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ECHANICS
PRIVACY POLICY
Echanics is committed to safeguarding your
privacy online. Please read the following statement to understand
how your personal information will be treated as you make full use
of the Echanics Web site.
The Echanics Web site is owned and operated
by Echanics Inc. If you have any questions regarding our privacy
statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at info@Echanics.
Voluntary Submission
Echanics does not collect personally identifying
information about any individual Echanics Web site user except
when knowingly provided by such individual. For example, we may
ask you for information when you register for a contest or survey
or to receive a newsletter. You always have the option not to provide
the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information
we request, you can still visit most of the Echanics Web site,
but you may be unable to access certain options and services
Cookies
A cookie is a data file that certain Web sites
write to your computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. A
cookie file can contain information, such as a user identification
code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. Echanics
uses cookies solely to track user traffic patterns throughout the
Echanics Web site. We use this data on an anonymous basis and
we do not correlate this information with personal data of any user.
Most Web site browsers automatically accept
cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to display
a warning before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However,
if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our Web site,
you may not be able to use certain features of the site.
Browser Level Information
Echanics Web servers automatically collect
information about a site user's IP address, browser type and referrer
by reading this information from the user's browser (information
provided by every user's browser). This information is collected
in a database and used--in an aggregated, anonymous manner--in our
internal analysis of traffic patterns within our Web site. This
information is automatically logged by most Web sites.
Use of Information
Our primary goal in collecting user information
is to enhance your experience on our Web site. We achieve this goal
by, among other things, providing interactive communications such
as our electronic newsletters to the e-mail address that you provide
to us, and developing future editorial content based on your interests.
To develop content targeted to your interests, we use aggregated
user information to determine which areas of our Web site users
prefer based upon traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual
users read, but instead how well each page or content area performs
overall.
Echanics may also
disclose information about our users when we believe, in good faith,
that the disclosure is required by law.
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When
you are on an area of.... Echanics.com
and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information
with Echanics as well as business partners and vendors providing
hosting and other services for Echanics. If you do not want your
information to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer
of your information by not using that particular service. These
parties, as well as advertisers who contract directly with a third-party
service to serve their advertisements, may set their own cookies.
Please be aware that Echanics sponsors,
advertisers or Web sites that have links on our site may collect
personally identifiable information about you. The information practices
of those parties and Web sites linked to Echanics are not covered
by this privacy statement. Echanics users should also be aware that,
when you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas
or bulletin boards, that information may be collected by others
and may result in unsolicited messages from others. Kids under 13:
Do not send any information about yourself to us--including information
such as your name, address, or e-mail address. We do not knowingly
collect personally identifiable information from children under
13. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal information
from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental
consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly
as possible.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our
privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at info@Echanics
This statement may change from time to
time, so please check back periodically. ©2002 Echanics Inc. All
Rights Reserved.
DEFINITIONS:
IP address: Every computer connected
to the Internet has a numeric address called an "IP address." This
may or may not correspond uniquely to a particular computer. In
some cases, IP addresses can be resolved to domain names, which
may indicate a site visitor's Internet service provider, employer,
university, etc. As part of its database analysis Echanics resolves
IP addresses to domain names.
Browser type: A user's
browser is a software program running on a computer that allows
users to access documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers can be
either text or graphic. They read HTML coded pages that reside on
a server and interpret the coding into what the user sees as Web
pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer are examples
of Web browsers. Browser type typically discloses hardware platform,
operating system, and browser software and version.
Referrer: The referrer
is the URL of the Internet resource or page that causes a browser
to request a page or image from Echanics servers.
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