P2Pfreak.com Privacy Policy
INFORMATION THIS SITE GATHERS AND TRACKS
P2PFreak.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, to email a friend, and
from participation in polls and surveys:
- Information P2PFreak.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 P2PFreak.com derives its revenue
mainly from sponsorships, advertisement and / or donations, providing
such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service
free to users. Under no circumstances does P2PFreak.com divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
P2PFreak.com 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 (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. P2PFreak.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
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" 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.
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. P2PFreak.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.
5. Surveys
P2PFreak.com 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.
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. P2PFreak.com uses cookies to track
user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system
delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click
rates.
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
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. P2PFreak.com
never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including
advertisers, sponsors or partners.
P2PFreak.com creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic
patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our
advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to
receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we
don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or
sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will
not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply
with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal
safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
P2PFreak.com uses the above-described information to tailor our content
to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our
audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free.
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
P2PFreak.com 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 P2PFreak.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.
We collect the following information:
- Click-stream data
- HTTP protocol elements
- User's Name
- Computer information
At the user's option, we may also collect the following data:
- Birth Date
- Email Address
- Telephone
- Business Address
This data will be used for the following purposes:
- Completion and support of the current activity.
- Web site and system administration.
- Research and development.
The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
Data collected from all Web users: access logs, and search strings (if
entered).
At the user's option, we will collect the following data:
HTTP cookies
This data will be used for the following purposes:
- Research and development.
- One-time tailoring.
COOKIES
Cookies are used to track visitors to our site, so we can better
understand what portions of our site best serve you.
Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored
information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web
site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system.
You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie,
giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.
Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following
purposes:
- User targeting
- Research and development
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