been sent
on behalf of our partners or ourselves. You can also modify
any information you have already given us. To opt-out or
change any information you have provided at any time, you
can:
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Send
mail to the following postal address:
P.O.
Box 23428, Albuquerque, NM 87192
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Call
the following telephone numbers:
800-260-3094 (USA; outside Albuquerque,
NM)
or 505-292-3094 (in Albuquerque)
Contacting
Us Online
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of
this web site, or your dealings with this web site, please use our email
feedback form.
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