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This site is owned and operated by PrizeSquare.com. Your privacy on the Internet
is of the utmost importance to us. At PrizeSquare.com, 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 our policy and
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.
PrizeSquare.com 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 PrizeSquare.com 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 PrizeSquare.com derives its revenue mainly
from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic
data is essential to keeping our service free to users. PrizeSquare.com 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:
The following is a list of different
policies which can be edited to remove the parts of the policy that
are not needed. You should also add anything to this policy template
that you may have on your site.
1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. PrizeSquare.com 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 policy 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"
policy 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. PrizeSquare.com 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 PrizeSquare.com 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. Privacy Policy Template changes The
policy clause about children below is becoming more important as it
is nearly impossible to tell the age of any visitor. We recommend adding
this sample line to all your forms that request information. 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 PrizeSquare.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout
all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with
data about individual users. PrizeSquare.com 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).
6. PrizeSquare.com 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. PrizeSquare.com
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.
PrizeSquare.com 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. PrizeSquare.com
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. PrizeSquare.com
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.
PrizeSquare.com 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.
PrizeSquare.com 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.
PrizeSquare.com 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
By using this site,
you consent to the collection and use of this information by PrizeSquare.com.
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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