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PORTALUNIVERSE PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to PortalUniverse. Please read the Privacy Policy and our notices regarding
Copyright. By continuing to use our website, you agree to
abide by the terms of these documents.
PortalUniverse is committed to bringing you information tailored to your individual
needs and recognises the importance of protecting the privacy of personally identifiable
information collected about our users. In adopting this customer privacy policy, our intent
is to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using information and our
users' reasonable expectations of privacy.
By using this site, you signify your assent to PortalUniverse's Privacy Policy. If you do not
agree to this policy, please do not use our website. Your continued use of the PortalUniverse website
following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
What personally identifiable information does PortalUniverse collect from me?
PortalUniverse may collect information in several ways. Some personal information -- such
as a name and e-mail address -- is gathered when you register for various services, and more
detailed information is collected when we conduct demographic research.
When you are in a section of PortalUniverse and are asked for personal information, you are sharing
that information with PortalUniverse, its divisions and/or its third party service providers unless
it is specifically stated otherwise.
Promotions that run on PortalUniverse may be sponsored by companies other than PortalUniverse or may be
co-sponsored by PortalUniverse and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may
be shared with the sponsor.
Please be aware that PortalUniverse advertisers or websites that have links on our site may
collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices
of those websites are not covered by this privacy statement.
How does PortalUniverse use my information?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide our users
with a better online experience, including interactive communications
and other services. By knowing a little about you, PortalUniverse and its partners are
able to deliver more relevant content, and hence better service to you.
PortalUniverse may deliver targeted advertisements on behalf of advertisers. Advertisers give
us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to reach. We take the
advertisement and display it to users meeting those criteria. In this process, the
advertiser never has access to individual account information. Only PortalUniverse has access
to your information. This kind of advertisement targeting may be done with banner ads,
pop-up advertising, button ads as well as promotional e-mail.
PortalUniverse conducts research on our users' demographics, interests and behavior
based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion,
from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand and
serve our users. This research is compiled and analysed on an aggregated basis.
PortalUniverse may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners.
With whom does PortalUniverse share my information?
As a general rule, PortalUniverse will not disclose any of your personally identifiable
information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances,
such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the
circumstances described below:
Traffic : Web servers serving PortalUniverse automatically collect information
about which pages each user visits and the domain name of visitors. This
information is used for internal review, to tailor information to individual
visitors and for traffic audits. We also provide this information (as well as
information from third-party market researchers) about our users on an
aggregated, anonymous basis to our advertisers. Any personally identifiable
information provided by subscribers online as part of an online advertising
promotion, or in order to access a third party service, may be provided
directly to the advertiser or third party concerned.
Promotions : Promotions offer opportunities to request
additional information from sponsors. When you request more information
about a particular promotion, your e-mail address may be shared with the
sponsor of that promotion.
Third parties : Online services in association
with PortalUniverse have separate privacy and data collection practices.
PortalUniverse has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies.
For more information regarding their privacy policies,
return to that service's web site and click on the appropriate link.
Legal : PortalUniverse may also disclose user information in special
cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is
necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who
may be violating our policies or may be causing injury to or interference
with (either intentionally or unintentionally) PortalUniverse's rights or property,
other PortalUniverse users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
Statistics and advertisements : PortalUniverse may perform statistical
analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in the various areas
of our site (for product development purposes) and to inform advertisers as to
how many visitors have seen or "clicked" their advertising banners.
PortalUniverse also uses demographic information to allow advertising banners on our
Web site to be targeted, in aggregate, to the readers for whom they are most
pertinent. This means that readers see advertising that is most likely to
interest them, and advertisers send their messages to people who are most
likely to be receptive, improving both the viewer's experience and the
effectiveness of the ads. In this statistical analyses and banner
advertisement targeting, we will disclose information to third parties
only in aggregate form.
What are cookies and how does PortalUniverse use them?
Cookies are pieces of information a website transfers to a user's hard drive
for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make surfing the web easier for you by
saving your preferences while you're at our site. We never save passwords or
credit card information in cookies. The use of cookies is an industry standard --
you'll find them at most major websites.
In certain areas of the site, PortalUniverse places a "cookie" on the
browser of an PortalUniverse user's computer to store and sometimes track information
about you. A cookie can be used to tell when your computer has contacted a Web
site; we use the information for purposes such as measuring certain traffic
patterns, making sure that you don't see the same ad too many times in a
single session, serving personalised content and so on.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent.
However, note that some parts of PortalUniverse will not function properly
if you refuse cookies. You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers.
PortalUniverse does not control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies
sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.
Use of IP Address
PortalUniverse also logs IP addresses, or the location of your computer on the
Internet. An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned to your
computer whenever you're surfing the Web. PortalUniverse collects IP addresses
for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregate information to
our advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. When users request pages from
the PortalUniverse network, our servers log the users' IP addresses. We do not
normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means
that a user's session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us.
We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary
to enforce compliance with our policies or Terms of use Agreement, or to protect
our service, site, customers or others.
Links to Other Sites
Users should be aware that when you are on PortalUniverse, you could be directed
to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from
PortalUniverse pages that take you outside our service, e.g. clicking on a
banner advertisement. These other sites may send their own cookies to users,
collect data or solicit personal information. PortalUniverse does not control
the privacy policies of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other
sites to which we provide hyperlinks.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online
-- for example, via message boards or chat -- that information can be collected
and used by people you don't know. While PortalUniverse strives to protect
its users' personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security
of any information you disclose online and you disclose this information at your own risk.
Security
The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated
with our users is of utmost concern to us. We exercise great care in providing
secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers. Unfortunately,
no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, PortalUniverse
cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or
from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we
receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
E-mail
Using the e-mail addresses provided when you register for various services,
PortalUniverse may periodically send promotional e-mail to its users about
services offered by PortalUniverse and its advertisers.
Policies for Individuals Under 13 years of Age
PortalUniverse encourages parents, teachers and guardians to spend time
online with their children and to participate in the activities offered
on the sites. No information should be submitted to or posted at PortalUniverse
by guests under 13 years of age without the consent of their parent, teacher or guardian.
By continuing to use the PortalUniverse website, you agree to abide by the terms of this policy.
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