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Privacy
Policy
OUR
COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Dan Bryan
Associates, Inc Architects. Your privacy on the Internet
is of the utmost importance to us. At Dan Bryan Associates,
Inc Architects, 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
Dan Bryan Associates, Inc Architects GATHERS AND TRACKS
Dan
Bryan Associates, Inc Architects 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 Dan Bryan Associates, Inc Architectsgathers
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 Dan Bryan Associates,
Inc Architects 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 Dan Bryan Associates,
Inc Architects divulge any information about an individual
user to a third party.
Dan Bryan Associates, Inc Architects 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
Dan
Bryan Associates, Inc Architects tracks user traffic
patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate
this information with data about individual users. Dan
Bryan Associates, Inc Architectsdoes 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. Dan Bryan Associates, Inc
Architects 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
Dan
Bryan Associates, Inc Architects 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
Dan
Bryan Associates, Inc Architects 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
Dan
Bryan Associates, Inc Architects 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.
AGREEMENT
By
using this site, you consent to the collection and use of
this information by
Dan Bryan Associates, Inc Architects. 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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