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| Newsgroups.com
Privacy Policy |
| This
Privacy Policy is designed to inform you how Newsgroups.com,
Inc. (“we”, “our” or “us”)
collects, uses and safeguards information you provide
in connection with your use of the Newsgroups.com
service, including without limitation this website
(the “Service”). Your use of the Service
constitutes your consent to the collection and
use of your information as described in this Privacy
Policy. If you do not accept the terms of this
Privacy Policy, do not use the Service.
Due to changes to the Service, changes in the
law, and the changing nature of technology, our
information gathering and sharing practices may
change from time to time, and we reserve the right
to modify this Privacy Policy, in whole or in part,
at any time without notice to you. We encourage
you to review this Privacy Policy regularly in
your use of the Service to ensure you are aware
of our current practices. Any use of the Service
by you following the date on which we implement
changes to this Privacy Policy shall constitute
your acceptance of all such changes.
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| What information do we collect? |
| Visitors
to this website have the option of becoming a subscriber
to the Service by completing and submitting
an online registration form. To complete a registration
form, you will be required to select a user name
and password, and to provide certain personally identifiable
information, including without limitation your name,
address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit
card number and other relevant information (all such
information, “User Information”). Submitting
a registration form is strictly voluntary but is
required in order for you to subscribe to the Service.
When you submit this information, you are sharing
this information with us and our affiliates. You
acknowledge that we may utilize, your billing information
may be collected on our behalf by, third parties
in connection with the processing of your account
fees.
We may give you the opportunity to participate
in sweepstakes or contests from time to time. Information
we collect in connection with these sweepstakes
and contests may include contact information and
survey questions. Contact information provided
in connection with a sweepstakes or contest may
be used to notify winners, and we may use survey
information to develop future promotions, service
improvements, and/or new services.
We maintain a log of posts to newsgroups
through the Service by each Service user. Also,
we may
from time to time maintain a log of certain information
concerning the network proarticle of Service users,
including without limitation users’ IP addresses
(a computer’s numerical Internet address)
and the type of web browsers used to access the
Service, in anonymous, “aggregate” form
(in other words, we do not associate this information
with a specific subscriber, and you remain anonymous).
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we
do not collect any personally identifiable information
through the Service without your knowledge and
consent.
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| How do we use information we collect? |
| We do not share your User Information with other
companies (except with companies providing any portion
of the Service on our behalf and then only as necessary
for those companies to provide their services). We
may use your information to answer a customer service
or billing question or other inquiry from you regarding
the Service or your account subscription, and for
its own internal business purposes. We may use logged
information (whether anonymous or linked to you)
for its own internal business purposes only, including
without limitation to help diagnose problems with
our servers and for system administration.
We may disclose your personally identifiable information
in any of the following circumstances: (1) in response
to a subpoena, search warrant, court order, or
other legal process, or as may otherwise be required
by applicable law or regulation; (2) to protect
and defend our rights or property or those of our
affiliates or others; or (3) as we, in its sole
discretion, believe is appropriate under exigent
circumstances in response to a perceived significant
threat to the personal safety or property of any
subscriber to the Service or any other person.
In addition, as our subscriber database is our
business asset, in the event we are reorganized
or is sold to or merged with another company, you
consent to the sale, assignment, or transfer of
your personally identifiable information to a purchaser
of all or substantially all of our business assets,
or to our subsidiary or affiliate, as appropriate.
Except as described above, we will not disclose,
sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally
identifiable information to any third party without
your consent.
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| How do we protect the security of the information
you provide? |
| We take what we believe to be reasonable precautions
and have implemented managerial and technical procedures
to try to protect the security of your User Information.
We strive to maintain the reliability, accuracy,
completeness and currency of User Information provided
by Service subscribers and to protect their privacy
and security. Although we cannot guarantee against
any loss, misuse, unauthorized disclosure, alteration
or destruction of data, we try to prevent such unfortunate
occurrences. |
| Do we use cookies? |
| “Cookies” are small pieces of information
that are stored by your web browser on your computer’s
hard drive. We use cookies only to log “inbound
links” to this website (e.g., through an online
advertisement, through a link in a search engine
result, through a link on a web page, etc.). We do
not use cookies to capture any personally identifying
information about you. |
| What’s
our relationship with other websites you can access
through the Service? |
| This
website, and newsgroup postings accessible through
the Service, may contain links to other Internet
websites, products, and/or services (“Third
Party Services”) which provide you with convenient
access to publicly available information that you
may find of interest. If you use a link to go from
the Service to a Third Party Service, this Privacy
Policy will no longer apply. Your use of a Third
Party Service will be subject to the rules and policies
of that Third Party Service, and you are encouraged
to read over those rules and policies. Your use of
Third Party Services is at your own risk. |
| What other information should you know about your
privacy? |
| The
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”)
prohibits certain commercial practices related to
gathering, storing, and disclosing personal information
about children under the age of 13 who use the Internet.
We will not knowingly or intentionally collect personal
information about children under the age of 13 without
prior parental consent. We cannot prohibit minors
from using the Service if they supply a valid username
and password issued to another person (e.g., a parent
or friend). We must rely on parents, guardians and
those responsible for supervision of children to
monitor the Internet activities of children under
the age of 13. Each time you submit personally identifiable
information about yourself or your family through
the Service, you are representing to us that your
are 18 years of age or older.
All
electronic communication services such as ours
are required to comply with the “mandatory
reporting” requirements of 42 U.S.C. § 13032(b),
which requires such services to report any apparent
child pornography to the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children. In the event
we are required
to make a report, it will include all information
regarding the apparent child pornography it believes
may be of importance. We will strictly comply
with this reporting requirement.
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| How can you contact us with questions on this privacy
policy? |
| If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy,
please e-mail us at privacy@newsgroups.com. |
Copyright © 2004
Newsgroups.com, Inc. All rights reserved.
Rev. 121504 |
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