privacy

overview
The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you as to what kinds of information we may gather about you when you visit shepherdstown.com ("shepherdstown"), how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, the information. Please note that this policy applies only to shepherdstown.com and not to other companies' or organizations' Web sites to which we link.

information about all shepherdstown.com visitors
Our site automatically gathers certain usage information like the numbers and frequency of visitors to shepherdstown.com and its areas. We only use such data in the aggregate. This aggregate data helps us determine how much our customers use parts of the site. For example, shepherdstown.com uses a technology nicknamed "cookies" that tells us how and when pages in our site are visited, and by how many people. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information and we do not combine information collected through these cookies with other personally identifiable information to tell us who you are or what your e-mail address is. We also may provide statistical information, never information about you personally, to our partners about how our visitors, collectively, use shepherdstown.com. We do this so they too can understand how much people use specific areas in our site. Finally, shepherdstown.com, its advertisers and ad servers may also use cookies, as well as small pieces of code called "web beacons", to determine on an anonymous basis which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them. We do not use these technologies to collect personally identifiable information unless you give us permission to do so.

disclosure
We do not use or disclose information about your individual visits to shepherdstown.com or information that you may give us on shepherdstown.com, such as your name, address, email address or telephone number, to any outside companies. shepherdstown.com may share such information in response to legal process, such as a court order or subpoena, or in special cases such as a physical threat to you or others. As noted above, we may share with our Web site partners aggregated statistical "ratings" information about the use of shepherdstown.com.

shepherdstown.com privacy policy changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy for shepherdstown.com, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone.

Last updated September 27, 2003.