PRIVACY
POLICY - OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Smart Brand. Your privacy on
the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Smart Brand,
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 SMART BRAND GATHERS AND TRACKS
Smart Brand 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 Smart Brand 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 Smart Brand derives its revenue mainly
from advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is
essential to keeping our website user friendly and applicable to
our markets. Under no circumstances does Smart Brand divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
Smart Brand Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
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
Smart Brand tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. Smart Brand 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).
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 .Smart Brand 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
Smart Brand 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.
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.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Smart Brand uses the above-described information to tailor our
content to suit your needs and help us better understand our audience's
demographics. 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
Smart Brand 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.
AGREEMENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this
information by Smart Brand. 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.
All inquiries regarding this privacy policy should be forwarded
to
Managing Director,
Smart Brand,
13220 SW Genesis Loop
Portland OR 97223
rpugh@smartbrand.org
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