updated 03 May 2008

Your user privacy and security are very important to us. Edwardjcarvalho.com is committed to protecting your privacy online when and where possible in all areas of the site regarded as "private." In such instances, we will never share your personal information with anyone without your explicit consent. If, however, you choose to post with a publicly-traceable user identity in the blog, "'If the radiance of a thousand suns': Songs of the American Hiroshima," hosted by Blogger.com, edwardjcarvalho.com disavows any and all responsibilities related to that decision pertaining to resultant solicitation from external sources, etc. and any electronic communication consequences related thereto. Also please be advised that if you intentionally track and / or monitor hits arriving to your server from this domain via cross-link / external link connections from any Web-based application designed for said purpose (e.g. javascript applet, etc.) you must be in possession of written permission from the owner of edwardjcarvalho.com before proceeding any further. Failure to secure these permissons can and will be subject to legal prosecution for breach of copyright, etc. In other words, if you wish to avoid such unwelcome headaches please seek permissions before venturing any further. If you also don't want to be a public person, please conceal your identity and use the "anonymous" option offered by blogger.com when commenting on posts in a public forum such as those featured on this site.

From any of the interactive or ordering portions of this site you may choose to share personal information with us including your name, address, e-mail, and financial information for processing your order. We use this information only to communicate with you, (*excepting areas of the site reserved for public commentary and consumption, which in turn warrant publicly accessible response) and forward you additional information about this site and the products it offers.

Edwardjcarvalho.com will never share or release information about you or your company to any third parties without your express written consent. In fact, we don't even deal with third-party companies in any way, shape or form. We will also never share or sell your e-mail addresses with anyone outside of edwardjcarvalho.com without your permission. If you have chosen to receive correspondence from us, we always conceal your indentity via the "bcc" option when distributing any mailings pertaining to events or appearances. To discontinue receiving communications expressly and legitimately sent from "e.j.carvalho(at)iup.edu, kindly return the correspondence with the words, "REMOVE FROM LIST" featured in the subject heading and your request will be processed within 24 hours of receipt.

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Traffic Monitoring - Edwardjcarvalho.com uses a free public-domain counter from gostats.com to monitor its daily traffic. With this service, edwardjcarvalho.com cannot monitor specific Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and therefore cannot use this information to link personal information to any of the visitors to this site. Your IP, however, is logged with the host providing company for edwardjcarvalho.com--that is Atlantic.net--and is only used by the owner of edwardjcarvalho.com for the purposes of statistical analysis and / or reports of abuse.

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Links to other sites - Though our site contains links to many other Web sites, we are not responsible for the content, Web site links or privacy policies on any of those Web sites. Similar to the policies pertaining to the discontinuation of e-mail correspondence from "e.j.carvalho(at)iup.edu", if you wish to have your particular link removed from this domain, kindly send an e-mail with the subject, "REMOVE LINK FROM SITE" and your request will be processed in 24 hours of receipt. Conversely, if you choose to cross-link with this domain, please send an e-mail with the subject, "LINK TO YOUR SITE" and this request will be processed in 48 hours of receipt after review and approval of content. Written permissions are required before attempting to link with this domain.

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Questions and Concerns - If you have further questions about our privacy policy, the practices of our Web site or your experience with our site, you may contact us at edwardjcarvalho.com.

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