Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Privacy Policy

Tampa Florida Insurance Privacy Policy

This site is owned and operated by INSURANCETAMPA.ORG. We are concerned about your Internet privacy. INSURANCETAMPA.ORG wants your online experience here to be safe and sound.

We do amass individual types of statistics, data, and information that you should learn about. We want you to understand the terms and conditions surrounding how we gather and use collected information and data. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

Here at INSURANCETAMPA.ORG, we gather two types of data about our audience: voluntary data and comprehensive tracking data.

Examples of voluntary submissions, which are optional, include: signing up for electronic newsletters, using forums or electronic message boards, emailing our links to other people, and engaging in polls and user surveys.

INSURANCETAMPA.ORG also collects information through comprehensive analyzing processes. Principally, this information and data is harvested by recording page views throughout our web sites. We use this data to create web content that is pertinent to the requirements of our visitors and for helping our advertisers and sponsors appreciate our visitors' demographics.

Much of INSURANCETAMPA.ORG's earnings originate from connections, partnerships, and advertising which makes the combined demographic information necessary. This allows us to bring you these services for free.

Under no circumstances will INSURANCETAMPA.ORG give up any information about an individual user to a third party.

CHILDREN

As outlined in the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, or COPPA, we will never knowingly request privately identifiable information and data from anyone under the age of thirteen years old without requesting parental consent.

The following techniques are used by INSURANCETAMPA.ORG to gather user data:

DISCRETIONARY VOLUNTARY DATA AND INFORMATION

1. Email newsletters or Messages - INSURANCETAMPA.ORG needs the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe to our free e-newsletters in order to deliver said newsletters. Visitors can sign up for the e-newsletters at the time of registration or at any point thereafter. Email newsletters are transmitted to our subscribed users regularly with special editions and communications delivered when we believe the topic is appropriate and of interest to our members. INSURANCETAMPA.ORG will never divulge our mailing lists with any third parties, including partners, partners and advertisers.

Each electronic newsletter includes an opt-out method which enables visitors to remove themselves from this mailing directory at any time.

2. "E-mail this to a friend" Service - Many pages, links, and documents on INSURANCETAMPA.ORG can be sent electronically to somebody else when visitors click "e-mail this to a friend" links. We need the user's e-mail address and the receiver’s address. These addresses must be provided by the requesting user. We use these e-mail addresses to let the other person know who sent the link and in the case of undeliverable messages or other transmission issues. This information is not used for any other purpose.

3. Polling - Interactive polls offer INSURANCETAMPA.ORG visitors the ability to vote on topics. Poll results are aggregated and are never identifiable to any other users. INSURANCETAMPA.ORG often uses systems for tagging users after they have voted. This ensures that users can vote one time each per poll. Tags are not matched with any other information about particular visitors.

4. Surveys - INSURANCETAMPA.ORG frequently conducts surveys which enables us to create relevant web content. The accumulated demographic survey data is often shared with our partners, sponsors, and advertisers. Information about specific individuals is never shared with any third party.

USAGE tracking

INSURANCETAMPA.ORG tracks user traffic patterns. This data is not matched with individual users' information, statistics, or any other type of data. INSURANCETAMPA.ORG looks at usage figures based on a domain names, browser types, and MIME types. All modern web browsers contain this information which is retrieved from the browser string.

INSURANCETAMPA.ORG tracks search entries that visitors have entered into the web site's Search function. We never correlate the terms entered with specific visitors. This information is used for determining what interests our visitors.

COOKIES

INSURANCETAMPA.ORG may place a "cookie," which is a tiny file, into your Web browser files on your computer. INSURANCETAMPA.ORG's cookie does not contain personal and individual data and information other than personal and individual information that you may have provided on your own to us. We use this information in correlating how your use of INSURANCETAMPA.ORG relates to information you have specifically and knowingly submitted to us.

INSURANCETAMPA.ORG uses tracking cookies for tracking web browsing and traffic patterns as well as for analyzing click-thru rates and advertisement impressions. If you want to decline cookies, you can do so by turning off cookies in the web browser. You can also configure the web browser to prompt you before cookies are accepted.

INSURANCETAMPA.ORG does not require you to accept cookies. However, cookies are required for participating the community forums, message boards, polls, and surveys.

USE OF DATA AND INFORMATION

INSURANCETAMPA.ORG uses any user data voluntarily given to improve our site whether through personalization or by building additional web content to better match our visitors' interests.

Information and data voluntarily made available to us by users is used for sending out e-newsletters and enabling user participation in polling and user surveys, boards, and our community forums. Tracking data and information is collected to help you out us track and analyze how each web page performs. INSURANCETAMPA.ORG does not track what individual users read. This type of analysis enables us to enhance our services. The search words submitted in the Search bar is another pointer of our users' interests. We do not track the terms used for searches a particular user enters in the Search field.

INSURANCETAMPA.ORG compiles information into reports that detail the demographics, usage, and traffic patterns of our Web site and its visitors for our partners. This allows for better targeting of advertisements and a better understanding of our audience. Usage patterns of certain users are not tracked and advertisers and sponsors do not know which users have viewed their advertisements.

SHARING OF THE DATA

INSURANCETAMPA.ORG uses the above-described data and information to be certain that our website is relevant to our audience. The collection of data is necessary for keeping the INSURANCETAMPA.ORG service free. INSURANCETAMPA.ORG will not disclose any data about any specific user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SECURITY

INSURANCETAMPA.ORG operates secure data networks protected by industry-standard security systems. Access to user-provided information is restricted to authorized persons. We occasionally re-evaluate our privacy and security policies and supplement them as needed.

OPT-OUT POLICY

Whenever possible or essential, INSURANCETAMPA.ORG gives users options. Opting out choices include:

  • Opting not to register for email newsletters or other services.
  • Choosing not to participate in certain interactive areas.

Opting out makes the collection of personally identifiable information unnecessary.

YOUR CONSENT

By using this website, you are consenting to the collection and use of this information and data by INSURANCETAMPA.ORG. If INSURANCETAMPA.ORG decides to change our privacy statement, we will post those changes on this webpage where you can be aware of what information we gather, how we use it, and under what conditions we disclose collected information.

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