Privacy Statement
We take your privacy seriously. Because we gather certain types of
information about our users, we want to help you understand the terms
and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information.
This privacy statement discloses the types of information we gather, how
we use it, and how to correct or change it. These privacy practices
apply to the Web site that you were viewing when you clicked through to
this policy, which is operated directly by us, by our partner, or by our
affiliate.
1. What information does Alliance Network collect?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you
with the best and most useful content and services. Several of the
services that we offer on this site require you to provide us with
information as a condition of usage. These include access to
subscription-only areas, the ability to post opinions or other content,
subscriptions to email newsletters and participation in message boards.
We may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name,
email address, postal address, phone number and credit card information
when you provide it to us. From time to time, we may also collect other
sensitive information such as your job title, gender, username and
password.
Once you register with our site you are no longer anonymous to us.
2. What is Alliance Networks' practice regarding cookies?
Your Internet browser has a feature called cookies, which stores small
amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of our site.
You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit most of our sites,
although active participation in certain areas of our sites may require
cookies. Cookies alone tell us nothing about who you are unless you
specifically give us personally identifiable information, in which case
we use the information to enhance your services in the ways described
below. By adjusting your settings on your browser, you may elect not to
allow cookies to be collected.
We also automatically receive and record information from our servers
and from your browser, including your IP address, the time of your visit
to pages on our site, and information about pages you visited. Unless
you have registered for one of our products or services, the information
we gather through the use of tracking technologies cannot be matched
with any personally identifiable information about you.
We use cookies and tracking technologies in a variety of ways,
including:
Keeping count of return visits to our site or our advertisers' or
partners' sites;
Accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate (data collected in
mass), statistical information on Web-site and advertisement usage;
Determining which features our overall user population likes best;
We allow other companies that are presenting advertisements on this site
and, sometimes, in our newsletters to use tracking technology on your
computer. We do not give any personally identifiable information to them
as part of this relationship. Unless you visit the Web site of these
companies and provide them with personally identifiable information
about yourself, these tracking technologies tell those advertisers
nothing about who you are. Our advertisers use of tracking technology is
subject to their own privacy policies.
3. How does Alliance Network use the information?
We use the information we gather for four general purposes:
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To customize the advertising and the content you see;
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To enhance the user experience in this site. We use tracking
information to determine how well each page performs overall based on
aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to those pages. This
helps us continue to build a better service for you;
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To fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as
sending out electronic newsletters and enabling you to participate in
paid services, and message boards;
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To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will
be of interest to you.
4. How does Alliance Network share the information?
Personally identifiable information
We will make your personally identifiable information available to other
companies or people when:
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You have elected to allow us to share that information at the time that
you registered with us or provided us the information, or through a
subsequent affirmative election through our website.
When required by law, such as when we respond to subpoenas, court
orders, or legal process.
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When we believe that your actions violate applicable laws, Alliance Networks'
Terms of Use, or any usage guidelines for specific products or services,
or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users.
Aggregate information
We aggregate personally identifiable information, however we do not
disclose such information to advertisers and other third parties for
marketing, promotional, and other purposes. We do not disclose to these
entities any information that could be used to identify you personally.
5. What are my options?
We also give users the following options:
Users who opt in may remove themselves from mailing lists at any time
through the subscription-management pages or by following the
instructions at the end of the e-mail they received from us;
6. How will I know if the privacy policy is changed?
Any modifications to our privacy practices will be reflected first
within this area of the Web site. If there is a material change in
our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy
practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy statement.
If we are going to be using the information collected from users in a
manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection,
we will send affected users written notice of the change by e-mail.
7. Privacy of children
This site is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate
this site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act and do not permit registration by, and will not knowingly collect or
use personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13 years of
age.
Questions, Comments
Questions regarding this privacy statement or any other aspect of this of Web
site should be sent via e-mail below. We read every
message submitted and try to reply promptly to every one. We may also
file your comments to improve the site, or review and discard the
information.
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