SAW On-Line Privacy Policy Disclosure

Your right to on-line privacy and personal data security is a concern at the Scrollsaw Association of the World. The SAW website at www.saw-online.com does not collect any personal data when you visit our site except when you supply data needed in ordering SAW products, services, or memberships.

General Web Site Access Logs

Web server access logs for www.saw-online.com are kept at our commercial Internet Service Provider. These logs contain the IP address of your computer or proxy server, the date and time of the visit, the pages accessed, and other miscellaneous access information. This information can not be used to personally identify you. SAW uses this information to track web site statistics used in normal maintenance activities. This is general industry practice.

Links from SAW: Please be aware that non-SAW web sites accessed through our site may collect personally identifiable
information about you. The information practices of those third-party web sites linked to www.saw-online.com are not covered by this privacy statement. You should note the privacy policy on those individual sites before giving them access to any personal information.

On-Line SAW Ordering

The SAW online order forms are designed to protect the privacy of your credit card information, name, address, E-mail and any other information
you provide to us. We are committed to data security with respect to information collected on our site. We offer the industry standard security measures available through your browser called SSL encryption. Since we utilize Pay Pal for our online payment processing, you may want to take a look at Pay Pal's full privacy statement here. You can see a brief version from Pay Pal here. You may always contact the SAW office via the telephone at the number below if you feel uncomfortable with on-line commerce.

Information regarding you (such as name, address and phone number) or your order and the products you purchase will not be given or sold to any outside organization for its use in marketing or solicitation without your consent. Please read the mail list policy in the current annual SAW Resource Directory for more information about this policy.

The SAW web site provides data about the local chapter organizations including information on chapter officers. This information includes name, address, telephone numbers, email and other information relating to chapter organization. This information is available through the public web site for all to see. Any chapter official who wants this information deleted from the web site should contact the SAW office.

All E-mail addresses on the SAW site

All E-mail addresses displayed on the SAW web site have been encrypted to prevent robot programs from searching thru the site and gathering up E-mail addresses. These E-mail addresses are "clickable" if you have a web based E-mail client to send mail from (i.e. Yahoo, MSN, etc.) If you do not use that type of E-mail client, you will have to hold your mouse over the E-mail address and then make note of the actual E-mail address displayed in the status bar at the bottom of your screen. The code there is not decipherable to these robot programs, although it will still function as a mailto link.

Feedback Forms on the SAW site

When you fill out a form found on the SAW web site and click on the Submit button, the program will generate an E-mail to the address you entered on the form. These are the only times an E-mail will be sent from . If you have not filled out a form on the SAW site with your E-mail address, and yet you receive an E-mail from , please discard that E-mail. We are aware that some of the E-mail addresses on the SAW web site are being spoofed in some spam E-mails. We have instituted the encryption policy on the SAW web site to prevent any future farming of E-mail addresses.

SAW E-mail Lists - (Future Feature)

SAW provides email list servers for use by members and the general scrolling public. Policies for using the lists are listed on the SAW web site and are available for public viewing. Lists of members of these lists are available only to the subscribers. Only members of the lists may post messages to the lists. Subscribers to the lists will be able to "unsubscribe" at any time.

SAW Forums

SAW is pleased to announce a new website feature - the SAW Forums. The purpose of this feature is to provide a more dynamic, community atmosphere through the SAW web site. New registration is required to use this new feature. You can use your existing id and password if you wish, but you will have to manually register yourself into the new forum. Be aware that information posted in the SAW Forums is readily available to the general public. SAW will attempt to mask personal information as much as possible, but the safest course is to post only as much personal information as you are comfortable with.

Note to AOL users:

If you have posted in a topic or if you choose to watch a particular topic, you will receive an E-mail notification when a new post is added to the thread. This is NOT spam. Our web host has found that some AOL users have marked this type of E-mail as spam. We strongly suggest that if you are an AOL user, that you find another E-mail address to receive mail from the Forum. Our web host has a zero tolerance policy for E-mail spam. We have therefore, found it necessary to block all AOL E-mail addresses from using the Forums or face having the entire web site shut down because someone has reported a normal E-mail as spam to AOL.

SAW Photo Gallery - (Future Feature)

SAW Photo Gallery will give the scrolling community a means of displaying photos of their work on the SAW web site. Registration into the Photo Gallery will work with the SAW Forums, so that only one registration will be needed. Policies for the Photo Gallery will be developed as we get closer to implementing this feature.

Cookies

SAW reserves the right to use password control over some parts of our web site in the future development of web site content. If we do, the user will be solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of passwords and any other account information. Users should be careful and responsible whenever they are online. Posting personal information online that is accessible to the public may mean that you will receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. While we strive to protect your personal information, SAW cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, andyou do so at your own risk.

SAW reserves the right to modify these policies as needed due to changes in the use or status of our on-line projects. Changes to the policies will be noted at this URL and/or in our journal "SAW Dust".

For More Information:

SAW is the sole operator of the SAW website. If you would like to contact us for any reason regarding our privacy practices, please call, write, or email us at the following address:

Pat Lupori, Webmaster
Scrollsaw Association of the World
610 Daisy Lane
Round Lake Beach, IL 60073-2219
(847) 546-1352