Michael Murphy's

MICHAEL MURPHY'S PRIVACY POLICY

Updated Nov 23, 2005

Information about Privacy on michaelmurphys.com

michaelmurphys.com  is committed to protecting your privacy. You can visit most pages on our site without giving us any information about yourself. But sometimes we may need information to provide services that you request, and this privacy statement explains data collection and use in those situations.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact Matt Marcus, Owner, of michaelmurphys.com ., via email at marcmattus@aol.com or, by phone at 1-502-587-0013, or by mail at 701 South First St, Louisville, KY. This privacy policy statement covers only information that is collected through http://www.michaelmurphys.com , and does not cover information collected through any other site.

We will ask you when needed information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you are registering for a contest, ordering e-mail newsletters, offering comments, asking questions, or reporting an error.

michaelmurphys.com  also collects certain information about your computer hardware and software. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of michaelmurphys.com .

Photos

From time to time Michael Murphy's owner or staff may take pictures at scheduled events.   These pictures taken of our patrons may be posted on michaelmurphys.com for a limited time.   The site does not post any personnel information about the pictures such as names, dates, or time photos were taken.   If any patron of Michael Murphy's chooses to have their picture removed from the site we will do so at their request.  They may use the contact form on the site or notify us by phone at -502-587-0013, or by mail at 701 South First St, Louisville, KY.   Patrons who receive prizes in contests, drawings, or appreciation gifts, are typically photographed for promotion of the business and are there for not eligible to opt out of photo postings on michaelmurphys.com.

From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name, address, phone, zip, & e-mail address), We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic or personalize the site to send participants an email newsletter.

We may occasionally post information on promotions, specials, and scheduled events.  These items are subject to change at the discretion of the management without notice.

As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information. We use the third-party tracking software  that uses log files to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site such as:

• Traffic

  • Hour of Day Activity, Day of Week Activity, Day of Month Activity, Detail Daily Activity, Detail Weekly Activity, Monthly Activity, Views Per Visit, & Length Of Visit .

• Visitors

  • Who is on, Recent Spiders, Top Visitors, Top Spiders, Top Visitor Organizations, Top Spider Organizations, Top Visitors by Bandwidth, Top Spiders by Bandwidth, Authenticated Top Visitors, Top Visitor Countries, Top Spider Countries, Top Visitor Regions, & Top Spider Regions.

• Pages

  • Most Downloaded Files, Most Requested Pages, Top Static Pages, Top Dynamic Pages,

  • Top Entry Pages / Files, Top Exit Pages / Files, Most requested Images, Most Requested Audio, Files, Most Requested Video Files, Most Requested Unknown Files, Site Bookmarked, Single Access Pages / Files, Most Downloaded File Types, Most Accessed Directories, & URL Parameter Query

• Browsers

  • Most Used Browsers, Netscape Browsers, Internet Explorer Browsers, Visiting Spiders, Download Managers, & Most Used Platforms

• Capabilities

  • Frame Support, VBScript Support, JavaScript Support, Java Applet Support, & ActiveX Support.

• Referrers

  • Top Referring Site by IP, Top Referring URLs, Top Search Engines, No Hits from Search Engine, Top Search Phrases, Top Search Keywords, & Search Phrases Per Engine.

• Errors

  • Server Errors, Summary of HTTP Errors, Requests causing Errors, & Detail Daily Errors.

This information is used to understand the demographic make-up of our web visitors.

Michael Murphy's will disclose your personal information only if required to do so by law, in the good faith belief that doing so protects the property of Michael Murphy's, or to protect the safety of our employees and their families.

We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes such as photos for promotions, contests, etc.

michaelmurphys.com does not use session or persisent cookies on our site.

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by michaelmurphys.com.  Please be aware that we, Michael Murphy's, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

In the event Michael Murphy's goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us by email at: marcmattus@aol.com.