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Registration
This Web site includes a registration form on the message boards for
you to provide information to us. You are required to give us information
so that we may contact you (such as your name and e-mail address) if
necessary about a posting on the message boards.
Order
Forms
We request information from you on our order form. You must provide
contact information (such as name and shipping address) and financial
information (such as credit card number and expiration date). This information
is used to fill your orders and for billing purposes. If we have trouble
processing your order, we use this contact information to get in touch
with you.
Surveys
& Contests
From time to time our site requests information from you to conduct
surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely
voluntary. Therefore, you have a choice whether or not to disclose the
information. This information may include contact information (such
as name and address) and demographic information (such as age or zip
code). Unless otherwise stated near the information form, we use survey
information to monitor or improve our site and contest information to
notify the winners and award prizes.
Cookies
A cookie is a message that the server for our Web site gives to your
Web browser. Your browser stores the message in a file called cookie.txt.
Each time the browser requests a page from the server, a message is
sent back to the server. Purposes for cookies include identifying users
and preparing customized Web pages for them. When you fill out a form
on our site, this information is packaged into a cookie and sent to
your browser. It’s stored for later use. The next time you visit
our site, your browser will send the cookie to the server, which can
use the information to present you with a more personalized experience.
For instance, the site may greet you by your name or remember your username
when you begin to fill out a form.
If
you reject the cookie, you may still use our site; however, you may
only receive limited information in some areas of the site.
Some
of our business partners, such as advertisers, may use cookies on our
site. We have no access to these cookies or control over them.
Log
Files
We use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to analyze trends, administer
the site, track a user’s movement and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. “Aggregate use” means that
information from all users is collected and gathered into a whole unit
so that information as a whole can be used. We do not link IP addresses
to personally identifiable information. framingham.com uses Urchin
provided by Valueweb.com to track usage of this web site. Please visit the Valueweb.com site
web site at
http://www.valueweb.com/privacy-policy.htm for further information
about their privacy policy.
Information
Use
framingham.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this
site. We will not share, sell or rent this information to others in
any way other than as disclosed in this policy or stated at the point
where the information is collected.
Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and
advertisers. This information is not linked to any personal information
that can identify any individual person.
We use PayPal
to bill for goods and services
and may at times use an outside shipping company to ship orders. These
companies do not use, share, retain or store personally identifiable
information for any purposes other than to process the transaction or
to ship the order.
Security
We want to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information
on our Web site, your information is protected online and off-line.
When
you provide sensitive information on our site (such as credit card number
or social security number), that information is encrypted and protected
with encryption software. While you are on a secure page, such as our
order form page, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as
Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked.
While
we use encryption software to protect sensitive information online,
we also use our best efforts to protect your information off-line. All
of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information,
is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information
to perform a specific job (such as our billing clerk or customer service
representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
If
you have any questions about the security for our Web site, please e-mail
us at info@framingham.com.
Links
This Web site contains links to other Web sites. We are not responsible
for the privacy practices of the other sites. We encourage you to read
the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information
collected by this Web site.
Notification
of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes
on this page so you will always be aware of what information we collect,
how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We will use information according to the privacy policy posted at the
time the information was collected.
Thank you for visiting framingham.com.
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