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Privacy Policy

SurfGuitar101.com is committed to ensuring the privacy of its readers and registered members and wants you to fully understand our terms and conditions This privacy statement describes how any personal, and anonymous, information is collected and managed and how you can request changes to any sharing of this information that may occur.

Statistical Reports

SurfGuitar101.com’s servers automatically recognize a visitor’s IP address and domain name. These items do not reveal any personal information about the visitor. The information is used solely to compile statistics that enable us to examine page impression levels and numbers of unique users visiting our Web sites. This information helps us to understand the areas of our sites that people visit in order to deliver more effective content.

Cookies

Like most other Web sites, SurfGuitar101.com uses cookies. Cookies are small data files that some Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you’ve visited. Cookies do not tell us who you are unless you’ve specifically given us personally identifiable information. A cookie can’t read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites.

SurfGuitar101.com uses cookies to allow automatic logins to improve your experience with our sites. For example, we may use a cookie to identify our site members so they don’t have to re-enter a user id and password when they sign-in. Cookies can also be used to help us to better understand how visitors interact with our sites leading to the delivery of more relevant content. Cookies may be created directly by our sites for these purposes, or by third-party companies operating on our behalf. If you choose to become a member of SurfGuitar101.com, you must have cookies enabled to access the member related pages (i.e. Discussion Boards and Member Profile pages).

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but allow you to modify security settings so you can approve or reject cookies on a case-by-case basis.

Pixel Tags

SurfGuitar101.com does not currently use pixel tags, also known as beacons, web bugs or clear gifs.

Social Media Features & Widgets

SurfGuitar101.com uses various social media widgets, such as Facebook "like buttons", to easily allow our users to share SurfGuitar101.com content on social media sites. These widgets may collect your IP address, which page your are visiting, and may also set a cookie on your computer. Your interactions with these widgets are governed by the privacy policies of the social media companies that provide them.

Online Ad Serving

SurfGuitar101.com does not currently use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements.

Newsletters / Mailing Lists

Through the registration process for SurfGuitar101.com, we request some personal information such as your e-mail address, company information, your name, job title, etc. We will never give your personal information to any third party vendor without your prior consent. We currently do not make our email and postal lists available to any third-party.

SurfGuitar101.com Email Announcements

At this time we do not send mass e-mails to make site-wide announcements.

Necessary Disclosure

The necessary disclosure of any of the above information to third parties will be governed by the following principles:

  1. Where SurfGuitar101.com is required to do so by law and any order of the court.
  2. Where it is necessary to identify anyone who may be violating the rights of others or the law in general.
  3. Where SurfGuitar101.com intends to co-operate with the investigation of any alleged unlawful activities without being required to by virtue of any court order or other legal requirement.
  4. Where it is necessary to protect the rights of SurfGuitar101.com.

Security

We use all reasonable precautions to securely maintain all information given to us by our registered members and we are not responsible for any breach of the reasonable security measures installed to protect the said information. We are not responsible for the private policies of any site linked to, or from, SurfGuitar101.com.

Opt Out Policy

SurfGuitar101.com gives users options whenever necessary, and practical. Such choices include: Opting not to receive our electronic messages, opting not to provide certain optional personal information when registering for an account.

Transfer of Information

SurfGuitar101.com reserves the right to transfer any information accumulated as described above in the event of the sale of part or all of SurfGuitar101.com assets and/or stock. By visiting our Web sites and by registering you consent to the collection and use of information in the manner herein described.

Privacy Policy Changes

This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time. Any modifications to our Privacy Policy will be reflected on this page. If there is a significant change, we will indicate it on our sites and provide a link to the new policy.

Privacy policy last updated on May 12, 2012