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Privacy Policy
COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by iTeach You Learn. Your
privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.
At iTeach You Learn, 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 iTeach You Learn gathers and keeps track
of.
iTeach
You Learn gathers two types of information about users:
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:
Information
iTeach You Learn 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 iTeach
You Learn 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 iTeach You Learn divulge any information about an individual
user to a third party.
iTeach
You Learn 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. iTeach You Learn
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. iTeach You Learn 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
iTeach
You Learn 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.
USAGE
TRACKING
iTeach
You Learn tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. However, we do not correlate this information with
data about individual users. iTeach You Learn 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).
iTeach
You Learn 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. iTeach You Learn 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
iTeach
You Learn 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. iTeach You Learn 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.
iTeach
You Learn 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
iTeach
You Learn 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
iTeach
You Learn 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 iTeach You Learn. 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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