Memorial Farewells.com is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following statement to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of the MemorialFarewells.com Web site.

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at privacy@memorialfarewells.com

MemorialFarewells.com does not collect personally identifying information about any individual MemorialFarewells.com Web site user except when knowingly provided by such individual. For example, we may ask you for information when you register for a contest or survey or to receive a newsletter or when you place an Order for a memorial web site. You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of the MemorialFarewells.com Web site, but you may be unable to access certain options and services.

MemorialFarewells.com does not use cookies or any technology to report on visitor activity while they are not visiting our site, nor will MemorialFarewells.com pass client data to other web sites.

Cookies:
A cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to your computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. MemorialFarewells.com uses cookies solely to track user traffic patterns throughout the MemorialFarewells.com Web site. We use this data on an anonymous basis and we do not correlate this information with personal data of any user.

Most Web site browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However, if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our Web site, you may not be able to use certain features of the site.

Browser Level Information

MemorialFarewells.com Web servers automatically collect information about a site user's IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this information from the user's browser (information provided by every user's browser). This information is collected in a database and used in an aggregated, anonymous manner in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our Web site. This information is automatically logged by most Web sites.

Use of Information:
Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience on our Web site. We achieve this goal by, among other things, providing interactive communications such as our electronic newsletters to the e-mail address that you provide to us, and developing future editorial content based on your interests. To develop content targeted to your interests, we use aggregated user information to determine which areas of our Web site users prefer based upon traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but instead how well each page or content area performs overall.

MemorialFarewells.com may also disclose information about our users when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is required by law.

Please be aware that MemorialFarewells.com has several links to non-profit organizations and associations who, when you visit their site, may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those parties and Web sites linked to MemorialFarewells.com are not covered by this privacy statement. MemorialFarewells.com users should also be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal information in guest books, that information may be collected by others and may result in unsolicited messages from others.

Kids under 13:
Do not send any information about yourself to us including information such as your name, address, or e-mail address. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible.

How to Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at privacy@memorialfarewells.com.

This statement may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.

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Definitions:

URL (Uniform Resource Locator):
A URL is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. For example, http://www.MemorialFarewells.com is the URL for Memorial Farewells home page.

IP address:
An IP address is an identifier for a computer or device on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network, such as the World Wide Web. Networks use the TCP/IP protocol to route information based on the IP address of the destination. In other words, an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web, allowing Web servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers require IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the Internet, browse and shop. Every computer connected to the Internet has a numeric address called an “IP address." This may or may not correspond uniquely to a particular computer. In some cases, IP addresses can be resolved to domain names, which may indicate a site visitor's Internet service provider, employer, university, etc.

As part of its database analysis MemorialFarewells.com resolves IP addresses to domain names.

Browser type:
A user’s browser is a software program running on a computer that allows users to access documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers can be either text or graphic. They read HTML coded pages that reside on a server and interpret the coding into what the user sees as Web pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer are examples of Web browsers. Browser type typically discloses hardware platform, operating system, and browser software and version.

Because there are differences built-into many browsers either due to functionality or  vying for market share MemorialFarewells.com monitors browser types in an effort to write code offering clients a more uniform experience when visiting our website.

Referrer:
The referrer is the URL of the Internet resource or page that causes a browser to request a page or image from MemorialFarewells.com servers.

Country:
MemorialFarewells.com records the country of origin of visitors to our web site.  As the popularity of our site increases, we expand our services in other languages.