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COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Cathy Henry
Enterprises. Your privacy on the Internet is of the
utmost importance to us. At Cathy Henry Enterprises, 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.
Cathy Henry
Enterprises
gathers the following types of information about users:
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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:
Cathy Henry
Enterprises
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. Cathy Henry
Enterprises 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/blogs
Users of
the site's Message Boards, Blogs 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" Service
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. Cathy Henry
Enterprises 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
Cathy Henry
Enterprises
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
Cathy Henry Enterprises tracks user traffic patterns
throughout all of our sites. However, we do not
correlate this information with data about individual
users. Cathy Henry Enterprises 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).
Cathy Henry
Enterprises
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. Cathy Henry Enterprises 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
Cathy Henry
Enterprises
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 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. Cathy
Henry Enterprises 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.
Cathy Henry
Enterprises
creates 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
Cathy Henry Enterprises uses 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
Cathy Henry Enterprises 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.
OPT-OUT
POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and
practical. Such choices include:
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Opting not to register to receive our electronic
newsletters.
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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 this site, you consent to the collection and
use of this information by Cathy Henry Enterprises. 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.
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