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PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR
PRIVACY
This site is
owned and operated by SDIG, LLC. Your privacy on the Internet is of
the utmost importance to us. At SDIG, LLC, 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.
INFORMATION SDIG, LLC GATHERS AND TRACKS
SDIG, LLC
gathers two types of information about users:
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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:
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Information SDIG, LLC 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 SDIG, LLC 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 SDIG, LLC divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
SDIG, LLC 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 policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a
free electronic newsletter to users. SDIG, LLC gathers the email
addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove
themselves from this mailing list by sending us an email with REMOVE
in the subject line.
2. Surveys
SDIG, LLC 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
SDIG, LLC tracks
user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do
not correlate this information with data about individual users.
SDIG, LLC 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).
SDIG, LLC
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. SDIG, LLC 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.
Privacy Policy
Use
USE OF INFORMATION
SDIG, LLC 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. 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. SDIG,
LLC 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.
SDIG, LLC
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
SDIG, LLC 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. In
addition, we may share personal information in the event of the sale
of the company to a successor, a merger, or similar transaction.
SECURITY
SDIG, LLC
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.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this
site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by
SDIG, LLC . 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.
Last updated
August 15, 2009
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