• What personal information is being gathered about you and how the information will be used
• Who the information will be shared with (if anyone)
• An opt out policy
• Access to your information (including how to update or correct inaccuracies)
• Safeguards in place to protect your information
• Other information about your privacy

What personal information is being gathered by MikeHolt.com and how is this information being used?

Member Registration
When you join a MikeHolt.com member area or service such as the Code Forum or free Newsletter subscription, you provide your name, email address, a unique login name, password, and password validation. This information is collected on the registration form for several reasons including: (i) personal identification; (ii) to allow us to contact you for customer service, if necessary; (iii) to customize the content of our site to meet your specific needs; and (iv) to send you an email message confirming your new member registration.

Newsletters and Forums
MikeHolt.com's Newsletters and Code Forums are optional benefits for members that keep you up to date with the latest code news and to allow you to obtain answers to your code questions online. However, you may always decline to receive these email messages. Please see our Opt Out policy described below.

Online Surveys
MikeHolt.com values opinions and comments from members, so we frequently conduct online surveys. These surveys are entirely optional for all members. Typically, the information is aggregated and used to make improvements to MikeHolt.com and to develop appealing content, features and promotions for members. Survey participants are anonymous unless otherwise stated in the survey.

Cookies
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. MikeHolt.com uses cookies to allow you to login without having to type your login name each time. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future.

Who will the information be shared with, if anyone?
We do not sell individual customer names or other private profile information to third parties and have no intention of doing so in the future. See "What other information should I know about my privacy? " below.

Opt Out Policy
At anytime, you can unsubscribe from the Code Forum or the MikeHolt.com's Newsletters through the your account link "My Profile" on our Code Forum page at http://www.mikeholt.com/codeforum/ultimatebb.php. We hope you will find the Newsletter and Code Forum interesting and informative. Of course, if you would rather not receive the Newsletter, you can unsubscribe using the unsubscribe link in every Newsletter or by editing your profile as above or by contacting danny@mikeholt.com. MikeHolt.com reserves the right to limit membership to those who will accept emails. Members will be notified via email prior to any actions taken.

How can you access, update or correct your information?
At any time, you can view and/or update your MikeHolt.com's newsletter subscriptions or your Code Forum profile, which includes member registration, by following your account link "My Profile" on our Code Forum page at http://www.mikeholt.com/codeforum/ultimatebb.php.

What safeguards are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information?
All personally identifiable information you provide to MikeHolt.com is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us. In addition, when you make purchases on MikeHolt.com, you are protected by MikeHolt.com's Shop Safe Guarantee.

What other information should I know about my privacy?
MikeHolt.com contains links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another Web site for which MikeHolt.com has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of all such sites as their policies may be materially different from MikeHolt.com's Privacy Statement. Of course, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information. Please be very careful, responsible, and alert with this information, especially whenever you're online.

In addition to the circumstances described above, MikeHolt.com may disclose member information if required to do so by law, court order, as requested by other government or law enforcement authority, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable including, without limitation, to protect the rights or properties of MikeHolt.com or when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.

Any material changes in the way MikeHolt.com uses personal information will be described in future versions of this Privacy Statement. Of course, you may always submit concerns regarding our Privacy Statement or our privacy practices to mike@mikeholt.com. Please reference the privacy policy in your subject line. MikeHolt.com will attempt to respond to all reasonable concerns or inquiries within five business days of receipt.

Disclaimer:

Considering the real-time nature of this forum, it is impossible for us to review messages or confirm the validity of information posted. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the contents of and are not responsible for any messages posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of this forum or any entity associated with this forum. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please realize that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.

You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this forum to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violate any law. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by this forum.

Although this forum does not and cannot review the messages posted and is not responsible for the content of any of these messages, we at this forum reserve the right to delete any message for any or no reason whatsoever. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this forum, Mike Holt Enterprises, (the owner of this bulletin board), and their agents with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s).

We at this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you.

Please note that advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are inappropriate on this forum.

It should be noted that any comments made in this forum are personal opinions and represent personal responses as requested. Any opinion must not be considered as a Formal Interpretation of the NEC® and is not to be considered as an official position of Mike Holt, Mike Holt Enterprises, Inc., the NFPA, the NEC® Technical Correlating Committee, any of its Code Making Panels, or any other company or organization.

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