Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy & Terms/Conditions
Stephen Allen Holmes respects the privacy of its customers, and other individuals and businesses using Stephen Allen Holmes.com. This Privacy Policy, effective December 15st, 2009, is to keep you informed about the types of information collected on Stephen Allen Holmes.com and how the information is used and protected.
 
USE OF COOKIES
Stephen Allen Holmes may use "cookies" to collect anonymous information. Cookies are small bits of encrypted data that are loaded by Stephen Allen Holmes's server onto your computer when you visit Stephen Allen Holmes. The server can retrieve the cookies the next time you visit and use them to identify the computer as a return visitor.  Stephen Allen Holmes uses cookies to collect non-personally identifiable information and generically track usage patterns on Stephen Allen Holmes in order to monitor activity and administer the sites. Stephen Allen Holmes.com also uses information obtained from cookies to improve Stephen Allen Holmes, and helps when making decisions concerning advertising, product offerings and services. Most users can disable cookies from their Internet browsers, receive a warning before a cookie is placed on their computer, and erase all cookies from their computer hard drives by following the instructions provided by the browser.
 
ADVERTISEMENTS ON Stephen Allen Holmes
 
Advertising companies deliver ads on Stephen Allen Holmes. You should be aware that when you click on these ads, the advertising companies may also deploy cookies to receive anonymous information about ad viewing by Internet users on Stephen Allen Holmes and other Web sites. This information is associated with your Web browser, but cannot be associated with your name or e-mail address without your permission. Therefore, advertising companies may know where your computer goes on the Web, but they do not know who you are unless you tell them. Stephen Allen Holmes.com does not provide personally identifiable information about its customers or Stephen Allen Holmes visitors to these advertising companies.
 
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
 
Stephen Allen Holmes.com may ask you to provide what is often referred to as "personally identifiable information" such as your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address when you use Stephen Allen Holmes to blog or purchase books. Personally identifiable information provided at Stephen Allen Holmes to order Stephen Allen Holmes books will be protected in the same manner as when the information is provided by other means such as over the telephone or by mail. We use personally identifiable information provided at Stephen Allen Holmes in the following ways unless otherwise specified: * For its intended purpose (such as to complete an online order for books), * To provide you with information about new Stephen Allen Holmes books or products offered in conjunction with Stephen Allen Holmes.com business partners and affiliates.
 
DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES
 
We will make your personally identifiable information available to other companies or people when: You have elected to allow us to share that information at the time that you registered with us or provided us the information through our website. We hire third-party vendors to provide specialized services such as customer support; email message deployment; suppression, merge and de-duplication services; data processing; and special products or services that you have requested. These companies are only allowed to use the information in order to help us fulfill our services to you. We do not provide your information to these companies for their own, permanent use. You unsubscribe for a mailing that we send to you on behalf of a third party. We may share your removal instruction with the third party so that it may be added to that person’s list of people to whom they may not send emails. When required by law, such as when we respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process. We believe that your actions violate applicable laws, Stephen Allen Holmes Terms of Use, or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others. In the event it is required in connection with the sale, lease or transfer of all or a portion of Stephen Allen Holmes.com' assets.
 
E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS
 
Stephen Allen Holmes.com may use e-mail to communicate with you, respond to your e-mail, and to tell you about new books. If you do not wish to receive e-mail promotions and new products and service announcements from Stephen Allen Holmes.com, please follow the instructions that appear at the end of the e-mail communication that you receive from Stephen Allen Holmes.com to have your name removed from the list.
 
SECURITY
 
Stephen Allen Holmes.com utilizes several encryption methods to ensure that the data you submit on Stephen Allen Holmes is secure. Through this "secure session," information that you input into a Stephen Allen Holmes.com online order form will be sent and will arrive privately and unaltered at the Stephen Allen Holmes server. This security prohibits access to your information by other companies and Web users.
 
CHILDREN
 
Stephen Allen Holmes.com does not intend to collect personally identifiable information from individuals under 18 years of age. If Stephen Allen Holmes.com becomes aware that a user who is under 18 is using Stephen Allen Holmes, Stephen Allen Holmes.com will specifically instruct that individual that they are not to submit information on Stephen Allen Holmes without a parent or guardian's consent. If a child has provided Stephen Allen Holmes.com with personally identifiable information without Stephen Allen Holmes.com' knowledge, a parent or guardian of the child may contact Stephen Allen Holmes.com at privacy@StephenAllenHolmes.com and Stephen Allen Holmes.com will delete the child's information from our existing files.
 
LINKS
 
Stephen Allen Holmes can contain links to other Web sites that are owned and operated by parties other than Stephen Allen Holmes.com. Please be aware that this Privacy Policy does not extend to any Web sites other than those owned and controlled by Stephen Allen Holmes.com.
 
ACCOUNT INFORMATION
 
You may always contact us at privacy@StephenAllenHolmes.com or by telephone or mail to verify your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number and/or billing information. Stephen Allen Holmes.com will correct any information that is inaccurate.
 
QUESTIONS
 
If you have questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at privacy@Stephen Allen Holmes.com. If you have submitted personally identifiable information, and would like that information deleted from our records, please contact us at our e-mail address, privacy@StephenAllenHolmes.com. We will use reasonable efforts to delete that information from our files.
 
UPDATES
 
Stephen Allen Holmes.com may amend this Privacy Policy from time-to-time. These changes will be posted online.