Poptimus
is a division of Vertical Web Ventures, Inc.
At
VerticalWebVentures.com we are committed to providing you
information tailored to your individual wants and needs.
We also recognize the importance of protecting personally
identifiable information relating to you, our users and
subscribers. VerticalWebVentures.com does not collect personally
identifying information about individuals, except when specifically
and knowingly provided by such individuals. When you enter
a contest or other promotional feature, we may request your
name, street, and e-mail address to aid in our administration
of the contest and to assist in contacting the winners.
VerticalWebVentures.com utilizes specialized "Server
Software" to automatically collect information about
which pages each user visits as well as the user's Internet
Service Provider (e.g., aol.com). This information is used
for internal review, to tailor information to individual
visitors and for traffic audits.
Under no circumstances will we give specific, identifiable
information about our users to outside third parties. However,
we will, from time to time, provide advertisers or potential
advertisers with aggregated, anonymous information about
our users. In addition, any personally identifiable information
provided by subscribers as part of an advertiser promotion
within one of our partner sites may be provided to such
advertisers as needed for the reasonable administration
of the promotion. We also reserve the right to amend these
policies at any time by updating this page so check back
often as your right may change ongoing. we reserve the right
to sell our business and in some cases that may include
data that is gathered at our websites If this is the case
you will receive an initial opt out message from new management
and at that time may opt out of further messages.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve our ads
on the Internet. These third-party advertising companies
employ cookie and 1x1 pixel .gif technology to measure and
improve the effectiveness of ads for their clients. To do
so, these companies may use anonymous information about
your visits to our Web site and other Web sites. This information
can include: date/time of banner ad shown, the banner ad
that was shown, their cookie, the IP address. This information
can also be used for online preference marketing purposes.
If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from setting
and/or reading cookies on your computer, currently you may
either visit each ad network's web site individually and
opt out or visit the NAI gateway opt-out site to opt-out
of all network advertising cookies. Click here for the NAI
gateway opt-out site. This site will also allow you to review
the third-party advertising companies' privacy policies.
A user's personally identifiable information (e.g., name,
e-mail address) may be required in certain instances. For
example, if we run competitions or contests on the site,
you may be required to provide information such as your
telephone number and address in order to participate. The
exact rules may vary in each case but the specific rules
for any contest will state how that information may be used.
We may also use personally identifiable information for
marketing and promotional purposes. VerticalWebVentures.com
may send you e-mail alerting you to new features, products,
promotions, or services pertaining to our site as well as
on behalf of our various sponsors.
We do not control the privacy policies of our business partners,
advertisers, sponsors or other sites to which we provide
hyperlinks. Users should also be aware that, when you voluntarily
disclose personal information in chat areas, bulletin boards,
or other public forums, such information may be collected
by others and may result in the receipt of unsolicited messages.
Children: Be sure to ask your parents for permission before
you send any information about yourself - like your name,
address, or e-mail address - over the Internet, to us or
to anyone else and before making any purchases online.
Parents: We encourage you to get involved with your children's
online usage and to be aware of the activities in which
they are participating. We will not knowingly gather personally
identifiable information from children under the age of
16 when at all possible.
Anonymous aggregated data is sometimes provided to other
parties which we do business with, for statistical and market
research purposes as described above.
Finally you should be aware that if your child voluntarily
discloses his or her name, e-mail address, etc. within various
public forums (including bulletin boards and chat rooms),
such disclosures may result in unsolicited messages from
other parties.
Technology on the Internet is developing at a fever pace.
It is critical that VerticalWebVentures.com maintain its
ability to rapidly adjust these policies in the future.
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and
use of this information by VerticalWebVentures.com. 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.
3/20/02 UPDATE:
Third Party Advertising We use DoubleClick
and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads
when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information
(not including your name, address, email address or telephone
number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in
order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites
about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
If you would like more information about this practice and
to know your choices about not having this information used
by these companies, please click Here
Third Party Cookies In the course of serving advertisements
to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize
a unique "cookie" on your browser. VerticalWebVentures.com
welcomes your questions and comments about privacy. Please
send e-mail to privacy@verticalwebventures.com
