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PoliticalPosts.com Privacy
Statement
The Internet contains a wealth of information, unfortunately, it may also contain
personal details about you that you don't want everyone to know. For example,
your real name (lots of people on the Internet use aliases, alter egos or nicknames),
street address, phone number, or e-mail address. When you go online, sites you
visit may be gathering information about you without your knowledge. PoliticalPosts.com's
seeks to help our visitors protect their privacy while using our services.
PoliticalPosts.com's Privacy Policy
PoliticalPosts.com's policy is to respect and protect the privacy of our visitors.
This policy statement tells you how we collect information from you and how
we use it. Using the Internet should be a fun experience and we want to help
you make it so.
The information you provide for your personal PoliticalPosts.com account is
shared among the PoliticalPosts.com sites as it is our goal to make your visits
to our sites easy and enjoyable. However, be assured that PoliticalPosts.com
will not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent.
PoliticalPosts.com may 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 causing injury to or
interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) PoliticalPosts.com's
rights or property, other PoliticalPosts.com visitors, or anyone else that could
be harmed by such activities. PoliticalPosts.com may disclose user information
when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
PoliticalPosts.com shares aggregate information about our visitors with advertisers,
business partners, sponsors and other third parties. For example, we will say
PoliticalPosts.com's audience is x % females and y % males. This data is used
to customize PoliticalPosts.com content and advertising to deliver a better
experience for our visitors. You will not receive advertisements through the mail
as a result of signing up and becoming a PoliticalPosts.com member unless you
specifically request it.
There are cases where PoliticalPosts.com may ask you for personal information
such as your name, email address, and birth date. For example, we request personal
information when you register for a PoliticalPosts.com account, for online shopping
or transactions, or for services that require registration or subscription (for
example message boards and contests). PoliticalPosts.com needs to collect this
information for fulfilling prizes, tracking/verifying compliance with PoliticalPosts.com
policies as well as federal, state and local laws and/or for editorial and feedback
solicitation purposes.
In case you change your mind or some personal information may change (such
as your zip code), we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove
the personal data you give us. You can do this at the member information page
or by contacting our Visitor Support organization at support@PoliticalPosts.com.
Opting-Out
Information provided at the time of Registration or submission from a guest
who is 13 years of age or over may be used for marketing and promotional purposes
by PoliticalPosts.com and our affiliates or companies that have been prescreened
by PoliticalPosts.com. To keep you in control of your personal information and
the communications directed to you, we allow you to opt-out of the following
services: sharing your information in our member directory, receiving communications
from PoliticalPosts.com about new features or services, and receiving communications
about offers from third-party companies that offer a product or service that
we think would be of value to you. If a guest objects to such use for any reason,
he/she may stop that use -- either by e-mail request to support@PoliticalPosts.com
or by modifying his/her member information online.
Information provided when purchasing products from any of our online stores
may be used for marketing and promotional purposes and is subject to the opt-out
processes described on, or linked to, each order form.
Policies for Kids (Individuals 12 years and
Under)
PoliticalPosts.com encourages parents 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 PoliticalPosts.com by guests
under 13 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.
Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, PoliticalPosts.com does not provide
any personally identifying information, regardless of its source, to any third
party for any purpose whatsoever from our guests under 13 years of age. All
registrants receive an e-mail confirming their Registration. In addition, when
a guest under 13 registers, he/she is required to provide the e-mail address
of his/her parent or guardian and that parent or guardian receives an e-mail
alerting them to that Registration. The parent or guardian must validate the
account, as described in the e-mail, in order for the potential member to use
most PoliticalPosts.com interactive services. No information collected from
guests under 13 years of age is used for any marketing or promotional purposes
whatsoever, either inside or outside PoliticalPosts.com except as explicitly
stated during registration for contests or promotions (and in that case, the
information collected is used only for the specific contest or promotion).
Although guests under 13 years of age may be allowed to participate in some
contests and promotions, if such a guest wins, notification and prizes are sent
to the parents or guardians identified in the initial registration process.
Publication of contest winners names, ages, or images for individuals under
13 require parental or guardian consent. We do not allow guests under 13 years
of age to be listed in our member directory or to receive direct marketing communications
from PoliticalPosts.com or to be sent our third-party offers.
Policies for Teens (Individuals 13-17 Years
of Age)
Teens are required to provide the e-mail address of a parent or guardian and
a notification message is sent to the parent or guardian of all guests who are
13 to 17 years of age which identifies the information supplied at registration
and allows the parent or guardian to be aware of and participate in the guest's
online experience.
IP Addresses
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever
you're surfing the Web. Web servers -- the big computers that "serve up" Web
pages -- automatically identify your computer by its IP address.
PoliticalPosts.com 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 guests request pages from PoliticalPosts.com sites, our servers
log the guests' 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 house rules
or terms of service or to protect our service, site, visitors or others.
Some services within PoliticalPosts.com, such as message boards, display IP
addresses along with the message poster's user name and message. Please review
each service prior to use and only use those that disclose information you are
comfortable with sharing.
Cookies
What are cookies? Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers
to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make Web-surfing
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 Web sites.
By showing how and when guests use a site, cookies help us see which areas
are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are
based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information
is most easily tracked with cookies. We use the information from cookies to
provide services better tailored to our visitors needs.
PoliticalPosts.com uses cookies for two primary purposes. First, we use them
to specify unique preferences. For example, in PoliticalPosts.com's News Center,
visitors can specify keywords across several news categories. This way you don't
have to tell us over and over again about the kinds of news stories you want
to see. Secondly, we use cookies to track user trends and patterns. This helps
us better understand and improve areas of the PoliticalPosts.com service that
our visitors find valuable. While both of these activities depend on the use of
a "cookie," visitors to PoliticalPosts.com always have the option of disabling
cookies via their browser preferences. Information from cookies is sometimes
attached to messages sent to our Visitor Service department.
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 the PoliticalPosts.com service will not function properly
or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies,
you will not be able to set personalized news preferences or you may have difficulty
completing shopping transactions, entering contests, or playing games.
You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. PoliticalPosts.com does
not control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party
servers is standard in the Internet industry.
Links to Other Sites
Visitors should be aware that when you are on PoliticalPosts.com, you could
be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other
sites from PoliticalPosts.com pages that take you outside our service. For example,
if you "click" on a banner advertisement or an PoliticalPosts.com search result,
the "click" takes you off the PoliticalPosts.com site. This includes links from
advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use PoliticalPosts.com's logo as
part of a co-branding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies
to visitors, collect data or solicit personal information.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online
--- for example, via message boards --- that information can be collected and
used by people you don't know. While PoliticalPosts.com strives to protect its
user's personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of
any information you disclose online and you do so at your own risk.
PoliticalPosts.com's policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in
the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond PoliticalPosts.com's control,
and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental
regulation.
Security
The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated
with our guests 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, PoliticalPosts.com
can't 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. When credit card information is transmitted we use industry standard,
SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
Your PoliticalPosts.com Account is password protected so that only you can
access it and view the member information relevant to the account. We recommend
that you do not divulge your password to anyone. PoliticalPosts.com will never
ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or email. Ultimately,
you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account
information.
Remember to sign out of your PoliticalPosts.com account and close your browser
window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot
access your personal information and correspondence if your computer is accessible
to others or if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer
in a public place like a library or Internet café.
Your Acceptance of These Terms
By using this site, you signify your assent to the PoliticalPosts.com
Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our site.
Your continued use of the PoliticalPosts.com site following the posting of changes
to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
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