Copyright

Copyright © 2001 Macaw Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. You may establish a hypertext link to the Macaw Publishing Web site from your World Wide Web site only if the page containing the link properly attributes the linked site to Macaw Publishing and does not in any way imply Macaw Publishing's sponsorship of your site. However, you may not, without obtaining the prior express written consent of Macaw Publishing, republish, redistribute, or otherwise make any copies of the materials on the Macaw Publishing Web site, as a part of the link, including by framing or similar means, or otherwise. No other use of the material within this Web site or any portion thereof is permitted without the prior express written consent of Macaw Publishing.

Trademark registration applications for both Macaw Publishing and the Macaw Publishing parrot logo have been filed on behalf of Macaw Publishing LLC.  Other product and service names may be trademarks of their respective companies. The absence of an identification of third party marks or the lack of an attribution of ownership of such marks on this Web site should not be construed as any claim of rights by Macaw Publishing. The names, trademarks, service marks, and logos of Macaw Publishing and any of the information represented by Macaw Publishing may not be used in any advertising or publicity, or otherwise to indicate Macaw Publishing's sponsorship of or affiliation with any product or service, without the prior express written consent of Macaw Publishing.

Macaw Publishing uses reasonable efforts to include accurate, complete, and current information on this Web site; however, Macaw Publishing does not warrant that the content of this Web site is accurate, complete, current, or free of technical or typographical errors. It is your responsibility to verify any information before relying on it. Macaw Publishing reserves the right to make changes and updates to any information contained within this Web site without prior notice. Access to and use of this Web site and the content thereof is at the risk of the user. We may provide links to certain other World Wide Web sites solely for your convenience, but Macaw Publishing is not responsible for the content of any other Web sites. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other items of a destructive nature.

MACAW PUBLISHING MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. NEITHER MACAW PUBLISHING NOR ANY PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THIS WEB SITE SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS, USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEB SITE OR ON ANY OTHER HYPERLINKED WEB SITE, OR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE CONTENT THEREOF.

We take our commitment to protecting your privacy very seriously. Macaw Publishing maintains strict customer information privacy policies and uses state of the art technologies to safeguard customer information and communications from unauthorized intrusions.

Our efforts to protect your privacy focus primarily on the protection of "customer identifiable" information which you reasonably expect to be kept private, such as your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address.

Macaw Publishing may collect and use customer identifiable information to fulfill orders, for billing purposes, to anticipate and resolve problems with your orders, or to create and inform you of products and services that better meet your needs. This means that Macaw Publishing may use your customer identifiable information, in conjunction with information available from other sources, to market new products or services to you that we think will be of interest to you, but we will not disclose your customer identifiable information to third parties who want to market products to you.

When you access the Internet, the computers that host Web sites you visit (Web servers) automatically receive some anonymous information. This "usage data" may include a record of which pages a Web browser has visited. Macaw Publishing may employ usage data to provide advertising about goods and services that may be of interest to customers.

To improve our level of service and speed up the delivery of information to our visitors, Macaw Publishing and its advertisers may use various kinds of software devices such as "cookies" to collect information about Internet use. Cookies are lines of text that are transmitted to your Web browser when you click on a site. They provide a way for a server to recall a previous request or previous registration, or to keep track of a transaction as it progresses, so that information does not have to be repeated. Your browser stores the information on your hard drive and when you return to that site later, the cookie is transmitted back only to the servers that originally sent it to you. To be notified when you are about to receive a cookie you can configure your browser to alert you when a site is attempting to send you a cookie and at that time you will have the option of refusing the cookie. You can check your hard drive for cookie files in a "cookies" folder for Internet Explorer, a "cookies.txt" file for Netscape, and under "magic cookies" on a Macintosh. In addition, on some Web sites, Macaw Publishing and its advertisers may use small bits of code called "one-pixel gifs," or "clear gifs" embedded in some Web pages, to make cookies more effective. Macaw Publishing will not associate the information these software devices collect with your name or email address.

Macaw Publishing may use advertising companies to deliver ads on some Web sites. The advertising companies may also receive some anonymous information about ad viewing by Internet users. This information may be associated with a customer's Web browser, but cannot be associated with a name or e-mail address without the customer's permission. (This means that advertising companies may know where your computer goes on the Internet, but they don't know who you are unless you tell them.) Macaw Publishing does not supply customer identifiable information to advertising companies or to individual advertisers or other third parties. If you go to another Web site, including an advertiser's Web site (for example by clicking on an ad), and request information or enter a contest, be aware that you may be authorizing another company, including an advertising company, to use information you supply. Advertisers that display ads on our Web site may also use their own cookies. These cookies collect their own information independent of Macaw Publishing. You can disable this cookie capability as described above.

Macaw Publishing will not sell, trade, or disclose to third parties any customer identifiable information derived from your use of the Macaw Publishing Web site-- including customer names and addresses--without the consent of the customer (except as required by subpoena, search warrant, or other legal process or in the case of imminent physical harm to the customer or others). When Macaw Publishing uses other agents, contractors, or companies to perform services on its behalf, Macaw Publishing will ensure that the company protects your customer identifiable information consistent with this Policy.

Macaw Publishing has implemented technology and security features and strict policy guidelines to safeguard the privacy of your customer identifiable information from unauthorized access or improper use, and we will continue to enhance our security procedures as new technology becomes available. We work to protect the security of your information and follow industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of each user's personal information. All credit card and bank account information you submit is encrypted through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software. We transmit the entire credit card number or bank information to the appropriate financial institution during processing.

The Macaw Publishing Web sites may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices employed by other sites. Other Web sites may have different privacy policies or no policy. Users should review the privacy policies of any Web site before providing personal information.