PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY This site
is owned and operated by Modern Freelance (“Modern Freelance”
or “we”). Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance
to us. At Modern Freelance, 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 Modern Freelance GATHERS AND TRACKS
Modern Freelance gathers two types of information about users:
— 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:
— Information Modern Freelance 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 Modern Freelance 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 Modern Freelance divulge any information about
an individual user to a third party.
Modern Freelance 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. Modern Freelance 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. Modern Freelance 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
Modern Freelance 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
Modern Freelance tracks user traffic patterns throughout all
of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data
about individual users. Modern Freelance 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).
Modern Freelance 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. Modern Freelance 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.
How the information you gather is used if relevent.
USE OF INFORMATION
Modern Freelance 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.
Modern Freelance 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.
Modern Freelance 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
Modern Freelance 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
Modern Freelance 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:
— Opting not to register to receive our electronic
newsletters.
— 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 Modern Freelance. 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. |
