Privacy Statement

Flatland Industries, Inc. ("Flatland Industries") is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of our customers. This policy applies only to Five Mushrooms web site. Our privacy policy statement will help you understand Flatland Industries commitment to safeguarding your private information. Information Collection and Use Five Mushrooms does not collect any personal or individually identifiable information without the informed consent of the user. We will not sell, share, or rent your confidential information to third parties, including individuals or other organizations. Search History Five Mushrooms keeps a record of all search strings used on our site. Five Mushrooms does not link any personally identifiable information to those search strings. We can see your IP address when you search, however the life of your IP address in our logs is short, less than 7 days. Your search on Five Mushrooms is anonymous and private! Server Log Files We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, and gather broad demographic information for performance assessments and aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information including your search history. Our servers automatically record the following information about each request to our site. -Request Protocol Type - HTTP/HTTPS -The requested URL -Your original and destination IP addresses -Size and Mime types of HTTP pages/transfers -Operating System type and Browser information -Referrer URL address and Domain Name -The date and time -Version of Encryption Algorithm supported by the Browser The logging data above is collected as part of our attempt to monitor ongoing performance and service integrity in order to enhance our service offering. We have implemented strict technical and organizational measures to ensure that the log data is protected at all times. Intelligent Caching Five Mushrooms uses extensive caching technology to cache frequently requested Web content. Caching mechanisms are used to serve web pages directly from the Flatland Industries local storage as a means to make web performance faster and more efficient. We do not cache or locally store any end-to-end web content transfers, like e-commerce transactions, via the Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Internet Cookies Five Mushrooms may use a feature of your Internet browser called a "cookie" to assign a unique identification to your computer to maintain a session state. These short-lived cookies are not written to your hard drive and are removed when you close the browser. This means that not only are your web activities kept private, but also that your hard drive memory is not depleted. Flatland Industries does not, and will not, use cookies to retrieve personal information about you. Stat Counter: We use stat counter to collect analytics. Stat counter sets a cookie to track repeat visitors. You can get more information at statcounter.com. Sharing We may share aggregate demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information and cannot identify any individual person. Links This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Flatland Industries is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information for their protection. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the Flatland Industries web site. Newsletter If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. --> Security This web site takes every precaution to protect our users information. While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. Flatland Industries is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have incorporated physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information. Notification of Changes This privacy statement was last updated on July 21, 2008.