Privacy Statement
Stray Winds Area Neighbors
("SWAN") is committed to protecting your privacy and
developing technology that gives you the most powerful
and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy
applies to the SWAN Web site and governs data collection
and usage. By using the SWAN website, you consent to the
data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
SWAN collects personally
identifiable information, such as your e-mail address,
name, home or work address or telephone number. SWAN
also collects anonymous demographic information, which
is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age,
gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer
hardware and software that is automatically collected by
SWAN. This information can include: your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring
Web site addresses. This information is used by SWAN for
the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the
service, and to provide general statistics regarding use
of the SWAN Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly
disclose personally identifiable information or
personally sensitive data through SWAN public message
boards, this information may be collected and used by
others. Note: SWAN does not read any of your private
online communications.
SWAN encourages you to review the privacy
statements of Web sites you choose to link to from SWAN
so that you can understand how those Web sites collect,
use and share your information. SWAN is not responsible
for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites
outside of the SWAN Web site.
Use of your Personal Information
SWAN collects and uses your
personal information to operate the SWAN Web site and
deliver the services you have requested. SWAN also uses
your personally identifiable information to inform you
of other products or services available from SWAN and
its affiliates. SWAN may also contact you via surveys to
conduct research about your opinion of current services
or of potential new services that may be offered.
SWAN does not sell, rent or lease its customer
lists to third parties. SWAN may, from time to time,
contact you on behalf of external business partners
about a particular offering that may be of interest to
you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable
information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is
not transferred to the third party. In addition, SWAN
may share data with trusted partners to help us perform
statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail,
provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All
such third parties are prohibited from using your
personal information except to provide these services to
SWAN, and they are required to maintain the
confidentiality of your information.
SWAN does not use or disclose sensitive personal
information, such as race, religion, or political
affiliations, without your explicit consent.
SWAN keeps track of the Web sites and pages our
customers visit within SWAN, in order to determine what
SWAN services are the most popular. This data is used to
deliver customized content and advertising within SWAN to
customers whose behavior indicates that they are
interested in a particular subject area.
SWAN Web sites will disclose your personal
information, without notice, only if required to do so
by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or
comply with legal process served on SWAN or the site;
(b) protect and defend the rights or property of SWAN;
and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of users of SWAN, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The SWAN Web site use "cookies"
to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie
is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web
page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or
deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely
assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in
the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to
provide a convenience feature to save you time. The
purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you
have returned to a specific page. For example, if you
personalize SWAN pages, or register with SWAN site or
services, a cookie helps SWAN to recall your specific
information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the
process of recording your personal information, such as
billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When
you return to the same SWAN Web site, the information
you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can
easily use the SWAN features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline
cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies,
but you can usually modify your browser setting to
decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline
cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the
interactive features of the SWAN services or Web sites
you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
SWAN secures your personal
information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
SWAN secures the personally identifiable information you
provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure
environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or
disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit
card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is
protected through the use of encryption, such as the
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
SWAN will occasionally update
this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and
customer feedback. SWAN encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how SWAN is
protecting your information.
Contact Information
SWAN welcomes your comments
regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that
SWAN has not adhered to this Statement, please contact
SWAN at
webmaster@straywinds.org. We will use commercially
reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.