Date of last revision: 11/15/2008

Privacy Policy
YellowstoneStories.com, LLC (us, we, our) has written this Privacy Policy to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services.

What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Website you may provide us with three types of information: account and membership information you provide to YellowstoneStories.com, LLC; website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website; and Content you contribute to the website (i.e. stories, photos, etc.).

1. Account and Membership Information to YellowstoneStories.com, LLC
You will provide us information about yourself when you register to be a member of, or set up an account with, YellowstoneStories.com, LLC.  You will be asked to register for certain services, or register for e-mail newsletter and alerts. You may also provide additional comments on how you see YellowstoneStories.com, LLC servicing your needs and interests.

If you choose to correspond with us through e-mail, we may retain the content of your e-mail messages together with your e-mail address and our responses.

2. Website Use Information
Similar to other commercial Websites, our Website utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our Website is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Website, and the Websites visited just before and just after our Website.

3. Content You Submit (i.e. Stories, Photos and other Contributions)
When you enter your stories, poems, and comments, or upload photos, images, or other contributions (collectively referred to as “Content”), you are providing us and users of the website with information about yourself and experiences.  If you choose to provide contact information with your Content you may receive subsequent correspondence from us or other users of the website.  YellowstoneStories.com, LLC will retain any Content you provide indefinitely. 

How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information (i.e. accountant and membership information) for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities and providing customer service. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable.

Personally Identifiable Information
YellowstoneStories.com, LLC will not publicly display your personally-identifiable information without your explicit permission; if you include personally-identifiable information within your Content, you are granting explicit permission to YellowstoneStories.com, LLC to display that information with and as a part of your Content.  If you later want personally-identifiable information removed from your Content, please contact Customer Service.

What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Website, that site's computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but, to protect your privacy, your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you use our Website, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Website and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Website and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.

Sharing Information with Third Parties
We will not share your account or contact information (i.e. name, address, telephone numbers, email address) or other personally-identifying information with any third party, except as otherwise indicated in this Privacy Policy. 

Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As our customer, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these notices.

How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
E-mail is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by e-mail. Some of the information you may enter on our Website may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption services. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP. Please contact Customer Service if you have any questions or concerns.

How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by e-mailing Customer Service .

Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of our site, and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of our site, us, or third parties.

What About Other Websites Linked to Our Website?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Websites linked to or from our Website nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Website.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Website to another Website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect.  Your browsing and interaction on any other Website, including Websites which have a link on our Website, is subject to that Website's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Your Consent
By using our Website you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.