Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
This policy covers the use of personal information that we collect when you use our site. The policy also gives you information about cookies; our and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may reject such cookies.
During a free registration process you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to use the services on our website.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable us to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy.
2. Visitor Information
During the course of any visit to our site, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our german pages, we might find this out from your cookie and redirect you on your second and subsequent visits.
3. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all our features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse our site anonymously. For further information on cookies please visitwww.aboutcookies.org. Information about how to find and control your cookies you findhere.
4. Use and storage of your personal information
In general, any information you provide to us will only be used for internal review. If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to our site or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour, we can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use our service, and remove it in the case you no longer wish to continue your registration. For safety reasons, however, we may store messaging transcript data (IP addresses, times and dates) arising from the use of our services. Be notified that your information may be used to allow us to contact you by mail about new services or new sites. The information provided during the free registration process will NEVER be released to third parties of any kind: we don't do that.
5. Third-party-links
Our site contains links to other websites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites. We encourage our users to read the privacy policies of all websites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by us.
6. Security
We make every reasonable effort to preserve your privacy and to protect the information submitted to us during the free registration. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however and so we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Notification of changes
If we alter our privacy policy, we will post all changes on this page. If we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different than what was stated at the time of the free registration process, we will notify all users via email. At that time, users can choose whether or not we may use their information in this different manner.
Last update 05/15/2007