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This policy describes the personal information we may collect
about you, why we collect it, how we use it. Our policy also
describes the choices you can make about how we collect and use your
information. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, you
can always contact us in any of these ways:
Call: 1.877.213.2423
Email:
info@host-a-murder.com
Send us a note:
Murder Mystery Maniacs, Inc
3701 N. Ravenswood Avenue Suite #204
Chicago, IL 60613
If our information practices change in the future, we'll post an
updated policy on our website. You can tell if the policy has
changed by checking the revision date that appears at the end of
this policy. You may exercise your choices about how we collect and
use your information at any time.
This
site is owned and operated by Murder Mystery Maniacs. Your
privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.
At Murder Mystery Maniacs, 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.
Murder Mystery Maniacs gathers two types of information
about users:
1.
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:
2.·Information Murder Mystery Maniacs 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. Under no
circumstances does Murder Mystery Maniacs divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
Murder Mystery Maniacs 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 will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Murder
Mystery Maniacs 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. Murder Mystery Maniacs 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
Murder Mystery Maniacs 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
Murder Mystery Maniacs tracks user traffic patterns
throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate
this information with data about individual users. Murder
Mystery Maniacs 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).
Murder Mystery Maniacs 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. Murder Mystery
Maniacs 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
Murder Mystery Maniacs 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. Murder Mystery Maniacs 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.
Murder Mystery Maniacs 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
Murder Mystery Maniacs 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, rent, or sell 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
Murder Mystery Maniacs 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 Murder Mystery Maniacs. 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.
Revised April 2008 |
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