The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the websites operated by us.
Because
of the way that World Wide Web communication standards work, when you
arrive at or leave our website, we automatically receive the IP address
of the site that you came from or are going to. We use IP addresses
primarily to optimize website presentation, control website access, and
improve server performance. IP addresses may also be used to help
identify visitors and to gather broad demographic information. We also
collect information on which pages of our website you visit while you
are on our website, the type of browser you use and the times you access
our website. We use this information only to try to understand our
member/subscriber's preferences better and to manage the load on our
servers, so as to improve our service and your experience with our
website.
"Cookies" are small files of data that reside on your
computer and allow us to recognize you as a member, subscriber or prior
visitor if you return to our website using the same computer and
browser. We send a "session cookie" to your computer if and when you log
in to your membership account by entering your e-mail address and
password. These cookies allow us to recognize you if you visit multiple
pages in our site during the same session, so that you don't need to
re-enter your password multiple times. Once you log out or close your
browser, these session cookies expire and no longer have any effect.
We
also may use longer-lasting cookies to display your e-mail address on
our sign-in form, so that you don't have to retype the e-mail address
each time when you log in to your membership account. In addition, we
use cookies to process our referral program, described in Section C
below. Our cookie files are encoded so that your e-mail address and
other information can only be interpreted by us. We may, however, share
cookie information regarding whether or not a certain user is already
registered with us with certain merchants, partners and third-parties
with whom we have an official relationship.
