Privacy Policy

Guitar Tricks has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our community's firm commitment to the privacy of our visitors. (Visitors are also referred to as "users" interchangeably in this policy.) The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for guitartricks.com (referred to as "our site" in this policy). If you find any of this objectionable, we would welcome your feedback. We want to be as respectful of your privacy as possible.

Information Automatically Logged
We utilize the IP address of our visitors to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. The IP address is employed to help identify the user and to gather broad demographic information.

Cookies
Our site uses cookies to differentiate between members and non-members.

Contribution Forms
Our site's contribution form asks visitors to provide contact information (like their name and email address). We use contact information gathered from the registration form to contact the visitor when necessary. This information is kept private and is not shared with other companies. Visitors may opt-out of receiving email from us (see the "choice/opt-out" section below). Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor the user's experience at our site, showing them content that we think will interest them and displaying the content according to their preferences. This information may be shared with advertisers on an aggregate (not personal) basis.

Surveys
Our online surveys ask visitors for contact information (like their email address) and demographic information (like their zip code and age). We use aggregate data from our surveys to learn demographic information about our users. The visitor's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary and will not be shared with other companies for the purposes of contacting our visitors.

External Links
This site contains links to other sites. Guitar Tricks is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Advertisers
We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. Cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. For more information about our security measures, you may send an e-mail to webmaster.

Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users specific account management reasons to contact a user (password resets, billing issues, etc.). For more information about opting-out, please send an e-mail to webmaster. This site gives users the option of changing and modifying information previously provided. If you have questions about correcting and updating your information, please send an e-mail to webmaster.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: webmaster.