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Privacy Statement
Revised and posted as of:
January 6th, 2006
We are committed to safeguarding your privacy
online. Please read the following statement to understand how
your personal information will be treated as you make full use
of the Our Web site.
Voluntary Submission
We do not collect personally identifying
information about any individual
except when knowingly provided by such individual. We may ask you for information when you register for
a contest or survey or to receive a newsletter. You always
have the option not to provide the information we request. If
you choose not to provide the information we request, you can
still visit most of the Our Web site content, but you may be
unable to access certain options and services.
Cookies
A cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to
your computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie
file can contain information, such as a user identification
code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited.
We use cookies solely to track user traffic patterns
throughout the Our Web site. We use this data on an
anonymous basis and we do not correlate this information with
personal data of any user.
Most Web site browsers automatically accept cookies, but
you can usually change your browser settings to display a
warning before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies.
However, if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from
our Web site, you may not be able to use certain features of
the site.
Browser Level
Information
Our Web servers automatically collect information
about a site user's IP address, browser type and referrer by
reading this information from the user's browser (information
provided by every user's browser). This information is
collected in a database and used--in an aggregated, anonymous
manner--in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within
our Web site. This information is automatically logged by most
Web sites.
Use of Information
Our primary goal in collecting user information is to
enhance your experience on our Web site. We achieve this goal
by, among other things, providing interactive communications
such as our electronic newsletters to the e-mail address that
you provide to us, and developing future editorial content
based on your interests. To develop content targeted to your
interests, we use aggregated user information to determine
which areas of our Web site users prefer based upon traffic to
those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but
instead how well each page or content area performs overall.
We may show third
party advertisements on our website. In order to attract and retain advertisers we use
the aggregated, anonymous information that we gather to
describe our services to partners and to assist our
advertisers and sponsors to better understand our audience. We
do not disclose personally identifying information about our
users to these parties.
We may also disclose information about our users
when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is
required by law.
Please be aware that
Our sponsors, advertisers or
Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally
identifiable information about you. The information practices
of those parties and Web sites linked to Our Web site are not
covered by this privacy statement. Our users should
also be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal
information in chat areas or bulletin boards, that information
may be collected by others and may result in unsolicited
messages from others.
Kids under 13
Do not send any information about yourself
to us--including information such as your name, address, or
e-mail address. We do not knowingly collect personally
identifiable information from children under 13. In the event
that we learn we have collected any personal information from
a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental
consent, we will delete that information from our database as
quickly as possible.
E-Mail
We respect the privacy of our readers and shall not disclose, distribute or
rent its e-mail subscriber newsletter list to any third party,
nor shall it permit anyone else to do so.
DEFINITIONS
IP address: Every
computer connected to the Internet has a numeric address
called an “IP address." This may or may not correspond
uniquely to a particular computer. In some cases, IP addresses
can be resolved to domain names, which may indicate a site
visitor's Internet service provider, employer, university,
etc. As part of its database analysis We resolve IP
addresses to domain names.
Browser type: A
user’s browser is a software program running on a computer
that allows users to access documents on the World Wide Web.
Browsers can be either text or graphic. They read HTML coded
pages that reside on a server and interpret the coding into
what the user sees as Web pages. Netscape Navigator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer are examples of Web browsers.
Browser type typically discloses hardware platform, operating
system, and browser software and version.
Referrer: The
referrer is the URI of the Internet resource or page that
causes a browser to request a page or image from Our
servers.
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