PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO
YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Horizon Structures,
LLC. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance
to us. At Horizon Structures, we want to make your experience
online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about
our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy
and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture
and use of that information. This privacy statement
discloses what information we gather and how we use
it.
INFORMATION HORIZON STRUCTURES GATHERS AND TRACKS
Horizon Structures gathers two types of information
about users:
• Information that users provide through optional,
voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions
to receive our electronic newsletters or product literature,
to participate in our message boards or forums, to email
a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:
• Information Horizon Structures gathers through
aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying
page views throughout our sites. This information allows
us to better tailor our content to readers' needs. Under
no circumstances does Horizon Structures divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
Horizon Structures Gathers User Information In The Following
Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require
some type of voluntary submission of personal information
by users:
1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users.
Horizon Structures gathers the email addresses of users
who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves
from this mailing list by following the link provided
in every newsletter that points users to the subscription
management page. Users will be automatically subscribed
to the newsletter if they include their email address
when requesting product literature.
2. "E-mail this to a friend" policy
Our site users can choose to electronically forward
a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking
"e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide
their email address, as well as that of the recipient.
This information is used only in the case of transmission
errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who
sent the email. The information is not used for any
other purpose.
3. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can
easily share their opinions with other users and see
what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions
or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not
identifiable to any particular user. Horizon Structures
may use a system to "tag" users after they
have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular
question. This tag is not correlated with information
about individual users.
4. Surveys
Horizon Structures may occasionally conduct user surveys
to better target our content to our audience. We never
share any of this information about specific individuals
with any third party.
Usage tracking
Horizon Structures tracks user traffic patterns throughout
all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this
information with data about individual users. Horizon
Structures does break down overall usage statistics
according to a user's domain name, browser type, and
MIME type by reading this information from the browser
string (information contained in every user's browser).
Horizon Structures sometimes tracks and catalogs the
search terms that users enter in our Search function,
but this tracking is never associated with individual
users. We use tracking information to determine which
areas of our sites users like and don't like based on
traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual
users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.
This helps us continue to build a better service for
you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie"
in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself
does not contain Personal Information although it will
enable us to relate your use of this site to information
that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But
the only personal information a cookie can contain is
information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read
data off your hard disk or read cookie files created
by other sites. Horizon Structures uses cookies to track
user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising
system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad
impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.
If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting
cookies, you will receive the warning message with each
cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to
use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate
actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
Privacy Policy Use
USE OF INFORMATION
Horizon Structures uses any information voluntarily
given by our users to enhance their experience in our
network of sites, whether to provide interactive or
personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare
future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily
provide in order to send out electronic newsletters
and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys,
message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters
to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the
newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions
when we think subscribers might be particularly interested
in something we are doing. Horizon Structures never
shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties,
including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which
areas of our sites users like and don't like based on
traffic to those areas, we do not track what individual
users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.
This helps us continue to build a better service for
you. We track search terms entered in Search function
as one of many measures of what interests our users.
But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
Horizon Structures creates aggregate reports on user
demographics and traffic patterns. This information
is used exclusively by Horizon Structures to monitor
web site performance. We will not disclose any information
about any individual user except to comply with applicable
law or valid legal process or to protect the personal
safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Horizon Structures uses the above-described information
to tailor our content to suit your needs and help us
better understand our audience's demographics. We will
not share information about individual users with any
third party, except to comply with applicable law or
valid legal process or to protect the personal safety
of our users or the public.
SECURITY
Horizon Structures operates secure data networks protected
by industry standard firewall and password protection
systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically
reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized
individuals have access to the information provided
by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical.
Such choices include:
• Opting not to register to receive our electronic
newsletters.
• Opting not to participate in certain interactive
areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather
any personally identifiable information from our users.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and
use of this information by Horizon Structures. If we
decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on this page so that you are always aware of
what information we collect, how we use it, and under
what circumstances we disclose it.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these
privacy policies, please call us at: 1-888-447-4337]
or send us an email at info@horizonstructures.com.
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