Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is extremely important to us and we strive to encourage repeat visits to our web site and domain. We are not owned by, operated or partnered with any marketing agency or advertising firm, as we are not required to report any information to such establishments. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and handled while visiting any page within our web site and domain. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point where personally identifiable information may be collected. In fact, any web site claiming to offer any type of goods or services, in our opinion, should have their own privacy statement in place and enforced. If not, you as a consumer have every right to question their online presence and why you should conduct business with this alleged company. Any reputable online establishment must be made aware of the legalities involved in conducting a legitimate online business.

We guarantee your email address and any other information we collect or request will not be used for any other purpose than to respond to your email or request, or to fulfill the requirements pertaining to the options on any given page displayed on your desktop within our web site and its domain. Nor will we ever place you on a mass mailing list with the intent to sell your information to any third or outside parties whether affiliated or not affiliated with AFP Studio without your prior expressed written consent. We reserve the right to update our privacy statement at any time to better fulfill the needs of our customers and to further enhance the functionality of our web site and all its content. If at any time, should you have any questions regarding your privacy, or our online practices while visiting our web site, or positive suggestions pertaining to your right to privacy, please feel free to contact us.

The Information We Collect
We may at times collect, but do not use nor share your information without your expressed written permission with any outside or third parties for any other purpose than to fulfill the direct request being made pertaining to the information on the page displayed at your desktop at the point of entry. Your I.P. address will be automatically collected throughout our web site via a standard visitor counter and common gateway interface (CGI) to our database solely for the purpose of geological reference and to better serve our customers and enhance the functionality of our web site. An I.P. address is NOT personally identifiable information. It is general information about your geological location, browser connection to the Internet, and your Internet Service Provider. We use your I.P. address to help diagnose problems with our server, help better administer the functions of our web site and prevent abuse. On certain pages you can order products, make requests, utilize an open forum source, join our mailing list and register to receive materials, information or web site updates. On secure pages managed by secure servers where a purchase can be made, the credit card processing service AFP Studio utilizes (2CheckOut) will be the only entity that will have access to personal and financially sensitive information and is guaranteed safe by 2CheckOut.

AFP Studio is a certified 2CheckOut.com seller. The types of personal information collected at these secure pages cannot be intercepted by any outside party and may include: Your Name, Home Mailing Address, Email address, Phone number, Credit/Debit Card Information (etc.). On some of our pages you will be able to submit information about other people. For example, in the case of sending an online e-card directly to a recipient, you will only need to submit the recipient's valid email address. In this circumstance, the only types of information collected would be: Name (or nickname) and valid email addresses. Your I.P. address will be automatically collected for security reasons.

Cookies and how we use them. Cookies are small pieces of information stored in a user's browser that help identify each unique user. If you are accessing protected content, cookies may be collected for authentication purposes only. The use of cookies within our domain are established on a per session basis only and are not permanently stored.

How We Use Information
Safety first in a non intrusive manner. AFP Studio does not collect nor store sensitive or personal information for the intent to sell information, all or in part to any third parties, or other companies. We use forms and databases throughout our web site and the personal information you provide on secure pages about yourself when placing an order, is used only to complete that order. The personal Information you provide, such as your credit card number, of which AFP Studio will never have any access to, home address and telephone number to make purchases on a secure page is only used for the above sole purpose. The credit card processing service we utilize (2CheckOut) and the actual person making the online transaction, shall be the only two entities sharing financially personal and sensitive information. We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and is never shared with outside, or third parties, nor automatically placed on a mass mailing list unless specifically requested. We use non-identifying and aggregate information such as I.P. addresses and browser types to better design our web site. We never use or share personally identifiable or non-identifying or aggregate information in ways unrelated to the ones described above that prohibit unrelated uses.

Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have been guaranteed that the secure credit card processing services AFP Studio utilizes as a certified 2Checkout.com seller (2CheckOut), have put in place the appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information you submit directly to our credit card processing center, of which AFP Studio can verify the name and personal information of the card holder if investigative issues arise after purchasing any of our products, but does not have access to the financially sensitive information contained therein. We utilize a variety of measures to safeguard the data we create, upload or email. To the best of our abilities, our content is free from viruses, malicious or intentional errors prior to leaving the safety of our physical domain. We highly recommend you educate yourself by reviewing the privacy statement and risks any web site or service may pose. The following Mcafee.com link can provide complete virus and security information to protect your machine or network both online and off-line. Our web hosting services are backed by dual servers, data tape backed up and also powered with a diesel generator in the event of an electrical power failure or if one server crashes.

Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important to us. For that reason, we never collect nor maintain information at our web site or domain from any end user confirmed to be under the age of 13, and no part of our web site is structured to attract anyone under 13. Although our web site is geared towards adults and the minds of persons the ages of 16 and over, we are careful not to allow our web site to contain any sexually explicit, or overtly offensive material or content. We are rated by safe by the Internet Content Rating Association. AFP Studio upholds the responsibilities that coincide with the freedom of speech and creative expression.

How To Correct Your Information
If you discover any information you have sent AFP Studio to be incorrect, for your own protection you must send us an email correctly and credibly identifying yourself, proving the error and how the information was used prior to identifying such error, and from the same machine the information was originally transmitted from. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information such as in the case of an online purchase, an artists submission, or updating your email address. To protect your privacy and security, we will in such cases take reasonable and logical steps to verify your identity before making corrections with all parties involved in any transaction.

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How To Contact Us
If you have ideas, comments, general input or just want to say hello, I welcome your emails. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy statement, contact us via our standard email form, or via our Live Chat system:

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