COMMITMENT TO YOUR
PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Dunmore™. Your privacy on the
Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Dunmore™, 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 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 Dunmore™ GATHERS AND TRACKS
Dunmore™ 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 Dunmore™ 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 Dunmore™ 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 Dunmore™ divulge any information about
an individual user to a third party.
Dunmore™ 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 (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Dunmore™
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
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. "Email this page to a friend" Service
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. Dunmore™ 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
Dunmore™ 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
Dunmore™ tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual
users. Dunmore™ 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).
Dunmore™ 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. Dunmore™ 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.
USE OF INFORMATION
Dunmore™ 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.
Dunmore™ 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.
Dunmore™ 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
Dunmore™ 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
Dunmore™ 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 Dunmore™. 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. |