Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by 2Zero.com
Enterprises, LLC. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost
importance to us. At 2Zero.com, 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 2ZERO.COM GATHERS AND
TRACKS
2Zero.com 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 2Zero.com gathers through aggregated
tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views
throughout our sites. Under no circumstances does 2Zero.com
divulge any information about an individual user to a third
party.
2Zero.com 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 policy (Dispatches)
We may occasionally offer a free electronic
newsletter to users. 2Zero.com 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 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. Surveys
2Zero.com may occasionally conduct user surveys
to better identify potential improvements to our services or
processes.
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
2Zero.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout
all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information
with data about individual users. 2Zero.com 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).
2Zero.com 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.
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. 2Zero.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns
(as described above).
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
2Zero.com uses any information voluntarily given
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 may 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 may send out newsletters to subscribers,
and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers
might be particularly interested in something we are doing. 2Zero.com
never shares 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.
2Zero.com creates aggregate reports on user
demographics and traffic patterns. We do not track the usage
patterns of individual users. 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.
SECURITY
2Zero.com operates 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.