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COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
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
Dennis Lewin may at any
point gather 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 Dennis Lewin
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. Under no circumstances
does Dennis Lewin divulge
any information about an individual user to a
third party.
USAGE TRACKING
Dennis Lewin tracks user
traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information
with data about individual users. Dennis Lewin 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). Dennis Lewin 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.
Dennis Lewin 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
Dennis Lewin 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. Dennis Lewin
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.
Dennis Lewin 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
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
Dennis Lewin 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.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection
and use of this information by Dennis Lewin. If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post those changes 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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