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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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