CRAFTSTER.ORG PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated - March 4, 2008

In order to be able to post messages on the forum, you must first register. We ask you to provide your e-mail address, but no other personally identifiable information is required. The terms of this Privacy Policy cover the collection and use of the information that you give to Craftster.org.

IMPORTANT

Please be aware that your user name will be shown publicly with every contributed post on the forum. Please protect your own identity and choose a fictitious name. Please note that any information you include in a message you post to any chat room, forum or other public posting area is available to anyone with Internet access. If you don't want people to know your e-mail address, for example, don't include it in any message you post publicly. PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN DISCLOSING ANY INFORMATION IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, VIA THE PRIVATE MESSAGING SYSTEM AND OTHER PUBLIC POSTING AREAS. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE BY OTHERS OF THE INFORMATION THAT YOU DISCLOSE IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, VIA THE PRIVATE MESSAGING SYSTEM AND OTHER PUBLIC POSTING AREAS.

Types of information we collect.

Depending on how you use our website and the forum, we may collect the following kinds of information:

A. Your e-mail address when you register for the forum or e-mail us a question.

B . Demographic information that you choose to provide, such as your gender, age, marital status, occupation, income, number and ages of your children, hobbies, zip code, mailing address, and so on.

C . Aggregated usage data, such as the popularity of various pages on our website, the times of day when most website visits occur, and so on.

Do we use cookies?

Yes, like other websites, we use the technology called "cookies" to place small, anonymous data files on your computer. Depending on the version of the Site you use, cookies may be used for the following purposes:

A. To help us track the number of visitors and the popularity of our pages.

B. To give you the convenience of having your username submitted automatically once you've registered and keep you logged in/out.

The software does not collect or send any other form of information to your computer.

Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted.

You can turn cookies off if you wish (see your browser's Help instructions), but any website features that rely on them will be disabled.

Our advertising partners and third party Internet sites have separate privacy and data collection practices which are independent of us. We have no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or the actions of our partners and of third parties. If you click on a banner ad or other third party link on our website, you will be taken to the site sponsoring the advertisement and Craftster.org has no responsibility or liability for the privacy policies of those sites. The advertisers may use information about your visit to the website (such as cookies and other technologies) to enable them to market products or services to you, to monitor which ads have been served to your browser and which webpages you were viewing when such ads were delivered.

Assignment

In the event that all or part of our assets or sold or acquired by another party, or in the event of a merger, you grant us the right to assign the information collected from you via the Sites.

Children

Our registration page has an age-screening mechanism to prevent kids from registering. We won't knowingly allow anyone under the age of thirteen to register with our website, or to access those features that require registration.

If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of thirteen other than in a legally permissible situation, we will delete the information from our records as soon as we discover it.

Contacting Craftster.org

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at upstairs {at} craftster.org. All information you provide in any written communication will also be covered by this policy.

General

The web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy policy at some point in the future, we'll post the changes here. You can tell when this policy was last revised by referring to the "Last Updated" legend at the top of this page. Any changes to our privacy policy will become effective upon posting of the revised privacy policy. Use of the forum following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised privacy policy then in effect.

Craftster.org and the forum are controlled and operated by us from the United States, and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States. Please note that we do not represent or warrant that the website and forum are appropriate or available for use in any jurisdiction outside of the United States. Those who choose to access the forum do so on their own initiative and are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules and regulations.