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VerticalPortals LLC Online Privacy Statement
We appreciate your visiting this VerticalPortals LLC site. When you visit us, certain information about you becomes known to us. This Statement explains how we gather information and what we gather, and the rights you have over your private information.
Our Commitment to Privacy:
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our on-line information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on the home page of all VerticalPortals websites and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
The Kind of Information We Gather:
We collect limited kinds of information from our website visitors. This includes visitor domain names (computer addresses, like "mindspring.com"), visitor email addresses (like John@AOL.com), the email addresses of people who email us, aggregated (bundled) information on the pages of our websites that people visit, and information volunteered by visitors, for example, information provided to us by visitors when they register on the website for contests, or information, or other purpose.
The Way We Use Information:
We use the information visitors provide on our websites to help answer your inquiries and provide solutions, to improve your tour of the site, to improve the content of our websites, to notify visitors about new information about our brands or websites or events relating to our brands or websites, or for security purposes. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to answer your inquiries and provide solutions or to enforce security.
We use return email addresses to answer the e-mail we receive and to provide you with periodic updates and information about our websites and brands. These addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties, except as necessary for security purposes. We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our web site. For example, we may tell an advertiser or affiliate that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we will not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
Our websites use computer coded files called "cookies" to recognize visitors, store visitor preferences, record user-specific information on pages of the website visited, alert visitors to new areas of the website we believe will interest them, to enhance return visits to our websites, and visitor access privileges on our websites (for example, some of our websites may have "members only" areas in the future) as well as to track site usage. In the future, we may use cookies to gather other kinds of information. Visitors who do not accept cookies from our websites cannot access most areas of our websites.
We also may perform statistical analyses of visitor movement on our websites in order to study interest in various areas of the website (for product development purposes) and to inform advertisers or affiliates as to how many users have seen or "clicked" their advertising banners or service areas. We also may use demographic and preference information to allow advertising banners on our websites to be targeted, in aggregate, to the readers for whom they are most pertinent. This means that visitors see advertising that is most likely to interest them, and advertisers send their messages to people who are most likely to be receptive, improving both the viewer's experience and the effectiveness of the ads. In this statistical analyses and banner advertisement targeting, we will disclose information to third parties only in aggregate form. Personal information about visitors as an individual subscriber will not be provided to any third party without the visitor's consent.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity first to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
We also offer interactive forums - including "Chat" and/or "Message Board" areas - on one or more of our websites, and we may collect some or all of the kinds of information described above or additional kinds of information. Information disclosed by visitors when visiting or when posting a message in a forum or chat room becomes public. Thus, by posting a message in a forum or chat room a visitor may be making his or her email address available to others, which could result in unsolicited email from other users of the forum or chat room, or third parties who review chat rooms.
Our Commitment To Data Security:
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, legal and other procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Our Commitment to Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our web site from those persons we know or suspect are under 13 years of age, and none of our websites are intended for use by persons under 13.
Volunteering Information and Opting Out:
Visitors to our sites may be given opportunities to register for various activities or information, to become registered members, to subscribe to a variety of services or to receive information from us through emails or mail or other means, to participate in surveys, or for other purposes. The kinds of information we may request from visitors may include visitor names, addresses, telephone numbers, product use preferences, websites content preferences, age, gender, household income ranges and other personal information. We always will make it clearly known when we are requesting this kind of information. We use this personal information only for our own internal use and do not share the information with any other company for commercial purposes.
After we collect this kind of information, a visitor may decide that she or he does not want to receive email or other contact from us or others in the future. Please read the following carefully with respect to your right to opt-out of being contacted:
If you do not want to receive email from us in the future, please let us know by writing to us at the address listed below and/or by sending an email to the following address: .
If you do not want us to share your email address with other companies or organizations, please let us know by writing to us at the address listed below and/or by sending an email to the following address: .
Visitors who supply us with their telephone numbers online may receive telephone contact by us regarding new products or services, upcoming events, or product preferences. Similarly, visitors who supply us with their home addresses may receive mail from us regarding new products or services, upcoming events, or product preferences. If you do not wanted to be contacted by telephone or mail, please let us know by writing to us at the address listed below and/or by sending an email to the following address: .
Requesting Information:
Upon request, we provide our website visitors with a description of information about them that we maintain. Visitors who wish to receive this description can request it by writing to us at the address listed below and/or by sending an email to the following address: .
Future Changes to Our Privacy Statement:
From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Statement. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the changes to our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt-out of these new uses.
How To Contact Us:
If you have other questions or concerns about this Privacy Statement, please contact us at:
VerticalPortals LLC
Cathedral Station
P.O. Box 108
New York, NY 10025
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