Secure Transactions
You may see a warning about crossing from a secure zone to an insecure zone after you have entered your credit card information. The primary place where security is an issue is when your credit card number is transferred from your machine over the internet to our server. After that point, the card information is stored locally for the life of the transaction and is safe. We have a secure connection for the actual transfer of your information, after which you can continue shopping throughout the site. Your credit card number is only stored in memory for the current transaction and is deleted when you close your browser.

Information Automatically Logged
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and your shopping cart. We review server reports to determine general information regarding the country of origin of our users and the type of browser software that is prevalent among our users.

Cookies
Our site may uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart. We may also use cookies to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. Since Web servers do not maintain active connections between users and various screens or pages of information displayed, we create a cookie to identify the user during the shopping process so information provided on one page does not need to be re-supplied for each additional page.

Advertisers
We participate in banner exchanges that display ads on our site. These ads may or may not contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.

Registration Forms
Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name, email, and postal address), and unique identifiers (like password). Contact information from the registration form is used to ship purchases and information about our company. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the customer when necessary. Unique identifiers (such as passwords) are collected from Web site visitors to verify the user's identity.

Order Forms
Our site uses a secure (encrypted) order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect contact information (like their email and postal address). Financial information (like credit card number) is used only during the duration of the transaction and is not permanently stored on our Web site or internal company accounting system once the transaction is complete. Contact information from the order form is used to ship purchases. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary.

Financial information is used to bill the user for products and services.

External Links
This site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Public Forums
This site makes email lists and news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Our site is maintained within our corporate headquarters on equipment with restricted-access to employees and guests. We operate this equipment using industry standard computer systems and data management procedures. Since user accounts are based upon the user's email address which may be publicly known, account privacy is assured through the password the user selects for his/her account. Do not share or divulge your password to anyone.

Data Quality/Access
This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

All user account information may be changed by the user.

You can send email to webmaster@localtalents.net.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: webmaster@localtalents.net.