Ashland Bay Trading Company has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the AshlandBay.com Web site.

Information Automatically Logged

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. This information is also used to allow us to determine statistical usage of the website.

The referring URL (the webpage you left before coming to a Ashland Bay webpage, if any) is logged whenever you view a page on the Ashland Bay website. This allows us to see which areas are more popular than others on the website, the paths taken to reach each page, and it also allows us to gauge the effectiveness of any promotional programs we may be running at the time.

All such information is gathered globally rather than individually, and no information is linked to any identifying information about you. Such aggregated data may be disclosed, for example, to potential and current advertisers providing them with information about the number of people viewing their ads and how many have clicked on them.

Advertisers and Cookies

Ashland Bay itself does not use cookies in any part of our Web site. We may in the future use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. Cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to or control over this information.

Personal Information

No personal information is collected by Ashland Bay from visitors to the our website or when viewing pages. We also do not collect or harvest the E-Mail addresses of people who E-Mail us directly. We only use them to respond to your queries.

If you request to be a member of the Ashland Bay mailing list, you will be required to provide a Name and a valid E-Mail address. The Name is required but may be an alias, nickname, or pseudonym. The E-Mail Address is required and without a proper, functional email address provided, you may have trouble using the service and features. Ashland Bay will only use this information to send newsletters and product update.

Any personal information collected will not be disclosed to any third party, except in the case of cooperating with law enforcement agencies to aid in identifying those persons using our services for illegal activities.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. Ashland Bay is not responsible for the privacy practices, actions, or the content of such Web sites.