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This Agreement was last updated on January 28, 2011.

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LBPC’s intent in collecting personally identifiable information is to provide users with an improved experience on its websites. This may include interactive communications, such as contacting you for a survey. In addition, LBPC may use this information to: (1) contact you with legal notices, (2) advise you of any material changes or additional to LBPC’s User Agreement or this Privacy Policy, and (3) advise you of any changes in your status as a registered user.

LBPC may conduct research based on its users’ demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to LBPC during user registration, as well as on order forms, during promotions, through surveys, and from its server log files. This information is used to better serve its users. Aggregated information, which is statistical information that may be compiled from personally identifiable information but which is not personally identifiable itself, may be shared with advertisers or other businesses. Under a confidentiality agreement, LBPC also may share information with third parties in service of LBPC.

Unless LBPC provides specific notice prior to collecting particular information (such as, for example, prior to a survey), LBPC will not provide users’ personally identifiable information to any third party, except that it may provide or publish information in the aggregate.

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LBPC’s advertisers or other websites that have links on LBPC’s websites may also collect personally identifiable information directly from you. This Privacy Policy does not cover the actions of those advertisers or linked websites. Please visit those advertisers or websites to view their privacy policies.

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If you voluntarily disclose personal information in comments and/or other materials submitted to LBPC for use on its websites, such information may be collected by other viewers and may result in unsolicited messages from others.

5. DISCLOSURE IN SPECIAL CASES

As stated previously, LBPC will not—without specific notification—as a rule disclose personal information submitted to LBPC to third parties. However, LBPC may disclose such information when required by law, subpoena or order issued by a court or governmental body, or when LBPC has reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating LBPC’s User Agreement or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) LBPC’s rights or property, other LBPC users, or anyone else who may be harmed.

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LBPC has physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to protect the information collected online. However, no security system is impenetrable. LBPC cannot guarantee the security of its database, nor can it guarantee that information will not be intercepted after being transmitted from you to LBPC over the internet.

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LBPC’s web servers automatically collect certain personally identifiable information, such as which pages each user visits and the domain names of visitors. This information is used for a number of purposes internally and may also be provided to advertisers on an aggregated, anonymous basis.

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Teen-agers who are at least 13 years of age may submit personal information only with the permission of, and under the supervision of, a parent or legal guardian. If you are a parent or legal guardian agreeing to LBPC’s User Agreement for the benefit of a teen-ager between the ages of 13 and 18, you are fully responsible for any comments and/or other submissions by the teen-ager and any legal liability that the teen-ager may incur.

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Because Internet technology is changing constantly, LBPC reserves the right to change its Privacy Policy, as well as its User Agreement, at any time. If LBPC make revisions to the way it collects or uses personal data, LBPC may provide notice of those changes by taking action as the LBPC deems appropriate under the circumstances, including without limitation, posting the revised draft of this Privacy Policy on its website. Any changes will apply as soon as notice is posted. Your continued use of LBPC’s websites indicates your acceptance of those changes.