First Ascent Press Privacy Policy
Privacy is of great concern to most users of the Internet, and is a critical part of an enjoyable and satisfactory user experience. We are acutely aware of and sensitive to the privacy concerns of our subscribers and other visitors to our Web site. Whether you are a customer or a visitor to our site, we assure you that we do not collect personal information from you unless you provide it to us. You should be assured that we do not provide or sell personal information about our customers or site visitors.
Please note that our site contains links to other sites. First Ascent Press is not responsible for the privacy practices, privacy statements, or content regarding these other sites.
Information We Gather from You
Personal Information
We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to our site unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it. Under no circumstances do we collect any personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health, or sex life. If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you.
There are two ways in which you may explicitly and intentionally provide us with and consent to our collection of certain personal information:
1) If you choose to submit information to us via our Forums pages, or sign up for our Newsletters. Under this circumstance, your information is maintained online; it's visibility to the general public is controlled by settings you make within your profile settings page. You can choose to alter or close your account at any time. We may use information you enter here to contact you regarding updates, new titles, products or services, etc. You may choose to
2) If you choose to purchase items from us online. In this case, we will require certain billing, shipping, and verification informatioin from you. This information will be passed on only to our payment processing service, Verisign, who will not use that information except as outlined in their privacy statement. This information will not be passed on to others individuals or corporations, and will only be used to make the single purchase you authorize.
Statistical Information About Your Visit
When you visit our site, our computers may automatically collect statistics about your visit. This information does not identify you personally, but rather identifies information about a visit to our site. We may monitor statistics such as how many people visit our site, the user's IP address, which pages people visit, from which domains our visitors come and which browsers people use. We use these statistics about your visit for aggregation purposes only. These statistics are used to help us improve the performance of our Web site.
How We Use and With Whom We Share the Personal Information We Gather
We assure you that the personal information we gather from you is used by us only as explained below.
First Ascent Press does not share personal information with anyone except our payment processing provider, Verisign. Verisign's privacy policy may be found here.
We use information you submit to process your order, and to contact you about future releases. Under no circumstances do we sell, trade or give away personal information you send to our website, except for the purpose of processing your order or notifying you of updates or coming releases.If you are using VeriSign's Healthcare Authentication Service where there is a Non-VeriSign Digital ID Provider (such as the Physician Authentication Service which is offered by the American Medical Association), this paragraph applies to you. We may use the information you submit when enrolling for your Digital ID to contact you to discuss the support and renewal of our products and services. We may also provide the information you have submitted to us to a VeriSign business partner so that the business partner can contact you and facilitate the support and renewal of VeriSign products and services. You may receive a communication directly from one of our business partners. Please be assured that any business partner who contacts you for one of these purposes has agreed to use the information we supply only in accordance with a confidentiality agreement. To find out the names and locations of the business partners to whom we have provided your information, please contact us at the address given at the end of this Privacy Statement.
Facilitating the provision of certain included products and services (if you are applying for certain types of Digital IDs or certain of our Digital Brand Management Services)
Certain types of Digital IDs come with additional third-party services or products that are included with the Digital ID. If you purchase one of these Digital IDs, we may forward some or all of the information in your application to third party providers so that they can provide you with the service or product and follow up with you directly regarding their service or product or an upgrade. Please be assured that we have agreements with these third-party service or product providers that prevent them from disclosing the information to other parties.
Likewise, certain of our Digital Brand Management Services will involve the disclosure of some or all of your information to a registrar or registry of domain names or to a third party service provider so that they can provide you with the service you have requested. For further explanation about this disclosure or the types of third party services available in Digital Brand Management Services, please refer to your contract with VeriSign for the purchase of these services.
Your Ability to Opt-Out of Further Notifications, and Update or Correct Your Personal Information
From time-to-time, we notify our subscribers of new titles, announcements, and updates. If you would like to opt-out of being notified, please contact us at the address given at the end of this Privacy Statement. In email communications, we will provide a link at the end of each email which will allow you to update your personal information, or remove yourself from the mailing list.
If you would like to change your preferences online, please visit our address change page and login.
Our Security Procedures
We consider the protection of all personal information we receive from our Web site visitors and subscribers as critical to our corporate mission. Please be assured that we have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of any personal information we receive from you. As with any transmission over the Internet, however, there is always some element of risk involved in sending personal information. In order to try to minimize this risk, we encrypt all information that you submit in ordering one of our products or services using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
If a material change is made to this Privacy Statement and/or the way we use our customers' personally identifiable information, we will post prominent notice of the nature of such change on the first page of this Privacy Statement.
Our mailing address is:
VeriSign, Inc.
Attention: Support
487 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, California 94043
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