Privacy Policy

At Columbia Nights, we are committed to protecting online user privacy. This "Privacy Policy" discloses the privacy practices governing our knowing collection, use, and disclosure of information. In order to ensure your privacy, information we collect is used only in the manner and for the purposes described below.

wnDesigns owns and operates a number of different sites on the Internet (including ColumbiaNights.com). wnDesigns D.B.A. Columbia Nights knows how important it is to actively protect the privacy of its' user community. The goal of this privacy policy is to detail the information, Columbia Nights may gather about individual who visit our web sites, how that information is used, and our disclosure practices. Pleases note that this policy applies only to the Columbia Nights web site, and not to the web sites of other companies or organizations to which we provide links or to any software that may be downloaded from the Columbia Nights web site. Also, please note that each of our vendors has their own privacy policy which may be read by clicking Partners on our Legal documents page.

Anonymous User Information: Columbia Nights collects some anonymous information each time you visit Columbia Nights so we can improve the overall quality of your online experience. We collect your IP address, referral data, and browser and platform type. You do not have to register with Columbia Nights before we can collect this anonymous information. We do not collect any unique information about you (such as your name, e-mail address, etc.) except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information. Columbia Nights does not require you to share information that identifies you personally, such as your name or email address, in order for you to use the Columbia Nights search. Columbia Nights assigns an anonymous ID number to your requests and links the following additional data to that number: the date and time you visited Columbia Nights, your search terms, and the links upon which you choose to click. Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information. We analyze this information to examine trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Columbia Nights may present links in a format that enables us to understand whether they have been followed. We use this information to understand and improve the quality of the Columbia Nights search.

Individual User Information
From time-to-time the Columbia Nights web site may request information from you that may identify you personally in addition to the anonymous information described above. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name, email address, shipping address, and zip code), and demographic information (such as age, gender, occupation, and household income). Columbia Nights will not use or disclose your individual user information except as described in this privacy policy. Columbia Nights may collect individual user information in the following ways:

Surveys or Contests:
From time-to-time Columbia Nights may conduct surveys or contests on a our web site. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose individual user information to Columbia Nights. Contest information will be shared with the contest or survey sponsors to notify the winners and award prized. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of the Columbia Nights web site. We may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests. These companies may use your personal information to help the Columbia Nights web site communicate with you about offers from the Columbia Nights web site and our marketing partners. Such parties do not have permission to use your personally identifiable information for any secondary purpose.

Correspondence:
If you contact Columbia Nights, we may keep a record of that correspondence and we may collect your email address.

Third Party Information Gathering
The Columbia Nights web site includes content and ads from third parties that may perform user activity tracking other than that described herein. For more information about each third party content provider, cookies, and how to "opt-out", please refer to such third party advertiser's privacy policy.

Columbia Nights contain links to other sites on the Web. Please be aware that Columbia Nights is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected to this web site.

Cookies
Columbia Nights may set and access Columbia Nights or partner cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small data file that a Web site may send to your browser and which may then be stored on your system. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. For the session cookie, once you close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by the following Internet browser help file directions.
We use cookie and web beacon technology to track which pages on the Columbia Nights web site our visitors view and which web browsers our visitors use. We may also use cookies to help us provide personalized features and preferences to you within various Columbia Nights web pages in a way that may be linked to individual user information that you elect to share with us.

Sharing
Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required bylaw wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a criminal investigation, a court order, or legal process served on our web site. We may also share your personal information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Columbia Nights' terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
Columbia Nights may use third party service providers to serve ads and emails on our behalf. These companies may use technologies to measure the effectiveness of ads and emails and use information about your visits to the Columbia Nights web site so that we can provide a better search experience to you. For this purpose we may also provide these third party service providers anonymous information about your site navigation.

Mergers; Business Transitions
In the event Columbia Nights goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users' personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.
We desire to keep you in control of the personal information you provide to us. Accordingly, you can review, correct, change or remove the personal registration information you provide to Columbia Nights. In order to elect not to receive future communications from us, please contact us using the form on the contact us section.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement in places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

Special Notification with respect to Children's Privacy (Users under the age of 13)
In response to concerns about protecting children's privacy online, Congress enacted the children Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"), which sets forth rules and procedures governing the ways in which Web sites may collect, use and disclose any personal information for children under the age of 13. In accordance with Columbia Nights policy and COPPA regulations, we DO NOT:

• Request or knowingly collect personally identifiable information online or offline contact information from users under 13 years of age; or
• Knowingly use or share personal information from users under 13 years of age with third parties;

It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information given to us or pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately delete the information form our servers.
Questions regarding children's privacy should be directed to us via our contact us form.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our web site or write to us at