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This
site is owned and operated by Xybertek
Systems. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost
importance to us. At Xybertek.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.
INFORMATION
Xybertek.com GATHERS AND TRACKS
Xybertek.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, to email a friend, and from
participation in polls and surveys:
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Information
Xybertek.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 Xybertek.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 Xybertek.com divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
Xybertek.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:
1.
Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We
will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Xybertek.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.
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. Xybertek.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.
5.
Surveys
Xybertek.com
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
Xybertek.com
tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. Xybertek.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).
Xybertek.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. Xybertek.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.
USE
OF INFORMATION
Xybertek.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. Xybertek.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.
Xybertek.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
Xybertek.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
Xybertek.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 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 Xybertek.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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