2. "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
3. Surveys
Zero Products,
Inc. 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
Zero Products,
Inc. tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However,
we do not correlate this information with data about individual users.
Zero Products, Inc. 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).
Zero Products,
Inc. 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.
Zero Products, Inc. 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
Zero Products,
Inc. 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. Zero Products,
Inc. 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.
Zero Products,
Inc. 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
Zero Products,
Inc. 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
Zero Products,
Inc. 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
- 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 Zero Products, Inc. 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.