Privacy Statement
The protection of your privacy being very important to us, we have
adopted the following practices to safeguard the confidentiality of
your personal information. We will notify all registered users via
email of any material change to this Privacy Statement. From time to
time, changes to this Privacy Statement will also be communicated on
this site.
What information do you gather automatically from visitors?
We use your IP address (the series of numbers associated with your individual
computer) to help us maintain our site and identify problems with our server.
Your IP address does not disclose any personally revealing information about
you.
We do use cookies to identify traffic that comes through advertising and to
facilitate a more user friendly experience. Cookies are small pieces of information
that a web site places on your computer's hard drive so we know it's you when
you visit. This helps us to create a personalized experience for you when you
visit our site. The use of cookies is a very common practice on the Internet.
If you are uncomfortable with this, you can disable all cookies through your
browser settings. Your enjoyment of our site won't be affected if you have
set your browser to reject cookies.
What information will you ask me for?
When you register to use this service you will be asked for some general identifying
information. We gather contact information (like your email address), demographic
information (like your city of residence or age). We may share some of this
information for our own research purposes with our professional advisors or
consultants and third party partners, however the information shared will be
limited to non-personally identifying demographic information shared under
cover of a confidentiality agreement. When registering, you will also
be given the option of creating a pseudonymous nickname for purposes of posting
on the site.
How will this information be used and who has access to it?
We may use your contact information to send you valuable updates and timely
notices of promotions or other information relating to the service. We
also reserve the right to use your contact information at any time to advise
you of any updates that may materially affect your rights or status on our
site.
The personally identifiable information we collect from you is used for internet
review and to improve the content and functionality of our web server. The
specific information we collect is not shared with other organizations and
we will never release your personally identifiable information to an external
organization without your prior consent. We may disclose your personally identifiable
information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by operation
of law, which may include, but is not limited to a judicial proceeding, court
order, or legal process served on Suite 21 New Media, its affiliates or employees.
How long do you keep the information I've given you?
We keep the information you have given us for as long as you are a member on
the site or for as long as we are required to do so by law, which ever is longer.
Advertisers
When you inquire about advertising opportunities on our site, you will be asked
for contact information and information related to your advertising objectives.
This information will be used to provide you with the business information you
are seeking. Your information is only shared with internal staff and any external
ad representation agencies that may be engaged to sell media space on the site,
on our behalf. Suite 21 New Media sites may contain links to other sites not
affiliated with it. Please note that these other sites may have privacy policies
that differ from those of Suite 21 New Media. We have no control over any personal
information that you provide to these sites.
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