Last updated: January 15, 2006

Owlband.org understands that you are concerned about maintaining your privacy. This notice describes how we handle information about you and steps you should take while visiting this site and associated links.

Information gathered about you even if you do not log in:

Like most sites, we record information about visits to this site from your computer. The IP address, type of browser, and other non-personal information from your computer is recorded, in addition to the date/time and pages visited. We use this information to determine user satisfaction (e.g. no one visited the Colorguard page until we moved it among the other music groups) and page popularity for sponsors (e.g. the photo gallery was viewed 541 times in the past 30 days).

Information gathered about you if you do log in:

When you register and log in to this site, we use information that you provide to deliver content specifically for you. The registration process requires your email address, but this is not sold or provided to any outside organization except law enforcement authorities, if requested. The site management company also does not use this information except for Owlband-related activities.  

Links:

The privacy policy of sites accessed via links that open in a pop-up window or those that are obviously an affiliate (e.g. Amazon.com) are not necessarily similar to those found on this site. In particular, Amazon.com may receive information from or about visitors that access the site. Be sure to read their privacy notice.

Do your part to protect your privacy!

"Moment of Fame" contestants have the ability to change text on their page. We strongly advise that you do NOT post any personal contact information (address, email, telephone number, etc.) in these forums where it is visible to the public. You may post an email address or link to your act.  The webmaster or "Moment of Fame" volunteer agents may contact you to reconsider posted private information or may just alter it as required to protect you.

Email addresses are generally not posted anywhere on the site except for the band directors.  Any address that does appear should be an owlband.org alias of the actual email address.  In most cases, a contact page is used to access an individual.  This is to conceal the actual address from email harvesting robots that roam the web looking for junk mail targets and bogus 'from' addresses.

If you are an organization volunteer and have something for the web site, please be sure that personal information is not included unless you are willing to accept the risks of public disclosure.  This includes PDF files.