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Digital-Pixels Privacy Statement

This document was last updated August 30, 2010.

Digital-Pixels is committed to protecting your privacy. You can visit most pages on our site without giving us any information about yourself. But sometimes we do need information to provide services that you request, and this privacy statement explains data collection and use in those situations. This privacy statement only applies to digital-pixels.com and digital-pixels.net; it does not apply to other online or offline sites, or third party web sites. Please read the complete Digital-Pixels privacy statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Digital-Pixels will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you are registering before entering a contest, ordering e-mail newsletters, joining a members only site, signing up for an event or training, or when purchasing merchandise. Personal information collected by Digital-Pixels often is limited to e-mail address, language, country or location, but may include other information when needed to provide a service you requested.

Use of your Personal Information

Digital-Pixels uses your personal information for the following purposes:

  1. To ensure our site is relevant to your needs.
  2. To deliver services, such as newsletters, events, training or other services that you request.
  3. To help us create and publish content most relevant to you.
  4. To alert you to site updates, special offers, updated information and other new services from Digital-Pixels, if you so request.
  5. To allow you access to limited-entry areas of our site as appropriate.

We will merge site-visitation data with anonymous demographic information for research purposes, and we may use this information in aggregate to provide more relevant content. In some limited-entry sections of the Digital-Pixels web site, with your approval, we will combine site-visitation data with your personal information in order to provide you with personalized content. If you decline permission, we will not provide you the personalized service and won t merge your personal information with site-visitation data.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases, answering customer questions about products or services, sending postal mail and processing event registration. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

Digital-Pixels may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Digital-Pixels or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Digital-Pixels and its family of Web sites, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Digital-Pixels members, users, or members of the public.

Use of cookies

When someone visits the site, a cookie is placed on the visitor's machine (if the visitor accepts cookies) or is read if the visitor has visited the site previously. One use of cookies is to assist in the collection of the site visitation statistics described above.

We also use cookies to collect information on which visitors click on newsletter links. This information is used to ensure we are sending information visitors want to read. It is collected in aggregate form and never linked with your personal information.

Web beacons, also known as clear gif technology, or action tags, may be used to assist in delivering the cookie on our site. This technology tells us how many visitors clicked on key elements (such as links or graphics) on Digital-Pixels Web page. We do not use this technology to access your personally identifiable information on digital-pixels.com or digital-pixels.net; it is a tool we use to compile aggregated statistics about digital-pixels.com or digital-pixels.net Web site usage. We may share aggregated site statistics with partner companies but do not allow other companies to place clear gifs on our sites.

If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from Digital-Pixels Web site, you will be able to view the text on the screens, however you will not experience a personalized visit nor will you be able to subscribe to the service offerings on the site.

Security of your personal information

Digital-Pixels is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide in computer servers with limited access that is located in controlled facilities. When we transmit sensitive information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Links

This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Digital-Pixels is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Tell A Friend

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. Digital-Pixels will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit our site. Digital-Pixels stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. The friend may contact us at webmaster@digital-pixels.com to request the removal of this information from our database.

Changes to this statement

Digital-Pixels will occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the privacy statement. For material changes to this statement, Digital-Pixels will notify you by placing prominent notice on the Web site.

Contact Information

Digital-Pixels welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement, please contact us by e-mail.