12/20/2007

We are committed to protecting your privacy at Plac­eMatters. We will not collect any personal information from you that you do not volunteer, and we are the sole owner of personal information collected on this site. We do not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way that we have not mentioned in this statement. PlaceMatters may use the email address you provide to delivery of e-mail newsletters and other messages.

Cookies

Like many other Web sites, PlaceMatters uses cookies to identify members so they don't have to re-enter a user id and password when they, for example, wish to post to a discussion. Cookies also help us improve your user experience. If you do not have cookies enabled, you must enter your password each time you access our site or any of its member features.

Third parties

PlaceMatters may provide third parties with aggregate statistics about our users, traffic patterns, and related site information. This data reflects site usage patterns gathered during thousands of customer visits to our Web site each month but does not contain behavioral or identifying information about any individual member, unless that member has given us permission to share that information. We may also provide log files and other databases of user information to third parties for analysis, so we can get a better understanding of traffic through sites and thus improve our offerings.

Security

We use reasonable precautions to keep the personal information you disclose both in your browsing and your participation and to only release this information to third parties we believe share our commitment to privacy. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of these parties.

Obtaining your consent

By using our Web site, you give PlaceMatters permission to collect information about the pages served to you as an anonymous user for the purpose of calculating aggregate site statistics. If you register at this PlaceMatters website, you authorize PlaceMatters to use information you provide to personalize the information we deliver to you and to use your demographic information when calculating aggregate user data. PlaceMatters may occasionally amend this policy. We suggest that you bookmark this page and check to see if it has changed from time to time.

Questions?

If you wish to change any information you have given us, or have any questions on our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at chris [at] placematters.org.