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This site
is owned by Lanlogic, Inc. Your Privacy on the Internet
is of the utmost importance to us. At Lanlogic, Inc.,
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
LANLOGIC GATHERS AND TRACKS
Lanlogic 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
Lanlogic, Inc. 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 Lanlogic, Inc. better understand
the demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances does Lanlogic, Inc. divulge
any information about an individual user to a third
party.
Lanlogic,
Inc. 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. Lanlogic, Inc.
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
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" 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. Lanlogic, Inc. 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
Lanlogic,
Inc. 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.
Access to
customer data housed on Lanlogic servers
Lanlogic will under no circumstances access, view, or
review any customer's private data including mailbox
contents, attachments, web, FTP or hosted storage space
unless specifically asked to do so by the customer for
trouble shooting purposes. This includes all user data
including messages, calendars, notes, contacts, memos
and public folders. The only exception to this is the
automatic daily backup of servers which is done to facilitate
full system restoration in the event of a server failure.
Backup tapes will only be accessed to perform full system
restoration, and not for scanning individual content.
In the event that a mailbox must be accessed other than
at a customer's request, such as in the case of a mass
virus infection, Lanlogic will not do so without obtaining
the permission of the designated customer representative.
We will not disclose any information about any user
except to comply with applicable law, valid legal process
or to protect the personal safety of our users or the
public.
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
Lanlogic,
Inc. tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of
our sites. However, we do not correlate this information
with data about individual users. Lanlogic, Inc. 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).
Lanlogic,
Inc. 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. Lanlogic, Inc.
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
Lanlogic,
Inc. 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. Lanlogic, Inc. 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.
Lanlogic,
Inc. 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
Lanlogic,
Inc. 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
Lanlogic,
Inc. 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 Lanlogic, Inc. 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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