privacy policy

Capstone Publishers' policy is to respect and protect the privacy of our users. This policy statement tells you how we collect information from you and how we use it. Capstone Publishers follows five core principles of privacy protection in the operation of its website:

  • Notice/Awareness of Capstone Publishers' information practices
  • Choice/Consent to provide information
  • Access/Participation to/in your own data
  • Integrity/Data Security
  • Enforcement/Redress through self-regulation

Notice/Awareness

This policy statement sets forth Capstone Publishers information practices concerning the type of data that is collected at Capstone Publishers' website. This policy is being placed at a link on the bottom of Capstone Publishers' home page, a practice that has become an industry standard location for website privacy policies.

Choice/Consent

The following paragraphs describe the type of information Capstone Publishers collects and the reasons why Capstone Publishers collects the information. By providing the information requested by Capstone Publishers' online forms and by continuing to use Capstone Publishers' website after having an opportunity to review Capstone Publishers' privacy policy, you have consented to Capstone Publishers' use of the information it collects as described at the point of collection or in this policy.

User Supplied Information

You may be asked to supply contact information in order to receive information or materials that you request from the Capstone Publishers' website. We use contact information to send you the information you request when you submit the form. The information we collect in this manner is not used for any other purpose.

Capstone Publishers may disclose user information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Capstone Publishers' rights or property or other users of the website, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Capstone Publishers may use or disclose user information to address violations or possible violations of the Terms and Conditions of use of the website. Capstone Publishers may disclose user information when we believe in good faith that the law requires the disclosure.

Capstone Publishers may share aggregate information about our users with business partners and other third parties. For example, we may disclose that the website audience comes x percent from east of the Mississippi River and y percent from west of the Mississippi River.

Your IP address

Capstone Publishers collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to generate aggregate information, and to audit the use of our site. When you request pages from the website, our servers log your IP address. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that your session will be logged, but you remain anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our terms of use of the website or to protect our service, site, customers or others.

Use of cookies

Like most other e-commerce websites, the Capstone Publishers site uses "cookies." Cookies are small files placed temporarily in your Internet browser that keep track of your stay at our website. The text in a cookie, by itself, only tells us that you have visited our site before. A cookie generated by our site contains no information about you and does not gather information from your computer about you. It contains only an alphanumeric ID that, for example, allows you to retrieve your shopping cart.

Access/Participation

You may access the data collected by Capstone Publishers about you by sending a request to the address listed below. If you believe that an error has been made in the accuracy of the data collected from you, Capstone Publishers will correct such error upon adequate verification of the error and the identity of the person seeking the correction.

If you wish to access, remove or correct any personally identifying data you have supplied to Capstone Publishers you may do so either by:

  • Sending an e-mail request to customer service or
  • Sending a letter, via U.S. mail, to:
    • Web Manager
    • Capstone
    • 1710 Roe Crest Drive
    • North Mankato, MN 56003

Please understand that in order to protect your privacy and security, we may also need to take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Integrity/Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, Capstone Publishers has put in place commercially reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Enforcement/Redress

If for some reason you believe that Capstone Publishing has not adhered to its privacy policy, please notify us by either of the methods set forth above. Capstone Publishers will do its best to respond to your concerns and, when appropriate, take steps to correct a problem.

Your Acceptance of This Policy

By using this website, you signify your assent to this policy statement regarding online privacy. Capstone Publishers may change the terms of its privacy policy with or without notice to you. It is your responsibility to review the terms of this privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy statement, then please do not use our website. Your continued use of the Capstone Publishers website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. If you have any questions about this policy statement, the practices of this website, or your dealings with Capstone Publishers, you may contact us at address given above.