PRIVACY POLICY

flourish!™ promises to serve its audience with integrity and honesty both online and in print. Flourish has developed this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and to disclose our information-gathering and sharing practices for www.toflourish.com (the "site"). By visiting the site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. Our site will develop and evolve over time, and this policy may change to reflect that.

In addition, flourish!™ supports the Consumer WebWatch guidelines to promote credible information practices on the Web.

The flourish!™ privacy promise:

We are absolutely committed to protecting your privacy. We are also committed to the following: (1) We will not pass on any individual user details unless we have your prior consent; and (2) if we don’t have your consent to pass on individual user details, we will only give advertisers aggregate statistics about the number of users and their traffic patterns. However, if flourish!™ changes hands, flourish!™ reserves the right to transfer all information collected through this site to the new owner.

Personal information:
flourish!™ does not require you to provide any personal information in order to access the site. However, if you choose to fill out any reader surveys, order items from the flourish!™ store or participate in a contest, you will be asked to supply some information about yourself, including your name, address, phone number and e-mail address. flourish!™ keeps track of the number of visitors to the site, the pages they visit and how long they stay. In addition, flourish!™ collects information from visitors who click on advertisements so that we are able to measure interest in the various areas of our site and inform advertisers as to how many visitors have seen or clicked on their ads. flourish!™ also uses demographic and preference information to allow advertising banners on our site to be targeted, in the aggregate, to the readers for whom they are most pertinent.

We collect these kinds of aggregate user information for two main reasons: (1) to help us continually improve the service we offer; and (2) to sell sponsorships on the site to appropriate advertisers. flourish!™ discloses this information to advertisers. Note that advertisers do not have influence over the editorial content or reviews that appear on the site.

flourish!™ e-mail policy:
You can opt to allow us to send you additional information via e-mail that we believe will be of interest to you. Such requests will be opt-in only, so that you do not inadvertently agree to receive mailings you do not want.

If you place an order in our flourish!™ store, participate in an online survey, or enter a contest or you may receive a one-time mailing to confirm your transaction or interaction with our site. Such mailings are one-time only. When you give us your e-mail address under these circumstances, you will also see a box that, when checked by you, will enable flourish!™ to contact you via e-mail regarding special events, discounts and offers. If you don't want your information to be used for any of these purposes, you should not check the box.

If we ever request that you volunteer additional information, such as financial data or age—in an online survey, for example—your response will always be voluntary. In addition, there will always be a box for you to check if you choose to enable us to disclose such information to a third party.

Subscribers to the print edition of flourish!™ may opt to receive a regular e-mail newsletter that contains information we believe to be of value to our users, specifically special discounts and offers selected by our marketing department. These mailings are exclusive to flourish!™ magazine readers and subscribers; visit the free E-Letter signup page to sign-up for the free list. We respect that your receiving the e-mails is a choice, and you may choose to remove your name from the list at any time by following the simple guidelines provided to you upon registration confirmation.

Third-party disclosure of personal information:

1. Links to other sites: Our site sometimes may contain links to other sites that are not under our control, even though some of them may feature the flourish!™ logo through a marketing agreement with us. flourish!™ cannot be held responsible for the privacy policies of other companies. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site you visit on the Internet. flourish!™ may receive a commission from member transactions on these partner sites.
2. On occasion, flourish!™ sponsors special promotions, sweepstakes and contests that are hosted by partner websites, which may require that your browser accept cookies.
3. Required disclosures: flourish!™ cooperates with all law-enforcement inquiries and reserves the right to disclose personally identifying or aggregate information in connection with a subpoena or other court-sanctioned demand for such information.

Security
flourish!™ has invested, and will continue to invest, in the best-quality security available to guard access to information, data quality, and physical security of servers where information is stored. Our site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Despite these efforts, we can’t guarantee that a hacker will not obtain access to communications between you and the site.

Accessing your personal information
If you wish to review any personal information that flourish!™ maintains about you, please mail your request and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Privacy Request, Flourish, 2300 Frederick Avenue, Suite 204; St. Joseph, MO 64506. If you prefer, you may e-mail privacy@toflourish.com.

Unsubscribing to flourish!™ e-mail
You can unsubscribe to any e-mail you receive from Flourish. All of our e-mail includes instructions on how to unsubscribe.

Collection of personal data from children
Our site is not directed to users under the age of 18. flourish!™ will not knowingly (i) collect information from individuals under the age of 18 ("children") or (ii) provide any personally identifying information collected from children, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever. No information collected through the site from users self-identified as children will knowingly be used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside flourish!™.

flourish!™'s right to change privacy policy and no impediment on transfer of assets
This policy is effective as of January 5, 2005. flourish!™ may change this policy at any time. You should periodically revisit our privacy policy to be sure that you are familiar with our current policy. Your use of the site following any modifications to the privacy policy will be conclusively deemed acceptance of the terms of this privacy policy and any changes to the policy. Nothing in this privacy policy is meant to impede Flourish’s right or ability to transfer, sell or otherwise dispose of any of its assets.

Contact us
You can contact flourish!™ regarding this policy either by mail, at Flourish; 2300 Frederick Avenue; Suite 204; Saint Joseph, MO 64506, Attention: Webmaster, or by e-mail at privacy@toflourish.com. If you would like to review the material about you that we have collected via our site, please mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Flourish; 2300 Frederick Avenue; Suite 204; Saint Joseph, MO 64506; ATTN: Privacy.