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Privacy Policy
This privacy statement was last updated on March 12, 2002. A Soldier’s General has created this privacy statement in order to disclose our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site, www.asoldiersgeneral.com. A Soldier’s General abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union. Upon reading this privacy statement, you will know:
1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally identifiable information is collected from you through the Web site.

2.		 The organization collecting the information.
3. How the information is used.
4. With whom the information may be shared.
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information.
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under the control of A Soldier’s General.
7. How you can access and correct any inaccuracies in the information collected about you.
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to the A Soldier’s General site coordinator by emailing support@asoldiersgeneral.com or writing to us at the following address:
11508 Gunfight Lane
Austin, TX 78748
A Soldier’s General Privacy Statement
Oeffingers.com, the organization that operates A Soldier’s General, is the sole owner of the information it gathers on its site. Oeffingers.com will only share your information with outside parties in ways that are described in this privacy statement or if we are required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law, cooperate with law enforcement agencies, or comply with a legal process served on our Web site.
What Information is Collected and How it is Used?
How to Join in our Discussions and Chats
We collect contact information such as your name and email address to become a registered participant in discussions and chats. You have the option to provide additional information in your individual profile. This information may contain: your web site, a brief personal description about yourself, your favorite URLs, and your picture. You can delete the optional information at any time by clicking on your Preferences Button. Discussion participants can elect to have new messages sent to their email address by enabling discussion subscriptions. To unsubscribe from specific discussions, login to the discussions and update your preferences.
Contact Us
We use email links located on the Contact us page and other areas of the site to allow you to contact us directly with any questions or comments you may have. We read every message sent in and try to reply promptly to every one. We want to respond directly to your questions or comments. We may also file your comments to improve the site and program, or review and discard the information. Your personal information will not be shared with third parties unless you give your explicit permission.
Purchasing a Book
We use the Wells Fargo eStore application to enable book purchases. You provide specific personal information during the purchase of books from our site. The information includes: your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and payment information. We may also collect certain non-personal information including the type of browser you are using (e.g. Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g. Mac OS, Windows 95, Linux) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g. America Online, Earthlink). We use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your order, to respond to your inquiries about your order and to notify you about the status of your order.
Newsletter
Individuals may subscribe to one of two monthly email newsletters. "In The Trenches" is our monthly newsletter for the Civil War Community. You will find current Civil War Roundtable summaries, Civil War Battlefield preservation activities and alerts, How-To information, and book reviews. "Roll Call" updates you on activities taking place in our electronic community such as chats, selected discussion topics, and new content on the site. Your email address is used to send you these emails. To unsubscribe from the either of the monthly newsletters, click on the unsubscribe link in one of the newsletters.
Logged Files and Cookies
A Soldier’s General logs IP addresses and browser types for systems administration purposes. These logs will be analyzed to improve the value of the materials available on the website. A user’s session will be tracked, but the user will be anonymous. We do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information. To enhance your experience with our site, many of our web pages use "cookies" and shopper ID’s. Cookies are text files we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personal information unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, once you choose to furnish our site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We do set a cookie for registered participants in our chats and discussions.
Third Party Service Providers
Oeffingers.com contracts with three third parties to assist us in managing certain functions on our Web site, such as sending out our newsletters. Oeffingers.com provides third party service providers with only the information necessary to carry out the service. Third party service providers are contractually prevented from using the information received from A Soldier’s General for any purpose other than those dictated by A Soldier’s General.
Links
A Soldier’s General may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than our own. Visitors should consult the other sites’ privacy statements as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collect by, these third parties.

Choices Regarding the Use of Your Information
How to Unsubscribe from A Soldier’s General publications
Newsletters
To unsubscribe from receiving "In The Trenches," or "Roll Callr" click on the unsubscribe button in the newsletter you wish to unsubscribe from.

To unsubscribe from any of the above publications you may also send an email to support@asoldiersgeneral.com stating the name of the publication from which you wish to be unsubscribed.
Discussions and Chats
If you have subscribed by email, you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in an email message or by using the "Change Subscriptions" button in the toolbar. To unsubscribe from web checking, use the "Change Subscriptions" button.
How to Access and Update User Information
Discussions and Chats
You can update your discussion and chat profile at any time by clicking the "Preferences" button.
Discussions and Chat Copyright Information
Oeffingers.com holds the copyright for all information contained in A Soldier’s General, including comments made in Chats and Discussions. Individual users give Oeffingers.com the right to publish or use Comments made in Chats and Discussions in electronic newsletters and other parts of the web site. Your comments will not be re-sold to another publication without your permission. Discussion and Chat archives will be indexed and may appear in various Internet search engines.
Newsletters
You can unsubscribe from each newsletter by clicking the unsubscribe link in the newsletter footer. If you need to update your email address, please contact A Soldier’s General at support@asoldiersgeneral.com. Alternatively, you may unsubsribe from the publication using your old email address and re-subscribing using your new email address.

Security
A Soldier’s General is sensitive to your concerns regarding the security of using your credit cards and electronic check information to purchase products and services through the Internet. Safeguarding your privacy and confidentiality is of the utmost importance to us. Our site uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) which encrypts your data while it is being transferred over the Internet. This makes it very difficult for someone to steal your credit card information.

Protecting your privacy and your information is a top priority as well. We have taken careful measures to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of your information. Once we receive your information that has been entered into our web site, it is stored behind a firewall. All A Soldier’s General employees are aware of our privacy and security policies. Your information is only accessible to those employees who need it in order to perform their jobs.

Notification of Changes
If we determine we would like to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection through this Web site, we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already collected through our site, we will post a prominent notice on our web site notifying users of the change.
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