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PRIVACY POLICY
Making-Strides.net is strongly committed to maintaining your privacy when you visit our site. This Privacy Policy outlines the kind of information Making-Strides.net and its subsidiaries may collect while you visit our Web site and how Making-Strides.net uses such information. Some of the information we keep on our Web server is information that you volunteer to provide through forms and some is collected automatically. Unless you volunteer to submit personal data yourself, Making-Strides.net will not collect any information from which individual visitors can be identified nor will Making-Strides.net employ any technology that is aimed at identifying a visitor.
Information Automatically Collected and Stored
As many other companies do, Making-Strides.net also measures the performance of its site in order to improve and customize it in favor of our visitors. During your visit, Making-Strides.net automatically collects and temporarily stores the following information about your computer and your visit:
• The domain and host from which you access the Internet
• The Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to the Making-Strides.net site, if applicable
• The date and time you arrived at our site and how long you spent on the site and which pages you visited
• Your Internet protocol (IP) address and
• Your computer's operating system and browser software
Making-Strides.net may entrust third parties with the described performance measurement. In no event will we thereby acquire information on the individual identity of any visitor. Such third parties will be required to observe our privacy standards, to provide us only with aggregated information, to use the information collected only for the purposes for which they have been retained by Making-Strides.net, and to destroy the information afterwards.
Making-Strides.net may deposit certain bits of information called "cookies" in a visitor’s computer. Generally, a cookie assigns a unique number to the visitor that has no meaning outside the assigning site. Cookies can tell us how and when pages in a Web site are visited and by how many people. This technology does not collect an individual visitor’s identifying information; rather, this information is also in an aggregate form. The purpose of this technology and the information it provides is again to help us improve our Web site. Most Web browsers allow the user to deny or accept the cookie feature. However, please note that cookies may be necessary to provide you with certain features (e.g. customized delivery of information) available on the Making-Strides.net site. Further information about cookies can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Only when specifically requested by Web site visitors will the information we collect be used to respond to visitors’ inquiries, fulfill e-mail messaging programs, and notify visitors about new content or services on our Web site. If you decide you no longer wish to receive postal mailings and/or e-mails from us, please let us know by sending e-mail or writing to us and telling us you no longer wish to receive postal mail and/or e-mail. Please provide us with your exact name, postal address, and/or e-mail address. We will be sure your name is removed from our mailing list.
Making-Strides.net will use personal information only for the purpose indicated to you when you provided it. Making-Strides.net will not disclose, sell, rent or exchange such personally identifiable information to any other organization or entity unless the user is first notified and expressly agrees to it, or as otherwise required by law.
In order to employ "personalization" functionality, you will be asked to provide personal information (e.g. name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address). No material consequences will result from your refusal to submit such information except that you may not obtain the functionality or receive information you requested. At any time upon your request, Making-Strides.net will delete or modify personal information that you provided earlier.
Making-Strides.net reserves its right to amend this policy at any time. The privacy policy does not create any contractual or other legal right in or on behalf of any party.
