Your Privacy

PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

This site is owned and operated by Fabricators Friend. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Fabricators Friend, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.

Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

INFORMATION FABRICATORS FRIEND GATHERS AND TRACKS

Fabricators Friend gathers two types of information about users:

* Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to place an order, ask questions,, to participate in our blog or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:

* Information Fabricators Friend gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help us better understand the demographics of our visitors. This information is not personally identifiable.

Fabricators Friend Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:

Information is collected when an online order is placed. Fabricators Friends uses a secure online ordering system that protects your information.

At times we may offer the following free services, which may require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

1. Message boards/forums policy

Users of the site's Blog and Forums must register separately for these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages, although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.

2. "E-mail this to a friend" policy

Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.

3. Polling & Surveys

We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. Fabricators Friend may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.

4. Remnant Exchange

Users of the site's Remnant Exchange Service must register separately for this service. During registration the user is required to supply a complete contact information as well as a username, password, and email address.

Children

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Usage tracking

Fabricators Friend tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Fabricators Friend does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

Cookies

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. Cookies are required for some parts of this web site to function. If cookies are turned off you may not see certain images.

Privacy Policy Use

USE OF INFORMATION

Fabricators Friend uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

As stated above, we may use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, blogs, and forums. In the case of our Remnant Exchange service, the information collected is also used to validate the user as being in the stone cutting or related business.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.

We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

OPT-OUT POLICY

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

* Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.

* Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Fabricators Friend. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.