We at venangopolitics.com are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your visits to this website.  Outlined below is our online privacy policy.  If you have questions about this policy, please let us know by sending an email to venangopolitics@yahoo.com.

Collection and disclosure of information: To ensure we are able to communicate effectively with visitors to our web site, we collect some information that can be directly associated with a specific person.  We call this "Personal Information," and it includes, by way of illustration, names and e-mail addresses.  It is our general policy not to make Personal Information available to anyone other than authorized persons working on our website content and marketing.

Online Comments and Personal Information: We treat your name and any comments you provide as public information.  If you author and submit an article to be published, your name will be published.  If you submit a comment on our Guestbook, your name will be published with your comments.  We do not publish your email address without your permission.

Browser information collected on the web site:  We log IP addresses, which are the locations of computers or networks on the Internet, and analyze them in order to improve the value of our site. We also collect aggregate numbers of page hits in order to track the popularity of certain pages and improve the value of our site.  We do not gather, request, record, require, collect or track any Internet users' Personal Information through these processes.

Cookies: A cookie is a tiny piece of data stored by a user's browser that helps a web site or service recognize that user's unique computer. You can remove or block cookies by changing the settings of your browser.   Session specific cookies may be used on venangopolitics.com to improve the user experience and for basic web metrics. These cookies expire in a very short time frame or when a browser window closes and are permitted by current federal guidelines.

Privacy of our email lists: As noted above, we maintain e-mail lists to keep interested, eligible individuals informed about important topics. We refuse to divulge the email addresses of our list to anyone other than those whom we authorize. However, we are not the author of the software, and are not responsible for any failures in the software to preserve email anonymity.

Children's privacy: Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying FTC regulation establishing United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet.  We do not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under 13.  Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13.  It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information pertaining to children under 13.  If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately delete the information from our servers.  If you want to notify us of our receipt of information by children under 13, please contact us by email at venangopolitics@yahoo.com.

Security: We maintain a variety of physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information. For example, we use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems.  Also, we restrict access to Personal Information to those who need such access in the course of their duties for us.  Your own efforts to protect against unauthorized access play an important role in protecting the security of your personal information.  You should be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer, and always log out of any site when viewing personal information.  We may have links to other, outside web sites that we do not control.  We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these sites, and users should check those policies on such sites.

Changes to this policy:  We will revise or update this policy if our practices change, or as we develop better ways to keep you informed about them. You should refer back to this page often for the latest information and the effective date of any changes. I f we decide to change this policy, we will post a new policy on our site and change the date at the bottom.  Changes to the policy shall not apply retroactively.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at venangopolitics@yahoo.com.

Updated: April 30, 2011