COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is
owned and operated by Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm.
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm, 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 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.
Definition of the Information Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm
gathers and keeps track of.
Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm gathers
two types of information about users:
Information that users provide through
optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to
receive our electronic newsletters and announcements, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:
Information Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm
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. Under no circumstances does
Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm divulge any information
about an individual user to a third party.
Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm Gathers
User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary
submission of personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We may offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm gathers the email addresses of users who
voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing
list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points
users to the subscription management page.
2. "E-mail this to a friend" Service
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or
documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend".
The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient.
This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and,
of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information
is not used for any other purpose.
3. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their
opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important
issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are
not identifiable to any particular user. Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm
may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so
they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated
with information about individual users.
4. Surveys
Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm may
occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our
audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information
in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never
share any of this information about specific individuals with any third
party.
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.
USAGE TRACKING
Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm tracks
user traffic patterns throughout our site. However, we do not
correlate this information with data about individual users. Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm
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. But
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. Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm uses cookies to track
user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers
a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
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. However, you do need cookies to participate
actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm uses
any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience
in 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 or announcements and to enable users to participate
in polls and surveys.
Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm 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
Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm uses
the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs
and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics.
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
Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm 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 Sweetbriar Suri Alpaca Farm.
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.