We at S&W Forum (S-W Forum, LLC dba smith-wessonforum.com) have created this Privacy Policy to describe how information is collected, used, and disclosed when you visit or use a S&W Forum Offering. By accessing and/or using this S&W Forum website or any S&W Forum Offering, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
The term “S&W Forum” means S&W Forum and/or its Affiliates. The term “Affiliate” means, with respect to any party, any person or entity which controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such party. The term “S&W Forum Offering” means the websites of S-W Forum, LLC, including www.smith-wessonforum.com, any other sites on which this Privacy Policy is posted, and any other S&W Forum application, service or product licensed, downloaded or otherwise accessed by you through third party sites or sources, including the products and services available through any of the foregoing.

INFORMATION THAT WE MAY COLLECT:

Opening a User Account:
When opening a User Account, we require that you supply:
1- A User Name of your choosing that is not already in use
2- A Password (Make it a good one that you do not use elsewhere)
3- A valid email address
4- Date of Birth required by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
You have the option to enter your real first and last name.

Donations to The Forum:
Online Donations are made through PayPal. You can do so whether you have a PayPal account or not. We do not see any of your financial data. That data is seen only by PayPal.
PayPal only gives us your real name, your User Name, your email, your donation Amount and date.
If you mail us a donation, we do not retain any of your information such as your name, your address, your Bank name, Routing Number, or Account Number. We only retain your User Name and the amount of your donation and the date made.

Personally Identifiable Information:
We may collect the following information when you sign up with a S&W Forum Offering: first name, last name, date of birth, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit or debit card information or other payment details, depending on your form of payment.

Technical Information:
When a user accesses a S&W Forum Offering, we may collect technical information about the user’s device, such as the IP address that requested the display of the S&W Forum Offering, the operating system type, and the identifiers associated with the device.

Sign Up and Survey information:
Any information you provide to us, and any information you choose to share about yourself as part of your use of any S&W Forum Offering, may be stored as entered.

Cookies and Web beacons:
Cookies are text files that we and our service providers may place on your device’s browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as personalized S&W Forum advertisements on third party websites and mobile applications, and personalized third-party advertisements within certain S&W Forum Offerings. We may use Adobe Flash cookies to remember your settings, preferences and usage within a S&W Forum Offering. Web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies are small pieces of code that we and our service providers may place on a S&W Forum Offering to monitor and collect data about visitor behavior within the S&W Forum Offering.

Cookies and Web beacons:
We may receive a confirmation when you open email from S&W Forum, if your computer supports such capabilities. We may also track other types of information, such as newsletter signups, how long our users have been participating in any S&W Forum Offerings, the last time a user accessed a S&W Forum Offering, user behavior, sweepstakes, contests or other promotions featured on a S&W Forum Offering, ad response measurement and other S&W Forum Offerings analytics.

Social Networking Sites:
If you access a S&W Forum Offering via a third-party social networking site, S&W Forum may receive information about your social networking site profile, including without limitation the information you make publicly available, your social networking site user ID, your first, last and usernames, profile and cover photos. If you share content with new members, we may collect the information associated with that shared content, including your friends’ social networking site user IDs, email addresses and content.

Mobile:
When you download or access S&W Forum Offerings via a mobile device, we and our service providers may receive information about your location (based on your IP address) and your mobile device, including various unique identifiers associated with your device, hardware type and the version of your operating system. We and our service providers may use this information to provide you with personalized advertising and other content, including advertising and content based on your location.

Aggregated, Anonymous Information:
We may collect aggregated, anonymized information via S&W Forum Offerings that does not identify any single user or device. If you choose to provide a username within a S&W Forum Offering, please do not provide as your username any information that identifies you in real life, such as your real name.

USE AND SECURITY OF COLLECTED INFORMATION
We may use your email address, and provided names to uniquely identify you as a user on a S&W Forum Offering, to provide you with services and advertising. We may use or display your information, if applicable, for the purposes of competitions or sweepstakes. We may use your date of birth to confirm your eligibility to participate in S&W Forum Offerings.
Subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we may use your contact information to process our newsletters and/or email campaigns and to send you updates, security alerts, or administrative messages relating to S&W Forum Offerings. Your contact information will allow us to notify you about new features, enhancements, handle and/or route your customer questions and issues, and inform you of sweepstakes, contests, prizes, and/or special events.
We and our third-party service providers use cookies and other technologies, such as mobile device identifiers, to enhance your experience with S&W Forum Offerings. These technologies enable us and our service providers to run offerings such as personalized S&W Forum advertisements on other websites and mobile applications and personalized third-party advertisements within certain S&W Forum Offerings. We and our third-party service providers may also use cookies and other technologies to manage and measure the performance of third party advertisements within certain S&W Forum Offerings, and S&W Forum advertisements on third party sites and mobile applications. This helps us and our service providers provide more relevant advertising to you. We and our third-party service providers may also use web beacons to monitor user behavior and collect information about visitors viewing a web page.
We may use information collected to calculate aggregate, anonymized statistics about our user community for the purpose of enhancing our S&W Forum Offerings, or for security purposes.
We at S&W Forum take reasonable measures to help protect the information we collect from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.

