PRIVACY POLICY AT PROFOTOS.COM

Profotos.com Privacy Statement

INTRODUCTION:

Profotos.com, has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy issues. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for profotos.com.

At profotos.com, we are very committed to your privacy, so here is our PRIVACY PROMISE TO YOU: Profotos.com will never sell, exchange, or release any of your individual personal information to a third party without your express permission.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT:

At the time of signing up for membership at profotos.com, we ask users for contact information (like email addresses, mailing addresses, etc.) and demographic information (like photography field, or photography level). We use contact data to send Customers information about our company and the demographic information is used in coordination with our advertisers and sponsors.

We understand that you may not want us to send you email, or use your demographic information for our purposes. Accordingly, at the time of signing up for membership, we give you the option of declining to receive information from profotos.com and the option to withold your personal information from us. If you do not want to receive email from us, just let us know, and we will not send it. It is that simple.

Like other web sites, your IP number is visible to us when you visit our web site. What is an IP address, you may ask? It is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're connected the Internet. Your IP number is visible to the majority of the websites that you visit. At profotos.com, we only use IP numbers to help diagnose problems with our servers, to administer our Web site and to help with advertising purposes.

From time to time, we may share with third parties aggregate information-- such as, how many of our users are professional photographers, or how many profotos.com Customers are from the United States.

COOKIES

Like many sites, profotos.com uses cookies. Cookies are small data files that are stored on your computer. They contain identification information that enables profotos.com to see how our users are interacting with our site and how frequently they are returning. Cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information.

We use cookies for the benefit of our users. Cookies let us know if we have repeat visitors (a strong indication of happy consumers) and if we are delivering a quality product to our consumers. We also use cookies to identify which sites our repeat visitors are coming from, so that we can place more of our online advertising on these sites. Essentially, it is an anonymous way to survey how we are doing and to look for other consumers who we think will like our site.

If you do not want to accept cookies from profotos.com or other sites, your browser software should allow you to not accept cookies.

LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES

Profotos.com contains many links to other sites, especially within the "Reference Desk" and "Photograper List" areas of the site. Profotos.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of the third party Web sites, with which it provides links to. Any damages incurred by a profotos.com Customer, while visiting one of these third party sites, will not be covered by any warranty, either express or implied, on behalf of profotos.com. Profotos.com does not share any of the individual personal information you provide profotos.com with the sites to which profotos.com links, although profotos.com may share aggregate data with such sites (such as how many people use our site). This includes other third party sites on the Internet for which profotos.com provides services.

Please check with those sites to determine their privacy policy.

OPT-OUT

If you do not wish to receive future communications from us, you can send an email to support@profotos.com.

CONTACTING PROFOTOS.COM

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with profotos.com, please contact:

Support Staff
Profotos Online
1250 W. Dorothy Lane
Ste. #124
Kettering, OH 45409
support@profotos.com