James Van Praagh

At www.VanPraagh.com we are committed to honoring the privacy of our on-line visitors to our web site. We recognize the importance to you of maintaining an appropriate level of privacy and security for the personal information we collect from you over the internet. The following discloses our web site information gathering and use practices and is limited to the protection and use of personal information collected by us in the online environment.

Your access to and use of our site are subject to this policy and any other terms of use or policies posted by us. Please note that this privacy statement applies only to this site and not to the web sites of organizations or companies to which we link.

What Type of Information Is Collected and Used?

The only personally identifiable information we collect about visitors is provided voluntarily. How we collect and store information depends on the page you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and the services provided. For example, you may be asked to provide information when you register for access to certain portions of our site or request certain features, such as when you make a purchase from the Store Page. You may provide information when you participate in message boards and chat rooms, contests, voting and polling activities, mailing lists and other interactive areas of our site.

In general, you can visit our web site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. However, some portions of our web site may be accessible only to users who have registered with us (and who may be asked to provide certain information as part of the registration or login process). In addition, our web servers may use "cookies" (described below) to collect information about visitors such as domain names, but not your e-mail addresses.

This information may be aggregated to measure such things as the number of visits, average time spent on the site, number of pages viewed, and methods by which our site was found. www.VanPraagh.com uses such information to evaluate the use of our site and to continuously improve the content and services being provided.

As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do you may be unable to access certain portions of the site and we may not be able to customize the site's features according to your preferences.

Who Has Access to Your Information?

Unless we specifically disclose it to you at the time of collection or subsequently obtain your approval, we will not make visitor or customer-specific information that is gathered on our site available to unaffiliated organizations for commercial purposes unrelated to the business of www.VanPraagh.com. We do not give, sell or transfer any personal information to a third party.

Our web site and its affiliated companies use this information to help us deliver the services you have requested, or to design or offer specific information, services or products that we believe will be useful to you. While we may use this information to contact you, we will take commercially reasonable steps to safeguard such information from unauthorized access by any other parties.

Personally identifiable information collected by www.VanPraagh.com may also be used for other purposes, including but not limited to site administration, troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce transactions, administration of sweepstakes and contests, and other communications with you. Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site (our web hosting service, for example) may access such information. We will use your information only as permitted by law.

Cookies

Our site may make use of cookies (or a similar technology) to better manage our site and to assist us in providing you with tailored information and services. A cookie is a tiny element of data that a web site can send to your browser, which is stored on your hard drive so that we can do things such as better serve you as you navigate through our site or when you return. You may set your browser to notify you or decline the receipt of a cookie; however, certain features of our sites may not function properly or be available if your browser is configured to disable cookies.

Security

www.VanPraagh.com maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect the confidentiality of personal information provided by you at our web site. For example, unique passwords are required to register your nickname in our chat room. In addition to requiring the use of a unique passwords, all payments processed through our web site require personal transactional information provided by you to be sent in a "Secure Session" using Secure Socket Layer encryption technology. This technology encrypts - or scrambles - your financial or credit card account information to help prevent unauthorized parties from reading it. We regularly test and update our technology to help protect your personal information. When doing business with others to whom you can link from our site, you should consider the separate security and privacy policies of those other sites.

Discussion Areas

This site provides discussion areas so that visitors may communicate freely and share ideas. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when disclosing such information. These discussion areas may be monitored occasionally in order to enhance the safety and respect for all of our customers and visitors, and off-topic, unlawful or otherwise inappropriate content of materials of which we become aware may or may not be removed from the site during the course of such monitoring. However, www.VanPraagh.com is not responsible for any information posted or remaining on these discussion areas.

Links to Other Sites

For the convenience of our visitors and customers, this web site may contain links to other sites. While we generally try to link only to sites that share similar high standards and respect for privacy, www.VanPraagh.com is not responsible for the content, products or services offered or the privacy and security practices employed by these other sites. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.

You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information on message boards or in chat areas, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of www.VanPraagh.com and this policy.

Children

www.VanPraagh.com does not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from or about children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any information from a child under 13 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe www.VanPraagh.com has any information from or about anyone under 13, please contact the Web Site Administrator at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Revisions to this policy

Because of the evolving nature of the technologies that used by www.VanPraagh.com and the way that we conduct business, we may amend this policy from time to time. We will post any revisions on this site. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

Feedback

If you have any questions or comments about this privacy statement, your dealings with this web site, or if you find that we have any incorrect information concerning you or any of your accounts with us, you may contact the Web Site Administrator at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .