Privacy Statement Information 

Because we gather information about the customers of Dotfactor.com, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. 

Information Dotfactor gathers and tracks 

Dotfactor.com gathers two types of information about users: 1) Data that users provide through optional, voluntary registration on our site, and 2) aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. Such information enables us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and help our advertisers better understand the demographics of our audience. Because Dotfactor derives a portion of its revenue from advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential in order to keep some of our services free to users. 

Dotfactor does however share the following information with the publishers of the material that is available through the site: 

 - Name 
 - Email Address  

Dotfactor.com does not provide this information to any other third parties under any circumstances. 
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to admin@Dotfactor.com 

Electronic Newsletters 

Dotfactor.com offers free electronic newsletters to users. Dotfactor gathers the e-mail addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Customers may remove themselves from any mailing list by following the instructions contained in every newsletter.

Surveys 

Dotfactor.com occasionally conducts customer surveys to better target our content and product inventory to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our advertisers and partners. We never share any information about specific individuals with any third party, except as noted previously. 

Contests and sweepstakes 

Dotfactor.com offers contests and sweepstakes in which we request certain personal information. These contests and sweepstakes are conducted in full accordance with United States and Canadian federal and state laws. The full rules and all information about such contests are clearly posted during such events. Information gathered is used only to verify user identity and to contact winners and/or prize recipients, except when specifically noted otherwise. Again, we do not share information about specific individuals with any third party, except as noted previously. 

Usage tracking 

Dotfactor.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout Dotfactor.com and this information is correlated with data about individual users. Overall usage statistics, according to a user's domain name, browser type and MIME type gotten by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser), are also broken down. 

Dotfactor.com also tracks and catalogs the search terms that customers enter into our search tools, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. 

Cookies 

A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such including a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. 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. Dotfactor.com uses cookies to track the items you add to your shopping card and to enforce security rules regarding material that you download. 

If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. 

Use of the information 

Dotfactor.com uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our site, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the site or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users. 

As stated above, Dotfactor uses information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and enable users to participate in polls and message boards. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (daily or weekly, depending on the newsletter) and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing.

We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. Dotfactor does 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 our search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters. 

Dotfactor.com creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Dotfactor never shares individual personal information with anyone, so an advertiser will never know that a specific user clicked their ad.
Dotfactor uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience demographics. We do not share information about individual users with any third party, with the exceptions noted previously. 

Unsubscribe Policy 

Users may unsubscribe to any of our electronic newsletters at any time by following the instructions contained at the end of each newsletter. 

How To Contact Us 

If you ever need to contact us via email, be sure to email admin@Dotfactor.com