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PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO
YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated
by David R Bean. Your privacy
on the Internet is of the
utmost importance to us. At
DRB PRODUCTS, 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 DRB PRODUCTS
GATHERS AND TRACKS
DRB PRODUTS 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 DRB PRODUCTS
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 DRB
PRODUCTS 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 DRB PRODUCTS
divulge any information about
an individual user to a third
party.
DRB Products 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:
Privacy Policy
Sample
The following is a list of
different policies which can be
edited to remove the parts of
the policy that are not needed.
You should also add anything to
this policy template that you
may have on your
site.
1. Electronic newsletters
policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic
newsletter to users. DRB
PRODUCTS 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.
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
DRB PRODUCTS tracks user
traffic patterns throughout all
of our sites. However, we do
not correlate this information
with data about individual
users. DRB PRODUCTS 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).
DRB PRODUCTS 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. DRB PRODUCTS 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
How the information you gather
is used if relevent.
USE OF INFORMATION
DRB PRODUCTS 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. DRB
PRODUCTS 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.
DRB PRODUCTS 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
DRB PRODUCTS 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
DRB PRODUCTS 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 DRB
PRODUCTS. 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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