Our Commitment to Privacy

Web Tides^® is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy as a visitor to our web site at http://www.web-tides.net. We take the issue of privacy very seriously and value the trust you place in us each time you use our services and access this web site. This Privacy Statement describes the practices and policies we have put into place to safeguard your personal information that may be gathered and used as you visit our web site.

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

The policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically. If you have any questions about our privacy policies, we encourage you to contact us using any of the methods outlined at the end of our Privacy Statement.

Who is collecting this information?

Web Tides^® is collecting information on this web site as outlined in this privacy statement.

What information do we collect?

Automatic Collection of Information:
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site or download information, our system will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally and is used in an aggregate way to help us improve our web site and tell us the number of visitors to our site each day.

We collect the following information:

• Browser specific information such as type and version
• Operating system and platform
• Referral link

Permission-based Collection of Information:
At different places on our site depending upon the feature you use, you may be asked to volunteer personal information such as your name, email, mailing address, and telephone number. We request this information only if you use our contact form and it is not shared with anyone outside of Web Tides^®.

How do we use the information we collect?

The information we gather automatically and with your permission during your visit to our Web site is used in the following ways:

• Monitor, review, measure, and analyze web site utilization.
• Modify and enhance the web site.
• Improve the content and design of our web site.
• Respond to your requests.
• Monitor and improve our customer service efforts.
• Study general usage habits and demographic information for our own marketing research purposes.

We do not share this information with anyone outside of Web Tides^®.

With Whom Will the Information Be Shared?

Ordinarily, we do not share personally identifiable information or web site statistics with anyone. However, we reserve the right to disclose information when legally compelled to do so.

Access and Correction of Personal Information

Review of Personal Information:
Site visitors may not access information we have collected and maintain about them. The information we collect is anonymous and is used only to improve our web site or to contact you if you request that we do so.

Our Use of Cookies

Many Web sites now use "cookies" to provide useful features to their visitors by providing customizable and personalized services.

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. For example, a web site may use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you, your preferences, or the pages you last visited.

Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies, or to ask you if you would like to accept or decline a cookie from a particular site before it is set. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the Help section of the toolbar. You should know; however, that if you reject a cookie, certain functions and conveniences of a site may not work properly.

We use cookies on our web site for the following purposes:

• Store and sometimes track visitor preferences.
• Record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit.

A cookie from our web site will never contain or collect your personal information such as your name, address, phone number, or e-mail address.

Our Children's Privacy Policy

We are especially concerned about protecting children's privacy. We hope parents and teachers are involved in children's Internet explorations. It is particularly important for parents to guide their children when children are asked to provide personal information on line.

Our site does not feature information and services of interest to anyone under the age of 18.

Security of Communications

We recognize that many people are concerned about the privacy and protection of information as it is transmitted over the Internet. You should keep in mind that the possibility exists for unauthorized individuals to intercept any e-mail message you send over the Internet. In some cases, information can be encrypted (scrambled or encoded) to make it very difficult to read if it is intercepted during communication. Certain technology and practices allow web sites to provide an increased level of security for your personal information when appropriate.

We use e-mail forms to allow our customers to ask questions about our services and programs. These are not hosted on a secure server. The possibility exists that unauthorized individuals may intercept e-mail messages.

We are not responsible for the privacy of e-mail messages except those stored in our system.

Links to Other Sites

We offer links to sites we have created or maintain. Web Tides^® is not responsible for the privacy policies of any of these sites.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we have the following practices:

• We will post the policy changes to our web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our web site periodically.
• We will only use data collected from the time of the policy change forward for these new purposes.

Web Site Contact Information

If you have questions about our privacy policy, or feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, please contact us by using our contact form.

Modification Date

This privacy statement was last modified on June 08, 2008.