Privacy Policy: 
Internet
privacy and security in general are important issues, and we are
concerned
about them. To learn more about these topics and how to protect
yourself
online, we recommend Gibson Research Corporation's excellent website, http://grc.com.
Alpha Lyra
Consulting,
Seven Paws Press, Steven Forrest, Jodie Forrest and Laura
Haywood-Cory do NOT give, sell or otherwise your email address, other
mailing
addresses,
your phone, fax or voice numbers, your credit card data, birth data or
order history, to anyone for any reason.
Our online
ordering,
both our secure order form and our secure online store, is secure. If
you
use either of those two methods to place your order, then your name,
address,
phone, fax, credit card data, birth data, order information and any
other
information you gave us are all encrypted when they travel over the
Internet.
Only Jodie, Steven, and our editorial consultant/office manager, Laura,
have access to your orders. For maximum security, we recommend placing
online orders by our
secure order form or our
secure online store rather than by email. If you prefer to order by
phone, fax or snail mail, again, only Jodie, Steven and Laura have
access
to that information.
Occasionally
we do a snail mailing to our customers, usually just when we have a new
book or a workshop to publicize. If you do not want to receive these
mailings,
please tell us so in the "Additional Notes" section of our secure order
form, or in an email,
fax (919-929-7092) or phone message (919-929-4287).
Our website
logs statistics about its Internet traffic. Only Jodie, Steven and
Laura
have access to those logs. What sort of information is in them?
1. Nothing
personally traceable to you! Our
site logs provide absolutely no way of knowing what your email address
and password are. We leave no cookies or spyware on your computer. (For
more about spyware, go to http://grc.com.)
2.
How many visitors our site gets per hour, day, week, month, and year,
and
how long our visitors spend on our site. This data helps us learn how
popular
our site is in general.
3.
What pages on our site were most visited and in what order per hour,
day,
week, month and year. This data helps us learn which pages on our site
are most and least popular with our visitors.
4. From what
sites and search engines (and keywords) our visitors came to our site.
This data helps us learn where we might consider advertising and what
keywords
are best to use.
5. From what
pages our visitors most often left our site. This data helps us learn
what
pages might need a makeover.
6. What
browsers
our visitors use, Internet Explorer, Netscape or something else. This
data
helps us design our pages the way most of our visitors will see them.
We appreciate your business, and we value your right to privacy. If you have any questions about our policies in this regard, please email the webmaster.
--Jodie and Steven Forrest
