PRIVACY POLICY - OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by ABRCard.com. Your privacy
on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At ABRCard.com,
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 ABRCard.com GATHERS AND TRACKS
ABRCard.com 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 ABRCard.com 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 ABRCard.com 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 ABRCard.com
divulge any information about an individual user to a third
party.
ABRCard.com 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:
Privacy Policy
1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. ABRCard.com
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.
ABRCard.com 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
ABRCard.com 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.
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
ABRCard.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data
about individual users. ABRCard.com 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).
ABRCard.com 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.
ABRCard.com 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
How the information we gather is used if relevent.
USE OF INFORMATION
ABRCard.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, 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. ABRCard.com never shares newsletter
mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers,
sponsors or partners.
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.
ABRCard.com 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
ABRCard.com 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
ABRCard.com 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 ABRCard.com. 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.