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Wakulla.com Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 1, 2005
We care about your privacy. We will not sell your name or email
address to any third party advertisers without your permission. Please
read our privacy policy below for further details.
Wakulla.com respects the privacy of visitors to our site. This
Privacy Policy governs the use and collection of information from you
by Fusione Group, LLC d/b/a Wakulla.com ("we" or "us") through your use
of this site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you
may provide to us through other means; for example, at a live event,
via mail, or via telephone. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully
so that you understand our online privacy practices. By visiting this
site, you agree that your visit, and any dispute over our online
privacy practices, is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Visitor
Agreement. Questions can be directed to:
Mary Katherine Westmark
Publisher
Wakulla.com
3295 Crawfordville Highway, Suite 3
Crawfordville, FL 32327
Email:
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CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Children should always get permission from their parents before
sending any information about themselves (such as their names, email
addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone
else. We won't knowingly allow anyone under 13 to register with our
site or to provide any other personally identifying information. If
you’re under 13, please do not provide us with any personally
identifying information about yourself (such as your name, your email
address or your phone number).
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The information we gather falls into two categories: (1) information
(for example, your name and address) that you voluntarily supply when
you register or initiate transactions, and (2) information gathered on
usage patterns and preferences as visitors navigate through our sites,
use our services such as free email, or read our email newsletters.
Registration Information. To
make use of certain features on our site (such as to receive email
newsletters, or post a classified ad) visitors need to register and to
provide certain information as part of the registration process. The
information you supply will help us to offer you more personalized
features, to tailor our site to your interests and make them more
useful to you, and to process e-commerce transactions.
The more you tell us about yourself, the more value we can offer
you. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary. But if you don't
supply the information we need, we may be unable to provide you with
services we make available to other visitors to our site. And we can't
send you email alerting you to a new service we're offering, or
breaking news that may interest you if you don't tell us what you're
interested in and give us your email address.
Email Newsletters. We also offer
you the opportunity to subscribe to email newsletters on topics that we
believe are of interest to our community. If you have opted to receive
a particular newsletter, you may always unsubscribe later if you decide
not to receive further mailings of the newsletter from us. See "Opting
Out" below.
Cookies. To help make our site
more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we use a standard feature
of browser software, called a "cookie," to assign each visitor a
unique, random number, a sort of user ID, if you will, that resides on
your computer. The cookie doesn't actually identify the visitor, just
the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. Unless you
voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we
won't know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer.
The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you
supply. A cookie can't read unrelated data off your hard drive. Our
advertisers and the third parties that provide products or services
through our site may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a
process that we don't control.
We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your needs, to deliver
a better, more personalized service. For example, we use cookies to
avoid showing you the same ad, repeatedly, during a single visit. In
addition, we may use cookies to track the pages on our site visited by
our users. We can build a better site if we know which pages our users
are visiting and how often. Of course, you can set your browser not to
accept cookies, but if you do, you may not be able to take advantage of
the personalized features enjoyed by other visitors to our site.
Browser Level Information and IP Addresses.
Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your
computer configuration when you visit our site, including the type of
browser software you use, the operating system you're running, the
resolution of your computer monitor, the website that referred you, and
your IP address. (Your IP address is a numerical address that is used
by computers connected to the Internet to identify your computer so
that data (such as the web pages you want to view) can be transmitted
to you. We also use IP address information for systems administration
and trouble shooting purposes. Your IP address does not tell us who you
are.) We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon
request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, and to
measure traffic within our site.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Why We Want to Know. As with any
business, it's important for us to know our customers -- their needs,
their likes, what they want and expect from us. Unlike most businesses,
however, we deliver a valuable product to our customers without asking
for anything in return. It's like prime-time television, only better
for you! Since we make this site available without charge to you, we
rely heavily on advertisers to produce the income necessary to operate
our site. Advertisers are like most people; they expect something in
return for the money they spend. They want to know how many people will
see their ad and how often -- in other words, how effective their ad is
likely to be. So it's important that we be able to tell advertisers who
our audience is.
Advertisers. Without your
permission, we will not share the personally-identifiable information
you provide when registering on our site with advertisers. We will,
however, take the information you provide and aggregate it with data
from all the other people that use this site and associated services.
Then we will use that pool of information to inform our advertisers
about our audience without identifying you personally. For example,
we'll be able to say to an advertiser: "We have 470 members in
Crawfordville," which happens to be your location.
Statistical Information. Much of
the information we collect is in the form of aggregated statistics,
such as the traffic that visits various pages within our sites, and the
habits and preferences of our audience. Such aggregated information
does not include any information that would identify you personally. We
may use such aggregated information and disclose it to third parties as
we see fit.
Sites to Which We Link. Of
course, our site includes links to plenty of other websites, and
provides access to products and services offered by third parties,
whose privacy policies we don't control. When you access another site
or purchase products or services or conduct other transactions through
our site, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy
policy of the operator of the site you're visiting or the provider of
such products or services.
Other Disclosures. We may
occasionally release information about our visitors when release is
appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our Visitor Agreement, or to
protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our sites, the
public, our customers, or our company and its employees, agents,
partners and affiliates.
OPTING OUT
If you register with us, you will have the opportunity to review,
update, or delete the information you have provided us at any time
(except, of course, any information that we do not store). If you
remove your registration information completely, you may not be able to
continue using certain services that require registration. You agree
that we may use your information to contact you for customer service,
to inform you of important changes or additions to our site or the
services offered over our site and to send you administrative notices
or any communications relevant to your use of our site. If you do not
wish to receive these notices, please email us by using this form. If
you have subscribed to one of our email newsletters, you will always
have the opportunity to unsubscribe from future mailings (for example,
by clicking on an unsubscribe link in an email newsletter or by going
back to our site).
STORAGE OF INFORMATION
All information gathered on our site is stored within a database
operated by us or by a contractor on our behalf. Sensitive information,
such as your password, is encrypted for storage. For e-commerce
transactions, in certain instances we may transmit your billing
information using encryption. Encryption scrambles your credit card
number and personal information. However, as effective as encryption
technology is, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee
the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you
supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the
Internet.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
A final note: The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change
our privacy policy at some point in the future, we'll post the changes
before they take effect.
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