Privacy Policy
This site is owned and operated by
Swapasite.com. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.
At Swapasite.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 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.
Definition of the Information
Swapasite.com gathers and keeps track of.
Swapasite.com gathers two types of
information about users:
• Information that users provide through
optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive more
information on our services, special promotions
or to receive our newsletter.
• Information Swapasite.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 Swapasite.com derives its revenue mainly
from its services, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to
keeping our services tailored to our users. Under no circumstances does
Swapasite.com divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
Swapasite.com Gathers User Information
In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary
Information
We may offer the following free
services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal
information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters
(Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic
newsletter to users. Swapasite.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.
2. "E-mail this to a friend"
Service
Our site users can choose to
electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking
"e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as
that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission
errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The
information is not used for any other purpose.
3. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users
so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our
audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are
aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. Swapasite.com may
use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on
a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about
individual users.
4. Surveys
Swapasite.com may occasionally conduct
user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We never share any of
this information about specific individuals with any third party.
USAGE TRACKING
Swapasite.com tracks user traffic
patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this
information with data about individual users. Swapasite.com does break down
overall usage statistics according to a users domain name, browser type, and
MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information
contained in every users browser).
Swapasite.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 do not 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 nott read data off your hard disk or read cookie files
created by other sites. Swapasite.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 have 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.
USE OF INFORMATION
Swapasite.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 and surveys. We send out newsletters to
subscribers on a regular schedule, and occasionally send out special editions
when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are
doing. Swapasite.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 do not 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 do not track which terms a particular user
enters.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Swapasite.com uses the above-described
information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers
better understand our site 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
Swapasite.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:
Opting not to register to receive our
electronic newsletters.
Opting not to participate in certain
interactive areas, which completely alleviates 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 Swapasite.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.