Privacy Policy

This site is owned and operated by Meridian Growth Services, LLC (MGS). Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At MGS, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

MGS gathers two types of information about users:

• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:
• Information MGS gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers’ needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances does MGS divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

Consistent with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

MGS tracks user traffic patterns throughout our site. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our site users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.

We may place a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. MGS may use cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.

MGS uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our site, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the site or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to reply to inquiries, and may in the future use it to send out electronic newsletters or enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. MGS never shares user contact lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

MGS may use the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help better understand our audience’s demographics. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

MGS takes reasonable measures to ensure the security of our site; however, no site can ever be 100% secure, and MGS makes no guarantees about the security of its website and any other internet assets. Users are encouraged to be mindful and cautious about security when visiting any Internet site. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

• Opting not to provide information via the contact form.
• Opting to disable cookies in the user’s browser settings.

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by MGS. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.