Written by Administrator | 06 July 2005

The Specusphere is serious about helping maintain your privacy.

How We Collect Your Information

The Specusphere does not collect personal information without your knowledge. On our website, you can provide contact information for registration purposes and this also subscribes you to our email bulletin.

The information that we collect includes:

•    Contact details: Name, Organization, complete address, phone, email address.
•    Payment details: Method of payment, credit card, essential verification information.
•    Correspondence details: Suggestions, comments, messages, questions and requests for further correspondence.
•    Usage details: IP address, browser type, operating system, date stamps, etc. (see Logs below).

Information we may collect through mail order, other correspondence or at events includes (but is not limited to):

•  Names, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers.
•  Detailed contact/shipping information.

We collect credit card information for purchases and donations.


How We Use Your Information

The Specusphere is careful with the personal information you provide. We will use it to:

•  Respond to your correspondence, questions, comments, suggestions, thoughts, opinions, ideas etc.
•  Contact you to confirm specific requests, deliver email or other newsletters you may request, inform you of new products and special offers, or provide information we think may be of particular interest to you.
•  Continually update, develop, design and customize the content of our website to meet the needs, interests and requests of our audience.
•  Publish comments and testimonials in the webzine with reference to your name and/or location, provided that permission to do so is provided by you.
•  Publish comments and testimonials in the webzine without reference to your name but with reference to your state, if permission to reference your name has not been provided by you.
•  We will always provide a way for you to be removed from our mailing lists.

The Specusphere does not sell, rent, lease or exchanges any personal information with other organizations.

Protection of The Specusphere and others: We reserve the right to release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Specusphere, our constituents, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Links

The Specusphere contains many links to other sites. The privacy and data collection practices on linked websites are entirely separate from us and are not covered by this privacy policy.

The hyperlinks to other sites on this website are provided as an additional resource only and should not be seen as an endorsement, approval or agreement with any information or resources offered at sites accessed through our site. No inference or assumption should be made and no representation should be inferred that The Specusphere is connected with, operates or controls these websites.

Maintenance of Information

If your personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code, phone, e-mail or postal address), or if you no longer desire to receive email updates etc., we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate such information. To remove yourself from any email lists, click on the unsubscribe link that is at the bottom of every email you receive from us.

Changes to this Statement

The Specusphere reserves the right to make changes to this privacy statement and its associated policies at any time and requests that you review this statement periodically for updates.

Contact Information

If you have questions or concerns about any information on this page, please contact us.

Thank you!