Introduction

The following is the official Privacy Policy of ShutterFarm ("Website") and M Koehler Enterprises. ("ShutterFarm", "We", "Us"). This Privacy Policy governs only the personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") collected by this Site We respect and are committed to protecting your privacy and believe everyone involved in using the Web to conduct surveys, contests, etc. should do the same. This agreement may be revised or updated without notice

Member Registration

To register as member of ShutterFarm, you are required to your first and last name, email address, country and to select your primary reason for registering. You are also asked to enter a Validation Code that is automatically generated when you enter the registration page. Additional Personal Information is requested when opting to become a contributing artist in order to provide payment. The same information is required when purchasing an image credit package. This information includes address, City, State/Province/Country, Zip/Postal Code. Optional information can also be provided, such as Company Name, Phone Number and Business URL.

We will allow you to change your password, as well as any Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information you have given us in order to keep this information current. Among other things, this information helps us identify you as a registered or permitted user of those features and functions.

As a registered member, you acknowledge, understand and hereby agree that you are giving us your consent to track your activities and your use of the Site and its functions and features, in connection with your registration.

ShutterFarm will NEVER share your personal information with any third party.

You may request that we delete your membership and accompanying member information at any time.

IP Addresses, Cookies and Log Files

Cookies are small files that our site places on the hard drive of your computer to enable us to customize your experience and achieve some of the site's functionality. While on our website, usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information. Cookies are the very common mechanism used by major sites on the Internet. Visitors may also receive cookies from third parties, including advertisers, but ShutterFarm cannot have any control of the content of these cookies. Please note that should you choose to refuse cookies on this website, some of its functionality will be forfeited and some portions of the site may become unusable.

We use your IP address to analyze trends, administer the site and help determine problems with the servers. We may also automatically log IP addresses to track a user's session, ratings, comments and purchases. IP addresses themselves are not linked to personally identifiable information, however they may be linked to a member's account records.

Legal Disclosure

ShutterFarm may disclose your information as permitted or required to by law or in the good faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to claims, or protect the rights, property or safety of our company, employees, customers, or the public.

Opting Out

You may request that we delete your membership and accompanying member information at any time. You also may choose not to become a member and not to participate in the "member-only" areas of our site, this eliminates the need for you to give us any personal information at all.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. ShutterFarm takes technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to protect Personal Information that you provide to us. We instruct our employees with access to your Personal Information that it is to be used only in adherence with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy and the laws applicable to each specific business.

In certain areas, such as when you provide credit card information to us, we work to help protect the security of your credit card information during transmission by using industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.

You can help protect the security of your Personal Information as well. For instance, never give out your password, since this is what is used to access your Account or Registration Information. Also remember to log out of your account and close your browser window when you finish using ShutterFarm or surfing the Web, so that other people using the same computer won't have access to your information.

Privacy Policy Updates

We may change this policy as new services are added or old ones are changed. Please check this Privacy Policy from time to time for updates by checking the date of the at the bottom of this document.

(last updated April 4, 2007)