Celtic Nation is committed to protecting the privacy of users of their site. At Celtic Nation, we intend to give you as much control as possible over your personal information, including registration data. As part of the normal operation of the Celtic Nation site, we collect information from you. This Privacy Statement describes the information we collect about you and how that information may be used.

Celtic Nation will track the domains from which people visit the Celtic Nation site in order to gain aggregate data that may be analyzed for trends and statistics. Subject to the provisions of this Privacy Statement, Celtic Nation may use accumulated aggregate data for several purposes including, but not limited to, marketing analysis, evaluation of Celtic Nation's services, and business planning.

Currently, Celtic Nation uses personal information as a basis for notifications to users, and in order to implement the Terms and Conditions of Use governing the Celtic Nation site (the "Terms"). Generally, the user names, email addresses, and any additional information that a user may choose to post are publicly available on the Celtic Nation site. When users voluntarily and publicly disclose personal information that may contain Registration Data, as defined in the Terms, or otherwise post personal information in conjunction with content subject to a license, such personal information necessarily will be disclosed subject to the terms of the applicable license. An example of such a disclosure includes, but is not limited to, a user's disclosure of personal information as part of a message posted to a public message forum, or a publicly-released software application.

Celtic Nation may conduct surveys or other studies of its user base and usage for marketing and planning purposes. Participation in such surveys is at the user's option, but Celtic Nation does reserve the right to conduct mandatory surveys in the future. With respect to information collected from such surveys or studies, and in the event that responses are to be publicly disclosed, users will be notified at the time they take the survey and Celtic Nation will disclose only aggregate information regarding its users and not personal information identifying any specific individual. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in cases where surveys allow users to submit written comments, and where Celtic Nation advises users of the possibility of such disclosure at the time they take the survey, Celtic Nation reserves the right to disclose text information provided by any user through such a survey, provided that no personal information identifying that user is disclosed. Circumstances under which Celtic Nation would publicly disclose aggregate information include, but are not limited to, sharing survey results with the site population, providing data to Celtic Nation advertisers on user preferences and/or demographics, business planning, and publicizing overall usage data in press communications.

Last modified: 08/26/03