COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by ReferMeNow,LLC. Your privacy on the
Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At ReferMeNow,LLC, 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 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 ReferMeNow,LLC GATHERS AND
TRACKS
ReferMeNow,LLC 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 ReferMeNow,LLC 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
ReferMeNow,LLC 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
ReferMeNow,LLC divulge any information about an individual user to a
third party.
ReferMeNow,LLC Gathers User Information
In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
From time to time we offer the following
free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of
personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters policy
(Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic
newsletter to users. ReferMeNow,LLC 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.
ReferMeNow,LLC 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
ReferMeNow,LLC 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
ReferMeNow,LLC tracks user traffic
patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this
information with data about individual users. ReferMeNow,LLC 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).
ReferMeNow,LLC 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.
ReferMeNow,LLC 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
USE OF INFORMATION
ReferMeNow,LLC 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. ReferMeNow,LLC 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.
ReferMeNow,LLC 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
ReferMeNow,LLC 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
ReferMeNow,LLC 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 ReferMeNow,LLC. 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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