Coburn Ventures Privacy Policy
Last updated on May 1, 2005
Coburn Ventures is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. To that end, we have prepared this Privacy Policy to disclose and describe our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website. Coburn Ventures reserves the right to modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time with or without notice. Accordingly, you should refer to this Policy from time to time.
This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with the website’s Terms of Use, which may be accessed by clicking on the following link: Terms of Use.
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:
1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
3. The date and time you access our site;
4. The pages you visit; and
5. If you linked to the Coburn Ventures website from another website, the address of that website.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits. We do not provide this information to third parties.
If you register with the site in order to purchase publications, Coburn Ventures will request certain personally identifiable information from you. This information includes information such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, credit card and/or other billing information and information about the computer you use to access the site. It is our intent to inform you before we collect personal information, and tell you what we intend to do with it. You will have the option of not providing the information, in which case you may still be able to access other portions of this website, although you may not be able to access certain programs or services. In certain portions of this website, we also may enable you to “opt out” of certain uses of your information, or elect not to receive future communications or services. Users who no longer wish to receive communications from us may opt-out of receiving these communications by e-mailing us at webmaster@CoburnVentures.com and including the word “unsubscribe” in the subject line. Coburn Ventures may still contact you regarding billing matters or other administrative matters relating to your account.
Coburn Ventures strives to keep your personal information accurate, complete and current. We will promptly take steps to correct any inaccuracies in your personally identifiable information of which we are made aware.
Any information you disclose in a public forum of the site is subject to the Terms of Use.
Coburn Ventures’ intent is to strictly protect the security of your personal information, honor your choice for its intended use and carefully protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure personal information we collect online.
If for some reason you believe Coburn Ventures has not adhered to these principles, please notify us by e-mail at webmaster@CoburnVentures.com, and we will do our best to determine and correct the problem promptly. Please include words “Privacy Policy” in the subject line.
This website contains links to other websites that are not controlled by Coburn Ventures. Please be aware that Coburn Ventures is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. The Coburn Ventures Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this website.
Coburn Ventures may disclose your personal information 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 Coburn Ventures or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Coburn Ventures, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Coburn Ventures employees, users of Coburn Ventures products or services, or members of the public.
Cookies
We may use cookies to improve our service to you. Cookies may help us recall a previous visit. The cookies we use do not collect personally identifiable information, and we do not use them to determine your identity. If you are not comfortable with this use, you may configure your browser to be notified when cookies are to be received and to provide you with the option of refusing cookies. However, refusing cookies may limit your ability to use our website in its entirety.
Children
While Coburn Ventures’ website may be viewed by children, we do not wish to receive data from children. Coburn Ventures encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the interactive activities offered on the sites their children visit. No information should be submitted to, or posted at, Coburn Ventures’ website by visitors under 18 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy or practices, please contact us via email at webmaster@CoburnVentures.com and include the words “Privacy Policy” in the subject line.