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Privacy PolicyCOMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Weeding and Bird Feeding, 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 Weeding and Bird Feeding gathers and keeps track of. Weeding and Bird Feeding 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 Weeding and Bird Feeding 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 Weeding and Bird Feeding derives its revenue mainly from affiliate sponsorships, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances does Weeding and Bird Feeding divulge any information about an individual user to a third party. Weeding and Bird Feeding 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. Weeding and Bird Feeding 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 proposed 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 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. Weeding and Bird Feeding 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. Weeding and Bird Feeding 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 Weeding and Bird Feeding tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Weeding and Bird Feeding 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). Weeding and Bird Feeding 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.
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