NOTE: For
legal purposes, this site is owned and operated by unitethecows.com. For the
purpose of this document, unitethecows.com will be referred to as
"UTC" herein, for simplicity.
COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
Your privacy on the Internet is of
the utmost importance to us. At UTC, we want to make your online experience as
satisfying and safe as possible.
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.
UTC gathers various types of
information about its users. One is information that users provide about
themselves through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary
submissions to receive our electronic newsletters (through email), to
participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from
participation in polls and surveys. UTC gathers information through aggregated
tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout the site.
This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs. A
user’s current IP (internet provider) address is viewable to site
Administrators ONLY and is used to maintain the integrity of the site. Under no
circumstances does UTC divulge any personal information about an individual
user to a third party to include their IP address without that users express
consent.
UTC 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 (email
dispatches):
We will offer a free electronic
newsletter to users. UTC 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. Polling:
We may offer interactive polls to
users so that they can easily share their opinions with other users and see
what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or responses to polls
are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user other than by
username. UTC 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.
4. Surveys:
UTC may occasionally conduct user
surveys to better target our content to our audience.
5. Usage tracking
UTC tracks user traffic patterns
throughout the site. However, we do not correlate this information with data
about individual users. UTC 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).
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.
COOKIES:
We may place a small text file
called a "cookie" in the browser (temporary internet files) 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. 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. A user does have the
opinion to Enable/Disable the use of cookies in the user "Edit
Options" preferences. The cookie can reduce the need for members to
re-enter their member ID and password during subsequent visits to the site,a
user can refuse cookies by turning them off in their 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.
USE OF INFORMATION:
UTC uses any information
voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience while visiting the
site, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the site 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, barring any technical difficulties. UTC never shares newsletter
mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or
partners.
We use tracking information to
determine which areas of our site 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.
SHARING OF INFORMATION:
We will not disclose or share any
information about any 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.
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 users.
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING GOOGLE ADVERTISING
Any advertisements served by Google, Inc., and affiliated companies may be controlled
using cookies. These cookies allow Google to display ads based on your visits
to this site and other sites that use Google advertising services. Learn how to
opt out of Google's cookie usage. As mentioned above, any tracking done by
Google through cookies and other mechanisms is subject to Google's own privacy
policies.
About Google advertising: What is the DoubleClick DART cookie? The DoubleClick
DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites
displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher’s
website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end
user’s browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help
AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across
the web. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network
privacy policy.
Other advertisers may use cookies similar to Google's DART. You can opt out of other
advertisers cookies by Clicking Here
Contact Information
Concerns or questions about this privacy policy can be answered by using our
Contact Page for further clarification.
YOU’RE CONSENT:
By using this site, you consent to
the collection and use of this information by UTC, as stated above, in the
Privacy Statement. 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 will disclose it.
DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY
This website is intended to
provide general information on a particular subject or subjects and is not an
exhaustive treatment of such subjects.
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SUCH BUGS, ERRORS, PROBLEMS OR LIMITATIONS IN ITS SOFTWARE OR THE CONTENT OF
THE WEBSITE.
If any of the foregoing is not
fully enforceable for any reason, the remainder shall nonetheless continue to
apply.
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Links to websites outside of the
unitethecows.com website are provided as a convenience only and are not part of
the unitethecows.com website. UTC exercises no control over the content of
these external websites. It is noted that no endorsement of any third party
products, services, information, material or content referred to or included
on, or linked from the unitethecows.com website is expressed or implied.
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INFORMATION:
Permission to use Website
information, including but not limited to, documents and graphics contained on
this Website is granted provided:
1. Use of the documents, graphics
and any portion thereof is for informational, and your own personal
non-commercial use only. This includes display and printing of content.
2. All logos and trademarks are
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author’s written consent is strictly prohibited.
3. UTC reserves the right to
revoke such use at any time, and such use shall be discontinued immediately
upon written notice from UTC.
4. Except as otherwise noted, the content,
text, and graphics located on or at the unitethecows.com website are ©
Copyright UTC 2001-2010.