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| ClientSide
News LLC Privacy Statement |
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ClientSide
News Privacy Statement Information
Because we gather information about the customers
of ClientSide News LLC and the CSN network of sites
(including but not limited to www.clientsidenews.com),
we feel you should fully understand the terms and
conditions surrounding the capture and use of that
information. |
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Information
CSN gathers and tracks
ClientSideNews.com gathers two types of information
about users: 1) Data that users provide through
optional, voluntary registration on several of our
sites, and 2) aggregated tracking information derived
mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites.
Such information enables us to better tailor our
content to readers' needs and help our advertisers
better understand the demographics of our audience.
Because ClientSide News LLC derives a portion of
its revenue from advertising, providing such aggregated
demographic data is essential in order to keep some
of our services free to users. |
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does however share the following information with
some of its customers: |
- Name
- Address
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Email address
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Telephone
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FAX
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Product and Services Purchased
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| Questions
regarding this statement should be directed to privacy@clientsidenews.com
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Electronic
Newsletters
CSN offers free electronic newsletters to users.
ClientSide News LLC gathers the e-mail addresses
of users who voluntarily subscribe. Customers may
remove themselves from any mailing list by following
the instructions contained in every newsletter.
They can also subscribe to the newsletters at the
time of registration. |
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Surveys
CSN occasionally conducts customer surveys to better
target our content and product inventory to our
audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic
information in these surveys with our advertisers
and partners. We never share any information about
specific individuals with any third party, except
as noted previously. |
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Contests
and ClientSide Excellence Awards
CSN offers contests and awards in which we request
certain personal information. Information gathered
is used only to verify user identity and to contact
winners and/or award recipients, except when specifically
noted otherwise. again, we may choose to share information
about specific individuals with any third party,
except as noted previously. |
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Usage
tracking
ClientSideNews.com tracks user traffic patterns
throughout ClientSideNews.com and this information
is correlated with data about individual users.
Overall usage statistics, according to a user's
domain name, browser type and MIME type obtained
by reading this information from the browser string
(information contained in every user's browser),
are also broken down.
ClientSideNews.com also tracks
and catalogs the search terms that customers enter
into our search tools, but this tracking is never
associated with individual users.
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Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites
write to your hard drive when you visit them. a
cookie file can contain information such as a user
ID that the site uses to track the pages you've
visited. 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. ClientSideNews.com
uses cookies to track the items you add to your
shopping card and to enforce security rules regarding
software that you download.
If you've
set your browser to warn you before accepting
cookies, you will receive the warning message
with each cookie.
You can refuse
cookies by turning them off in your browser. However,
you need to have cookies turned on to purchase
software through ClientSideNews.com.
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Use
of the information
ClientSideNews.com 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, ClientSide News LLC uses information
that users voluntarily provide in order to send
out electronic newsletters and enable users to
participate in polls and message boards. We send
out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule
(daily or weekly, depending on the newsletter)
and occasionally send out special editions when
we think subscribers might be particularly interested
in something we are doing.
We
use tracking information to determine which areas
of our sites users like and don't like based on
traffic to those areas. ClientSide News LLC 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.
We
may track search terms entered in our search function
as one of many measures of what interests our
users. But we don't track which terms a particular
user enters.
ClientSide
News LLC creates aggregate reports on user demographics
and traffic patterns for advertisers and partners.
This allows our advertisers to advertise more
effectively and allows our users to receive advertisements
that are pertinent to their needs.
CSN
uses the above-described information to tailor
our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers
better understand our audience demographics. We
do not share information about individual users
with any third party, with the exceptions noted
previously.
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Opt-Out
Policy
ClientSide News.com gives users options wherever
necessary and practical, such choices include: |
- Opting
not to receive our electronic newsletters when
registering for a site
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Opting not to provide certain personal information
when registering for a site or service
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Opting not to participate in certain interactive
areas, which completely alleviates the need
for any information from our users
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Unsubscribe
Policy
Users may unsubscribe to any of our electronic newsletters
at any time by following the instructions contained
at the end of each newsletter. |
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How
To Contact Us
If you ever need to contact us via email at privacy@clientsidenews.com |
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