Privacy is extremely important to us. Please read the following to understand our views and practices regarding this matter and how they pertain to you.

The Black Art Directory gathers several types of information about our visitors: information about how many people visit our site, and personal contact information supplied by visitors signing up for electronic publications or newsletters created and transmitted by The Black Art Directory or other promotions such as opinion surveys. Such information enables us to better tailor our products to our visitors' needs and to help us better understand the demographics of our visitors. The Black Art Directory DOES NOT SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT INDIVIDUAL VISITORS WITH ANY OTHER PARTY.

The Black Art Directory gathers user information in the following processes:

Virtual Postcards - When you send one of our virtual postcards, the information you provide to us is used to customize your greeting with the recipient's name and with your message, and to deliver an email notification to the recipient. We treat our cards as private correspondence between the sender and the recipient and will not disclose the contents of a card, other than to the intended recipient, unless we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of The Black Art Directory; or (4) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public. However, if you provide a false email address or attempt to pose as someone else when sending a card, information about you - including your computer's IP address - may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions. Under normal circumstances, we will not monitor or edit the contents of the cards you send. On occasion, however, The Black Art Directory personnel may need to view your message in connection with the technical processing of your greeting or the maintenance of our network.

The Black Art Directory uses reasonable precautions to keep the personal information disclosed to us secure and to disclose such information where appropriate only to third parties we believe to be responsible. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties which receive the information. The Black Art Directory also links to a wide variety of other sites. We are not responsible for their privacy policies or how they treat information about their users. Before you can transmit a postcard, you are required to read and agree to the terms in the Terms of Service: The Black Art Directory Web Site Terms of Service Agreement.

Electronic newsletters - The Black Art Directory may offer free e-mail newsletters to visitors. The Black Art Directory gathers the e-mail addresses of visitors who voluntarily subscribe. Customers may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the instructions included in every newsletter.

Usage tracking - The Black Art Directory tracks visitor traffic patterns throughout our site. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual visitors. The Black Art Directory may/does break down overall usage statistics according to a visitor's domain name, browser type, and MIME type using the information supplied by the user's Web browser, such as IP address, browser type, version and platform.

As stated above, The Black Art Directory uses information that visitors voluntarily provide in order to send out e-mail newsletters. The Black Art Directory does not share newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, constituencies or partners. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our site visitors like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. The Black Art Directory does not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. The Black Art Directory uses the information described above to tailor our products and content to suit your needs and help us better understand our audience's demographics. The Black Art Directory will not disclose any of your personal information, except as described above, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, or to protect the rights or property of The Black Art Directory. The Black Art Directory does disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to prospective constituencies, partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

Use of Cookies - From time to time, The Black Art Directory or its advertisers may send a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your Internet browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie can't read data off of your computer hard disk or read cookie files created by other Web sites. Cookies do not damage your system.

We use cookies to identify which areas of The Black Art Directory you have visited or customized, so the next time you visit, those pages may be readily accessible. Our advertisers may also use cookies to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. Our advertisers and we may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you see on our site.

You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your web browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept cookies, your experience at The Black Art Directory and other Web sites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.