Privacy Policy for Drivingtips.org
At drivingtips.org, our goal is to treat our web site visitors with the highest level of respect, fairness and decency possible.This includes respecting and protecting our visitors' and customers' privacy to the best of our ability. Any information gathered from our customers may be personally identifiable information, and/or non-personally identifiable information. Below describes how drivingtips.org may use both types of information from its' visitors. Personally Identifiable Information This is information that can identify who you are and may be used to contact you. Personally identifiable information collected by drivingtips.org would normally include only a visitors name and email address.This information may be required for some submission invitations, but the submission is only voluntary. When drivingtips.org does collect this information it is only used to contact a visitor if necessary and to verify certain information of a submission. drivingtips.org does not give this information to any third party for any reason. Other personal information that may be collected would include personal or business address or phone number. This would only be asked for in the purchase of a product, service or contest entry from the site and would only be used for the purpose of that transaction. Non-personal Information Drivingtips.org does collect non-identifiable information through cookies and or web beacons. This information shows how a visitor uses the site without identifying the visitor.This may include the IP address as well as what pages the visitor views and how often a visitor comes to the site. This information is used soley for drivingtips.org to know how to give the best experience to its visitors and create a better web site. This information is never given to a third party. Third Party vendors and Google Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor's prior visits to this website. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you, the visitor, based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the advertising opt-out page at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Alternatively you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp Third party ad-serving by Google Google serves ads on this site, and certifies vendors for third party ads. You can find a list of these vendors and ad networks here -http://www.google.com/support/dfp_sb/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94149 You may visit those websites to opt out of cookies (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability). You can opt out of some, but not all, of these cookies in one location at the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out website at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp Cookies Cookies are text files transferred to your hard drive from your web browser when you visit a site. Besides tracking where a visitor goes on a site, cookies are also used for security settings and to keep information, like items in a shopping cart. Cookies are not viruses and won't harm your computer or hard drive. There is a small threat of someone intercepting the information in the cookies on your browser if you are using an unencrypted network such as an unsecured wiFi connection. You do have the option of disabling cookies on your web browser settings. This may or may not affect your use of the drivingtips.org site. Many sites will lock you out without cookies enabled. Web Beacons Web beacons are clear picture files that keep track of visitors navigation through one or more sites. Web beacons are more generalized than cookies and are usually used with cookies. If you disable cookies on your browser, a web beacon could still track your visit to a site but not the navigation around that specific site. Web beacons are commonly used by third parties when monitoring traffic for that site. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Drivingtips.org is a site directed to persons at least 15 years of age with a valid drivers permit. Privacy Policy changes As drivingtips.org progresses, there may be changes to this privacy policy. Any changes will be posted on this page. It is advised to check here periodically for updates to our privacy policy. Privacy Agreement Although drivingtips.org takes great effort to protect its' users privacy, there is no guarantee all personal information is 100% secure, given the nature of the internet. If you wish to have information you submitted to drivingtips.org deleted, or you have any other concerns regarding our privacy policy contact us from the contact page on this site.
However, third parties such as advertisers may also use cookies and web beacons for similar purposes when a visitor from drivingtips.org clicks to their site.
This site operates in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and will not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 15 years old.
Therefore, by using this site you agree to NOT hold drivingtips.org responsible for the unauthorized used of your information by another party, which you submitted to drivingtips.org. (unless evidence shows gross negligence on the part of drivingtips.org.)