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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 www.WebMMO.com GATHERS AND TRACKS, www.WebMMO.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
www.WebMMO.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
www.WebMMO.com 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 www.WebMMO.com
divulge any information about an individual user to a third party. www.WebMMO.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:
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. www.WebMMO.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. www.WebMMO.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
www.WebMMO.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.
Usage tracking
www.WebMMO.com tracks user traffic patterns
throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with
data about individual users. www.WebMMO.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).
www.WebMMO.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. www.WebMMO.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.
Privacy Policy Use
How the information you gather is used if relevant.
USE OF INFORMATION
www.WebMMO.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. www.WebMMO.com 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.
www.WebMMO.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.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
www.WebMMO.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.
SECURITY
www.WebMMO.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.
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 www.WebMMO.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.