RingsWorld.comRingsWorld.comFebruary 10, 2012, 9:50 am GMT

Privacy Policy

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Ringsworld.com respects privacy of Internet Users and does not collect personally identifying information without the Internet User's permission. However you should know that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served.

This policy applies to the web site owned and operated by Newave located at http://www.ringsworld.com/(ringsworld.com). The full text of our privacy is available on the Web at: http://www.ringsworld.com/privacy-policy.htm.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy:

 

Collection of Data:

Ringsworld.com does not collect Internet User identity or contact information from Internet User's visits to ringsworld.com. For each visit to ringsworld.com a given number of information are collected and stored on our servers:

  • Click-stream data:

    • URI of requested resource:
      The full URI requested by the user. This mean the full address of the page being requested. This information is only used for statistics purpose to determine which parts of our site are the most visited. This information is never linked to an individually identified person.
       
    • Request timestamp:
      Time that the request was processed by the server. We are using this information to watch the evolution of visits along days, weeks and months. For example this helps us to schedule maintenance operations. This information is never linked to an individually identified person.
       
    • Client's IP address:
      The IP (Internet Protocol) address of the user's computer. This data is anonymous, this is simply a number in the form xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx. In theory this is possible to find exactly who you are, or more precisely where you are thanks to this number. However in practice this data can only be use to record the number of unique visitor and their country. That's all. Like for all the other information we are collecting it's never linked to any individually identified person. We are only using this information in a global way to know how much visitors are from the USA, Canada, France, UK, and so on, that's all. This only help us determine the kind of audience of our site and therefore try to customize as much as possible to match visitor's interests.
       
    • Data bytes in response:
      Data bytes returned by the server in response. This is the size of the files served. This information help us manage our bandwidth.
       
    • Response status code:
      HTTP status code generated by the server for the response. Status codes allows tracking possible missing files or broken links (well known 404 error).
  • HTTP protocol elements:

    • User agent information:
      The client description string sent by most Web browsers, giving the type, version, and platform type of the user's Web browser. This is sent by clients as the User-Agent: HTTP header. This information is used for statistics to know how much visitors are using Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, etc... We are also using this information to customize HTML pages. It appends that sometimes Web browsers do not interpret exactly the same way an HTML code. So with this information we can serve page which are compatible with visitor's Web browser.
       
    • Last URI requested by the user:
      This is sent by clients as the Referer: HTTP header. This data is not linked to an individually identified person and is only use to know from where visitors are coming and how they browse our site.
  • Search terms:
    Words or other text entered on a "search" form, either for searching site, or for searching the entire Web. These search terms are threaded in a global way and not individually simply for statistics purpose.

To sum up the above data are used for the following purpose:

  • Access statistics.
  • Web site and system administration.
  • Anonymous user profiling and decision-making.

The above data are marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

 

Cookies:

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

  • User targeting
  • Pseudononymous analysis
  • Pseudonym-based decision-making
  • Research and development

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Cookies are used to track visitors to our site, so we can better understand what portions of our site best serve you. Cookies are also used to customize your use of our site.

We are using cookies to:

  • Avoid showing you more than on pop-up banner per day.
  • Save your preferences.

 

Third-Party Advertisers

Ringsworld includes third-party advertising and links to other websites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these advertisers or third-party websites.

You should know that these third parties may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads at Ringsworld.com.

Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

 

Frequently Asked Questions:

Here are common questions and answers regarding our privacy policy.

What information does Ringsworld.com collect from you?

  • You can visit our site and use many of our services without having to tell us who you are or reveal any personally identifiable information to us. It is only when, use certain Ringsworld.com services, or enter contests, that you will be asked to provide us with personally identifiable information.
  • Ringsworld.com may set and access cookies on your computer. Cookies are used to store your preferences/options and other kind of information to customize your use of ringsworld.com.
  • Whenever you visit ringsworld.com, our web server logs automatically receive and record anonymous information from your web browser including your IP Address, ringsworld.com cookie information, the ringsworld.com page(s) you request, and any search terms you query.
  • When using some particular services of ringsworld.com you may be requested to supply personal information such as your email address. For example, when submitting a site you need to provide a user name (which can be a nickname) and a valid email address.
  • Ringsworld.com uses this anonymous information to customize your experience on our site, to improve our services, and to show you more relevant advertising messages. We ordinarily do not attempt to link this information to a specific person, with certain important exceptions.
  • Ringsworld.com uses personally identifiable information for three main purposes: to fulfill your requests for certain services, to personalize the advertising and content you see on our pages, and to tell you about special offers and new products and services.

Do any third parties receive or collect your information through ringsworld.com?

  • Ringsworld.com will not share personally identifiable information with other companies or individuals.
  • Ringsworld allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Ringsworld.com's cookies.

What are you doing with e-mail addresses?

  • When using some particular services of ringsworld.com you may have to submit a valid e-mail address. For example if you want to contact us (this will be much more convenient if you want an answer :-)).
  • Ringsworld.com may occasionally send a newsletter to keep you informed with major news and enhancement concerning our site. Please note the "may occasionally" terms. This is not our goal to fulfill your mail box with unsolicited mails ! Up to know we never had the need to send more than one mail per year ! (nb: you are given the choice to unsubscribe to this newsletter).
  • Ringsworld.com will never share these e-mail addresses with other companies or individuals.

 

If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact us