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COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
Your privacy on the Internet
is of the utmost importance to us. At Canvas Products Co., 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 Canvas Products Co. gathers and keeps track of.
Canvas Products Co., 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 Canvas Products Co. 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 Canvas Products Co., derives its
revenue mainly from affiliate sponsorships, providing such aggregated
demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users.
Under no circumstances does
Canvas Products Co. divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
Canvas Products Co. 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:
1. Electronic Newsletters (Dispatches).
We may offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Canvas Products Co.
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 proposed Message Boards and Forums must register separately
for these services (both will be 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. 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. Canvas Products Co. 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.
Canvas Products Co. 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
Canvas Products Co. tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users.
Canvas Products 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).
Canvas Products Co. 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. Canvas Products
Co. 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
Canvas Products Co. 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 may 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. Canvas
Products Co. 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.
Canvas Products Co. 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
Canvas Products Co. 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
Canvas Products Co. 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
Canvas Products Co. 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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