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Information
this Site Gathers / Tracks
The information
gathered by Zip City falls into two categories: (1) information
voluntarily supplied by visitors to our websites when they register
or initiate transactions, and (2) tracking information gathered
as visitors navigate through our sites. Third party providers featured
on or linked to from our websites, such as vendors of products and
services offered through our sites, may be gathering the same kinds
of information.
To help make
our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, help you
navigate between sections, tailor content to your needs and to measure
traffic within our sites, our web servers automatically collect
limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet,
including your IP address, when you visit our sites. They may also
invoke a standard feature of browser software, called a "cookie,"
to assign each visitor a unique, random number, a sort of user ID,
which resides on your computer. The cookie helps give us an idea
of which parts of our site users are visiting and doesn't actually
identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access
our site.
Unless you voluntarily
identify yourself (through registration, for example), we won't
know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The
only personal information a cookie can contain is information you
supply. Our cookies can't read unrelated data from your computer.
Our advertisers and the third parties that provide products or services
through our sites may also assign their own cookies to your browser,
but we don't control their cookies or their processes, and they
do not regularly share information they gather with us.
To make use of certain features on our websites (such as personal
web pages, extranet, weblogs and other interactive forums) visitors
need to register and to provide certain information as part of the
registration process. We may also ask for information from those
who buy products or services or conduct other transactions on our
websites. We may ask, for example, for your name, email address,
street address, sex, age, city or town, zip code (and for those
who seek to purchase a product or service, credit card number),
and we sometimes request information on your interest in other topics.
The information
you supply may help us to offer you more personalized features,
to tailor our sites to your interests and make them more useful
to you, and to process e-commerce transactions. Of course, even
if you want to remain completely anonymous, you're still free to
take advantage of the wealth of content available on our sites without
registration. The vast majority of our site does NOT require visitors
to complete a registration form or give us contact information (such
as a name and email address) to visit.
The more we
know about our visitors the more value we can potentially offer
them. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary. But if you
don't supply the information we require, we may be unable to provide
you with services we make available to other visitors to our sites.
For example, while we allow anyone to read postings in our Bulletin
Board / Forums without registration, asking a question or furnishing
an answer requires registration, which enables visitors to modify
their own posts. And we can't send you targeted email alerting you
to a relevant new service we're offering, or articles on topics
of interest to you, if you don't tell us what you're interested
in and give us your email address. Similarly, we can't notify you
that you've been lucky enough to win a prize in a promotional contest
if we don't know how to contact you. Such personal information is
gathered by us only with our users` knowing and active permission
and participation.
Our online surveys
and contests ask visitors for contact information (like their email
address) and demographic information (like their zip code, age,
or income level). Demographic and profile data collected at our
site may be shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis.
We collect financial
information (like an account or credit card numbers) only from visitors
making a credit card or other purchase. We use the financial information
solely to bill the user for products and services and necessary
information from the order form to send orders.
We also use
customer contact information from the various registration forms,
opt in features and service features to send the user information
about our site, our company and our affiliates. Users may opt-out
of receiving routine future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section
below
As this privacy policy reaffirms, we strive to protect confidentiality
for our visitors. We do reserve the right to use customer contact
and other information when we deem it necessary or appropriate to
comply with applicable laws, rules, or lawful orders of courts and
governmental agencies, to enforce compliance with the terms and
conditions for use of our sites, or to protect third parties from
what we regard as threats of serious harm.
Links
to Other Sites
This
site contains links to other sites. The establishment of a link
does not mean that Zip-City.com has approved of a site, is endorsing
a site, has reviewed its content, or is in any manner recommending
a visit. Zip-City.com is not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of linked Web sites.
Third
Party Features
Certain features of and portions on our site are also the result
of special relationships, such as "Powered By" or Co-Branding
or affiliate programs. These firms share varying amounts of information
with us. You are encouraged to review the privacy policies of such
providers before providing information to them.
Advertising
and Cookies
Zip City Solutions does not display advertising on the Web site
and we also work with several unaffiliated companies that serve
ads when you visit portions of our website.
Public
Forums
This site may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news
groups available to its users. Please remember that any information
that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and
you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal
information. We do reserve the right to delete any postings at any
time.
Security
This site has numerous security measures in place to protect the
loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
The measures include passwords, linkages to secure servers, encryption,
backup tapes, and conventional locks and alarm systems. However
we cannot guarantee that the measures in place have been, are now,
or will remain adequate.
Children's
Guidelines
This Web site is directed at adults, not children, and we do not
seek to collect from children online contact information, or distribute
to third parties any personally identifiable information from children,
or entice children by the prospect of a special game, prize or other
activity, to divulge information to us. We won't knowingly allow
anyone under 13 to register with any of our sites or to provide
any other personally identifying information without written approval
of a parent or guardian.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving
communications from us, and sites associated with us, at the point
where we request information about the visitor. For specifics concerning
a matter impacting you, you can send email to admin@zip-city.com
or by mail to the following postal address: 4423 Lehigh Road, Suite
229, College Park, MD 20740
Revisions
/ Corrections / Updates
We reserve the right to change our privacy policy from time to time.
If we do change our privacy policy in the future, we'll post the
changes when they take effect. For specifics concerning a matter
impacting you, you can send email to admin@zip-city.com
or by mail to the following postal address: 4423 Lehigh Road, Suite
229, College Park, MD 20740
Contacting
the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, which is
effective June 1, 2002, the practices of this site, or your dealings
with this Web site, you can contact
Bevan
Wistar, President
Zip City Solutions, Inc.
4423 Lehigh Road
Suite
229
College Park, MD 20740
admin@zip-city.com
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