Privacy
Statement (Web Site Disclosures)
COMMITMENT TO YOUR
PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by JackHanks.com. Your
privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.
At JackHanks.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.
Definition of the Information JackHanks.com gathers and
keeps track of.
JackHanks.com 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 JackHanks.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 JackHanks.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
JackHanks.com divulge any information about an individual
user to a third party.
JackHanks.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.
JackHanks.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. JackHanks.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
JackHanks.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
JackHanks.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of
our sites. However, we do not correlate this information
with data about individual users. JackHanks.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).
JackHanks.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. JackHanks.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
JackHanks.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. JackHanks.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.
JackHanks.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
JackHanks.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
JackHanks.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:
· 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 JackHanks.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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