This privacy statement covers all of the Gadget Gizmoo Media Sites. Please read this statement carefully before accessing Gadget Gizmoo Media Sites. Your use of Gadget Gizmoo Media Sites indicates your agreement to abide by the Terms in effect.
Information Collection
Gadget Gizmoo Media is the sole owner of the information collected
on the Gadget Gizmoo Media Sites. Gadget Gizmoo Media may collect information
from its users at several different points on the Gadget Gizmoo Media Sites.
Comments
In order to enhance their use of the Gadget Gizmoo Media Sites, users
can choose to leave comments on particular articles of interest. To leave
a comment, users must submit information including a valid email address.
Gadget Gizmoo Media uses this information to screen out users who leave
comments prohibited by our terms and conditions of use, and will not pass
this information to any other organization.
Mailing List
Gadget Gizmoo Media may launch a mailing list for some or all of the
Gadget Gizmoo Media Sites. In order to sign up to receive regular emails
from a site’s mailing list, users must submit information including a valid
email address and demographic information such as location and interests.
This information will be used in aggregate form only in order to assess
general user interest in various internal and third party products and
services, and your personal and contact information will not be passed
to any other organization. Users who choose to sign up for a mailing list
will receive regular emails from the site, including new articles added
to the site as well as emails from third party site sponsors. If you do
not wish to receive emails from third party advertisers, do not sign up
for the mailing list.
Discussion Group and Cookies
In order to further enhance the user experience, Gadget Gizmoo Media
may launch a discussion board service on some or all of the Gadget Gizmoo
Media Sites where users can discuss common topics of interest. Users will
have the option of signing up for this service, and to do so must submit
information including avalid email address. Gadget Gizmoo Media uses this
information to screen out users who leave comments prohibited by our terms
and conditions of use and to pick out topics of interest todiscussion board
users. Gadget Gizmoo Media will not pass this information to any other
organization except in aggregate form.
The discussion board service may use cookies. A cookie is a piece of
data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user.
We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session
ID
cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates.
A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user’s hard drive
for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following
Internet browser help file directions.
By setting a cookie on a Gadget Gizmoo Media Site, users will not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on the site’sdiscussion board . We store a cookie on each user’s machine that contains a username and encrypted password. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use Gadget Gizmoo Media products or services that require you to “sign in,” and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings. However, not all Gadget Gizmoo Media services require that you accept cookies.
Third Party Cookies
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example,
advertisers). However, Gadget Gizmoo Media has no access to or control
over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies
for advertising. Thisprivacy statement covers the use of cookies by Gadget
Gizmoo Media only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Google,
among other services. Information about users’ visit to this site, such
as number of times they have viewed an ad (but not username, date of birth,
or any other personal information), is used to serve ads to users on this
site.
Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes
Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider
(ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number
of clicks
to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the
aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.
We may
use a tracking utility that uses log files to analyze user movement.
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, Gadget Gizmoo
Media may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein
we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with
a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on
any of the Gadget Gizmoo MediaSites.
Business Transitions
In the event Gadget Gizmoo Media goes through a business transition,
such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of a portion
of its assets, users’personal information will, in most instances, be part
of the assets transferred.
Links
The Gadget Gizmoo Media Sites contain links to other sites. Please
be aware that Gadget Gizmoo Media is not responsible for the privacy practices
of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave
our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site
that collects personally identifiable information. Thisprivacy statement
applies solely to information collected by Gadget Gizmoo Media.
Notification of Changes
Whenever Gadget Gizmoo Media changes its privacy policy, we will post
those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate
so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our terms and conditions,
please contact us.