Privacy Policy for Visitors

The privacy policy covering confidential handling of visitor information is listed with other terms and details.

Policy for Protecting Your Privacy

Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, respects your privacy on the Internet. As part of my business, I may gather certain types of information about contacts, and this policy explains the types of information I assemble, what I do with it, and how to correct or change your information. Safeguarding sensitive information is the law and I uphold that law. My systems uses sensible precautions to protect your personal information and store it securely behind a Norton Internet Security firewall.

Information Collected About Contacts

As part of the process in emailing Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, for information or participating in any Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, promotions, you will be asked to provide an e-mail address and other contact information, as appropriate. This information may or may not be necessary, depending upon the action being taken. In some instances Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, may require an e-mail address for enrollment in a promotional event. In all other instances, an opt-out option will be offered.

I do study server logs although infrequently, and for general demographic data only. All web sites have server log files. I use these logs to ascertain general information about visitors and do not and cannot identify you personally. Server logs help in determining such things as IP addresses, search engine referrals, web site referrals, very general information about visitors, such as number of visitors, frequency of visitors, duration of visits, browser types, files and pages viewed. This is valuable information for Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, only. These log files provide warnings if problems exist on any web pages, such as broken links or missing files or images. I do not share information from the log files with anyone.

Cookies

In addition to information provided by visitors to this web site, Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, monitors incoming and outgoing web traffic data for diagnosis. This information allows monitoring visitor interests to ensure that I provide the most desired information. As an important part of providing quality service, Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, may use cookies to store and track information.

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, or be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, will access only those cookies that I have generated.

Online Privacy and Children

The privacy of children online is of the utmost importance. Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist,‘s Web site is a general audience site and is not directed to, or intended for, children under the age of 18. In the event that you suspect Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, has any information about a visitor under the age of 18, please contact me by email so all information may be deleted from my records.

Confidentiality

Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, will not sell or release identifiable visitor information to any third party without your permission and will limit disclosure of information to the following, where I believe in good faith that it is required to do so in response to a subpoena or other legal process, where reasonably required to do so in order to maintain, update or otherwise implement Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, data security measures, equipment, technical operations, etc., or where reasonably necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities to preserve and enforce Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist,‘s rights.

Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, makes all efforts to protect the confidentiality of all visitors and will never knowingly allow access to this information by any third party. We have made a significant investment in our server, database, backup and firewall technologies to protect information assets. These technologies have been installed as part of a complex security architecture and protocol.
Information Uses

Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, uses visitor information to deliver promotions and to monitor, analyze and report campaign results internally. This data is in a non-personally identifiable aggregate form designed to analyze general trends and usage patterns.

Promotion of Client Web and Graphic Design

Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, may selectively promote client web site projects with a link to their site which may result in improved traffic for them. Likewise, sample graphic art designed for clients may be used on this site as a portfolio or example of my quality. Although the copyright of works of art are retained by Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist,, clients may request removal of promotional links or graphics at any time and they will be removed immediately.

Opt-Out Provision

Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, complies with the provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2004, and will offer an opt-out in all e-mail transmissions to my subscribers. Existing clients with correspondence can expect immediate follow up with timely removal of requested information from my database. The information could include name, title, company, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address or other information that has been offered in the course of doing business. Subscribers who are not clients are only required to provide first name and an email address to qualify for free reports and newsletters.

Terminating, Reviewing and Modifying Visitor Information

You may choose at any time to terminate, review or modify all information stored by Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, so please contact me by email for a timely response.

Policy Changes

Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued participation in Jim Degerstrom, web designer and graphic artist, services following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or feel that your privacy has been compromised, please contact me by email to report any concerns.

Last updated June 12, 2008.