ANCESTRY TRAILS is the sole owner of the information collected on www.ancestrytrails.com. ANCESTRY TRAILS collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

Orders
If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address).

We use this information to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.

Application Forms
If you purchase a research package or other product or service requiring financial information on our site, we require that you provide certain personally identifiable information, including your name, address, phone number. This information is necessary to process your application and to contact you.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our advertisers. This information does not identify individual users.

Agents
We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.

Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site

Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We use [both] session ID cookies [and/or] persistent cookies. [We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site.] A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.

Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by ANCESTRY TRAILS [www.ancestrytrails.com] only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. [See the “Third Party Advertisers” section.]

Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by LinkShare and Commission Junction, our advertising partners. We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party LinkShare and Commission Junction for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.

LinkShare and Commission Junction uses cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow it to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that LinkShare and Commission Junction collects and shares through this technology is not personally identifiable.

Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by ANCESTRY TRAILS. Please be aware that we, ANCESTRY TRAILS, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Business Transitions
In the event ANCESTRY TRAILS goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: info@ancestrytrails.com.