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Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions about using our site.
1. What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and non-personal information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration Information.
You will provide us information about yourself when you register to be a member of VoteGopher, including your email address. Once provided, we retain the right to use your registration data for communication and other purposes, even if you no longer use our site. Please note that your display name and state will be viewable to all site visitors.
Email Information.
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.
Non-Personal Information
When you use our website, we may also collect "non-personal information." We consider "non-personal information" to be information that, by itself, cannot be used to identify or contact you personally. Examples of this information are demographic information such as your age, gender, income, education, profession, zip code, college class and college etc. Non-personal information may also include technical information, such as your IP address, the type of browser you are using, the websites you visit immediately before and immediately after you visit our website, and other anonymous data involving your use of our website. Non-personal information may also include information that you provide us through your use of our website, such as the terms you enter into the search functions of our website. We reserve the right to use or disclose non-personal information in any way we see fit. We may use this data to improve our site and/or personalize your experience at our site, in order to bring you more targeted and relevant content and to display such content according to your preferences. This information might also be disclosed to advertisers interested on advertising on the VoteGopher site.
This information will only be shared in an aggregate, anonymous manner, which means that the information will not contain any personally identifiable information about you or any other person.
2. Cookies
VoteGopher is pleased to provide its users the opportunity to post quotes, news articles, videos, blog links, discussion board items, issue summary contributions, and a variety of other avenues for interaction with the site and other VoteGopher users in addition to that content already submitted by our staff of writers. However, in order to maintain the high level of quality and nonpartisanship expected of VoteGopher by its users, VoteGopher reserves the exclusive right to edit or deny any and all user submissions to any part of our site. We will hold user content submissions to the same high standards we apply to content submissions by VoteGopher writers.
We use "cookies" to enhance your visits to our website. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not store personal information about you, unless you knowingly provide it. Cookies can store non-personal information, such as what websites, pages, or advertisements your browser has accessed. We use cookies to store information and personalize your experience with our website. For example, cookies allow our website to monitor the length of your visits and recognize your browser as a previous visitor, and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while you were previously browsing our website.
You do have control over cookies. Most browsers can be set to notify you when a cookie is being placed on your computer. Most browsers can also be set to refuse to accept cookies, although this may affect your Internet experience. You can also erase cookies that are already on your computer. For more information about working with cookies, you should consult your user manual, FAQ, or "help" function of your specific browser and operating system software.
We, our advertisers, and ad serving companies may also use small technology or pieces of code to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them.
3. EMAIL NEWSLETTER CHOICE/OPT-OUT
In the future, we may decide to begin a VoteGopher email newsletter, and we will use the email address you provided to us at registration to send you this newsletter. This newsletter may be prepared directly by us or may be prepared by a third-party and sent to our registered users. If we ever send you information by e-mail that you did not expressly request, we will provide you with the option to change your emailing preferences; you will be able to request that we not email you in the future by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email.
4. INFORMATION DISCLOSED TO THIRD PARTIES & THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING SOURCES
Except as specifically set forth in this Policy, we do not share your personal information with any non-affiliated third party without your permission. We may disclose aggregate information, such as demographic information, and our statistical analyses to third parties, including advertisers or other business partners. This aggregate information does not include your personal information.
We may use third-party advertising companies to deliver specific advertisements to you, which appear on pages throughout our website and/or in our email correspondence. These companies collect non-personal information about your visits to our website and other websites in order to provide advertisements about products and services that may be of interest to you. Information about your visit to their site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you. If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting and using this information, you may visit each third party advertiser's website directly and opt-out.
5. LEGAL DISCLOSURES
We may disclose personal information when we are required or requested to do so by law, court order or other government or law enforcement authority or regulatory agency; to enforce or apply our rights and agreements; or when we believe in good faith that disclosing this information is necessary or advisable, including, for example, to protect the rights, property, or safety of VoteGopher, Will Ruben Media, LLC, our users, or others.
6. LINKS
Our website may contain links to other websites, including those not intended for minors. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of the linked sites or of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors and other websites to which we provide links from our website. Please consult those sites' individual privacy policies in order to determine how they treat user information.
7. SECURITY
All information described above is stored on restricted database servers. As we deem appropriate, we use security measures consistent with industry standards, such as firewalls and encryption technology, to protect your information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
8. QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS
Please address all questions or concerns via email to the "contact us" email address, initially contactus@votegopher.com.
9. MODIFICATIONS TO THE POLICY
This Policy is effective as of October 12, 2007. We reserve the right to change this Policy at any time, and will post any changes to this Policy as soon as they go into effect. Please refer back to this Policy on a regular basis.
Please note that continued visits to VoteGopher.com will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Privacy Policy
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