Crucible Safety Media Privacy Statement

This privacy statement is applicable to cruciblesafety.com and any other site that Crucible Safety Media owns and operates.

Information Collection
Crucible Safety Media does not collect personally identifiable information about you in any of its domains except when you specifically provide this information on a voluntary basis. For example, we might ask for such information when we run a contest, when you register for subscription services, during product registration, in our online stores, and in connection with content submissions, community postings (e.g., chat and bulletin boards), surveys, and voting and polling activities. Crucible will make every effort to ensure that whatever information you provide will be maintained in a secure environment.

Information Sharing
Crucible Safety Media will not sell or trade your personally identifiable information to unaffiliated third parties without your consent at the time of collection. When we ask for this data, you will have the opportunity to indicate whether you would like to "opt out" of receiving promotional and/or marketing information about other products, services, and offerings from Crucible Safety Media and/or any third parties. You can also opt out at anytime thereafter.

However, even if you opt out of receiving any communications from Crucible Safety Media, we reserve the right to contact you regarding your account status, changes to the subscriber agreement, and any other matter that might affect our service to you and/or our records on you.

Information Use
Crucible Safety Media reserves the right to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics. We do this in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of our Web sites. We may share this information with advertisers. We may also use this information to let advertisers know how many visitors have seen their banners and how many have clicked on them. Crucible Safety Media will provide only aggregated data from these analyses to third parties; advertisers will not be able to identify any individual from these analyses.

Also, you should be aware that Crucible Safety Media may sometimes permit third parties to offer subscription and/or registration-based services through a Crucible Safety Media site. Crucible Safety Media is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties, and you should check the applicable privacy policy of any third party when providing personally identifiable information.

Crucible Safety Media collects IP addresses for system administration, record keeping, and advertising reporting. Your IP address is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the World Wide Web. Crucible Safety Media's servers record incoming IP addresses. The IP addresses are analyzed only in aggregate; no connection is made between you and your computer's IP address. By tracking IP addresses, we can determine which sites refer the most people to Crucible Safety Media.(Think of an IP address like your zip code; it tells us in general terms where you're from.)

You should be very cautious when you voluntarily disclose personal information (for example, name or e-mail address) on bulletin boards, in chat areas, or the upload areas of any Crucible Safety Media site. That information, along with any other information you may disclose in your posting, can be collected, correlated, and used by third parties, and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Crucible Safety Media.

Cookies
You should be aware that non-personal information and data may be automatically collected through the standard operation of Crucible Safety Media's Internet servers or through the use of "cookies." "Cookies" are small text files a Web site can use to recognize repeat users. Crucible Safety Media uses cookies to recognize visitors and more quickly provide personalized content or grant you unimpeded access to registered areas of our Web sites. With cookies enabled, you will not need to fill in password or contact information, should areas of our sites ask for this information.

Information gathered through cookies also helps us measure use of our sites. Cookie data allow us to track usage behavior and compile data that we can use to improve the site and target advertising. This data will be used in aggregate form; no specific users will be tracked.

Crucible Safety Media does not use cookies to uniquely identify you, except where such use helps us to make your visit more efficient. For example, cookies will help us identify you when you order, so that you don't have to fill in your billing and shipping information every time you visit a Crucible Safety Media store. Cookies help you travel through our sites efficiently.

Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside of the Web site that he or she is visiting. Sometimes, advertisers or third parties hosting data for Crucible Safety Media will issue cookies. Crucible Safety Media cannot control the use of these cookies or the information that they gather.

You can easily turn off cookies. Most browsers have a feature that allows the user to refuse cookies or issues a warning when cookies are being sent. Remember, though, cookies may be necessary to provide you with certain features available on Crucible Safety Media's sites. Some areas of our sites may not function properly without cookies. Enabling cookies ensures a smooth, efficient visit to our sites.

Other Data Requirements
Some Crucible Safety Media applications generate a Computer ID value during the installation process. This is a number that serves to identify your computer for licensing purposes only and contains no specific information about you, your computer, or any files or other data on your system. Computer ID values serve as an effective way to combat software piracy.

Opting Out
Upon request, Crucible Safety Media will allow any user to opt out of further promotional contacts at any time. Additionally upon request, Crucible Safety Media will use reasonable efforts to allow users to update or correct personal information previously submitted which you may say is erroneous, to the extent that changing the data will not compromise privacy or security interests. Also, upon your request, Crucible Safety Media will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally delete you and your personal information from our database; however, it may be impossible to delete all of your information without some residual data because of backups and records of deletions. Furthermore, your e-mail address will be added to a suppression list that stops any message directed to you before it leaves Crucible Safety Media. It is your responsibility, however, to make certain that we have your most current e-mail address.

Should you wish to opt out of any mailing from Crucible Safety Media or a mailing you received through information provided to a third party affiliate, please contact Crucible Safety Media list maintenance.

Links to Other Sites
Crucible Safety Media will offer links to other sites from sites within the Crucible Safety Media domain. Crucible Safety Media has no control over these external sites and cannot be held responsible for any actions they may take. You may arrive at one of these sites through clicking on a banner advertisement, as part of a co-branding arrangement, or simply by selecting a link on a Links page. These sites might issue their own cookies or collect data or personal information. Use caution when visiting an external site.

Crucible Safety Media Security Policy
Crucible Safety Media is aware of your privacy concerns and strives to collect only as much data as is required to make your Internet and/or product use experience as efficient and satisfying as possible, in the most unobtrusive manner as possible.

Only those employees involved in ensuring the quality of your experience with us have access to this data. Any employee found in violation of our security or privacy policies will be subject to disciplinary action.

The foregoing policies are effective as of August 1, 1999. Crucible Safety Media reserves the right to change this policy at any time by notifying users of the existence of a new privacy statement. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.