privacy policy

Black, Stone & Rivers respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information that you provide to us. This statement explains our policies and practices regarding the use and disclosure of personal information. Please note that, Black, Stone & Rivers reviews and updates this Privacy Policy as needed without notice. Please review the terms of this policy periodically to make sure that you are aware of how Black, Stone & Rivers collects and uses personal information.

By using our web site, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by Black, Stone & Rivers as explained below.

Personal Information

You have complete control over your personal information. In general, you can visit our web site without providing us with any personal information. However, there are instances where we must have your personal information in order for us to grant you access to protected and secured areas of our site. This information may include registration data (your name, address, email address, phone number, title, etc.), information request data and response data ("User Information"). When you receive your confirmation email or when you receive any email from the list server, you will be given instructions on how to remove yourself from the list.

Use of User Information

User Information is retained solely to support our clients and their employees. User Information may be retained by Black, Stone & Rivers to verify working agreements, to track of the domains from which people visit us, to create user profiles, or to retain contact information. We comply with all requests to delete User Information form our records. Anyone younger than 18 years old should not submit User Information on this site.

Disclosure of User Information

Black, Stone & Rivers does not sell, trade or transfer User Information to third parties. We only disclose User Information if we have your consent, if we need to share it in order to provide you with the products and/or services you requested, in response to a court order, or if you violate our Terms of Use. Separately, you may agree to provide your User Information to third parties that provide content or servicesto Black, Stone & Rivers. If you agree to provide User Information to third parties, then your personal information will be subject to the privacy policies of the third party.

Accuracy and Security

You may review and request updates to your retained User Informationat any time by contacting us. Corrections will be made in a timely manner. If you contact us to correct your User Information, we will attempt to correct such inaccuracies in a timely manner. Appropriate physical, electronic and managerial policies and procedures are in place to secure your personal User Information. We continue to review and implement procedures to maintain secure User Information.

Usernames and Passwords

Access to certain content on our web site may require a username and/or password. By accessing protected areas of our web site, you agree to maintain the confidentiality of the username and password you selected to access the site and consent to our Terms of Use.

Cookies

Black, Stone & Rivers uses "cookies". A cookie is a small data file that a web site can transfer to a visitor's hard drive to keep records of the visits to such site. A cookie contains information such as your username and password that helps us recognize the pages you have visited and improve future visits. The only personal information a cookie can contain is the information that you provide yourself. A cookie cannot read data off of your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. Information stored in cookies may be encrypted, however, we do not store your credit card number in cookies. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your web browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your web browser. However, access to secure portions of our web site may require the use of cookies, in which case you can enable only cookies that get sent back to the originating server. Visitors can access most features on our web site without accepting cookies.

External Links

The Black, Stone & Rivers web site provides links to other third party web sites. Black, Stone & Rivers is not responsible for the privacy policies, practices, or the content of external links. External links are provided as a convenience only.

Terms of Use

Please also see our Terms of Use, which describes the restrictions, disclaimers, indemnification and limitation of liability governing the use of the entire Black, Stone & Rivers web site.

General

If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, please contact Gregory Maas, Managing Partner.