|
Privacy Policy
09-09-2009
We have
created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm
and continuing commitment to the privacy of personal
information provided by those visiting and interacting with
this web site. We hold the privacy of your personal information
in the highest regard. The following discloses our information
gathering and dissemination practices for this
website.
We recognize the importance of
protecting your privacy and our policy is designed to assist
you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the
personal information you provide to us and to assist you in
making informed decisions when using our site. This policy will
be continuously assessed against new technologies, business
practices and our customers' needs.
What Information Do We
Collect?
When you visit this web site
you may provide us with two types of information: personal
information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected
on an individual basis and Web site use information collected
on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web
site.
Log
Files
As with most other websites, we
collect and use the data contained in log files. The
information in the log files include your IP (internet
protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as
AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site
(such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited
our site and which pages you visited throughout our
site.
Cookies and Web
Beacons
We do use cookies to store
information, such as your personal preferences when you visit
our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in
your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features,
such as forums.
We also display third party
advertisements on our site to support our website. Some of
these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web
beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send
these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense
program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the
browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether
you have Flash installed. This is generally used for
geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to
someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based
on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to
someone who frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART
cookies We also
may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google's
DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you
are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick
advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements).
This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your
interests ("interest based targeting"). The ads served will be
targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example,
if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you
may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a
non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses
"non personally identifiable information". It does NOT track
personal information about you, such as your name, email
address, physical address, telephone number, social security
numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can
opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising
by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can choose to disable or
selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your
browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such
as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you
are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.
This could include the inability to login to services or
programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean
you are permanently opted out of any advertising program.
Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time
you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will
be added.
Acquisition or Changes in
Ownership
In the event that
the web site (or a substantial portion of its assets) is
acquired, your information would be considered part of those
assets, and may be part of those assets that are
transferred.
Policy
Modifications
We may change
this Privacy Policy from time to time. If/when changes are made
to this privacy policy, we will email users who have given us
permission to do so. We will post any changes here, so be sure
to check back periodically. However, please be assured that if
the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the
personal information you have submitted to us under this
Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with
this Privacy Policy, without your prior consent.
|