Privacy Policy
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SurfGuitar101.com is committed to ensuring the privacy of its readers
and registered members and wants you to fully understand our terms and
conditions This privacy statement describes how any personal, and
anonymous, information is collected and managed and how you can request
changes to any sharing of this information that may occur.

Statistical Reports
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SurfGuitar101.com’s servers automatically recognize a visitor’s IP
address and domain name. These items do not reveal any personal
information about the visitor. The information is used solely to compile
statistics that enable us to examine page impression levels and numbers
of unique users visiting our Web sites. This information helps us to
understand the areas of our sites that people visit in order to deliver
more effective content.

Cookies
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Like most other Web sites, SurfGuitar101.com uses cookies. Cookies are
small data files that some Web sites write to your hard drive when you
visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that
the site uses to track the pages you’ve visited. Cookies do not tell us
who you are unless you’ve specifically given us personally identifiable
information. A cookie can’t read data off your hard drive or read cookie
files created by other sites.

SurfGuitar101.com uses cookies to allow automatic logins to improve your
experience with our sites. For example, we may use a cookie to identify
our site members so they don’t have to re-enter a user id and password
when they sign-in. Cookies can also be used to help us to better
understand how visitors interact with our sites leading to the delivery
of more relevant content. Cookies may be created directly by our sites
for these purposes, or by third-party companies operating on our behalf.
If you choose to become a member of SurfGuitar101.com, you must have
cookies enabled to access the member related pages (i.e. Discussion
Boards and Member Profile pages).

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but allow you to modify
security settings so you can approve or reject cookies on a case-by-case
basis.

Pixel Tags
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SurfGuitar101.com does not currently use pixel tags, also known as
beacons, web bugs or clear gifs.

Social Media Features & Widgets
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SurfGuitar101.com uses various social media widgets, such as Facebook "like
buttons", to easily allow our users to share SurfGuitar101.com content on social
media sites. These widgets may collect your IP address, which page your are
visiting, and may also set a cookie on your computer. Your interactions with
these widgets are governed by the privacy policies of the social media companies
that provide them.

Online Ad Serving
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SurfGuitar101.com does not currently use third-party advertising
companies to serve advertisements.

Newsletters / Mailing Lists
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Through the registration process for SurfGuitar101.com, we request some
personal information such as your e-mail address, company information,
your name, job title, etc. We will never give your personal information
to any third party vendor without your prior consent. We currently do
not make our email and postal lists available to any third-party.

SurfGuitar101.com Email Announcements
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At this time we do not send mass e-mails to make site-wide
announcements.

Necessary Disclosure
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The necessary disclosure of any of the above information to third
parties will be governed by the following principles:

#. Where SurfGuitar101.com is required to do so by law and any order of
   the court.
#. Where it is necessary to identify anyone who may be violating the
   rights of others or the law in general.
#. Where SurfGuitar101.com intends to co-operate with the investigation
   of any alleged unlawful activities without being required to by
   virtue of any court order or other legal requirement.
#. Where it is necessary to protect the rights of SurfGuitar101.com.

Security
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We use all reasonable precautions to securely maintain all information
given to us by our registered members and we are not responsible for any
breach of the reasonable security measures installed to protect the said
information. We are not responsible for the private policies of any site
linked to, or from, SurfGuitar101.com.

Opt Out Policy
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SurfGuitar101.com gives users options whenever necessary, and practical.
Such choices include: Opting not to receive our electronic messages,
opting not to provide certain optional personal information when
registering for an account.

Transfer of Information
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SurfGuitar101.com reserves the right to transfer any information
accumulated as described above in the event of the sale of part or all
of SurfGuitar101.com assets and/or stock. By visiting our Web sites and
by registering you consent to the collection and use of information in
the manner herein described.

Privacy Policy Changes
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This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time. Any modifications
to our Privacy Policy will be reflected on this page. If there is a
significant change, we will indicate it on our sites and provide a link
to the new policy.

*Privacy policy last updated on May 12, 2012*