PRIVACY POLICY
The site you are visiting
(englishmaltesedictionary.com) and it's corresponding blog are
owned and operated by IV-Media.Your privacy on the Internet is of
the utmost importance to us. At IV-Media, 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 IV-MEDIA GATHERS AND TRACKS
* 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 gathered 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. Revenue
derives mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such
aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service
free to users. Under no circumstances any information about an
individual user will be divulged to a third party.
IV-Media Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
We may offer the following free services, which require some type
of voluntary submission of personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)We will offer a free
electronic newsletter to users. We gather 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 policy
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” 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.
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. The
voting system we use, uses 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
We 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
We will never request personally identifiable information from
anyone under the age of 18 without requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
We track user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. Statistics are broken down 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).
We track and catalogs the search terms that a user enters 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. Our main revenue derives from
advertising. Such advertising 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.
Third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browser,
or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of
their ads being served on this website.
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
We act upon information supplied to us voluntarily 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. We never share 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.
We create 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
We use 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
We operate 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 our sites, you consent to the collection and use of this
information. 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.
GOOGLE ADSENSE ON OUR WEBSITES/BLOGS
Our main revenue source is Adsense (part of Google). You may read
the full privacy policy provided for google here : http://www.google.com/privacy.html
for more info. on privacy of this website contact:
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