KNITTING RANCH PRIVACY POLICIES

The Knitting Ranch Privacy Policies

1. We collect personal information when you register with The Knitting Ranch.  We may use this information for customizing the advertising and content you see on our website; analyzing data to maintain and improve our services; ensure technical functioning of our network; fulfilling your requests for products and services, including the development of new services; contacting you; conducting research.
2. We automatically receive and record information on our server logs, including your IP address, the web request, and one or more cookies which may uniquely identify your browser.  These server logs may also include your browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request. 
3. When you send email or other communication to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve our services. 
4. We may present links in a format that enables us to track when the links are followed.  We may use this information to improve the quality of our services and content. 
5. The Knitting Ranch processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected.  We retain the right to review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services.  We take reasonable steps to ensure accuracy of the information provided to The Knitting Ranch, but the User must update and/or correct their personal information when necessary. 
6. We do not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or companies, except when we have your permission or a reason to believe in good faith that preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary.  Such circumstances in which we may disclose your information include:
   1. To satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request (which may include but is not limited to responding to subpoenas, court orders or legal process, or establishing or exercising our legal rights or defending against legal claims).
   2. To enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof.
   3. To detect, prevent, investigate or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
   4. To protect against imminent harm to the rights of The Knitting Ranch, its users, or the public, as required or permitted by law, and to protect against potential threats to the physical safety of another person.
7. We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to and/or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of date.  These include but may not be limited to:  internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
8. We limit or restrict access to personal information about you to our employees, including our contractors or agents, who we believe reasonably need to know that information to provide or develop services or to do their jobs.
9. We have physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.