Apply
Green Card Lottery .com
Online Privacy Statement
COMMITMENT
TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned
and operated by ApplyGreenCardLottery.com (E M A International). Your
privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At ApplyGreenCardLottery.com,
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 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 ApplyGreenCardLottery.com GATHERS AND TRACKS
ApplyGreenCardLottery.com
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 email a friend,
and from participation in polls and surveys:
Information ApplyGreenCardLottery.com
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. Under no
circumstances does ApplyGreenCardLottery.com divulge any information
about an individual user to a third party without the permission of
the individual user.
ApplyGreenCardLottery.com
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
(Dispatches)
We will offer a
free electronic newsletter to users. ApplyGreenCardLottery.com 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 using our
formmails.
2. "Tell Your
Friends" Service
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.
3. 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. ApplyGreenCardLottery.com 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.
4. Surveys
ApplyGreenCardLottery.com
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
ApplyGreenCardLottery.com
tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we
do not correlate this information with data about individual users.
ApplyGreenCardLottery.com 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.
ApplyGreenCardLottery.com 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.
USE OF INFORMATION
ApplyGreenCardLottery.com
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. ApplyGreenCardLottery.com 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.
ApplyGreenCardLottery.com
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 without the consent of the 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
ApplyGreenCardLottery.com
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 without the consent of the
individual users, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal
process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
ApplyGreenCardLottery.com
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 ApplyGreenCardLottery.com.
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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