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PRIVACY STATEMENT

Last Updated: February 7, 2007

Squall, LLC. ("Squall" or "we" or "us") ") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Please read the following to understand our practices regarding personal information and how they affect you as you use our features and services. This statement discloses our current privacy practices regarding the Getting To The Quad Web Site ("GTTQW"); we will post changes to the privacy policy to GTTQW, so check back for the most updated Privacy Statement. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact us.

What Information About You is Collected?
Squall collects information about our readers so that we can provide a more interesting and useful service, as well as more appropriate advertising. We may ask for your name, email address, and other personal information when you register to use certain features of our GTTQW, or if you sign up for special or personalized services, such as our discussion boards or email newsletters. We may also ask for this information at other times, such as when you enter contests or other promotions sponsored by GTTQW and/or our partners. We sometimes conduct surveys as well, although you do not have to respond to them.

We may collect other information in our log files, such as system usage or IP addresses for site security and to help us understand how people use our sites so that we can improve our sites and our users' respective experiences.

We may also collect your email address when you submit content to our sites (for example, a contest entry, or a post). Unless we get your approval, we will not display your address with your submission.

Advertising networks that serve ads on our site may also use single-pixel GIFs in their advertisements. In general, any electronic image viewed as part of a Web page, including an ad banner, can act as a Web beacon.

How Does Getting To The Quad Use Your Personal Information?
GTTQW collects personal information to provide you, the user, with the best and most personalized experience possible, and to provide our advertisers with an efficient way to reach the right audience.

We conduct research on our users' demographics, interests, and behaviors based upon the information you provide us when you register or participate in contests or other promotions on our site, or based upon the information on our server log files. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. We may also notify you of products, services, or areas of our site that we think may interest you based on the information we've received. If you would prefer us not to contact you for these purposes, simply contact us and let us know.

In addition to helping us process your order, we use the information we collect from you when you buy a product or service from us so that we can provide you with an enhanced, more personalized shopping experience. We will also send you occasional discount alerts and notices about products and services that we think may interest you. If you would prefer us not to send you those notices, again, simply contact us to let us know.

Sometimes we ask for personal information when providing special features and services. You do not have to give us that information, but without it, you may not be able to take advantage of those products or services.

Information, such as address, email, and other personal information may be gathered on a limited basis to fulfill requests on GTTQW. For example, mailing information will be shared with the appropriate parties if a bound version of the Getting To The Quad is requested.

IP Addresses Usage
Your Web browser or email application automatically provides your Internet Protocol address ("IP address") to other computers with which you communicate over the Internet, so that they know where to send you information.

We receive an IP address each time you view one of our Web pages, because the browser automatically reports it to us. We also may store the IP address when you register with GTTQW, post a message, or buy something from us.

We may use IP addresses for various purposes, including:

  • Diagnosing service or technology problems.
  • Assessing and maintaining system security.
  • Displaying the most appropriate advertising or content.
  • Studying how people use our site and how we can improve it.
  • Reporting to advertisers about aggregate, but not individual, information derived from IP addresses.

Will The Getting To The Quad Disclose Any of Your Personal Information?
The GTTQW will not disclose any personally identifiable information about individual users, except as described in this Privacy Statement. With the few exceptions that we explain here, we do not give, rent, lend, or sell individual information to our advertisers, although we do provide aggregate information. We will not disclose information such as email addresses or other contact information. We may also use this aggregated information to help the advertisers reach the kind of audience they want. They may give us an ad and tell us the type of audience they want to reach. We may also disclose aggregate information in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

As for individually identifiable information, we may disclose it only under the following circumstances:

