This privacy policy sets out how Silicon Prairie Graphics uses and protects any information that you give Silicon Prairie Graphics when you use this website.

Silicon Prairie Graphics is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Silicon Prairie Graphics may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from Jan 21, 2008.

Information Silicon Prairie Graphics Gathers & Tracks

Silicon Prairie Graphics gathers two types of information about users:

    * Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletter and from participation in polls and surveys

    * Information Silicon Prairie Graphics gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because Silicon Prairie Graphics derives some of its revenue from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our website available to users. Silicon Prairie Graphics will not sell, lease or otherwise divulge any information about an individual user to a third party, except when required by law to do so.

Silicon Prairie Graphics Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:

Optional Voluntary Information

We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

1. Electronic newsletter policy

We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Silicon Prairie Graphics gathers the names and email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the bottom of each newsletter.

2. Polling

We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. Silicon Prairie Graphics may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.

3. Surveys

Silicon Prairie Graphics may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.

What we do with the information we gather:

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

* Internal record keeping.

* We may use the information to improve our products and services.

1. *As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls and surveys. We send out newsletters to subscribers sporadically (when the whim hits us to do so),  and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Silicon Prairie Graphics never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
   

Cookies

Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates. The cookie itself does not contain personal information although it will enable our advertisers to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

* Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.

1. *Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users
   

* Opting to change your mind about being subscribed to our mailing list by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the bottom of each newsletter.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us as soon as possible, at contactus@siliconprairiegraphics.com. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Your Consent

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Silicon Prairie Graphics. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.