Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to all websites owned and operated by Advenet. At Advenet we take your privacy seriously. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices, including how we collect and use the information you may provide to us on the site, and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where we request personally identifiable information. This statement may be revised from time to time, so please revisit this page to remain fully informed of our commitment.

We ask you for some personal information in order to create an account (typically your name, email address and a password for your account) and we will use that information to provide the service. Please note:

• We do not rent, sell or share this personally identifying information to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent, are required by law, or have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Advenet and its users. Please note we do not control the content of your posts, so always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself in your posts.
• If you have an account, we may use your registration information submitted under your account among all of our services in order to provide you with a seamless experience and to improve the quality of our services.
• We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information with others. Examples of this include the number of users who clicked on a particular advertisement.

We use the information we gather for the following purposes:

• To enhance the user experience in our network of sites.
• To fulfill your requests for certain services, such as enabling you to participate in discussions.
• To inform you about important changes to your account.
• To send you new post notifications and other information you requested to receive.

Note that the personal information you have an option to provide in your profile including your bio, name, location, and occupation is public unless stated otherwise. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

In order to personalize and enhance your experience on our network of sites, we also may collect information through "cookies". Cookies are small strings of text that are sent by our site to your Web browser and then stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies and tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:

• Saving encrypted login information, so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our web sites
• Keeping count of return visits to our web sites

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should note that cookies are necessary to provide you with certain features such as posting to blogs or particpating in discussions.

Some of our websites give you access to usenet newsgroup discussions. The service eliminates the need for newsreading software and lets you post your comments to an existing newsgroup or search the newsgroup archive in the same way you would search HTML pages on the Internet.

Please note: You acknowledge that all discussion groups are public and not private communications, and that therefore others may read your communications without your knowledge. Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself in your posts. Any communication that you post to the service is considered to be non-confidential.

We do not recommend posting your email address in the discussion forum messages as it might be collected by the people who harvest the emails from websites, include them into mailing lists, and send unsolicited emails (SPAM).

Our Web sites are not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our sites in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and do not permit registration by, and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13 years of age.

Our sites offer hyperlinks to other Web sites which may have information policies and practices different from ours. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy policies, practices, or the content of any third party Web sites. Once you've left our Web sites via such a link or by clicking on an advertisement, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party or advertiser site to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our Web sites. These companies may use cookies, pixel tags, or otherwise independently collect information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) from you and use this information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We do not control their collection and use of information. This information can include: date/time of banner ad shown, the banner ad that was shown, their cookie, the IP address. Please note in the course of serving advertisements, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.

Questions regarding this privacy statement should be submitted via the feedback form.