Privacy Policy

1. Introduction: Big Sky Topical Web, LLC, ("Big Sky Topical Web" or "we" or "our") strives to protect the privacy of visitors who provide information through our web site. The purpose of this statement is to explain to our visitors the type of information we obtain about visitors to our websites, how we gather it, and how we use, share and retain it.
2. Information We Gather: To gauge the effectiveness of our websites, we do collect some generic information about our visitors. Our web servers automatically recognize a visitor's domain name (such as .com, .edu, etc.), the web page from which a visitor enters our site, which pages a visitor visits on our site, and how much time a visitor spends on each page. We use web beacons (also known as clear gifs or pixel tags) to track use of our site and to track what sites users came from and go to after leaving our site. We aggregate this information and use it to evaluate and improve our websites. We also use "cookies" to track use of the website as described further below.
   Big Sky Topical Web may collect personally identifiable information (such as name, email address, telephone number and postal address) from you when you visit our web site. You may choose to provide such information to Big Sky Topical Web in a number of ways through our website such as by:
   • Web form;
   • Registering to receive newsletters, public policy updates, or information about products and services from Big Sky Topical Web or close third-party companies we work with;
   • Web application/template;
   • Web survey;
   • Sending us e-mail;
3. How We Use/Share Information: We use your personally identifiable information to provide you with the products or services we feel may be of interest to you. This information is shared with our affiliates and trusted third-parties who may also contact you with products or service that may be of interest to you.
   We use aggregate data from cookies and other web technologies to improve the appearance of our web site, monitor site traffic and analyze demographic information for marketing purposes.
4. Email: We may use email to communicate with our visitors, to respond to visitors' emails or to send information that a visitor has requested. Big Sky Topical Web and third parties with whom we give your personal information to provide an unsubscribe function in email marketing campaigns. Alternatively, you may send an opt-out request by Contacting Us.
5. Use of Cookies: Our websites also use "cookies". They allow us to serve you better. When you use our site we send information, a cookie, to your computer and it is stored there. When you return to our site, your computer sends the cookie back to us. This allows our server to recognize your computer and any settings you created on our site. The fact that our server recognizes your computer when it retrieves the cookies does not mean that Big Sky Topical Web is actually acquiring personally identifiable information about you. You can set your browser to delete cookies or to tell you before you accept one.
6. Security: Big Sky Topical Web endeavors to safeguard the security of user information that we collect through our websites. We require our employees to protect the privacy of information about our customers and expect our partners and suppliers to do so as well. Although we make every effort to secure your data, due to the open nature of the internet, we cannot guarantee that your personal information will never be disclosed (intentionally or unintentionally) to unauthorized persons.
7. Compliance with Laws/Protecting this Site: Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.
   We may also disclose your information, without your permission, if necessary to protect Big Sky Topical Web, or its employees, property, or visitors to this web site.
8. Links to Other Websites: The Big Sky Topical Web websites may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other sites.
9. Updating Your Information: Users may access, correct, and update information they have provided to Big Sky Topical Web by Contacting US and making such a request.
10. Notice of Changes: To improve the services it can offer you, Big Sky Topical Web may opt to expand its capabilities for obtaining information about users in the future. Big Sky Topical Web may update this privacy statement, as needed, to ensure that you are aware of developments in this area. Big Sky Topical Web reserves the right to amend this policy at any time. We will provide notice on our web site of any material changes to the privacy statement and in the use of personally identifiable information. Your use of the website after any such changes constitute acceptance of such changes.
11. Contacting Us: For inquiries regarding our privacy statement, or if you have linked here through another section of this policy, please contact us at [email protected] or by mail at:
    
    Big Sky Topical Web
    Attn: Privacy Request
    2047 Last Chance Gulch, Suite 118
    Helena, MT 59601
 
12. Your California Privacy Rights: Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our users to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, use the contact information above, attention your correspondence to "CA Privacy Rights Request," and provide the contact information you supplied to us (such as your name, telephone number, email address, mailing address) so that we may find you in our database records.

Effective Date: 3/28/2005