Thinking Outside the Blue Box is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Thinking Outside the Blue Box Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Thinking Outside the Blue Box website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Thinking Outside the Blue Box collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Thinking Outside the Blue Box also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Thinking Outside the Blue Box. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Thinking Outside the Blue Box for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Thinking Outside the Blue Box Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Thinking Outside the Blue Box public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Thinking Outside the Blue Box does not read any of your private online communications.

Thinking Outside the Blue Box encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Thinking Outside the Blue Box so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Thinking Outside the Blue Box is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Thinking Outside the Blue Box and Thinking Outside the Blue Box family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Thinking Outside the Blue Box collects and uses your personal information to operate the Thinking Outside the Blue Box Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Thinking Outside the Blue Box also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Thinking Outside the Blue Box and its affiliates. Thinking Outside the Blue Box may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Thinking Outside the Blue Box does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Thinking Outside the Blue Box may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Thinking Outside the Blue Box may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Thinking Outside the Blue Box, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Thinking Outside the Blue Box does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Thinking Outside the Blue Box keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Thinking Outside the Blue Box, in order to determine what Thinking Outside the Blue Box services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Thinking Outside the Blue Box to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Thinking Outside the Blue Box Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Thinking Outside the Blue Box or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Thinking Outside the Blue Box; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Thinking Outside the Blue Box, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Thinking Outside the Blue Box Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Thinking Outside the Blue Box pages, or register with Thinking Outside the Blue Box site or services, a cookie helps Thinking Outside the Blue Box to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Thinking Outside the Blue Box Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Thinking Outside the Blue Box features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Thinking Outside the Blue Box services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Thinking Outside the Blue Box secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Thinking Outside the Blue Box secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Thinking Outside the Blue Box will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Thinking Outside the Blue Box encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Thinking Outside the Blue Box is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Thinking Outside the Blue Box welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Thinking Outside the Blue Box has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Thinking Outside the Blue Box at Contact Us. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.