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Privacy Policy - (updated April 2009) We respect your privacy! Any and all information
collected at this site will be kept strictly confidential and will
not be sold, reused, rented, loaned, or otherwise disclosed. Any information
you give to Officially Plugged In will be held with the utmost care,
and will not be used in ways that you have not consented to. A more
detailed explanation about how we safeguard your personal information
is described below. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate
to let us know. Information
Automatically Logged
Information used, IP address, ISP, Browser Type, and Date to gather broad demographic information like most websites on the internet. We use this information to see where are visitors originate from. It is only used for statistics information. Advertisers We use outside ad companies to display ads on our site to help support the costs of running the website. These ads may contain cookies from the advertising companies. Cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad companies. These ad companies may use cookies and/or web beacons when they advertise on our site, which sends the advertisers (like Google from the Google Adsense program) information including your IP address, ISP, and browser type you use when visiting our website. In some cases it may check to see if you have flash installed to be able to display flash ads. This information is collected by the advertising companies to generally check for geotargeting purposes. For example, if you live in Los Angeles, restaurant ads in your area may show up. Or if you are used to visiting a jewelry site, shops that carry jewelry may show up in the ads. DoubleClick DART cookies DART cookies may also be used for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick. This will place a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). Information gained from your browsing habits and interested may cause ads to be served that are targeted to your interests by this cookie. (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Angeles, you may see Las Angeles hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about soccer). 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 Registration Forms Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name, email, and postal address). Contact information from the registration
form is used to get in touch with the person when necessary. Other
contact information for updates are used only to add persons to
the update emailing lists or for contacting contest winners of the
update list. Contact information sent with tips/ideas is used for
giving credit for the tips/crafts ideas that are sent in.
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