PRIVACY POLICY

Fishbyte.net respects and protects the privacy of the individuals that use the fishbyte.net web site.

Types of Information

Collection of Personal Information

Fishbyte.net may collect information from its users in three different ways:

Fishbyte.net does not collect any unique information about you except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information. Users will have the ability to access and change the information which they have provided to fishbyte.net by use of the appropriate features on the fishbyte.net website.

When you visit a website, you reveal certain information, such as your IP address, time of visit, and the geographic location from which you accessed our website. Each computer that connects to the Internet is assigned a unique series of four numbers, an IP address, for identification purposes. Fisbyte.net, like other website providers, stores this information on their host server. We automatically collect IP addresses and web site usage information from you when you visit our web site. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors use and navigate our web site on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors to each web page and the length of their visits.

Upon your first visit to fishbyte.net, we send a “cookie” to your computer. A cookie is a small data file stored on your computer that identifies you as a unique viewer. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Fishbyte.net uses cookies to collect aggregate statistical information only, such as broad demographic information and general usage patterns about you and other users of our website.

Sharing of Personal Information

Fishbyte.net does not share your personal information with any other company, individual, or organization. We do not and will not sell our users’ personal data to any advertisers.

Fishbyte.net will not use your email address to send you unsolicited or promotional email. It is your choice whether or not to receive newsletters from us. However, if you subscribe to one of our mailing lists, your email address will be exposed to other subscribers. You can always choose to unsubscribe from our newsletter services.

Personally identifiable data collected in the server logs or that you have provided may be released by fishbyte.net in response to a valid subpoena, warrant, court order or other compulsory request from law enforcement. We may also release personal information to protect our or our users’ rights, property, or safety; or to protect our users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of our website; or if we believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of personal information without delay.

Links to Other Sites

We may make content or services from other Web sites including our affiliated or sponsor web sites available to you from links located on fishbyte.net. These other web sites are not subject to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you review the privacy policy at each such web site to determine how that site protects your privacy. The sites linked to by fishbyte.net are developed by people over whom fishbyte.net exercises no control. These sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information.

Fishbyte.net allows other companies, called third-party ad servers, ad networks, or affiliates, to serve advertisements to the fishbyte.net site. These third-party ad servers use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the fishbyte.net site. They may automatically receive your IP address when this happens. The may also use other technologies (such as cookies or JavaScript) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see. Fishbyte.net does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party servers without your consent. Any statistics that we may offer to advertising networks does not include any personal indentifying information about any individual user.

Children

We do not intend, and the website is not designed, to collect personal information from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, you should not register for our services or otherwise provide information on our website and should ask your parent to do so for you. Please take proper measures if you do not wish your child to have access to public forums.

Surveys

Any surveys on the fishbyte.net site are entirely voluntary and you may decline to participate. Survey information is not tied to you personally in any way.

User Disclosure

You acknowledge that, whenever you disclose information in public areas on the website, such as calendars or forums that information becomes public and can easily be tracked and used by unauthorized persons. Any information you share in a public forum is public information and may be seen or collected by anyone, including third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for events arising from the distribution of any information you choose to publicly post or share through our website. It may be either difficult or easy for a motivated individual to connect your username with your real-life identity. If you are very concerned about privacy, you may wish to log in and publish under a pseudonym.

Your access to certain services on the website is protected by a password. You are the only one responsible for keeping your passwords and usernames secret. User passwords are the only guarantee of a user’s publishing history. All users are encouraged to select strong passwords and to never share them.

Fishbyte.net provides access to publicly viewed information by third-party search engine “crawlers” (such as Google). Any information that is either personally identifiable information or not personally identifiable information, but is publicly displayed on the website (such as user names and photos) might appear in the results of searched conducted on Internet search engines.

If you contribute to the fishbyte.net website, you are publishing publicly; you should assume it will be retained forever. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Consent and Changes

By using the fishbyte.net site, you consent to the collection and use of your information as we have outlined in this policy. Fishbyte.net reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time with or without notice. Your use of fishbyte.net constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy.

Contact

We can be reached via email at tsargent@fishbyte.net or by phone at 910- 975-1719. Our postal address is:

195 Chapel Hill Drive
Troy, NC 27371