Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy has been written to help you understand the way in which we collect and use the personal information you provide to us. We also wrote it to help you make informed decisions when using our website, products, and services. Hopefully you find it helpful.

The Kinds of Information We Collect

When you visit our website, you may be providing us with two types of information. This first is Personal Information that you willingly and knowingly provide to us. The second type is Computer Information that your computer automatically sends to us.

Personal Information
You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you purchase South Coast Blogs products and services, register for forum support, or register for email newsletters and alerts. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.

Computer Information
Similar to other commercial websites, this site utilizes a standard technology called “cookies.” Unfortunately, these are not edible chocolate chip cookies. Instead, they are pieces of information that computers collect to make websites function properly. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at this site, and the websites visited just before and just after our site. We may also use small technology or pieces of code to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them.

How is this information used?

In general, we use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service, and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to this website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking the unsubscribe link contained in each such email.

What Are Cookies?

First, we’re unfortunately not talking about chocolate chip cookies. In the computer world, a cookie is a small text document. Whenever you visit a website, your computer will ask for permission to store the small text document in a part of your hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but in order to protect your privacy your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Some of our business partners use cookies that originate from their sites. We have no access or control over those cookies.

How we use information from cookies

As you use this website, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting this site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve this site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

The information we collect is used to improve the content of this site and the quality of our service, and is not shared with or sold to other organizations for commercial purposes. That being said, your information could be shared under the following circumstances:

1 First, we use third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not limited to, sending email and processing payments. In connection with these offerings and business operations, these third parties may have access to your personal information for use in connection with those business activities.

2 Second, as we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions.

3 Third, we may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.

4 And finally, if it becomes necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.

Notice of New Services and Changes

Occasionally we may use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to this website, new services, and special offers. As our customer you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking the unsubscribe link contained in each such email.

How Do We Secure Information with it’s being transmitted?

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on this site may be transmitted securely through what is called a Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Pages that use SSL will typically start with a URL that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP.

Disclosures

We will do everything we can to keep your information private, as long as what you are doing with our products and services is legal and responsible.

Websites that link to South Coast Blogs

We are not responsible for what other websites are doing or saying, even if they’re linking to our site. That’s they’re own doing, and we’re keeping to our own business. Remember that when you use a link to go from our site to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including sites which have a link on our site, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Your Consent

By using this site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.