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OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by POWERSHIP® Inc.. Your privacy on the
Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At POWERSHIP® 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 POWERSHIP®
INC.
GATHERS AND TRACKS
POWERSHIP®
INC.
gathers one type 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:
Under no circumstances does
POWERSHIP®
INC. divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
POWERSHIP® 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:
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Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic
newsletter to users. POWERSHIP®
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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
POWERSHIP®
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.
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Surveys
POWERSHIP® 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.
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
POWERSHIP® Inc. tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual
users. POWERSHIP ®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).
POWERSHIP® 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
USE OF INFORMATION
POWERSHIP® 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.
POWERSHIP® 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.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
POWERSHIP® Inc. uses the above-described information to tailor our content
to suit your needs. 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
POWERSHIP® 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 POWERSHIP® 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.
Our Privacy Policy
POWERSHIP®
INC. Copyright Notice
All editorial content and graphics on this site are protected by U.S.
copyright and international treaties and may not be copied without the
express permission of POWERSHIP® INC., which reserves all rights. Re-use of
any of POWERSHIP Inc.'s editorial content and graphics online for any
purpose is strictly prohibited. The materials from POWERSHIP Inc.'s sites
are available for informational and noncommercial uses offline only,
provided the content and/or graphics are not modified in any way, all
copyright and other notices on any copy are retained, and permission is
granted by POWERSHIP® INC..
Permission to use POWERSHIP® INC. content is granted on a case-by-case
basis. POWERSHIP® INC. welcomes requests. Please direct your inquiries to:
Katherine Topel
POWERSHIP®, Inc.
1415 West 22nd Street
Tower Floor
Oak Brook, IL 60523
Phone: (630) 684-2262
Fax: (630) 434-0476
kathie@powershipinc.com
Quoting from POWERSHIP®
INC.
In quoting POWERSHIP® Inc.'s editorial content in promotional materials or
on product packaging, POWERSHIP®
INC. requires that you submit the quoted
material and that you sign an agreement with POWERSHIP®
INC. stating that
you will use it in context, attribute the quote accurately, and identify
POWERSHIP®
INC. as the source.
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