The Vance Communication Corporation Sites are produced by
Vance Publishing Corporation and include DealerandApplicator.com,
Greenbook.net, StopSoybeanRust.com. The Vance Communication Corporation is
committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy
to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full
use of our many offerings. By accessing, browsing or using the Vance Food
Systems Web sites, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to
be bound by this privacy policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this
privacy policy, do not use this Web site. The Vance Communication Corporation
may, from time to time, revise this privacy policy. If changes are made to the
Privacy Policy, the date of the change will show next to the Privacy Policy
link at the bottom of the home page.
Accordingly, you should check the Update Date to keep aware of any
changes.
The Vance Communication Corporation's primary goal in
collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized
experience on our site. This includes personalization services, interactive
communications, online shopping and many other types of services, most of which
are completely free to you. By knowing a little about you, the Vance
Communication Corporation is able to deliver more relevant content and
advertisements, and hence, better service to you.
When you are on a Vance Communication Corporation site and
are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with the
Vance Communication Corporation alone, except as noted in the following
paragraphs.
The Vance Communication Corporation collects information in
several ways from our Web sites. Some personal information is gathered when you
register. The more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the
better we are able to customize your experience. Once you register, you are no
longer anonymous to the Vance Communication Corporation, which means you are
able to take full advantage of the Vance Communication Corporation's many
offerings. In addition to registration, we may ask you for personal information
at other times, including (but not limited to) when you enter a sweepstakes,
contest or promotion sponsored by the Vance Communication Corporation and/or
our many partners; when you post a classified ad; when you submit a listing for
a Web site; and when you report a problem with one of our sites or services. If
you contact the Vance Communication Corporation, we may keep a record of that
correspondence. The Vance Communication Corporation also occasionally asks
users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes.
Keeping your personal financial information private is
vitally important to us. The Vance Communication Corporation will never rent or
sell your personal credit card information. Any time we ask for a credit card
number, we transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format.
As part of offering and providing customizable and
personalized services, the Vance Communication Corporation uses cookies to
store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of
data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your
computer's hard drive. By modifying your browser preferences, you may choose to
accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is set or reject all cookies. If
you choose to reject all cookies, you will be unable to access certain areas or
use certain services available at this Web site. Generally, we use cookies to:
(1) Remind us of who you are and to access your user
information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and
more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or log on to a
Vance Communication Corporation Web site.
(2) Estimate our audience size, track usage by a registered
user versus by an unregistered user and to help evaluate advertisements based
on user interests and behavior.
(3) Track your progress and number of entries in some of our
promotions, sweepstakes and contests.
(4) Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of a Vance
Communication Corporation Web site you have visited, and your visiting patterns
in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits are
similar or different from one another, so that we can make each new experience
on a Vance Communication Corporation Web site a better one. We may use this
information to better personalize the content, banners and promotions that you
and other users will see on our sites.
The Vance Communication Corporation also collects IP
addresses for system administration and to determine aggregate information for
our advertisers and/or partners.
Promotions that run on the Vance Communication Corporation
sites may be sponsored by companies other than the Vance Communication
Corporation or may be cosponsored by the Vance Communication Corporation and
another company. No data collected during a promotion will be shared with the
sponsor.
Please be aware that the Vance Communication Corporation
partners, advertisers and Web sites that have links on our site may collect
personally identifiable information about you if you visit their Web sites. The
information practices of those partners, advertisers and Web sites linked to
the Vance Communication Corporation are not covered by this privacy policy.
As a general rule, the Vance Communication Corporation will
not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we
have your permission or under special circumstances, such as in response to (a)
requests from local, state or federal law enforcement officials; (b) any
judicial, administrative or similar proceeding or order, such as a subpoena; or
(c) if required by law or under the circumstances described below.
The following describes some additional ways that your
information may be disclosed:
From time to time, you may receive materials or special
offers we send out for our business partners. If you respond to these notices,
the Vance Communication Corporation may share your personally identifiable
information with them.
The Vance Communication Corporation discloses aggregated
user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective
partners, advertisers and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
The Vance Communication Corporation may also disclose personal information in
special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information
is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may
be violating or may be causing injury to or interference with (either
intentionally or unintentionally) the Vance Communication Corporation 's rights
or property, other Vance Communication Corporation users, or anyone else that
could be harmed by such activities. The Vance Communication Corporation will
disclose or access account information in response to (a) requests from local,
state or federal law enforcement officials; (b) any judicial, administrative or
similar proceeding or order, such as a subpoena; or (c) if required by law.
The Vance Communication Corporation may disclose or access
account information for administrative and other purposes that we deem
necessary to maintain, service and improve our products and services. The Vance
Communication Corporation may, from time to time, send you e-mail regarding our
products and services. Only the Vance Communication Corporation (or agents
working on behalf of the Vance Communication Corporation and under
confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings and only if you
indicated that you do not object to these offers. If you do not want to receive
such mailings, simply e-mail us.
The Vance Communication Corporation does research on our
users' demographics, interests and behavior based on the information provided
to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files or from
surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This research is
compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Vance Communication Corporation
may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners.
The Vance Communication Corporation is committed to
protecting the privacy of children online. However, we do not collect the age
of our users. To that end, we do not know the age of a person using the sites.
Therefore, it is the parent or guardian’s responsibility to ensure that
children only use this site under an adult’s supervision. At a parent or legal
guardian's request, we will delete the child's personal information and prevent
any further collection or use of such information. Finally, any information we
collect for sweepstakes, contest or promotion will be limited to what is
reasonably necessary for participation.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose
personal information online -- for example on message boards, through e-mail or
in chat areas -- that information can be collected and used by others. In
short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the
public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the
secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and
responsible whenever you are online.
If you have a question that was not addressed in the above
disclaimer or privacy policy, you may contact us at:
Vance Communication Corporation
10901 W.84th Terrace
Lenexa, KS 66214
(913) 438-8700
Or by e-mail: mweeks@vancepublishing.com
Updated: July 14, 2004
