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This is the privacy policy of
Carkipedia.com.
Carkipedia.com strongly believes in a consumer's right to privacy.
Carkipedia.com does not engage in the collection, distribution, sale or use
of personally identifiable information about web users, such as name, phone
number and street address. Carkipedia.com does not conduct individual web
user "profiling".
Usage tracking
For the web user to Carkipedia.com's website, our web server automatically
collects information on your domain type, browser used and your IP address for
statistical purposes only, which will be used to improve the content of our web
page and not sold to other organizations for any purpose. And since we gather
certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully
understand our policy and the terms and conditions on the capture and use of
those information.
Cookies
With respect to cookies, we do 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 the information you supply
yourself. Carkipedia.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns and
our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions
and click rates. Besides, third parties ad server companies may also be placing
and reading cookies in your browser, or using web beacons to collect
information, in the course of ads being served on Carkipedia.com. 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.
Third Party Advertisements
We also use third party advertisements on Carkipedia.com to 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
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 or showing certain ads based on specific sites
visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking and
recipes sites).
DoubleClick DART Cookies
Carkipedia.com may also 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 using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google Adsense
advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your
interests which is also known as "interest based targeting". The ads served will
be targeted based on your previous browsing history (for example, if you have
been viewing sites about food, you may see advertisements related to recipes,
food, and cooking utensils when viewing a non-related site, such as a site about
travel). 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 always 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 website running the advertisements, a new cookie will automatically be added
again.
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), the browser you used to visit our site,
your screen resolutions and number of colors, the time you visited our site and
which pages you have visited throughout our site.
Children
To be 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.
Electronic Newsletters Policy
We may offer a free electronic newsletters to users who subscribe voluntarily by
providing their name and email addresses. Subscribers may remove themselves from
the mailing list by following an unsubscribe link provided in every newsletters.
All email addresses submitted to Carkipedia.com in regard to our
newsletters or for any other reason will be kept strictly confidential and
private. You can be assured our mailing list will NEVER be shared or sold as a
whole or in part.
Website Advertisements
With respect to Ad Servers, in order to bring you offers that are of interest to
you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on
our web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may
collect information such as your domain type, your IP address, clickstream
information, and other details. These third parties may also be placing and
reading cookies in your browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in
the course of ads being served. For further information, please consult the
privacy policies of the individual advertisers.
Any Changes in the Privacy Policy
In the event if Carkipedia.com's policy on information practices change at
some time in the future, we will use only the data collected from the time of
our policy change forward.
External Links
With regards to outside links, this website contains links to other websites.
Please be aware that Carkipedia.com is not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they
leave our website, and to read the privacy statements of each and every website
that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by this website.
Use of Information
Carkipedia.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 information that users voluntarily provide in order to
send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in poll,
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. Carkipedia.com never shares newsletter mailing
lists with any third party, 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 to continue to build a better service to you. We track search terms
entered in Search function as one of the many measures of what interests our
users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
Carkipedia.com creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic
patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allow 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 sponsors 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
Carkipedia.com 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.
Opt-Out Policy
We give users options whenever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters and 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 agree and consent to the collection and use of this
information by Carkipedia.com. 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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