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Policies, Privacy Statement, and Terms Of Service
General Comments
First, thank you for visiting. The team here at UplandLife.com
truly love the things we present online. Our
purpose is to make sure that you do, too. We get a lot of satisfaction in
knowing that the images, experience, opinions, information, contacts, and other
content here on our web site are helping other people discover (and rediscover!)
such an important heritage.
That being said, this is the internet. We understand that the cyber world is
full of mis-information, abuses of trust, and outright scams and lies. We do
not tolerate any nonsense related to this endeavor, and work hard to make
sure that you won't have to, either. That means that we only link to things
we use or visit ourselves, we only provide information in good faith, and
look to cover the costs of providing you with this web destination through associations
with only the most ethical, trustworthy, and customer-oriented businesses.
While our team continually reviews every bit of content on this site, we
cannot be responsible for the information, opinions, or services provided
by those other web sites, people, businesses or other resources that we
mention or connect to here on our site. We're required to say, essentially, that all information
that we provide is provided "as is," without any implication of
merit, accuracy, or other qualities - so that there is no confusion about each
visitor's personal obligation to research and personally weigh, understand, and apply
anything that they take away from this or any other web site or publication. You can bet, though, that we bend over
backwards to make sure that you won't have a reason to question what
we put in front of you. And if you do question it, of course we'd
like to hear from you. It's also worth mentioning
that one way we help to pay for bringing you this site is to run discreet
text ads that appear at the side or bottom of some pages. Such ads are brought
to you by third parties, such as Google. Those third parties try very hard to
only show you ads that are relevant to the content you're looking at, and they
generally do a good job. But you should know that we do not directly control
exactly which ads are shown, or have any influence over the character of the
web sites to which those ads might take you, should you visit them. Google's ads are,
though, generally policed very well and are run by businesses that are paying
good money for you to see them, and we encourage you to patronize (or at least
visit!) those businesses because they help to bring you this web site.
Privacy
We completely respect your privacy. Under no circumstances will we ever
share any information about you with any other party, ever, without your
express advance understanding and permission. There are only a few specific areas
where privacy issues can even come up, and here is a very brief outline:
- When you contact us. If you use our
contact form, we require you to provide us with your e-mail address
so that we can effectively reply to you. E-mail addresses, names, and
any other information provided to us as part of such exchanges will not
be used for any other purpose, period. Only if, as part of your communication
to us, you specifically request that we add you to our news or contact
lists will contacting us ever result in future communications from us.
- When you become a member of the site. From time to time, we
will provide content here on the site that only members will be able to
access. Becoming such a member entails providing us with a user name,
a valid e-mail address, password, and some basic demographic information.
We use that information to grant you access to site, remind you of your
password if you've forgotten it, and to keep you informed about changes
to our content or services. As a member, you can also explicitly elect
to receive or not receive other communication from our partners - always
in a manner, and related to such subjects as you specifically dictate.
- When you make a purchase. There are two ways in which you
might make a purchase here at UplandLife.com: you will either directly
pay for a product or service that we provide, or you may be doing business
with a third party to whom we've directed you. Any business you conduct
with third parties is entirely subject to the terms and conditions
governing those transactions, as spelled out by those other parties - we
have no influence over, nor ability to comment on those policies, other
than to generally say that we will only direct you to businesses that
we believe to be ethical and equally interested in preserving your
privacy. When you make a purchase directly from this web site, we will
be collecting such information as is directly required to facilitate that
purchase (payment information, shipping address, etc.), and will only
use that information as required to fulfill the transaction in question
or to follow up on that transaction and ensure your satisfaction. At the
time of such transactions, we may present you with the option to be
notified of future opportunities, and you can elect to receive or not
receive such notices.
- Message board. Should you choose to participate in our
message board, we will require you to register as a member and provide
such information as is needed to uniquely identify your postings
and to remind you of your password should you forget. Your public
postings are only identifiable as coming from you personally if you
so choose to expose any personal information as part of your messaging
profile. Any personal information you disclose within your postings
to the message board you do so entirely of your own will and at your
own risk.
- Cookies and Traffic Logging. Some areas on this site are
dynamically rendered and may or may not require that your web browser
support cookies in order to properly function. We never use cookies
to store any personally identifying information - only random numbers
that serve as tokens to tell our web server which user is trying
to see what information. This allows the system to work properly
and show you what you're trying to see, within the correct context.
Any cookie data that we place on your computer cannot be seen by any
other party, and cannot be used to in any way identify you, track your
other web visits, or in any way learn anything about your activities
on line. On occasion, we will provide links to other web sites (such
as industry partners, news sources, etc.), and the links to those
other destinations may be in the form of banner ads or other content
that will, when being displayed to you, place a cookie on your web
browser. This is so that those other websites (merchants, for example)
will know that they are getting a new visitor from within our
audience here at UplandLife.com. These third-party cookies are
essential to helping us know which advertisers' information you are
finding useful, and allow us to make sure that you are not bothered
by pointless information while visiting us. Such third-party ads
and cookies do not provide for any personal tracking of you or your
information, and the only way that any third party can ever identify
you is if you specifically visit that party's web site and introduce
yourself (by making a purchase, etc.).
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