Thank you for visiting the BuffNET Website and reviewing our privacy policy. We will not collect personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. We cannot vouch for sites we link to nor to sites our members or web clients put up; so be sure to review their privacy policies. If you do not see one posted, ask them about it.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;

2. The date and time you access our site; and

3. The pages you visit.

We do NOT track or record personally identifiable information such as your name, address or even email address. None of the information we do record (domain, IP, Web browser, time, pages visited) allows us to identify you personally; we just use it to learn how many and what kinds of visitors our site gets.

To make sure we get the newest information to you, this site does use electronic "cookies." A cookie is like a tiny electronic ticket that the Web site hands to your Web browser program. The next time you look at the Web site, your browser hands that ticket back to the Web site. Cookies do not tell us who you are, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personally identifiable information to tell us who you are or even what your screen name or e-mail address is.

The specific cookie you get from the BuffNET Web site records the current time. This helps us make sure you know about anything that has happened to the Web site since the last time you visited. We do not combine this cookie information with any other information.

We also may provide statistical "ratings" information, but never information about you personally, to our partners about how our members collectively use BuffNET. We do this so they too can understand how much people use areas in our site in order to provide you with the best possible Web experience.

If You Send Us Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with personal information - as in an e-mail - we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get to you the information that you have requested. We treat emails in the same way that we treat letters. We do not collect personal information for any purpose other than to respond to you. We only share the information you give us as required by law. Moreover, we do not create individual profiles with the information you provide or give it to any private organizations. BuffNET does NOT collect information for commercial marketing.

Links to Other Sites

Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Members

We collect information from members only to provide them with the service they want and to perform network and administrative tasks. For example, your name, address, telephone number and credit card information lets us bill you and mail to you member information. For security reasons, we use the last 4 digits of your social security number or your mother's maiden name. Its only purpose is to verify your identity when you call with a request, such as an account change or a problem with a renewal. In this way, we can verify that you are the actual account owner and not someone attempting to tamper with your account. Again, we only share the information you give us as required by law.