Privacy

(1) Vineland is very respectful about the privacy concerns of the visitors to its sites on the Internet. As a general policy, no personal information is automatically collected from visitors to its sites. However, certain nonpersonal information of visitors is recorded by the standard operation of Vineland's servers. This information is primarily used to provide an enhanced online experience for the visitor. Information tracked includes the type of browser being used by the visitor, the type of operating system in use by the visitor and the domain name of the visitor's Internet service provider. By having this information, web pages optimized for a particular visitor's computer is automatically available to that visitor. Other uses of this information include internal review of the number of visitors to the sites but only in an aggregate and non-personally identifiable form. E-mail addresses and other personally identifiable data about visitors to this site are known to Vineland only when voluntarily submitted. Personally identifiable information that may be collected in connection with visitors voluntarily registering on Vineland’s websites is retained by Vineland and not sold or otherwise transferred outside the company. This information is used to better understand visitors' use of our sites and to support transactions made on the sites. However, this data in an aggregate form may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising or other uses. We sometimes also use e-mail addresses and other personally identifiable information to contact visitors who communicate with us. For example, we direct e-mail to visitors who provide us with their e-mail addresses for specific purposes such as receiving our e-mail newsletters. Each email newsletter always contains instruction on how to discontinue receipt of the newsletter.

(2) Many of the Vineland websites, including this one, place a "cookie" in the browser files of a Vineland user's computer. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information. Although the cookie could enable Vineland to relate a user's use of a Vineland site to information that the user has specifically and knowingly provided, Vineland does not do so for any kids' sites. Users should be aware that when they voluntarily disclose personal information (e.g., user name, e-mail address, telephone number) on the bulletin boards or in the chat areas, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people. To the extent that any of our sites accessible through Vineland has additional practices, these practices will be explained at that site.