PRIVACY POLICY
COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by soronradio.com. Your privacy on
the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At soronradio.com,
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.
Definition of the Information soronradio.com gathers and keeps track
of.
soronradio.com gathers two types of information about users:
-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:
-Information soronradio.com gathers through aggregated tracking
information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our
sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to
readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better
understand the demographics of our audience. Because soronradio.com
derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising,
providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping
our service free to users. Under no circumstances does
soronradio.com divulge any information about an individual user to a
third party.
soronradio.com 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. soronradio.com
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
Users of the site's Message Boards 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. "Tell A Friend" Service
Our site users can choose to electronically recommend the website by
clicking "tell 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.
soronradio.com 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
soronradio.com 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
soronradio.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. soronradio.com 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).
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.
soronradio.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as
described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie
to better track ad impressions and click rates.
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
soronradio.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 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. soronradio.com 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.
soronradio.com 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
soronradio.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.
SECURITY
soronradio.com 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:
· Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
· 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 soronradio.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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