Privacy Policy for ConnectTheDots101.com
Education on visitor privacy is important to us at ConnectTheDots101.com.
At ConnectTheDots101.com, we recognize that the privacy of your
personal information is important. This article will inform you about
the various types of personal information we receive and collect when
you use and visit ConnectTheDots101.com, and how we safeguard your
information. We never sell or otherwise your personal information to
third parties.
Use of Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained
in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet
protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or
Shaw Cable), the type of browser you used to visit our site (such as
Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox), the time at which
you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal
preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you
a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our
features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertising services to display
advertisements on ConnectTheDots101.com, such as Google through the
Google AdSense program. Some or all of those advertising services may
use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on
our site, which will send these advertisers information about your visit
including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our
site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is
generally used for geotargeting purposes. Geo-targeting is sometimes
used for the purposes of matching advertisements with visitors based on
certain attributes that visitor has. An example of this type of
geo-targeting would be showing Idaho movie theatre ads to someone
located in Idaho, or showing certain ads based on specific sites
visited, such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking
sites.
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s
DoubleClick service, which places a cookie on your computer when you are
browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising
(including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to
serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based
targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous
browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about
visiting Miami, you may see Miami hotel advertisements when viewing a
non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non
personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal
information about you, such as your name, email address, physical
address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers
or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites
using this advertising by visiting
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You may choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or
third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences
in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect
how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.
This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such
as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any
advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the
next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie
will be added.
If there are any questions, do not hestitate to Contact Us