OUR
COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This
site is owned and operated by Clifford Hoffman Associates.
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.
At Clifford Hoffman Associates, 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
Clifford Hoffman Associates GATHERS AND TRACKS
Clifford
Hoffman Associates 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 Clifford Hoffman Associatesgathers
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 Clifford Hoffman Associates derives its
revenue mainly from advertising, providing such aggregated demographic
data is essential to keeping our website user friendly and applicable
to our markets. Under no circumstances does Clifford Hoffman
Associates divulge any information about an individual
user to a third party.
Clifford Hoffman Associates. Gathers User Information
In The Following Processes:
Optional
Voluntary Information
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
Clifford
Hoffman Associates tracks user traffic patterns throughout
all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information
with data about individual users. Clifford Hoffman Associates
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).
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. Clifford Hoffman
Associates 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.
Privacy
Policy Use
USE OF INFORMATION
Clifford
Hoffman Associates. 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.
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.
SHARING
OF THE INFORMATION
Clifford
Hoffman Associates uses the above-described information
to tailor our content to suit your needs and help us better understand
our audience's demographics. 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
Clifford
Hoffman Associatesoperates 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.
AGREEMENT
By
using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information
by Clifford Hoffman Associates 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.
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