| PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT
TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Ehren Mertz (www.ictwolves.com).
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.
At www.ictwolves.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 www.ictwolves.com
GATHERS AND TRACKS
www.ictwolves.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, and from participation in polls and surveys:
* Information www.ictwolves.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 www.ictwolves.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 www.ictwolves.com
divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
www.ictwolves.com
Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users.
www.ictwolves.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. 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. www.ictwolves.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.
4. Surveys
www.ictwolves.com
may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content
to our audience.
Usage tracking
www.ictwolves.com
tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However,
we do not correlate this information with data about individual
users. www.ictwolves.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).
www.ictwolves.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.
USE OF INFORMATION
www.ictwolves.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. www.ictwolves.com
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.
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 www.ictwolves.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.
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