| Discountfleece.com is committed to safeguarding
your privacy online. Please read the following statement to
understand how your personal information will be treated as you
make full use of the Discountfleece.com Web site. The Discountfleece.com
Web site is owned and operated by Discountfleece.com Inc.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement,
please feel free to contact us by e-mail at privacy@Discountfleece.com.
Gathering of Information
Voluntary Submission
Discountfleece.com does not collect personally identifying
information about any individual Discountfleece.com Web site user
except when knowingly provided by such individual. For example, we
may ask you for information when you register for a contest or
survey or to receive a newsletter. You always have the option not
to provide the information we request. If you choose not to
provide the information we request, you can still visit most of
the Discountfleece.com Web site, but you may be unable to access
certain options and services.
Cookies
A cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to your
computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file can
contain information, such as a user identification code, that the
site uses to track the pages you have visited. Discountfleece.com
uses cookies solely to track user traffic patterns throughout the Discountfleece.com
Web site. We use this data on an anonymous basis and we do not
correlate this information with personal data of any user.
Most Web site browsers automatically accept cookies, but you
can usually change your browser settings to display a warning
before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However, if
you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our Web site,
you may not be able to use certain features of the site.
Browser Level Information
Discountfleece.com Web servers automatically collect
information about a site user's IP address, browser type and
referrer by reading this information from the user's browser
(information provided by every user's browser). This information
is collected in a database and used--in an aggregated, anonymous
manner--in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our
Web site. This information is automatically logged by most Web
sites.
Use of Information
Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance
your experience on our Web site. We achieve this goal by, among
other things, providing interactive communications such as our
electronic newsletters to the e-mail address that you provide to
us, and developing future editorial content based on your
interests. To develop content targeted to your interests, we use
aggregated user information to determine which areas of our Web
site users prefer based upon traffic to those areas. We do not
track what individual users read, but instead how well each page
or content area performs overall.
Discountfleece.com may also disclose information about our
users when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is
required by law.
When you are on an area of Discountfleece.com and are asked for
personal information, you are sharing that information with Discountfleece.com
as well as business partners and vendors providing hosting and
other services for Discountfleece.com. If you do not want your
information to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer
of your information by not using that particular service. These
parties, as well as advertisers who contract directly with a
third-party service to serve their advertisements, may set their
own cookies.
In addition, any personally identifiable information provided
by our users as part of an advertiser promotion online may be
provided directly to advertisers.
Please be aware that Discountfleece.com sponsors, advertisers
or Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally
identifiable information about you. The information practices of
those parties and Web sites linked to Discountfleece.com are not
covered by this privacy statement. Discountfleece.com users should
also be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal
information in chat areas or bulletin boards, that information may
be collected by others and may result in unsolicited messages from
others.
Kids under 13: Do not send any information about yourself to
us--including information such as your name, address, or e-mail
address. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from children under 13. In the event that we learn we
have collected any personal information from a child under the age
of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete
that information from our database as quickly as possible.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement,
please feel free to contact us by e-mail at privacy@Discountfleece.com.
This statement may change from time to time, so please check
back periodically.
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DEFINITIONS:
IP address: Every
computer connected to the Internet has a numeric address called an
IP address." This may or may not correspond uniquely to a
particular computer. In some cases, IP addresses can be resolved
to domain names, which may indicate a site visitor's Internet
service provider, employer, university, etc. As part of its
database analysis Discountfleece.com resolves IP addresses to
domain names.
Browser type: A
users browser is a software program running on a computer that
allows users to access documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers
can be either text or graphic. They read HTML coded pages that
reside on a server and interpret the coding into what the user
sees as Web pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet
Explorer are examples of Web browsers. Browser type typically
discloses hardware platform, operating system, and browser
software and version.
Referrer: The
referrer is the URI of the Internet resource or page that causes a
browser to request a page or image from Discountfleece.com
servers. |