At this site, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is
important. Here is information on what types of personal information we
receive
and collect when you use and visit this site, and how we safeguard your
information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log
files.
The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address,
your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser
you
used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you
visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when
you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your
visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements on this site to support our site. Some
of
these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they
advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google
through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address,
your
ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you
have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes
(showing
New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing
certain
ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone
who
frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s
DoubleClick,
which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit
a
site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense
advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your
interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be
targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have
been
viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel
advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about
hockey).
DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT
track personal information about you, such as your name, email address,
physical
address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or
credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using
this
advertising by visiting
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party
cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such
as
Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to
interact
with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to
login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any
advertising
program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you
visit
a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.