Effective
01/01/02
COMMITMENT TO
YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated
by eNonProfits . Your privacy on the Internet
is of the utmost importance to us. At
eNonProfits, 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.
INFORMATION eNonProfits
GATHERS AND TRACKS
eNonProfits gathers
two types of information about users:
1. 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, to email
a friend, and from participation in polls
and surveys:
2. Information eNonProfits 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 eNonProfits
derives a portion of it's revenues from
sponsorships and advertising, providing
such aggregated demographic data is essential
to keeping our service cost effective
to users.
Under no circumstances does eNonProfits
divulge any information about an individual
user to a third party.
eNonProfits 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:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter
to users. eNonProfits 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. Message boards/forums
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.
3. “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.
4. 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. eNonProfits 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.
5. Surveys
eNonProfits may occasionally conduct user
surveys to better target our content to
our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated
demographic information in these surveys
with our sponsors, advertisers and partners.
We never share any of this information
about specific individuals with any third
party.
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 eNonProfits tracks user
traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. However, we do not correlate this
information with data about individual
users. eNonProfits 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).
eNonProfits 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.
eNonProfits 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.
USE OF INFORMATION
eNonProfits 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.
eNonProfits 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.
eNonProfits 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
eNonProfits 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
eNonProfits 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 eNonProfits. 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.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other
questions or concerns about these privacy
policies, please call us at 203.667.8113
or send us an email at support@enonprofits.org
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