Privacy Policy
This site is owned and operated by Abletek. Your privacy on the Internet is of the
utmost importance to us. At Abletek, 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 our policy and 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.
INFORMATION ABLETEK GATHERS AND TRACKS
- 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 Abletek 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 Abletek 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
Abletek divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
Abletek Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
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
Abletek tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do
not correlate this information with data about individual users. Abletek 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).
Abletek 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. Abletek 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
Abletek 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.
Abletek 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.
Abletek 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
Abletek 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
Abletek 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.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by
Abletek. 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.
E-mail: info@abletek.com