Our Commitment to Your Privacy

Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. We want to make your online experience 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 We Collect

We gather two types of information about users:

 

1. Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to receive product updates, to e-mail a friend and to participate in polls and surveys
2. Information we gather through aggregated tracking information. This is derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our site. This information allows us to better tailor our content to customers’ needs and to help us better understand the demographics of our audience

 

Under no circumstances do we divulge any information about an individual to a third party

 

We gather user information in the following processes:

 

1. Electronic newsletters. We offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Les Vents gathers the e-mail addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list at any time using the tools provided on the website.
2. “Tell a friend". Our customers can choose to electronically forward a link to someone else by clicking "Tell a Friend". The user must provide their e-mail address, as well as that of the recipient. We do not store this information and it is not used for any other purpose.
3. Reports. We offer customers the chance to write reports or offer opinions on our products. Because you should be responsible for what you say in reports, your name is associated with them. If you don’t want your name associated with a report, please don’t write any.
4. Surveys. Les Vents 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.

Usage tracking

Les Vents tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. We do 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).

 

We also track and catalogue 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. 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. We use 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 certain operations.

 

March 2007