Privacy Policy
One or more of the following statements may not apply to the current state of this website but we reserve the right to change that in the future.
This site is owned and operated by www.thingstodoinseattle.net team. Your privacy on the
Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At www.thingstodoinseattle.net, 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 www.thingstodoinseattle.net GATHERS AND TRACKS
www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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 www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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. Because
www.thingstodoinseattle.net derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising,
providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to
users. Under no circumstances does www.thingstodoinseattle.net divulge any information
about an individual user to a third party.
www.thingstodoinseattle.net Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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
registration.
2. Message boards/forums policy
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register separately for these services
(both are free of charge) in order to post messages, although they needn't register to visit
the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email
address.
3. "E-mail this to a friend" policy
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.
4. 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.
www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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.
5. Surveys
www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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
www.thingstodoinseattle.net tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites.
However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users.
www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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).
www.thingstodoinseattle.net sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter
in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. 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.
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.
www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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
www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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. www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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.
www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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 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
www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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.
SECURITY
www.thingstodoinseattle.net 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
www.thingstodoinseattle.net. 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.
