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- This site is owned and operated by
ElectroSolve. Your privacy on the Internet is of
the utmost importance to us. At ElectroSolve, 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 ELECTROSOLVE GATHERS AND TRACKS
ElectroSolve 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 ElectroSolve 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
ElectroSolve 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 ElectroSolve divulge any
information about an individual user to a third
party.
ElectroSolve 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:
Privacy Policy Sample
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. ElectroSolve 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. ElectroSolve 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
ElectroSolve 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
ElectroSolve tracks user traffic patterns
throughout all of our sites. However, we do not
correlate this information with data about
individual users. ElectroSolve 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).
ElectroSolve 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.
ElectroSolve 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
How the information you gather is used if
relevent.
USE OF INFORMATION
ElectroSolve 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. ElectroSolve 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.
ElectroSolve 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
ElectroSolve 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
ElectroSolve 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
ElectroSolve. 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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