This is the
privacy policy of Hume Group
Hume Group
strongly believes in a consumer's right to privacy. Hume Group
does not engage in the collection, distribution, sale or use of
personally identifiable information about web users, such as name,
phone number and street address. Hume Group does
not conduct individual web user "profiling".
Usage tracking
For the web user to Hume Group's website, our web
server automatically collects
information on your domain type, browser used and your IP
address for statistical purposes
only, which will be used to improve the content of our web page
and not sold to other
organizations for any purpose. And since we gather certain types
of information about our
users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the
terms and conditions on the
capture and use of those information.
Cookies
With respect to cookies, we do 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 the information you supply
yourself. Hume Group uses cookies to track user
traffic patterns and our
advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad
impressions and click rates.
Besides, third parties ad server companies may also be placing
and reading cookies in your browser, or using web beacons to collect
information, in the course of ads being served on Hume Group 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.
Third Party Advertisements
We also use third party advertisements on Hume Group to
support our site. Some of
these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web
beacons when they
advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers
information including your IP
address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and
in some cases, whether you
have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting
purposes or showing certain ads
based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to
someone who frequents
cooking and recipes sites).
DoubleClick DART Cookies
Hume Group may also use DART cookies for ad serving through
Google's DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when
you are browsing the web and visit using DoubleClick advertising
(including some Google Adsense advertisements). This cookie is used
to serve ads specific to you and your interests which are also known
as "interest based targeting". The ads served will be targeted based
on your previous browsing history (for example, if you have been
viewing sites about solution and service for plant and process
engineering, you may see advertisements related to solution and
service for plant and process engineering when viewing a non-related
site, such as a site about travel). DART uses non personally
identifiable information. It does not track personal information
about you, such as your name, email address, physical address,
telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or
credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites
using this advertising by visiting
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can always choose to disable or selectively turn off our
cookies or third-party cookies in
your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs
such as Norton Internet
Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact
with our site as well as other
websites. This could include the inability to login to services
or programs, such as logging
into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of
any advertising program.
Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time
you visit a website running the
advertisements, a new cookie will automatically be added again.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data
contained in log files. The
information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol)
address, your ISP (internet
service provider), the browser you used to visit our site, your
screen resolutions and
number of colors, the time you visited our site and which pages
you have visited throughout
our site.
Children
To be 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.
Electronic Newsletters Policy
We may offer free electronic newsletters to users who subscribe
voluntarily by providing
their name and email addresses. Subscribers may remove
themselves from the mailing list
by following an unsubscribe link provided in every newsletters.
All email addresses submitted to Hume Group in regard
to our newsletters or for any
other reason will be kept strictly confidential and private. You
can be assured our mailing
list will NEVER be shared or sold as a whole or in part.
Website Advertisements
With respect to Ad Servers, in order to bring you offers that
are of interest to you, we have
relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on
our web pages. As a result
of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect
information such as your domain
type, your IP address, click stream information, and other
details. These third parties may
also be placing and reading cookies in your browser, or using
web beacons to collect
information, in the course of ads being served. For further
information, please consult the
privacy policies of the individual advertisers.
Any Changes in the Privacy Policy
In the event if Hume Group's policy on information
practices change at some time in
the future, we will use only the data collected from the time of
our policy change forward.
External Links
With regards to outside links, this website contains links to
other websites. Please be aware that Hume Group is not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other websites. We
encourage our users to be aware when they leave our website, and
to read the privacy
statements of each and every website that collects personally
identifiable information. This
privacy statement applies solely to information collected by
this website.
Use of Information
Hume Group 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
poll, 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. Hume
Group never shares
newsletter mailing lists with any third party, 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 to continue
to build a better service to
you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of
the many measures of
what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a
particular user enters.
Hume Group 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 sponsors will
never know that a specific user clicked their ads. 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
Hume Group 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.
Opt-Out Policy
We give users options whenever necessary and practical. Such
choices include: Opting not
to register to receive our electronic newsletters and 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 agree and consent to the collection and
use of this information by Hume Group 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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