Written by SHOESTRING SOLUTIONS is committed to protecting the privacy of our registered members, subscribers and site visitors. To better protect your privacy, we provide this comprehensive notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. This policy is effective November 14, 2006 and updated on October 30, 2009.
This policy applies sites owned or directly controlled by Shoestring Solutions including TalkGwinnett.com, TalkGwinnett.net, MillageRate.com, GwinnettImpactFees.com, LawrencevilleGA.us, BobGriggs.com, BikeGwinnett.com, BayCreekNews.net, TwitterGwinnett.com and EVerifyGwinnett.com.
What information do you capture if I subscribe online?
If you register or subscribe online, you must provide us certain contact information including your name and e-mail address. Other information may be requested, but only submitted at your discretion. You may also be asked to create a user name.
Information provided by you may be displayed publicly to other registered members in your User Profile. You will be notified prior to submission of the information that it will or will not be publicly displayed. You may choose not to provide such information.
Will you rent, sell, or trade my e-mail address to a third party?
Your e-mail address will be used by SHOESTRING SOLUTIONS to e-mail you about news that you have specifically chosen to receive. Though we hope you gain value from the messages you receive, you can choose to opt-out of receiving further messages by cancelling your membership at our site.
SHOESTRING SOLUTIONS will never share your e-mail address with a third party. We may from time to time send you special offers and advertisements for products or services offered by third parties. We will not disclose any of your personal information to such third parties when we do this.
SHOESTRING NEWS is a newsletter distribution service of SHOESTRING SOLUTIONS. Some of those publications are not owned or controlled by us, but by our newsletter clients. SHOESTRING SOLUTIONS has no responsibility for how those mailing lists are managed or distributed.
Will you rent, sell, or trade my name and postal address to another company?
No, SHOESTRING SOLUTIONS will not provide your name nor postal address, if provided, to any third party. However, your name and postal address may be displayed publicly to other registered members in your User Profile. You will be notified prior to submission of the information that it will or will not be publicly displayed. You may choose not to provide such information.
Do you share any other personal information with third parties?
No, we will never share your personal information with a third party. However, information that you provide as part of your User Profile may be displayed publicly to other registered members. You will be notified prior to submission of the information that it will or will not be publicly displayed. You may choose not to provide such information.
Are my transactions secured online?
Yes! We take every precaution to protect your information. You are the only one who can access your account so long as you keep your username and password secret. When you place an order or make a payment online, your credit card account information is verified and processed on a secure server outside of the site server and all transmissions are fully encrypted. The information you send us is also encrypted in transit using secure socket layer (SSL) software. SHOESTRING SOLUTIONS uses Paypal for all secure online transactions.
What are cookies? How do you use cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information that your browser stores on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies do not hold any personal information, but they allow us to remember your password and store your site preferences.
If you check the “Remember me” box on the login page, we store your encrypted username and password to make it easier and faster to login the next time you return to the site.
If you choose not to accept any cookies on the site, you will still be able to use all the features of the site. You will, however, need to provide your login information during each visit.
Do you track site usage and traffic patterns?
Yes. By monitoring traffic patterns we learn which links and pages of the site are the most utilized. SHOESTRING SOLUTIONS will then use this information to further develop the features and functionality of the site and, hopefully, enhance your online experience.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve some of the ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Some of our sites display Google ads. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
How will I know if your privacy policy changes?
If there are changes to our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Still have questions? Contact us.
