Al Brown & Associates takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. What This Privacy Policy Covers This policy covers how Al Brown & Associates treats personal information that we collect from you. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that may advertise on our website yet, which we do not own or control, or to the practices of their employees, How we collect and use your Information General Al Brown & Associates collects personal information when you sign up for our e-mail updates, order a product or service via PayPal or make a donation to a cause that we support. Any and all other information collected by our advertisers or clients using our website, is strictly between you and the client with whom you are registering. Al Brown & Associates recommends that you always exercise caution when submitting information online and that you insure that it is a trusted source that you are registering your information with. When you register we ask for information such as your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For shipping purposes, we might also ask for your address. Al Brown & Associates never request financial information such as Social Security numbers or information about your assets. Al Brown & Associates collects limited information about your transactions with us solely for the purpose of record keeping and shipping. Via our server logs through your browser, Al Brown & Associates automatically receives and records information on you including your IP address and the page you request. Al Brown & Associates! uses this information for the following general purposes: To develop a demographic of our market, To identify the areas of our website that is of the most interest to you, our customer. To aid us in the research necessary to better ascertain the content and scope of our site development. To contact you with special offers from us or our advertisers, and to provide statistics on the viewing habits of our site visitors to potential advertisers for marketing purposes Children Al Brown & Associates does not knowingly contact children under the age of 18 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission. Al Brown & Associates limits the amount of information that we request from a child under the age of 18 to a name, e-mail address and or perhaps a quick survey of their web surfing or entertainment preferences. Information Sharing and Disclosure Al Brown & Associates does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances: We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Al Brown & Associates under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Al Brown & Associates communicate with you about offers from Al Brown & Associates and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law. We transfer information about you if Al Brown & Associates is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Al Brown & Associates will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. Al Brown & Associates displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria-for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area. Al Brown & Associates does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad. Al Brown & Associates advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies). Al Brown & Associates works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you've requested please read our detailed reference links. Cookies Companies that place advertisements on our website set and access their cookies on your computer. We have no control as to how these companies' use their cookies and assume no liability for the same. The cookies of companies who advertise on our web site are subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences General You can remove your e-mail information at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link which is included in our e-mail update. Occasionally we may send you certain special announcements, promotions, and our Newsletter. Confidentiality and Security We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you. Changes to this Privacy Policy This Privacy Policy is subject to change. If significant changes are made, we will notify you via an update notification to your primary email address specified in our records and/or also by posting a visible update on our website. Questions and Suggestions For questions or suggestions, please contact us at: Al Brown & Associates Privacy Policy Inquiry Albrown4sure@chicagoismykindofsound.net773.351-5463 Effective: December 15, 2006 NOTICE: Click here for important information about safe surfing from the Federal Trade Commission.