Main St. Online Privacy Policy

Main St. Online respects and protects the privacy of the individuals that use Main St. Online's services. Individually identifiable information about you is not willfully disclosed to any third party without first receiving your permission, as explained in this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy").

Main St. Online and Cookies

Upon your first visit to Main St. Online, Main St. Online sends a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a piece of data that identifies you as a unique user. Main St. Online uses cookies to improve the quality of our service and to understand our user base more. Main St. Online does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. Main St. Online will not disclose its cookies to third parties except as required by a valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. 

What Information Do We Collect?

Main St. Online does not collect any unique information about you (such as your name, email address, etc.) except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information. Main St. Online notes and saves information such as time of day, browser type, browser language, and IP address with each query. That information is used to verify our records and to provide more relevant services to users. For example, Main St. Online may use your IP address or browser language to determine which language to use when showing search results or advertisements.

Links to Other Sites

The sites displayed as search results or linked to by Main St. Online are developed by people over whom Main St. Online exercises no control. Other links, such as those for the Main St. Online-friends mailing list archive, are also on sites not controlled by Main St. Online. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. Main St. Online may choose to exhibit its search results in the form of a "URL redirecter." 

 

With Whom Does Main St. Online Share Information?

Main St. Online may share information about you with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. However, we only divulge aggregate information about our users and will not share personally identifiable information with any third party without your express consent. For example, we may disclose how frequently the average Main St. Online user visits Main St. Online, or which other query words are most often used with the query word "money." Please be aware, however, that we will release specific personal information about you if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order.

Your consent and changes to the Privacy Policy

By using Main St. Online, you consent to the collection and use of your information as we have outlined in this policy. Main St. Online may decide to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.