COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Clickerado INC,.
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At
Clickerado
Inc, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users,
we feel you
should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the
capture and use
of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information
we gather
and how we use it.
Definition of the Information Clickerado INC,. gathers and keeps
track of.
Clickerado INC, gathers two types of information about users:
· Information that users provide through optional, voluntary
submissions.
These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters,
to
participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend,
and from
participation in polls and surveys:
· Information Clickerado INC, gathers through aggregated
tracking
information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our
sites. This
information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs
and to help
our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics
of our audience.
Because Clickerado INC, derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships
and
advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential
to keeping
our service free to users. Under no circumstances does Clickerado
INC, divulge
any information about an individual user to a third party.
Clickerado INC, Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some type of
voluntary
submission of personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Clickerado
INC, gathers the
email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove
themselves
from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter
that
points users to the subscription management page. Users can also
subscribe to
the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register separately
for these
services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages, although
they
needn't register to visit the site. During registration the user
is required to
supply a username, password, and email address.
3. "E-mail this to a friend" Service
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page,
or documents
to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend".
The user must provide
their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information
is used
only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the
recipient
know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other
purpose.
4. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share
their opinions
with other users and see what our audience thinks about important
issues.
Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not
identifiable to
any particular user. Clickerado INC, may use a system to "tag"
users after they
have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question.
This tag is not
correlated with information about individual users.
5. Surveys
Clickerado INC, may occasionally conduct user surveys to better
target our
content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic
information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and
partners. We
never share any of this information about specific individuals with
any third
party.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998
(COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information
from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
USAGE TRACKING
Clickerado INC, tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of
our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual
users.
Clickerado INC, does break down overall usage statistics according
to a user's
domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information
from the
browser string (information contained in every user's browser).
Clickerado INC, sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms
that users enter
in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with
individual
users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our
sites users
like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what
individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.
This
helps us continue to build a better service for you.
COOKIES
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser
files of your
computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information
although it
will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that
you have
specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information
a cookie
can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read
data off
your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Clickerado
INC, uses
cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our
advertising
system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions
and click
rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If
you've set your
browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the
warning
message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned
on to use this
site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message
boards,
forums, polling and surveys. USE OF INFORMATION
Clickerado INC, uses any information voluntarily given by our users
to enhance
their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive
or
personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content
based on
the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide
in order to
send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate
in polls,
surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to
subscribers on a
regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally
send out
special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly
interested in
something we are doing. Clickerado INC, never shares newsletter
mailing lists
with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our
sites users
like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what
individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.
This
helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search
terms
entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests
our users.
But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
Clickerado INC, creates aggregate reports on user demographics
and traffic
patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our
advertisers to
advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements
that
are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns
of
individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that
a specific user
clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any
individual user
except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to
protect the
personal safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Clickerado INC, uses the above-described information to tailor
our content to
suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's
demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We
will not share
information about individual users with any third party, except
to comply with
applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal
safety of our
users or the public.
SECURITY
Clickerado INC, operates secure data networks protected by industry
standard
firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy
policies are
periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized
individuals
have access to the information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices
include:
Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely
alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information
from our
users YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this
information by
Clickerado INC,. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post those
changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information
we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose
it.
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