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Privacy Policy for our Website
Your privacy is important to us. Your personal information should always remain
private, and we understand that. As an internet user, you should understand what
types of personal information we and other websites receive and collect when you
surf the internet, as well as how to keep your information safe. We will never
sell your information to a third party.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.
The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address,
your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you
used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you
visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when
you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your
visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements so support our site. Some of these
advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they
advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google
through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your
ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you
have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing
Virginia real estate ads to someone in Virginia, for example) or showing certain
ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who
frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google's DoubleClick, which
places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site
using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements).
This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests ('interest
based targeting'). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous
browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting St.
Croix, you may see St. Croix hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related
site, such as on a site about cooking). DART uses 'non-personally identifiable
information'. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your
name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security
numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad
serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party
cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as
Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact
with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to
login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising
program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit
a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
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