The Information We Collect

To help us achieve our goal of providing the highest quality services, we collect and apply information from our interactions with visitors, subscribers and users to the AmosWEB site. Because we respect your privacy, we have procedures to ensure that your Personal Information is handled in a safe, secure, and responsible manner. The information we receive and collect depends on what a visitor, subscriber or user does when visiting one of the AmosWEB sites.

In general, AmosWEB users are able to visit many of our Web pages without telling us who they are or revealing any information about themselves. As discussed under "Usage Data" below, we may track the Internet domain or "Internet protocol" addresses from which users visit us and analyze this data in the aggregate to determine usage for trends and statistics. Individual users will remain anonymous, unless they voluntarily tell us who they are.

Usage Data

AmosWEB only uses Usage Data in the aggregate -- that is, we look at the data on a collective basis, in summary form, rather than on an individual basis. This data helps us determine the extent to which our visitors use certain parts of an AmosWEB site, which, in turn, enables us to make the AmosWEB pages as appealing as possible.

User Communications

As a benefit of subscription membership, AmosWEB site users or subscribers may receive the following communications from us:

• Communications related to subscription maintenance activities. These communications may include, without limitation, notices regarding material changes to AmosWEB site policies, service updates, service enhancements, and account management procedures. Since these communications are necessary to ensure AmosWEB provides its users or subscribers with the highest quality of services, our users or subscribers are not permitted to opt out from receipt of these communications.


• Communications containing information about AmosWEB products and services. We may send promotional e-mails and other outbound communications to AmosWEB site users or subscribers regarding products and services from AmosWEB. Any AmosWEB site user or subscriber that does not wish to receive such product and service communications can choose to remove his or her contact information from our contact list at any time by following the instructions at the bottom of any promotional e-mail

Disclosure Exceptions

AmosWEB will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law; for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. AmosWEB also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request.

AmosWEB Commitment to Security

AmosWEB only collects information from AmosWEB site Users to the extent deemed reasonably necessary to serve its legitimate business purposes, and it uses state-of-the-art security technology to ensure the security, integrity, and privacy of all collected information. In addition, AmosWEB uses security measures in connection with the collection and transmission of AmosWEB site User information during each AmosWEB site's registration process. Nonetheless, AmosWEB is not responsible for any breach of its security or for the actions of any third parties that may obtain any AmosWEB site User information, including Personal and Institutional Information.

AmosWEB Links to Other Web sites

The AmosWEB site contains links to other Web sites. AmosWEB is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party Web sites. We urge all AmosWEB site users to follow safe Internet practices: Do not supply personal information to these Web sites unless you have verified their security and privacy policies.

Your Consent and Changes to Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last changed on January 14, 2006. By using the AmosWEB site, you consent to the collection and use of your information by AmosWEB in the manner specified in this Privacy Policy. AmosWEB reserves the right to change or amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the revised Privacy Policy on the AmosWEB site.

The total market value of all final goods and services produced within the political boundaries of an economy during a given period of time, usually one year. This is the official measure of the aggregate output produced by the economy. It is tabulated and reported by the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which is part of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Gross domestic product, often abbreviated simply as GDP, is one of several measures reported regularly (quarterly and annually) by the number crunchers at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Other common measures include net domestic product, national income, personal income, and disposable income. GDP has replaced gross national product (GNP), in most official discussion of aggregate economic production.

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Our pedestrian's jaunt through the economy is not, unfortunately, an unrestrained shopping spree for confectioneries, spark plug tools, and Houston, Texas. We have other important errands to run. At the moment we need to hike over to Shady Valley's exclusive provider of cable television services, the Merciless Monolithic Media Masters Cable Television Company, Inc., to inquire about a mysterious fee that appeared last month's bill.

The good news is that the Merciless Monolithic Media Masters (the 4M people) Cable office is a mere 2 miles (3 kilometers for the metrically inclined) from the Shady Valley Central Town Sprawling Hills Shopping Mall. A hop, skip, and a moderately long jump later, our excursion through the economy takes us to the front door of the 4M Cable Television Company where I hope to discover why last month's cable bill included a $3,569 charge for something called "The Vacation Channel." I didn't even know I had a vacation channel. (But, I'm sure it's a great channel, and if I don't have it, then I will certainly subscribe. Please don't disconnect me.)

Of course, because this an afternoon workday, the doors of the 4M office are locked. I can almost make out, through the expensive stained glass windows, what appears to be several Merciless Monolithic Media Masters Cable Television employees, with champaign bottles in hand, dancing on expensive mahogany desks. Let's not disturb them. As they say in the cable business, an upset worker is a disconnected customer.
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