Bethesda Designs Privacy Statement
Last Modified: 11/11/2001

Purpose of this Policy
We have a firm commitment to privacy. This statement aims to provide details about the information we collect from our site and what happens to it.

Linked Sites
The site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any of these sites. A link from our site to another site does not imply any recommendation or approval of the other site, only that it may be relevant to our visitors. As a service to our users, BethesdaDesigns.com contains links to other sites. Bethesda Designs is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.

Our Internet privacy policy is:
You do not have to give us personal information to visit our site. We collect personally identifiable information only if specifically and knowingly provided by you. Personally identifiable information includes your name, email, home address, phone numbers, or other information that identifies you personally. We collect the information to respond to your inquiry, or to assist in providing to you products or services in which you have expressed an interest. In some cases, the information you provide will be used to merely respond to your electronic inquiry and will not be maintained. If we ask you to provide personally identifiable information in order to take advantage of a product or service, and we maintain that information, a statement in accordance with the Privacy Act will be provided. It will tell you the purposes for collecting the information and the potential uses of it. While we do gather certain information about your visit to our Web site, such as for statistical purposes, this information does not identify you personally.

Our site may use cookies for limited purposes that enable your use of certain features and improve the functionality of our Web site. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, note that some parts of Bethesda Designs's site may not function properly if cookies are disabled or may require you to enter your registration information on multiple web pages.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically
We may collect certain information about your visit automatically through the use of standard web server log files. 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 Web site;
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;
5.Referral statistics in cases where we have an ad banner placement or other linking agreement with an affiliate web site outside BethesdaDesigns.com, as follows:

If, as a result of clicking on a link from an affiliate site, you access or register with BethesdaDesigns.com, we may record the following: identity of the affiliate site, time referral occurred, time that any order was placed, and value of any sale. If you click on a link to an affiliated web site from BethesdaDesigns.com, we may record that the referral occurred.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors. We use it to learn about the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, and technical information that will enhance ease of use, such as the types of technology our visitors use and system performance or problem areas.

Information collected from e-mails and on-line forms
Some of our Web pages allow you to send us an e-mail. If your e-mail message includes personally identifiable information, as for example in an electronic mail message containing an inquiry, we will use that information to respond to your inquiry. In addition, in some cases it may be used to provide information or to fill your order for products and services in which you have expressed an interest.

Remember that e-mail may not necessarily be secure against interception. If your e-mail communication is very sensitive, or includes information such as your bank account, charge card, or social security number, you should send it by mail unless the Web site indicates the particular site is secured.

Bethesda Designs may make chat rooms, forums, message boards and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security: Detection of unauthorized intrusions
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this computer system may employ software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits other than those uses identified in this policy. Intentional misuse of secure information will be investigated and may result in federal prosecution.

Security: Secured Data Transmissions
In those instances where we secure your information in transit to us and upon receipt in order to safeguard your personally identifiable information, the web site uses the industry standard encryption software, Secured Socket Layer (SSL). The URL in your browser will change to "HTTPS" instead of "HTTP" when this security feature is invoked. Your browser may also display a lock symbol on its bottom task bar line to indicate invoked secure transmission.

Significant actions when information enters a System of Records
Some of our Web sites allow you to purchase products and services or request information electronically. In those instances, we will collect the information needed to fulfill your order or request, just as though your order or request had been made on paper. When you purchase items, we, or our e-commerce partners, may need to know your name, email address, mailing address, credit card number and expiration date. This allows for the processing and fulfillment of your order and allows us, or our e-commerce partners, to provide you with any follow-up information and notify you of your purchase order status.

Choice and Access by Third Parties
If you provide express specific consent, Bethesda Designs may use data collected to notify you of other products or services in which you may be interested.

Without further express consent from you, Bethesda Designs: 1) will use the information only to respond to your inquiry or provide the requested product or service; 2) will not provide the information to any third parties, except entities assisting Bethesda Designs in providing products and services you request; and 3) will provide information to the appropriate authorities in the course of any investigation as required by law.

We may share aggregate information on our audience with third parties so that they may better understand the overall demographics of people visiting BethesdaDesigns.com. (Note that this aggregate information does not identify you personally.)

Bethesda Designs does not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others.

By using our web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Bethesda Designs. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on these pages so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. However, even if there are later changes, we will never use your information in a new way (in a way not described in this current privacy notice) without also providing you a prior opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prevent that new use.

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