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This site is owned and operated by Peacock Creative Services, LLC
(PCS). Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to
us. At PCS, 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 PEACOCK CREATIVE SERVICES, LLC GATHERS AND
TRACKS
PCS 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 PCS 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 us better understand the demographics of our
audience and does not contain an personally identifiable
information. Under no circumstances does PCS divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
Peacock Creative Services, LLC 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. PCS 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.
- Blogs, boards and forums policy
Users of the site's Blog, 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.
- "E-mail this to a friend" policy
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.
- 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. PCS 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.
- Surveys
PCS 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
PCS tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. PCS 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).
PCS may track 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
PCS does not presently but may in the future 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. PCS may use 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 relevent.
USE OF INFORMATION
PCS 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. PCS 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.
PCS 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
PCS 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
PCS 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 PCS. 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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