CountryRoads Network™

Policies on Privacy

The CountryRoads Network™ ("CountryRoads") takes seriously the issue of safeguarding your privacy while on the countryroads.net Web site (the "Site"). It is important for you to read the following to understand our views and practices so you know how they pertain to you when taking advantage of the many offerings on our Site. These statements govern our privacy practices (the "Privacy Policy") on this Site.

First, it is important for you to understand that the Site is owned and operated by CountryRoads. Consequently, whenever you see in this Privacy Policy, or on any screen on the Site that asks you for personally identifiable information, words such as "we," "our" or "us," those words refer to CountryRoads.

Information about you can be categorized as (a) personally identifiable information or (b) non-personally identifiable information. "Personally identifiable information" is information that we collect from you such as your name, postal address, telephone number, fax number and email address. "Non-personally identifiable information" is information that we collect from you that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as your Web site browsing patterns or demographic information.

Like many other commercial Web sites, we collect non-personally identifiable information from you by "passive" means, in other words by tracking your use of the Site, often through the use of cookies. A cookie is a small data file that is placed on your computer's hard drive that may contain information (such as a unique user ID) that a Web site may use to track certain things. We use cookies to better understand our participating users. Cookies will collect information such as the type of computer operating system and net browser that are being used and the domain name of your Internet service provider, as well as some of the information described below. We use this information for internal purposes and to help us interact with visitors to the Site. We may also share this information in the aggregate form with third parties to illustrate trends and patterns.

Sometimes advertisers and other third parties on the Site also may use cookies. Cookies may be used in our store offerings allowing our merchants to track traffic to their stores and process business orders you have selected. Sponsors and merchants are responsible for their own privacy policies and data collection practices. Users should note that CountryRoads cannot control the use of cookies or the resulting use of information by advertisers or others hosting data for CountryRoads.

We will collect personally identifiable information from you when you actively give us the information. Examples of this may include when you order products, request that we send you information, participate in community features, or respond to our surveys or other requests for visitor responses. This Site is not intended for use by children. We will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information submitted by visitors to the Site who are under the age of 13.

CountryRoads may collect IP addresses to aid in system administration and to accumulate information. From time to time, we may share statistical reviews of users' activities with third parties such as advertisers, but we will not share specific IP addresses.

You can keep us from using cookies by turning them off in your browser. However, if you turn off your cookies then you will not be able to use all the features on the Site, such as making purchases from the Site.

You also may elect to "opt out" of future promotional contacts and correspondence from CountryRoads whenever you want. If you do not want information to be used by us to contact you, please send your request to info@countryroads.net. However, CountryRoads is not responsible for the privacy practices of any off-site pages or any other sites that may be linked to the Site.

The Site may contain links to other sites, including, among others, those of advertisers. These other sites and third parties maintain their own privacy policies that may be different from ours. Visitors using such links or pursuing should consult the privacy notices on those sites. We do not control this collection of information and are not responsible or liable for the privacy policies maintained or actions taken by third parties with regard to your information.

Our Privacy Policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond our control. Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online-for example, via message boards or chat rooms-that information can be collected, intercepted and used by people you do not know. You should use such community functions at your own risk.

By using the Site, you indicate your agreement with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, then do not use the Site. We reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Site following any changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed to constitute your acceptance of such changes. Please check this page regularly for any changes.

Please contact us at info@countryroads.net with any questions or comments regarding our Privacy Policy.