Community Media Workshop understands and shares your concerns about privacy and the internet. Please know right up front that we do not sell or rent to third parties the information you provide to us.

We collect information on our web site in the following ways:

CMW Listservs
We maintain two listservs -- the Newstips Listserv and the CMW Customer Update Listserv. Using our listserv subscribe/unsubscribe forms simply sends an e-mail message to CMW staff that includes the e-mail address that you input and your action request.

CMW Shopping Cart and Workshop Registration
We employ Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) secured forms to process online product orders and workshop registrations. SSL is provided to us through our internet service provider, Hostway.com. According to Hostway's support documents, SSL is "a method of ensuring that information submitted through (CMW's) Web site is secure and cannot be accessed by unauthorized users. Information submitted via an SSL-secured form is transmitted in an encrypted state. SSL is most commonly used for online credit card transactions."

CMW Survey
We employ a cookie to track votes in our CMW Survey tool. This cookie allows visitors to vote only once in our polls. (See "About Cookies" below.)

Web Site Usage Statistics
Our internet service provider, Hostway.com, collects and processes web site usage statistics and provides this information to CMW staff via a passworded online administration area. This information is used internally for web site improvement and marketing purposes. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are collected and cookies are employed. (See "About Cookies" below.)

We also collect web site usage statistics through Indextools.com, a third-party service provider. This information is supplied to CMW staff via a passworded online administration area. This information is used internally for web site improvement and marketing purposes. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are collected and cookies are employed. (See "About Cookies" below.)

Links to External Sites and Third-Party Services
The CMW web site contains links to other sites. CMW is not responsible for the privacy practices of referenced sites. We encourage users to check the privacy policies of those sites for more information.

About Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. This information is sent to your browser when you visit sites that use cookies to track web site traffic and is then stored on your hard drive. The next time you visit the same site, the cookie, which is usually accessed by a server, is used to identify your computer. Many web sites use cookies as a way to remember passwords, personalize pages, and target the interests of users visiting the site.

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy please do not hesitate to contact us.

“Third-Party Web Beacons: We use third-party web beacons from Yahoo! to help analyze where visitors go and what they do while visiting our website. Yahoo! may also use anonymous information about your visits to this and other websites in order to improve its products and services and provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by Yahoo!, click here.”