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PRIVACY POLICY -
COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
Your privacy on
the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Anabolic.ca, 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
Anabolic.ca GATHERS AND TRACKS
Anabolic.ca
gathers two types of information about users:
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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:
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Information
Anabolic.ca 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 Anabolic.ca
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 Anabolic.ca divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
Anabolic.ca
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 policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a
free electronic newsletter to users. Anabolic.ca 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 policy
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" 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.
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. Anabolic.ca 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
Anabolic.ca 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
Anabolic.ca tracks
user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate
this information with data about individual users. Anabolic.ca 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).
Anabolic.ca
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. Anabolic.ca 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.
# Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on anabolic.ca.
# Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to anabolic.ca and other sites on the Internet.
Privacy Policy Use
How the
information you gather is used if relevent.
USE OF INFORMATION
Anabolic.ca 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. Anabolic.ca 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.
Anabolic.ca
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
Anabolic.ca 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
Anabolic.ca
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:
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Opting not to
register to receive our electronic newsletters.
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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 Anabolic.ca.
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. |