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OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Smart
Women's Coaching. Your
privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to
us. At Smart Women's Coaching, 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 Smart
Women's Coaching gathers and
keeps track of.
Smart Women's Coaching gathers two types of information about
users:
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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.
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Information Smart Women's Coaching 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. Under no circumstances
does Smart Women's Coaching divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
Smart Women's Coaching 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.
Smart Women's Coaching 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. "E-mail this to a friend" Service
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a
link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking
"e-mail this to 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. Smart
Women's Coaching 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
Smart Women's Coaching 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
Smart Women's Coaching tracks user traffic patterns throughout
all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this
information with data about individual users. Smart
Women's Coaching 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).
Smart Women's Coaching sometimes tracks and catalogs the search
terms that users enter in our Search function, but this
tracking is never associated with individual users. 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.
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. Smart Women's Coaching 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
Smart Women's Coaching 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. Smart
Women's Coaching 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.
Smart Women's Coaching 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
Smart Women's Coaching 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
Smart Women's Coaching 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:
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Opting not to register to receive our electronic
newsletters.
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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 Smart Women's Coaching . 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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