We are the sole owner of the information collected on any site in our network. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. We collect information from our users at several different points on our web sites as described below.

1) Information you explicitly provide:

In order to use some parts of our web sites, a user must first provide some contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide demographic information (such as income level and gender), and unique identifiers (such as social security number), but may be encouraged in some cases so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site.

A) We offer a free email newsletter to those who voluntarily provide:

- email address

B) We offer free web based email accounts to those who voluntarily provide:

- user name
- password
- email address
- first and last name
- full address
- email contents

C) We offer the ability for visitors to post/read comments in our forums to those who voluntarily provide:

- first and last name
- email address
- comments

D) We offer a feedback form to those who voluntarily provide:

- name
- email address
- feedback

E) We offer a help form to those who voluntarily provide:

- name
- email address
- account id
- ICQ or AOL IM address
- description of problem

F) We offer a survey form to those who voluntarily provide:

- name
- email address
- age
- gender
- various site ratings

G) We offer branding and advertising services to those who voluntarily provide:

- personal name
- company name
- email address
- web site address
- mailing address
- credit references
- HTML code
- financial info

H) Occasionally we may offer contests to those who voluntarily provide:

- name
- email address
- mailing address
- demographic info

I) We offer a "Tell a Friend" features through a third party to those who provide:

- your name
- your email
- zip code and country
- friends email
- optional message

2) Information we automatically collect:

We record IP addresses, browser types, browser versions, paged visited and site addresses that referred you to our site - all in individual and aggregate form. We may also send cookies to your computer.

1) Personal information you provide:

A) If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the email address you provided to send you our newsletter from time-to-time.

B) If you sign up for our free web based email accounts we will use the following information,

- user name
- password
- email address
- first and last name
- full address
- email contents

to enable your account's operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, aggregate statistics, and to contact you about news regarding our email service or one of our other site features. Your email contents are not monitored or edited and used soley for the purpose of the normal sending and receiving of mail.

C) If you leave comments in our forums, we will use the following information,

- first and last name
- email address
- comments

to publicly display your name, email address and your comments.

D) If you provide feedback using our feedback form we will use the following information,

- name
- email address
- feedback

to read your feedback and email you a reply.

E) If you request help using our help form, we will use the following information,

- name
- email address
- account id
- ICQ or AOL IM address
- description of problem

to troubleshoot the problem you are requesting help on and to reply to your request of help by email or an instant message address.

F) If you participate in our survey we will use the following information,

- name
- email address
- age
- gender
- various site ratings

in individual and in aggregate form to help us understand peoples opinions of our site and how we can improve it. If questions are asked in the survey we will use your provided email address and name to respond to your questions.

G) If you use our advertising services we will use the following information,

- personal name
- company name
- email address
- web site address
- mailing address
- credit references
- HTML code
- financial info

to enable us to provide the requested services, consider offering credit terms and for billing purposes. If we need to contact you regarding the requested service, for example if we have trouble processing your order, this information will be used to contact you.

H) If you participate in one of our contests, we will use the following information,

- name
- email address
- mailing address
- demographic info

in aggregate and individually to notify the winners and award prizes.

I) If you use our "Tell a Friend" feature to tell a friend about our site, the following information,

- your name
- your email
- zip code and country
- friends email
- optional message

will be used in the aggregate and individually, by Recommend-It for the purpose of sending a one time email to your friend. Recommend-It has its own terms of service which we invite you to read here.

2) Automatically collected information:

- We use IP address information in the aggregate and individually for administrative & security purposes. For example, to help diagnose problems with our server. Or to prevent visitors from violating our voting rules.

- We use browser types and version information in the aggregate and individually to help us design & improve our site. For example, if we noticed many visitors using certain brand browsers, we would be able to redesign parts of our site so that web pages are displayed properly for those browsers.

- We use pages visited in the aggregate and individually to determine what pages are the most popular among our visitors. This information helps us provide recommendations as to what pages our visitors may find valuable.

- We use sites addresses that referred you to our site in aggregate and individually to learn what sites have linked to us. This helps us determine where the majority of our traffic is coming from (search engines, directories, guides, partners, reviews, etc. ...).

- We may use a feature of your browser to set a "cookie" on your computer. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. In most cases, once you close your browser, the cookie simply terminates.

This allows us to measure and report aggregate information to advertisers such as the number of people who see their ad (reach) and the number of times people see their ad (frequency). It also allows us to avoid delivering the same ad too many times. If for some reason you would rather not take advantage of the benefits made possible with cookies, most browsers allow you to reject cookies or to choose which cookies to accept.