Privacy policy This is the privacy statement for Brown Rag LLC. General Unless we state otherwise in this policy statement or when we request the information: 1) we will not share your personal information outside our company except: - as needed to provide services that you have requested - we may give incidental access to third party providers who supply services to us (for example, as part of hardware or software maintenance) or who process information on our behalf (such as a hosting company) - we will disclose your information to enforcement authorities if asked to do so, or to a third party in the context of actual or threatened legal proceedings 2) we will only use your personal information for internal purposes, such as - to maintain our web site's security - to understand our users so that we can improve our web site and marketing - to select and assign roles to our project participants - to send you information about our work or to reach you when necessary. 3) We may make public the aggregate data about our users, for example counts by city or occupation. This site contains links to other sites. We cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other sites. We respect your privacy: we will never sell or rent your email address to third parties without your permission. If you subscribe to one of our newsletters, you will be asked for the email address where you want it sent. You can directly change this email address, or opt-out of receiving future mailings, by using a link or instructions provided in the newsletter. On rare occasions we may use your newsletter email address to send you a notification or to contact you. If you become a participant in one of our projects, we will ask for a "notification" email address so that we can send you project notifications. To change this email address, or to withdraw your participation in the project, contact us (see our contact information below). Email that we send you in html format may track whether you have opened the email. We do this to detect if our email is getting through to you, so that we can correct errors and reduce email traffic. Other personal information We may request information such as the region where you live and your occupation, to understand the demographics of our readers and participants. We may request a way to verify your identity and ask who referred you as part of our evaluation of your application to participate. We may request answers to security questions, so that we can identify you and communicate your password securely. In addition, our site may log information such as your IP address, site referrer, the nature of your browser, and your actions on the website. We log this information for web site security purposes and so that we may understand our users better and improve our web site. Our site may give you an opportunity to share biographical and contact information with other project participants, so that they may know more about you and contact you, and vice versa. This information is always optional. Your postings Whatever you post, or any changes you make to the contents of this website, along with your name, the summary, and time of the posting or change, becomes part of the website's historical record and may be visible to future readers forever. We may publish anything that you contribute. Cookies We may use cookies to give you a better experience and to support the website's functionality. You may clear these cookies after use by clearing your browser's cookies and cache. Doing that is advised if you are using a public machine, so that you don't expose any information to future users. Security You should not post personal information if the consequences of it getting out would be severe. We store information including email addresses and passwords using standard, open source software. We did not write this software and so can make no guarantees against unauthorized access. As with most websites, a third party may be able to intercept the unencrypted emails or communications between your computer and the unencrypted portions of our website. Your browser can tell you if communications are being encrypted. Some pages may contain sections that only you or other authorized readers normally see. These sections are not designed for security - assume that others can read them too. We may also store your information on paper at our offices. Children's Privacy Statement We are committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). We do not target this website to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. Because we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13, we also do not knowingly distribute such information to third parties. If a parent believes that his or her child has provided us with personally identifiable information, he or she should contact us via e-mail and request deletion of the information. Changes to this policy We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. Please check the effective date at the bottom of this page to determine if the policy has been modified since you last reviewed it. Your continued use of any portion of this website following posting of the updated privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, send us an email. Contact: admin [at] brownragfilms [dot] com Effective date: 2008-04-29 |