PRIVACY POLICY

Thank you for visiting the Scribes Valley Publishing website. Our privacy policy is clear: Scribes Valley Publishing Company will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website:

Information Collected and Stored Automatically:

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
   
2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
3. The date and time you access our site;
4. The pages you visit; and
5. If you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

If You Send Us Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with personal information by sending an e-mail, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us provide you with information that you request. If you submit a contest entry through our website, as for the U-Write-It Online Challenge, we use your personal identification information only to identify your entry to readers and then only your name and city/state are revealed, if you allow us to do so. We do not collect personal information for any other purposes. The information you provide is not given to any private organizations or private persons. We not collect or use information for commercial marketing.

We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us.

Links to Other Sites

Websites accessed from www.scribesvalley.com via hyperlinks or links to other sites may be governed by privacy policies and practices that differ from this Policy. The information practices of other third party websites linked to www.scribesvalley.com are not covered by this Policy. We encourage you to become familiar with the privacy policies and practices of every website you visit before disclosing any personal information.