  • We may disclose information to others when we have your consent.
  • If you sign up for a special offer from an advertiser, partner, or affiliate, we will provide your individual contact information (for example, name, mailing address, email address, and/or telephone number), so that the advertiser or its agent can fulfill the special offer. Once the advertiser receives the information, it will handle the information under its own privacy policies.
  • We may disclose information to selected partners, under nondisclosure agreements, only for the purpose of marketing Squall products and or services for co-branded offerings. Those partners will be able to use the personal information they receive from us only for marketing the co-branded offerings, not for marketing anything else. If you would prefer not to hear about such products and services, simply contact us and let us know.
  • If you buy something from us, we will disclose your personal information to the extent necessary to fulfill your order and charge your credit card (if applicable). We may use a fulfillment company to fill and ship your order (excluding products you download directly from our site) and a credit card processing company to verify your card number and process the transaction. We may also give your information to a delivery or postal service to facilitate delivery.
  • We may disclose your personal information as required by applicable law, or in response to legal process, to protect the rights or property of Squall, or to protect the safety of Squall, our users, or others.
  • We may sometimes conduct mailings to other people's lists. To make it easier for us to comply with the Federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, we may share our email list of people who have requested not to receive promotional communications from us with the list providers (or contractors) solely so that we can avoid sending emails to people who have asked not to receive them (or, conversely, so that our advertisers can avoid sending emails to people who have requested not to hear from them). We provide these lists only to list providers or contractors that we consider to be reputable, and only under strict nondisclosure/nonuse agreements.
  • We may disclose personal information in some other limited circumstances, but we will specifically describe them to you when we collect the information, such as in the rules of a contest or a new service.
  • We may employ contractors or other third parties to help with our operations. We may give them access to databases of user information, so that they can perform their services for us, including performing system maintenance, displaying personalized content, performing list analysis or management, or sending mailings for us from our advertisers. These parties are all subject to confidentiality agreements that restrict their use and disclosure of information they obtain through their relationship with Squall.
  • The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to you by our advertising partners. Information about your visits, such as the number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you.
  • Squall and its subsidiaries and/or affiliates may share information for site administration or order fulfillment, and to notify you of products and services that may interest you.

What Kind of Security Measures Do We Take to Protect Your Information From Accidental Loss or Disclosure?
Squall is committed to protecting your personal information. We store information you provide us on our secure servers.

Personalized areas of our site are password-protected. Only you have access to these password-protected areas. Do not share your passwords with anyone. Squall will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or email.

Will GTTQW Use Your Information for Direct Mailings?
If you register with GTTQW, sign up for, or buy any of our products or services, we will send you information about our various products and services, or other products and services that we believe may interest you. Our partners in co-branded products may also send you information for such co-branded offerings.

We may also provide your physical mailing address (but not your email address) to people who will send you promotional "snail" mailings about their products and services.

If you do not want to receive such offers and mailings, you can contact us, or you may send snail mail to Lion Eyes Creations, P.O. Box 43268 Cincinnati, OH 45243. We will remove your name from our lists as soon as we can.

Please note: If you purchase products or services from us, or if you register for an account with us, we may contact you to confirm your purchase, subscription, or registration, or to provide you with information about its terms or features. You may wish to keep these transactional or relationship emails, to help you use our products and services.

How Can You Deactivate Your Account or Edit the Information We Have About You?
If you want to correct or change information in your Personal Profile, or any other tidbits we have about you, please go the Message Board. Either you will be able to make your changes right there, or we will give you instructions.

What Else Should You Know About Your Privacy?
When you post information on discussion boards, in chat rooms, and in various features, that information, along with your screen name, is visible to the public. Please remember that whenever you disclose personal information publicly that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online where people can see it, people will know that information and you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Also please be aware that when you post messages on our discussion boards, people can respond to your posts through our "Reply to Author" email function. Of course, they still will not know your email address (unless you send an email to them).

While we do our best to protect your personal information, Squall cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any password and/or account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online, especially when using a public computer.

Many of our advertisers or partners link from our site to areas on their own sites where they sell their own products and services. If you follow links from our site to others, you should be aware that you are doing business with those other sites, which have their own privacy and data collection practices. Squall has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies (and we may not even know what they are). For more information regarding a site and its privacy policies, check that site.

How Will You Know Whether The Getting To The Quad's Policy Has Changed?
Squall may change this Privacy Statement at any time without notice. The date of the most recent revisions will appear at the top of this page. Users may want to check the Privacy Policy from time to time to see if any changes have been made.