We respect your privacy! Any and all information
collected at this site will be kept strictly confidential
and will not be sold, reused, rented, loaned, or otherwise
disclosed. Any information you give to Studio Matrix will
be held with the utmost care, and will not be used in
ways that you have not consented to. A more detailed explanation
about how we safeguard your personal information is described
below. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate
to let us know.
Studio Matrix has created this privacy statement
in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.
The following discloses the information gathering and
dissemination practices for this Web site: Studio
Matrix
Information
Automatically Logged
Information used, IP address, ISP, Browser Type, and Date
to gather broad demographic information like most websites
on the internet. We use this information to see where
are visitors originate from. It is only used for statistics
information.
Advertisers
We use outside ad companies to display ads on our site
to help support the costs of running the website. These
ads may contain cookies from the advertising companies.
Cookies received with banner ads are collected by our
ad companies. These ad companies may use cookies and/or
web beacons when they advertise on our site, which sends
the advertisers (like Google from the Google Adsense program)
information including your IP address, ISP, and browser
type you use when visiting our website. In some cases
it may check to see if you have flash installed to be
able to display flash ads. This information is collected
by the advertising companies to generally check for geotargeting
purposes. For example, if you live in Los Angeles, restaurant
ads in your area may show up. Or if you are used to visiting
a jewelry site, shops that carry jewelry may show up in
the ads.
DoubleClick DART cookies
DART cookies may also be used for ad serving through Google’s
DoubleClick. This will place a cookie on your computer
when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick
advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements).
Information gained from your browsing habits and interested
may cause ads to be served that are targeted to your interests
by this cookie. (”interest based targeting”).
The ads served will be targeted based on your previous
browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing
sites about visiting Las Angeles, you may see Las Angeles
hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site,
such as on a site about soccer). DART uses “non
personally identifiable information”. It does NOT
track personal information about you, such as your name,
email address, physical address, telephone number, social
security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card
numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites
using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
Registration Forms
Our site's registration form requires users to give us
contact information (like their name, email, and postal
address).
Contact information from the registration
form is used to get in touch with the person when necessary.
Other contact information for updates are used only
to add persons to the update emailing lists or for contacting
contest winners of the update list. Contact information
sent with tips/ideas is used for giving credit for the
tips/crafts ideas that are sent in.
External Links
This site contains links to other sites. Studio Matrix
is not responsible for the privacy practices or
the content of such Web sites. A link may take you to
a non-family oriented website, if another website has
been changed since Studio Matrix first linked to it.
This does happen often on the internet. Sites come and
go over time. If you find a link that is not directed
to where we intentioned it to go, please contact us.
Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards,
and/or 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.
Choice/Opt-Out
You can contact us to opt-out of newsletters that you
have subscribed to.
Use of Cookies
We only use cookies in instances to keep adveritising
from being shown too often. An example is a 30 day cookie,
which will allow you to only see a certain ad once and
not again for 30 days. These are placed in different
areas of our site at StudioMatrix.com
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our
cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings,
or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton
Internet Security. However, this can affect how you
are able to interact with our site as well as other
websites. This could include the inability to login
to services or programs, such as logging into forums
or accounts.
Data Quality/Access
This site gives users the following options for changing
and modifying information previously provided directly
through our website:
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 us.