| This site is owned and operated by Owner 1st. Your privacy
on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Owner
1st, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users,
we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms
and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information.
This privacy statement discloses what information we gather
and how we use it.
INFORMATION OWNER 1ST GATHERS AND TRACKS
Owner 1st gathers two types of information about users:
• Information that users provide through optional,
voluntary submission to receive our electronic newsletters.
• Information Owner 1st gathers through aggregated tracking
information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout
our sites.
This information allows us to better tailor our content to
readers' needs and to better understand the demographics of
our audience. Under no circumstances does Owner 1st divulge
any information about an individual user to a third party.
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER POLICY
We offer a free electronic newsletter, which requires some
type of voluntary submission of personal information by users.
Owner 1st gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily
subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list
by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided in every newsletter.
Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of
registration.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally
identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without
requesting parental consent. Our content is geared towards
adults over the age of 18, and therefore, we do not expect
children under the age of 18 to provide us with any personally
identifiable information.
USAGE TRACKING
Owner 1st tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. However, we do not correlate this information with
data about individual users. Owne 1st does break down overall
usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser
type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser
string (information contained in every user's browser).
COOKIES
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the
browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not
contain personal information although it will enable us to
relate your use of this site to information that you have
specifically and knowingly provided. The only personal information
a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A
cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files
created by other sites. Owner 1st uses cookies to track user
traffic patterns (as described above).
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.
If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies,
you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You
do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.
USE OF INFORMATION
Owner 1st uses any information voluntarily given by our users
to enhance their experience on our site, whether to provide
interactive or personalized elements on the site or to better
prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily
provide in order to send out electronic newsletters. We send
out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule, and
occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers
might be particularly interested in something we are doing.
Owner 1st never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third
parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas
of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to
those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but
rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us
continue to build a better service for you.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Owner 1st uses the above-described information to tailor our
content to suit your needs. We will not share information
about individual users with any third party, except to comply
with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the
personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
Owner 1st operates secure data networks protected by industry
standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security
and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced
as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to
the information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such
choices include:
• Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
• Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas,
which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally
identifiable information from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use
of this information by Owner 1st. If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so
that you are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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