SPRAY NINE
CORPORATION'S PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned
and operated by Spray Nine Corporation. Your privacy on the Internet
is of the utmost importance to us. At Spray Nine Corporation, 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
SPRAY NINE CORPORATION GATHERS AND TRACKS
Spray Nine
Corporation gathers two types of information about users:
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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.
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Information Spray Nine Corporation 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 us better
understand the demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances
does Spray Nine Corporation divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
Spray Nine
Corporation 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. Spray Nine Corporation 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. Spray Nine Corporation 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
Spray Nine
Corporation 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
Spray Nine
Corporation tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. Spray Nine Corporation 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).
Spray Nine
Corporation 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. Spray Nine Corporation uses cookies to track user traffic
patterns (as described above).
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.
USE OF
INFORMATION
Spray Nine
Corporation 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. Spray Nine
Corporation 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
Spray Nine
Corporation 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
Spray Nine
Corporation 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:
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Opting not to register to receive our
electronic newsletters.
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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
Spray Nine Corporation. 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.
If you have
submitted personally identifiable information through a Spray Nine
Corporation website, or if someone else has submitted your personally
identifiable information through a Spray Nine Corporation website, or
you are the parent or legal guardian of a person under the age of 13
who has submitted personally identifiable information, and you would
like to have that information corrected or deleted from our databases,
please contact us via our email by
clicking here , or send a letter addressed to: Spray Nine
Corporation, 251 N. Comrie Ave., Johnstown, NY 12095. You may also
contact us through either of the above methods to request the
personally identifiable information that Spray Nine Corporation has
collected about you through its website. Spray Nine Corporation will
use reasonable efforts to supply you with this information and correct
any factual inaccuracies in this information. |