NEW FORKS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Statement discloses how New Forks, LLC (“New Forks”) collects and uses information on www.newforks.net (the “Site”).

1.             INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

Portions of the Site permit users to contact New Forks with requests for information regarding our products and services.  Some portions of the Site require users to provide personally identifiable contact information.  New Forks reserves the right to use any information that a user of the Site provides (regardless of whether such information is provided by the user actively, passively, directly, or indirectly) for any purpose that New Forks, in its sole discretion, deems necessary or proper.  For example, New Forks may use such information for its own marketing or promotion purposes or may transfer such information to a third party.  Users who have provided information in the past may opt-out of receiving future information from New Forks by complying with the opt-out procedures described below in Section 2. 

Cookies/IP Addresses

Cookies are small files stored by your web browser to help keep track of your user profile.  The Site uses cookies to remember a user’s personal profile for the user’s convenience and to deliver content specific to a user’s needs and interests.  New Forks may also use cookies to provide faster service and to personalize a user’s visit to the Site.  New Forks also uses cookies to track user trends and improve the Site for all users.   

New Forks may collect and use users’ Internet Protocol or “IP” Addresses and other site usage data to gather broad demographic information.  This data helps New Forks serve you by allowing New Forks to understand how visitors use the Site. 

 

2.            CONSENT TO PRIVACY STATEMENT/OPT-OUT

By providing the information requested by the Site, or by continuing to use the Site after having an opportunity to review the Privacy Statement, you have consented to the terms of the Privacy Statement, and New Forks’ use of the information it collects as described in this Privacy Statement.  If you do not agree to the Privacy Statement, you may not use the Site.

New Forks reserves the right to modify the Privacy Statement at any time without giving you prior notice.   Your use of the Site following any such modification constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Privacy Statement as modified.  The last date the Privacy Statement was revised is set forth below.

The Site provides users who have requested information from New Forks the opportunity to opt-out of receiving future communications from us.  If you do not wish to receive future communications from us, please e-mail your request to admin@newforks.net.

 

3.            ACCESS/CORRECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

Often, New Forks will not retain personal data it has collected from its users via the Site.  Nevertheless, you may request access to any data about you that New Forks has collected and stored by sending a request to the following email address: admin@newforks.net.  If you believe that an error has been made in the accuracy of the data collected from you, you may request that the information be corrected by sending a request to the addresses below.  New Forks will correct the error upon adequate verification of the error and the identity of the person seeking the correction.  In order to protect your privacy and security, we may need to take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

 

4.            SECURITY OF THE DATA COLLECTED

The Site is not a secure web site.  New Forks cannot and does not ensure or warrant the security of any information collected by us, transmitted over the Internet, or maintained in your user profile.  You agree that any data transmission you make or receive through the Site is at your own risk.

 

5.            MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

Children and Privacy

The Site is not intended for use by children.  New Forks encourages parents and guardians to be familiar with the web sites that their children visit.  The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) regulates the means by which web site operators collect and use personal information from children under 13, pursuant to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (the “Act”).  For more information about the Act and children’s on-line privacy in general, visit the FTC’s web site at http://www.ftc.gov. 

Links to Other Sites

The Site contains links to other web sites.   Each of these linked web sites maintains its own independent privacy policies.  New Forks does not control and is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of those web sites.  When you leave the Site and access the web sites of third parties, the privacy policies of the parties maintaining those web sites apply.

Disclaimer of Liability

Under no circumstances shall New Forks be liable for any damages, including, but not limited to, indirect, special, incidental, consequential or exemplary damages, that result from the use of the information or materials posted to or collected as a result of the user’s accessing the Site, even if New Forks has been advised of the possibility of such damages. 

 

6.            ENFORCEMENT/REDRESS

 

If for some reason you believe that New Forks has not adhered to the Privacy Statement, please notify us at the addresses below.  New Forks will endeavor to respond to your concerns and, when appropriate, take steps to correct a problem.

 

7.            CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, you may contact us by:

1.            sending an e-mail request to admin@newforks.net; or

2.            sending a letter via the U.S. Mail to:

New Forks, LLC
Webmaster
Ina Mae Rude Center
4200 James Ray Drive
Suite 182
Grand Forks, ND 58203

DATE OF LAST MODIFICATION

May 15, 2007