Privacy
Policy
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by e Smart Brand.
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.
At e 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 e SMART BRAND GATHERS AND
TRACKS
e 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 e 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 e 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 e Smart Brand divulge any information about
an individual user to a third party.
e 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
e Smart Brand tracks user traffic
patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate
this information with data about individual users. e 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.
e 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
e 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
e 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
e 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
e 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,
e Smart Brand,
13220 SW Genesis Loop
Portland OR 97223
rpugh@esmartbrand.com |
