COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Trophy Queen. Your privacy on
the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Trophy Queen,
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 Trophy Queen gathers and keeps track
of.
Trophy Queen gathers two types of information about users:
- 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
Trophy Queen 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
Trophy Queen 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 Trophy Queen divulge
any information about an individual user to a third party.
Trophy Queen Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We mayoffer 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. Trophy Queen 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. Trophy Queen 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
Trophy Queen 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
Trophy Queen tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual
users. Trophy Queen 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).
Trophy Queen 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. Trophy Queen 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
Trophy Queen 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. Trophy Queen 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.
Trophy Queen 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
Trophy Queen 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
Trophy Queen 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:
- Opting not to register to receive
our electronic newsletters.
- 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 Trophy Queen. 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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