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OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by World Wide Digital Media Inc. Your privacy
on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At InternetBusinessHub.com, 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 InternetBusinessHub.com GATHERS AND TRACKS
We gather two types of information
about users:
1. 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:
2. Information we gather 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 we derive revenue from sponsorships and advertising,
providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our
service free to users. Under no circumstances do we divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
InternetBusinessHub.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:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. We gather 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 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. We 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
We 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
We track user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. We do 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).
We sometimes track and catalog the search terms 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. InternetBusinessHub.com does
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. We use 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
We 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.
We 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.
We sometimes create 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 do
not track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or
sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad and 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 INFORMATION
We use 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
We operate 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-IN POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical.
Such choices include:
1. Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
2. 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 InternetBusinessHub.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.
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