Privacy Policy
By using this site, you agree to GreekForMe's Privacy Policy. In fact, you not only bind yourself, but also your entire family, your employer, your Resident Assitant (or your house Mom if you don't live in the dorms) and your livestock to this policy. Now and forever.
GreekForMe, which maintains this site, recognizes the earth-shattering importance of protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information collected about visitors to our site. We're not sophisticated enough to automatically collect your personally identifiable information, such as your name, address or email address, hopes, wishes, disappointments, etc.
Personally identifiable information about visitors, spies, snoops, and yes even our competitors to our site is collected only when you knowingly and voluntarily submit it, or forget to block it (such as your static or dynamic I.P. address). Remember, only you can click the Submit button!
We may, and sometimes do, collect certain non-personal information. That non-personal data may include the identity of your Internet browser (huh? You didn't know your browser had an identity?), the type of operating system you use (Steve Jobs would be proud of you college kids using Macs), and the domain name or I.P. address of your Internet service provider or your DSL or your T1 or your tin-cans-and-string connection.
We may use such non-personal information for internal purposes, including but not limited to impressing the wife, kids, dog, etc. about how many visitors come to our site... Interestingly, exactly the same number of visitors who come to this site end up leaving this site. Go figure!
In those instances when we do collect personally identifiable information, the following policies apply:
We'll tell you when we are collecting personally identifiable information about you by (drum roll... please) By asking for it.
If we ask for your name, address, phone number, email address, shoe size, grades from last semester, etc, you can be sure that that's within the category of "personally identifiable information." For example, we may ask to collect your personal information to see how you use this site, whether you're a member of any organization we support, etc.
Another example is - if you decide to buy something from us, we will ask you for your shipping addess (so that we can send it to you) your billing information (ummm - do I really have to explain this one); your email address so that we can confirm that you really ordered something.
Personally identifiable information that you provide may be used for other purposes. Such other uses may include, but are not be limited to, telling your parents that you were visiting our site after your bedtime. Ok we won't tell your lil' or sweet heart what you are buying them. It will be our secret.
Cookies
Cookies are very tasty! We're very fond of warm, chocolate chip cookies. What about you?
If you don't want information about you collected using cookies (hey, why do they call 'em cookies?), there is an obscure and difficult-to-follow procedure in most web browsers to permit you to deny the cookie feature. We dare you to find it. Hint - check in Tools > Options section of your web browser.Anyway, why would anyone say, "No!" to a nice cookie?
GreekForMe at times may use cookies, and we assure you that you can bet that they'd be warm, gooey chocolate chip cookies, or small snippets of data stored on your hard drive.
Alternatively, we like licking cake batter out of the bowl, even knowing how quickly that spreads germs and promotes food poisoning. Okay, in reality, to the extent we use cookies, we use them to track your activities on this site. You leave the cookie trail... we'll follow it (and you) around our site. We don't use cookies to track your activities off of this site. We simply don't know how to do that.
But we do know how to log the means by which you found your way to our site - for example, by using Google or Yahoo to search for us (please use Bing - Bill Gates may jump off a bridge otherwise), then clicking the link they provided. By the way, have you erased your browser cookies recently? You should do so often. We do it every day. Again - checkout that Tools > Options menu in your browser to see how do this.
Links to Third Party Sites
GreekForMe has established links from our site directly to sites operated by third parties - for example our supercool high security web services provider - Yahoo!. We're not responsible for the content or practices of those linked web sites operated by others that have put up links to GreekForMe.
If you decide to visit another site via a GreekForMe link, you should read their privacy policy and see if it's any more truthful or expansive than our policy. We suspect it won't be. You have been warned!
But what if I don't agree?
If you do not agree to this privacy policy, please go away and let some other site collect all of your private information and not tell you about it.
GreekForMe reviews this privacy policy on a regular basis, not exceeding 1.2 years between reviews, and reserves the right, at our sole discretion and without prior notice to you, your offspring, your dog, or McLovin from Super Bad, or anyone else, to add, modify, remove or color in any portions of this Policy at any time.
You should stop back to this page really often to see if we've sneaked anything new in, or chopped anything vital out. If you want to write us about this Policy, please send snail mail to:
GreekForMe
Attention: What Privacy
6 Commerce Drive
Freeburg, IL 62243
So, having read all of this so far, would you agree that our privacy policy is one of the more honest ones you've read on the Internet? We think it is. Please, let us know if you agree or disagree, and even if you have no opinion on the subject. We're open to your suggestions on how to make this page even more informative to you.
Our Special Disclaimers for Attorneys
Okay, here's the deal. There's a lot of really good information on this site, and some that's utterly useless.
Huh?
Most of the good stuff is fairly straight forward and clear. Some of it is intended to be tongue-in-cheek. Our tongue, our cheek. Some of it is intended to be read as inside jokes. Some of it's rarely and barely read at all.
When you graduated from college, you didn't give up your sense of humor did you?
Okay. I still don't get it!?
Well, if you don't understand any or all of the information and disclaimers on this page, please call or write to Michael - our security dude, and using small, simple words, explain what you don't understand. He'll explain it to you, as well as why it's important to you, and to us. For information on how to contact Michael, please email him at michael (at) greekforme (dot) com.
Now a word from our (website) sponsor and host...
This site is hosted by Yahoo! Store. Yahoo! hosts the store pages, ordering system, and order data. Yahoo! automatically collects order information but may only use this information in the aggregate. If you accessed this store through Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! also automatically collects information about your shopping experience. Please see the Yahoo! Privacy Policy for more information about how Yahoo! uses this information.
GreekForMe intends to keep the relationships between itself and its customers within the confines of GreekForMe. This means that no customer's personal information will be sold, leased, or otherwise distributed to any outside organization, unless it is a necessary part of processing your transaction (i.e. your name and address will be shared with UPS, so that they can deliver your package to you).
Also, GreekForMe is hosted by Yahoo Shopping who uses a secure socket layer (SSL) software that is the industry standard and among the best software available today for secure commerce transactions. It encrypts all of your personal information including credit card number, name, and address, so that it cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet.
Tracking with Web Beacons
We use third-party web beacons from Yahoo! to help analyze where visitors go and what they do while visiting our website. This data helps us identify potential new products and other offerings for you. As previously mentioned, we will not share this data with anyone outside of GreekForMe.com.
However, Yahoo! may also use anonymous information about your visits to this and other websites in order to improve its products and services and provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by Yahoo!, click here.
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