WinInsider is committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information that you provide to us. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information received about you.

At no time will any of your personal information be sold, shared, destributed or published to any 3rd party or to anyone.

Types and uses of personal information.
Your personal information is used in the following ways:

• User IDs and Passwords. Provides you with access to your profile areas and to protected content.
• Account Information. These tell us more about who you are, how to contact you. Also contains any preferences you have provided.
• Email Correspondence. Used to raise and respond to issues and inquiries of all types.

Linked web sites.
We provide links to third party sites. Since we do not control these Web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) third party sites. 

What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a tiny piece of text asking permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. If you agree, then your browser adds the text in a small file.

Cookie, by itself, only tells us that a previous softwareclass.com visitor has returned. It doesn't tell us your e-mail address or who you are. If you want to give us that information later via registration, that's your choice. Cookies help us provide a better user experience. WinInsider Web Site can only read cookies from WinInsider Web Site. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you can still access most of our Web sites. Some Web sites will not allow you to complete certain activities if cookies are disabled.

Why Do I Need to Know This?
Because we want you to know why we ask you to accept a cookie. We want to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you.

Registration - Accessing and updating information.
We need your help in making sure your personal information is correct in our systems. Please notify us of changes to email address.

To take advantage of all features on this web site, you must complete the registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the Registration Form. You then will choose a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account.

Why do you need a password?
Your password ensures that any personal information you've given us remains private. No one else knows your password so we can use it to confirm your identity and take care of your requests.

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Window Planet is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. This policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.

Opt-Out

If you do not wish for Window Planet to use cookies to keep your information available for our services. All that you have to do is not log in because cookies are only stored if you log in to use such things as our forum.

Information Collection and Use

Window Planet is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

Ad Serving Policies

Window Planet works with a third party that serves ads to this site. To find out more about how Engage Media manages the privacy of information in conjunction with serving ads on this site, please go to http://www.fastclick.com/about/privacy.html.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. Our third-party advertising company also separately places or recognizes a cookie file on your browser in the course of delivering advertisements to this Site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here.

What personally identifiable information does Window Planet collect from me?

Window Planet collects very little personally identifiable information from its users. The only personally identifiable information Window Planet collects is your email address. Once you register, you are no longer anonymous to Window Planet. You choose a Window Planet ID (user name) and are able to take full advantage of Window Planet's many offerings.

What are cookies and how does Window Planet use them?

As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, Window Planet uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. The cookie stores your selected user name and password to save the user time, for the user will not have to log on every time they wish to access a members only function. The cookie also tracks your downloads. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. All sites on Window Planet where you are prompted to log-in or that are customizable require that you accept cookies.

Our advertising company Fast Click, collect non-personally identifiable information about you, such as the server your computer is logged onto, your browser type (for example, Netscape or Internet Explorer), and whether you responded to the ad delivered. The non-personally identifiable information collected by Advertising, Engage, and DoubleClick is used for the purpose of targeting ads and measuring ad effectiveness on behalf of Advertising, Engage, and DoubleClick's advertisers and Web publishers who specifically request it.

Links

Window Planet contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we [Window Planet] are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Correction/Updating Personal Information

If a user's personally identifiable information changes (your email address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can be done at the User Preferences page or by emailing our Webmaster.

Comments

Window Planet makes use of message boards (known as Comments), available free to users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Communication

Registered users should not expect any unsolicited or promotional email from Window Planet.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Children

Children between the ages of 13 - 18 are allowed to post Comments to Window Planet without our knowledge of parental consent. If you do not wish your child to post Comments, please take proper precautions. One should also consider the implications before disclosing any personal information in a Comment.

To conform with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, if you are younger than 13 years, you are prohibited from becoming a member of Window Planet without consent. Your parent or guardian may email us at underage@windowplanet.net to verify that you have been granted permission to use this site.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

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NT Compatible values your privacy. To keep you informed, we have created this privacy statement that discloses our purposes and methods for online collection and use of information. This statement applies to all information collected through the NT Compatible website and information gathered from any web pages that we host.

Types of Information Collected

Generally, personal information is not collected from visitors to the NT Compatible website. However, in order to access certain special services, personal information is requested; those cases are described in more detail below.

Bulletin Board Registration

NT Compatible requires a valid e-mail address for users who want to participate in the NT Compatible forums. This allows us to protect our community from abusive postings and provides a verifiable point of contact should legal questions arise. At any time, you have the ability to keep your e-mail address hidden from other users by selecting that option within your user profile.

Also in the forum registration, you have the option of providing some additional information such as occupation, interests, and homepage URL. This information is made available to other bulletin board users to foster a sense of community. If you have any concerns about providing this information, simply leave the fields blank and your registration will still be processed.

IF YOU ARE 12 YEARS OF AGE OR YOUNGER and would like to participate in the NT Compatible forums, you will need to print the Parental Consent form and have your parent or legal guardian fax it to NT Compatible at 1-435-404-2315 prior to posting on the NT Compatible forums.

Cookies

Certain activities on the NT Compatible website involve the use of "cookies" to facilitate your experience. This includes retention of your username and password for the NT Compatible forums and showing a default Topic View when you visit the forums. You have the option to turn these cookies off at any time by updating your user profile preferences. If your browser doesn't support cookies, or if you have cookies turned off, these preferences will not be set.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Disclosure of Personal Information

NT Compatible does not disclose your personally identifying information to any third parties for any purpose without your prior consent.

It's also important to be aware that when you voluntarily provide personal information (e.g., last name, address, phone number) in a posting on the bulletin board, that information is publicly available and may be used by someone in a manner unintended by you. For that reason, we discourage the offering of any personally identifying information within the message board itself.

Privacy for Children Aged 12 and Under

Although the NT Compatible website are targeted at a general adult audience, we welcome the participation of younger users with their parents' consent. We strongly recommend that users 12 and under refrain from offering any personal information either in their user profile or in the message boards themselves, and we encourage parents to stay involved in the online life of their children. A copy of our parental permission form can be found here. Prior to a child's registration on the bulletin board, this form must be signed by the child's parent or legal guardian and faxed to NT Compatible at 1-435-404-2315

NT Compatible is prohibited from conditioning a child's participation in an activity on the child's disclosing more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in such activity.

Parents can review and request deletion of their child's personal information, and can refuse to permit further collection or use of their child's information. In order to request such a review, to revoke previously offered parental consent, or to express any concerns regarding a child's privacy on our website, please fax a signed written request to NT Compatible at 1-435-404-2315

Changing or Updating Personal Information

If you would like to update or change your user profile on the NT Compatible message board, just click here.

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