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At our website, we
recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here
is information on what types of personal information we receive and
collect when you use and visit our website, and how we safeguard your
information. We never sell your
personal information to third parties.
Log Files
As
with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log
files. The information in the
log files include your IP
(internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such
as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as
Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which
pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web
Beacons
We do use cookies to
store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our
site. This could include only
showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some
of our features, such as forums.
We also use third
party advertisements on our website to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use
technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our
site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the
Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP
, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether
you have Flash installed. This
is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real
estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads
based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone
who frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART
cookies
We also may use DART
cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a
cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site
using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense
advertisements). This cookie is
used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based
targeting”). The ads served
will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example,
if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las
Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a
site about hockey). DART uses
“non personally identifiable information”.
It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name,
email address, physical address, telephone number, social security
numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving
on all sites using this advertising by visiting
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can choose to
disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in
your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as
Norton Internet Security.
However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as
well as other websites. This
could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as
logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does
not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that
disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the
advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
