Privacy Statement

Banister Bindings Privacy Policy

Our Commitment to your Privacy

This site is owned and operated by Banister Bindings. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Banister Bindings we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.

Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

Information Banister Bindings Gathers & Tracks

Banister Bindings gathers two types of information about users:

• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive requested information, to submit comments or photos or to order and purchase products at our online store.
• Information Banister Bindings gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. Because Banister Bindings strives to provide the most useful information to its site visitors, this information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs. Under no circumstances does Banister Bindings divulge any information about an individual user to a third party. This tracking is not tagged with an ID (name or user info).

Banister Bindings Gathers User Information In The Following Processes

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

1. Contact Forms

We offer users the opportunity to request information about our products, as well as send us comments through our website. Banister Bindings gathers the name, address, phone and email address of users who voluntarily contact us via email so that we may provide the user with the service the user requested.

At this time, we do not use the email addresses collected to send out promotional emails or newsletters. If in the future if we choose to do so, users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every email that points users to the subscription management page.

Children

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Usage tracking

Banister Bindings tracks user traffic patterns throughout our site. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Banister Bindings does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's internet provider, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

Banister Bindings sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

Cookies

We place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Banister Bindings uses cookies to track user traffic patterns within the Banister Bindings website only (as described above). We cannot watch your surfing habits, nor care to do so.

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.

Use of Information

Banister Bindings uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out product and services information. Banister Bindings never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites visitors like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Sharing of Information

Banister Bindings uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and to better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our website useful and current. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Security

Banister Bindings operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

Your Consent

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Banister Bindings. 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.

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