COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by ProFACT Proteomics. Your privacy on the Internet is
of the utmost importance to us. At ProFACT Proteomics, 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 PROFACT PROTEOMICS GATHERS AND TRACKS
ProFACT Proteomics 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 ProFACT Proteomics 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 ProFACT Proteomics
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 ProFACT Proteomics divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
ProFACT Proteomics Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information We offer the following free
services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:
Privacy Policy Sample The following is a list of
different policies which can be edited to remove the parts of the policy that are not
needed. You should also add anything to this policy template that you may have on your
site.
Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. ProFACT Proteomics 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.
Message boards/forums policy Users of the sites Message Boards
and Forums must register separately for these services (both are free of charge)
in order to post messages, although they neednt register to visit the site. During
registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email
address.
"E-mail this to a friend" policy 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.
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. ProFACT Proteomics 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.
Surveys ProFACT Proteomics 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.
Privacy Policy Template changes The policy
clause about children below is becoming more important as it is nearly impossible
to tell the age of any visitor. We recommend adding this sample line to all your
forms that request information.
Children Consistent with the Federal Childrens
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 ProFACT Proteomics tracks user
traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this
information with data about individual users. ProFACT Proteomics does break
down overall usage statistics according to a users domain name, browser type,
and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information
contained in every users browser).
ProFACT Proteomics 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 dont 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 cant read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other
sites. ProFACT Proteomics 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 youve 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.
Privacy Policy Use How the information you gather
is used if relevent.
USE OF INFORMATION ProFACT Proteomics 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. ProFACT Proteomics 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 dont 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 dont track which terms a particular user enters.
ProFACT Proteomics 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
dont 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 ProFACT Proteomics uses
the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help
our advertisers better understand our audiences 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 ProFACT Proteomics 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 ProFACT Proteomics. 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.
Complaints You may complain to us.
You may contact our Privacy Contact, David Golub, at Tel: 732-246-1190,
or E-mail us at info@profactproteomics.com
, for further information about the complaint process.