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Privacy Commitment
Responsibility
Great Southern Publishers, Inc. is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. Great Southern Publishers, Inc. provides this Privacy Commitment to make you aware of our Privacy Commitment and practices. We want to provide a safe, secure user experience. We will use our best efforts to ensure that the information you submit to us remains private. The following reflects our commitment to you.
Information about all Great Southern Publishers, Inc. visitors: awareness
In general, we gather information about all of our users collectively, such as what areas of our site users visit most frequently and what services users access the most. We only use such data in the aggregate. This information helps us determine what is most beneficial for our users, and how we can continually create a better overall experience. We may share this information with our partners, but only in the aggregate, so that they may also understand how Great Southern Publishers, Inc. users, collectively, use our site.
Information about you specifically: what information we collect
In some instances we may need more specific information about you. This information may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, credit card number, etc. Great Southern Publishers, Inc. uses your information to better understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information to help you complete a transaction, to communicate back to you, to update you on services and benefits, and to personalize information we deliver to you. Credit card numbers are used only for payment processing and are never retained for other purposes.
Disclosure: how we use it
Great Southern Publishers, Inc. will not disclose information about your individual visits to our web site or any of the personal information that you provide such as your name, address, telephone number, or credit card to any outside parties except when required. However, we may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our Web site. We also may record and share aggregated information with our business partners.
Additionally, any information that you enter on a co-branded registration page becomes the property of both Great Southern Publishers, Inc. and the co-branded partner. In that instance, Great Southern Publishers, Inc. is not responsible for any of the information received by our partner company. While we make all efforts to protect your privacy when negotiating our partnerships, we are not responsible for their use of your personal information. To that end, we encourage you to read the privacy statements of our partners, or request them directly from our partners in the event they are not readily available.
Cookies
We may use cookies on certain pages of our site if some features can only be made available through the use of a cookie. Other reasons for the use of cookies are that they allow you to enter a password less frequently during a session, keep track of preferences and aid in the user experience. Cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our site. The majority of cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted at the end of a session. You are always free to decline cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features of the web site or you may be required to re-enter your password frequently during a session.
Log Files
Great Southern Publishers, Inc. captures industry standard information solely for the purposes of analysis. We identify browser types in order to optimize our site for your particular browser. We also track your referring URL for business development reasons. Information contained in log files is intended for internal use only and will not be disclosed to our partners. The aggregate logged information is not linked to any personally identifiable information.
Security
Great Southern Publishers, Inc. adheres to industry standards in protecting the confidentiality of your personal and identifiable information from outside sources. Our servers are hosted within a secure environment at a premier hosting facility. While Great Southern Publishers, Inc. maintains all reasonable efforts in protecting your personal information, absolute security does not exist on the Internet.
Great Southern Publishers, Inc. addresses internal security by making it a part of all new employee orientations. In the event our Privacy Commitment changes, those changes are distributed internally to all Great Southern Publishers, Inc. employees.
Customer service
Great Southern Publishers, Inc. uses email links located on the "Contact Us" page and throughout our site to allow you to contact us directly with any questions or comments you may have. We read every message you send and try to reply promptly. The feedback you provide is used to respond directly to your questions/comments. We may also file your questions/comments to improve our site. Your personal information is only shared with third parties with your explicit permission.
Privacy commitment changes
If at some point in the future, there is a change to our information usage practices that affects your personal information, we will notify you by email of the relevant changes. We will also post the changes in our privacy statement 30 days prior to a change. We will also place a prominent notice on our home page notifying users that a change has occurred regarding our Privacy Commitment.
Please feel free to contact us at Great Southern Publishers, Inc. if you have questions, comments or concerns about our privacy commitment.