Unwantedlinks Privacy Statement
We are strongly committed
to protecting both the on-line and off-line privacy of all our
visitors and are recognized as outspoken advocates for stronger
consumer privacy regulations through our work with unwantedlinks.com,
this site dedicated to raising awareness and protecting consumers
privacy rights. We have been nationally recognized by both NBC
& Fox News for our work against unethical on-line marketers
and advertisers gathering and sharing consumer's personal information.
Any visitor contact information is restricted in our offices. At
no time do we sell, rent or share any contact information about
our visitors.
Contact Forms
Unwantedlinks uses contact forms for visitors to request information.
We do not maintain records of email address used to contact us
for information.
Cookies
Unwantedlinks does not currently use cookies for our own use,
however, some of our business partners use cookies on our site
(for example, www.addfreestats.com). We have no access to
or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for
them to set cookies for advertising. This privacy statement
covers the use of cookies by Unwantedlinks only and does not cover
the use of cookies by any outside advertisers.
Third Party Advertising
Currently, we are participating in a limited amount of outside
third party advertising on this site. We also participate in several
affiliate partnerships (i.e. Norton's Anti-virus and ZoneAlarm).
These third party advertising programs might gather information
about users’ visit to this site, such as number of times
they have viewed an ad and click through rate for calculating
affiliate earnings are used to serve ads to users on this site.
There are currently two main advertising networks that utilize
cookies to track web usage. One of the biggest on line advertising
companies called DoubleClick which has an extensively used cookie
which is installed on your computer with out your knowledge to
develop an extensive user profile about you. DoubleClick delivers
a large amount on online advertising. In the course of serving
advertisements or providing other marketing services, DoubleClick
places a unique, cookie in your browser that can be accessed by
a wide variety of web sites. You can optout of accepting
DoubleClick cookies at this location: http://optout.doubleclick.net/cgi-bin/dclk/optout.pl.
When you OptOut your computer will then be given an OptOut cookie.
Another major advertising network which use cookies is Atlas
DMT (formerly Avenue A, Inc.). Atlas is a member of the aQuantive,
Inc. family which includes Avenue A, an interactive advertising
agency, and iFRONTIER, a full service interactive agency. Atlas
DMT, the creator of the Atlas™ Digital Marketing Suite,
provides digital marketing technologies for online advertising
agencies. You can optout of accepting Atlas/AvenueA cookies
by clicking this link http://www.atlasdmt.com/privacy/opting.asp.
This link will check to see if you have an active cookie and switch
it out for an OptOut cookie.
Log Files & Web Stats
Like most standard web site servers we use third party log files
to keep track of how many visitors visit our site. This includes
internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service
provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time
stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the
site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather
broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses,
etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information. We
currently use a third party tracking utility called www.addfreestats.com
that uses log files to analyze user movement.
Links
This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware
that Unwantedlinks is not responsible for the privacy practices
of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware
when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of
each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely to information
collected by this Web site.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places
we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any,
we disclose it.
