PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by DashReviews.com
(“DashReviews” or “we”). Your privacy
on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At DashReviews,
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 DashReviews GATHERS AND TRACKS
DashReviews 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 DashReviews 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 DashReviews 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 DashReviews divulge any information about an individual user
to a third party.
DashReviews 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 policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users.
DashReviews 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.
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. DashReviews 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
DashReviews 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.
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
DashReviews tracks user traffic patterns throughout
all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information
with data about individual users. DashReviews 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).
DashReviews 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. DashReviews 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.
How the information you gather is used if relevent.
USE OF INFORMATION
DashReviews 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. DashReviews 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.
DashReviews 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
DashReviews 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
DashReviews 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 DashReviews. 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. |
