Privacy Policy

This privacy statement applies to greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com, both owned by Sandra Miller-Louden.

Sandra Miller-Louden's policy is to respect and protect the privacy of visitors to greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com.

Greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com do not gather, nor collect personally identifiable information about any individual, except when said individuals expressly provide such information on a willing and voluntary basis.  For example, personal identifying information may be gathered and used in such features particularly designated as such; e.g., "Getting To Know You," "In The Spotlight," or "Just The FAQs."  Any community postings now or in the future (i.e., chats, bulletin boards), feedback, suggestions, merchandise orders, voting/polling activities, surveys and general transactional pursuits also fall under the designation of willing and voluntary.

Personally identifiable information or statistics on individual users will never be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without
the prior approval and consent of the user at the time of collection.  At such times, any user will always have the opportunity to "opt out" of participation in any marketing/promotional information concerning third party offerings.  Sandralouden.com and greetingcardwriting.com do, however, reserve
the right to announce-either on the website or via  e-mail-new features, products and services directly relevant to greeting card writing and/or any creative pursuits directly related to greeting cards and relate those to past visitors of greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com. Those individuals who have also indicated an interest via personal e-mail to aspects of
greeting card writing particularly explored on this site may also be contacted regarding products, services and features relevant to greeting cards.

Greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com also reserve the right to disclose user information in special cases when we have reason to believe that divulging this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with or injury to (either intentionally or unintentionally) the rights or property belonging to Sandra Miller-Louden, other greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com
users or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.  Sandra Miller-Louden may disclose user information when we carry a good faith belief
that the law demands it. 

Greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com also reserves the right to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the varied areas of the site.  We shall provide only composite (as opposed to individual) data from these analyses to third parties.  Also, users should know that Sandra Miller-Louden may sometimes permit third parties to offer subscription and/ or registration-based services through greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com.  Sandra Miller-Louden is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and users should check the applicable privacy policy of any and all such parties before providing personally identifiable information.

In addition, users should be aware that when they voluntarily give identifiable information (e.g., user name, city or state, e-mail address) on any bulletin board, interactive areas or special features of greetingcardwriting.com (e.g., "Getting To Know You" or "In The Spotlight"), that information, along with any substantive information accidentally or deliberately disclosed in the user's communication, can be collected, correlated and used by third parties.  This, in turn, may result in unsolicited messages from other visitors to the site or third parties.  Such activities are beyond the control of greetingcardwriting.com and
sandralouden.com.

Users are also notified and should be aware that non-personal information and data may be automatically collected through the standard operation of greetingcardwriting.com's and sandralouden.com's internet servers or through
the use of cookies.  Cookies are those miniature text files that a web site uses to identify repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access to and use of the site and to allow a site to track usage behavior and compile composite data that permits site improvements and focused, relevant advertising.  Cookies are not programs that come onto a user's system to damage files.  Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning beyond the assigning site.

Users should be aware that Sandra Miller-Louden cannot or does not control the use of cookies or any resulting information of present or future advertisers or third parties hosting data for greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com.  
If a user does not desire data collected through the use of cookies, there is generally an uncomplicated method present in most browsers allowing a user to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, users should be aware that cookies may be necessary to provide the user with certain features (e.g. ease of accessing site) applicable to greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com.

Upon request, greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com will make every reasonable effort to allow any user to opt out of further  promotional
contacts.  In addition, we will avail ourselves of all reasonable efforts to allow users to update or correct personal information previously submitted which the user states is inaccurate.  By reasonable efforts, we will comply to users' requests to the extent that our cooperation will not compromise privacy or security interests.

Also, upon a user's request, greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com will use reasonable efforts to functionally delete the user and her/his personal information from its database; however, the user should be aware that it may be impossible to delete her/his previous entries without some residual information, due to backups and deletion records.

The foregoing privacy policies are effective immediately.   Greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com reserve the right to change this
policy at any time in the future by notifying users of the existence of a new privacy statement.  This statement and the policies outlined herein are not
intended to and, in fact, do not create any contractual or other legal rights in, for or on behalf of any party.

By using our site, you, the user, acknowledge reading this Privacy Policy and signify your compliance to greetingcardwriting.com's and sandralouden.com's
Privacy Policy as stated herein.  If you do not agree with this policy, please refrain from logging onto our site or using its many, varied features.  Your continued use of internet sites owned by Sandra Miller-Louden
(including, but not limited to greetingcardwriting.com and sandralouden.com) now or following the posting of any changes to these terms will mean you accept those terms and/or changes.  

If you have questions or concerns regarding our privacy statement, contact Sandra Miller-Louden at sandra@sandralouden.com.