Updated: September 1, 2007

Privacy Protection

This policy establishes how newsotronic.com handles the information we learn about you when you visit our site. Protecting the privacy and personal data of our visitors is of utmost importance to us. Protecting your privacy and your personal data is an important aspect of the way we create, organize and implement our activities on-line and off-line.

Linkages Characteristics

The specific practices outlined in this privacy statement apply to the newsotronic.com Web site. Other bodies/entities linked to newsotronic.com may have slightly different practices, though the commitment to your privacy will always be the same. You are encouraged to review the privacy statements of other bodies/entities when visiting their Web sites. Our Web site includes links to a third party Web server www.paypal.com for online payments.

Purpose Specifications and Data Collection

In general, you can browse the newsotronic.com web site without disclosing any information about yourself. If you visit the newsotronic.com web site to read or download information, we collect and store only the following information that is automatically recognized: the date and time, the originating IP address, the domain name, the type of browser and operating system used (if provided by the browser), the URL of the referring page (if provided by the browser), the object requested and the completion status of the request. For more details on these data and the reason why we log them, please see Information automatically recognized and logged.

Cookies and Other Technologies

As described above, we sometimes collect anonymous information from visits to our site to help us provide better customer service. For example, we keep track of the domains from which people visit and we also measure visitor activity on the newsotronic.com web Web site, but we do so in ways that keep the information anonymous. We use the information that we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. This includes analyzing these logs periodically to measure the traffic through our servers, the number of pages visited and the level of demand for pages and topics of interest. The logs may be preserved indefinitely and used at any time and in any way to prevent security breaches and to ensure the integrity of the data on our servers.

We collect the anonymous information we mentioned above through the use of various technologies, one of which is called “cookies”. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive. On newsotronic.com Authors and newsotronic.com Sponsors (if users register to be an author or sponsor), cookies are used to save the visitor’s password so that it does not have to be re-entered at each new visit. The following information is stored in the cookies:

• IP address
• Session number
• Customer ID (first name, last name)
• PayPal ID (for online payment of news oTronic sponsor services only)
• If the user has chosen “remember login and password”, those two items are encoded and added to the cookie.
• If a “registered” user to Authors or Sponsors returns to the site without logging in, the ID stored in the cookie are used to track the user (unless the user manually deleted the cookie, at which point the server will automatically regenerate another cookie).

Also, when we collect personal data from you in connection with a transaction we may extract some information about that transaction in an anonymous format and combine it with other anonymous information.

This anonymous information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level to help us understand trends and patterns. None of this information is reviewed at an individual level. If you do not want your transaction details used in this manner, you can either disable your cookies or opt-out at the order or request stage.

We collect the personal data that you volunteer on registration for Authors and Sponsors, or other forms such as Web site passwords and cookies.

We do not associate the information stored in a visitor’s cookie with any other personal data about that visitor.

All our employees and processors who have access to personal data and are associated with the processing of that data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of data.

Credit Card numbers, expiration dates and CVV2 numbers are not stored anywhere on the newsotronic.com site. For the purposes of purchasing advertising from newsotronic.com, the data is transmitted to Paypal via SSL and is not written to log files or database tables.

Visitor’s Choice

Registering on our site is optional. If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still use the newsotronic.com web site. However, you will not be able to purchase ads or contribute a news article. newsotronic.com views the customer information that it collects as a valuable and confidential asset of which we take great care to ensure its safety.

You may choose to register as a sponsor and receive promotional or marketing information from newsotronic.com by selecting the appropriate option when you register personal data. If you choose to register, your information will be available to newsotronic.com Staff and to delegations for the purpose of events management. If you do not wish to continue receiving promotional or marketing information, please notify us by e-mail at customer.service@newsotronic.com.

Individual Participation / Access

You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you, and you can also request to receive a copy of that personal data. Before sending you any personal data, we will ask you to provide proof of your identity. If you are not able to provide proof of your identity, we reserve the right to refuse to send you the personal data.

We will make a sincere effort to respond in a timely manner to your requests to the previous questions or to correct inaccuracies in your personal information. At any time, you may request that we delete or correct your personal information in our logs. For such requests, please contact customer.service@newsotronic.com.

Security

We intend to protect the quality and integrity of your personal information. newsotronic.com has implemented technologies and security policies to protect the stored personal data of our users from unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction and accidental loss. We will continue to enhance our security procedures, as new technology becomes available. newsotronic.com employees and processors who have access to personal data are obliged to respect the privacy of our visitors and the confidentiality of their personal data.

Links

Throughout the newsotronic.com web site, you will find links to third party Web sites. For example, our web site includes a link to a third party web server (www.paypal.com) for online payments. Please note that newsotronic.com is not responsible for the privacy policies or content on third party sites.

The newsotronic.com web site enables you to communicate with other visitors and to post information accessible by others. You should be aware that when you use these services, your data may be collected by other visitors.

Notifications of Changes

As newsotronic.com creates new services that may generate a need to amend this privacy statement, newsotronic.com will highlight such changes on the newsotronic.com site home page.

Privacy Support

If you have any inquiries about our privacy statement, please contact:

newsotronic.com
PO Box
Sturbridge, MA 01566
E-mail: customer.service@newsotronic.com
URL: www.newsotronic.com/privacy.htm