Midwest Home Design Awards is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Midwest Home Design Awards site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Midwest Home Design Awards website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information 
Midwest Home Design Awards collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Midwest Home Design Awards also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Midwest Home Design Awards. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Midwest Home Design Awards for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Midwest Home Design Awards site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Midwest Home Design Awards public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Midwest Home Design Awards does not read any of your private online communications.

Midwest Home Design Awards encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Midwest Home Design Awards so that you can understand how those  websites collect, use and share your information. Midwest Home Design Awards is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Midwest Home Design Awards and Greenspring Media family of websites.

Use of your Personal Information 
Midwest Home Design Awards collects and uses your personal information to operate the Midwest Home Design Awards website and deliver the services you have requested. Midwest Home Design Awards also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Midwest Home Design Awards and its affiliates. Midwest Home Design Awards may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Midwest Home Design Awards does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Midwest Home Design Awards may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. Midwest Home Design Awards may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Midwest Home Design Awards does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Midwest Home Design Awards keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Midwest Home Design Awards, in order to determine what Midwest Home Design Awards services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Midwest Home Design Awards to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Midwest Home Design Awards websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Midwest Home Design Awards or the website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Midwest Home Design Awards; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Midwest Home Design Awards, or the public.

Use of Cookies 
The Midwest Home Design Awards website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Midwest Home Design Awards pages, or register with Midwest Home Design Awards site or services, a cookie helps Midwest Home Design Awards to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Midwest Home Design Awards Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Midwest Home Design Awards features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Midwest Home Design Awards services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information 
Midwest Home Design Awards secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Midwest Home Design Awards secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement 
Midwest Home Design Awards will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Midwest Home Design Awards encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Midwest Home Design Awards is protecting your information.

Contact Information 
Midwest Home Design Awards welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Midwest Home Design Awards has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Midwest Home Design Awards at RKrueger@greenspring.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.