DirectMailCash.com Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by
DirectMailCash.com. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost
importance to us. At DirectMailCash.com, we want to make your
experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information
about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and
the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that
information. This privacy statement discloses what information we
gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION DirectMailCash.com GATHERS AND
TRACKS
DirectMailCash.com gathers two types of
information about users:
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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, and
to email a friend.
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Information
DirectMailCash.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
DirectMailCash.com derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships
and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is
essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no
circumstances does DirectMailCash.com divulge any information
about an individual user to a third party.
DirectMailCash.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:
Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to
users. DirectMailCash.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.
Message boards/forums policy
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.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly
request personally identifiable information from anyone under the
age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
DirectMailCash.com tracks user traffic
patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate
this information with data about individual users.
DirectMailCash.com does break down overall usage statistics
according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by
reading this information from the browser string (information
contained in every user's browser).
DirectMailCash.com sometimes tracks and
catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function,
but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use
tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users
like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs
overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
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.
DirectMailCash.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.
Privacy Policy Use
How the information you gather is used if
relevant.
USE OF INFORMATION
DirectMailCash.com uses any information
voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our
network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized
elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on
the interests of our users.
As stated above, 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. DirectMailCash.com never
shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including
advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine
which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic
to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but
rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue
to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in
Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users.
But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
DirectMailCash.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
DirectMailCash.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
DirectMailCash.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:
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Opting not to register to receive
our electronic newsletters
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Opting
not to participate in certain interactive areas, which
completely alleviate 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 DirectMailCash.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.
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