We are committed to protecting your privacy. We use the information we collect about you to customize your experience on this website; to label with your username (not your real name, unless you choose to use your real name as your username) any forum and blog entries that you write; to send you necessary account and system information by email; and to send you other information and offers by email, which you can tell us to stop at any time. We also use the information to gather statistics about our website users as a group.

We do not sell, rent or otherwise disclose our user list.

If you make a purchase on this website using a credit card, we will keep your credit-card information under high security. All transmission of credit-card information between you and us, and between us and the payment processing company, will be done using encryption to prevent eavesdropping. We won't keep your credit-card number after your payment's been processed.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, please send them by email to talktous@smartpatterns.com.