Sphearhead Group, Inc. 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 Sphearhead Group, Inc. Web
site. The Sphearhead Group, Inc. Web site is owned and operated by
Sphearhead Group, Inc.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please
feel free to contact us by e-mail at privacy@sphearhead.com.
Gathering of Information
Voluntary Submission
Sphearhead Group, Inc. does not collect personally identifying
information about any individual Sphearhead Group, Inc. 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 Sphearhead
Group, Inc. Web site, but you may be unable to access certain
options and services.
Browser Level Information
Sphearhead Group, Inc. 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.
Sphearhead Group, Inc. 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 Sphearhead Group, Inc. and are asked for
personal information, you are sharing that information with
Sphearhead Group, Inc. as well as business partners and vendors
providing hosting and other services. 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 Sphearhead Group, Inc. 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 Sphearhead Group, Inc. are not
covered by this privacy statement. Sphearhead Group, Inc. 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@sphearhead.com.
DEFINITIONS:
Browser type: A user’s 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.
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 Sphearhead Group, Inc. resolves IP addresses to
domain names.
Referrer: The referrer is the URL of the Internet resource or page
that causes a browser to request a page or image from Sphearhead
Group, Inc. servers.
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