SHARING INFORMATION
We may share customer information with S&W Forum Affiliates, and as described below.

Third Party Marketplaces and Service Providers:
We may disclose your personal information as well as aggregate, anonymous information to third party business partners, marketplaces, and third parties who perform services for us, such as credit card processing, prize fulfillment, delivering packages, sending postal mail, collecting and analyzing data, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), and providing advertising and marketing assistance, including serving ads on our behalf on third party websites and mobile applications and serving ads on behalf of third parties within certain S&W Forum Offerings. Those third parties have access to your personal information only as necessary to perform their functions, and for no other purposes.

Business Transfers:
As S&W Forum continues to grow, we might sell or buy certain subsidiaries and/or business units. In such transactions, customer information is generally one of the transferred assets. Also, in the unlikely event that S&W Forum or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information would in most cases be one of the transferred assets.

Protection of S&W Forum and Others:
We may also disclose your information if there is a violation of the Terms of Service or other agreements; if we have a good faith belief that we have to disclose it in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena); or if needed to protect the rights, property or safety of S&W Forum, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with entities for fraud detection and protection, and credit risk reduction.

ACCESSING YOUR INFORMATION AND YOUR CHOICES
You may contact a Forum Administrator about your information and your choices for limiting the use and disclosure of your information through our Contact Us page.
Promotional email communications:
When you become a member of S&W Forum, you may be automatically registered to receive one or more of our promotional e- newsletters. Note that when you provide an email address through a S&W Forum Offering, we treat that as a request to be enrolled in one of our promotional e-newsletter lists, even if you previously opted out of receiving newsletters from us, but if you change your mind and wish to opt out again, you may do so at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any newsletter and then following the instructions provided. If you express interest in a S&W Forum Offering by clicking on a banner within a newsletter, you may be automatically registered to receive newsletters relating to the S&W Forum Offering that appeared in the banner.
At any time, you may opt-out of receiving a newsletter by selecting the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any newsletter. We treat each S&W Forum Offering individually, so if you are receiving mailings from more than one S&W Forum Offering, if you want to unsubscribe you must do so with respect to each individually. Please note that we reserve the right to send you non-promotional, account or administrative emails even if you opt out of receiving promotional e-newsletters.

Cookies, Online Advertising and Analytics:
Please refer to your browser settings and help section to learn about blocking, erasing or being notified of cookies. You can manage your Flash cookies by using Adobe’s Flash management here. However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of S&W Forum Offerings’ essential features, we recommend that you leave cookies turned on. To opt out of receiving personalized advertising from many ad networks, data exchanges, marketing analytics and other services providers, please visit aboutads.info.

Mobile Advertising:
Most mobile devices provide the ability to opt out of the collection and use of information from the apps you use for purposes of serving ads targeted to your interests. For more information, and to exercise these choices, consult the settings on your device.

THIRD-PARTIES
S&W Forum Offerings may allow you to share information through social media (such as by logging in through a social media account or using a “Like” button”) or contain links to social media services or other third parties. The use of these features and links are subject to the privacy policies of those companies and your settings on those services. S&W Forum has no control over, and is not responsible for, the information submitted to or collected by social networks or other third parties. We encourage you to review those third-party privacy policies to understand the way your information may be collected and handled by such third parties.

Third Party Pixels and Cookies
When you visit our website, log in, register or open an email, cookies, ad beacons, and similar technologies may be used by our online data partners or vendors to associate these activities with information they or others have about you, including your email address. We (or service providers on our behalf) may then send communications and marketing to these email addresses. You may opt out of receiving this advertising by visiting https://app.retention.com/optout.

CHILDREN
S&W Forum Offerings are designed to avoid the collection and use of “personal information” as defined in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) from children under 13 other than for support of internal operations. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are under 13, you may not register or otherwise provide any personal information to us.
S&W Forum respects the privacy of parents and children and is committed to complying with COPPA . If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal information to S&W Forum, he or she can contact a Forum Administrator through our Contact Us page. We will take steps to promptly delete the information upon learning that it relates to a child under the age of 13. We recognize the importance of safeguarding the privacy of children and encourage parents to check and monitor their children’s use of online activities regularly.

AGREEMENT WITH S&W FORUM POLICIES
By accessing and/or using any of the S&W Forum Offerings, you signify your understanding of and agreement with this Privacy Policy, and to our Terms of Service. If you do not agree with our policies, please do not access or use any S&W Forum’s Offerings.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “last modified” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how S&W Forum protects your information.
Last modified: Feb 23, 2024

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Regards,
Lee Jarrett