Privacy Policy
We at Cell Phone News (”CPN”) take your privacy very seriously. We believe that electronic privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want to help you understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy policy discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. On occasion, CPN will make available to potential advertisers and business partners aggregated results from traffic and demographic information collected from its readership base via the cellphonenews.com site. CPN will only provide traffic and demographic information on an aggregated basis and does not disclose individual reader information. To ensure your absolute privacy, personal and demographic data are kept separate in our systems, so that demographic data can never be linked back to names or other identifying information. Furthermore, submission of demographic information is always optional.
Any/all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of registration or correspondence will not be collected or used for the purposes of reselling to a third party and will never be added to any bulk e-mailing list. We can also provide complete assurance that your email address will never intentionally be displayed on the web site or revealed publicly in any way.
Cookies
Your Internet browser has a feature called “cookies”, which allows cellphonenews.com to store small bits of information on your computer, which are then sent back to cellphonenews.com on every subsequent visit. Cookies allow you to register, log in, and maintain preferences and settings. However, cookies tell us nothing about who you are, unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information. You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit most of our site, although active participation in certain areas of our site may require cookies. In addition, you may elect to disable cookies by selecting certain options on your browser. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry. In addition to cellphonenews.com cookies, you may also receive cookies from our advertisers and affiliate partners. CPN cannot and does not control these cookies.
Traffic Data
Each time a visitor comes to the CPN site, information is collected to improve the overall quality of the site. CPN collects the visitor’s domain name/IP Address (e.g., whether the user is logged on from netscape.com or yale.edu or 255.255.255.0), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to cellphonenews.com), and browser/platform type (e.g., a Safari browser on a Macintosh platform). In addition, CPN’s advertisement delivery system collects similar aggregate information, for ad rotation control, accounting, and reporting. CPN also counts, tracks, and aggregates each visitor’s activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at cellphonenews.com. CPN may share this information, on an aggregated basis only, with potential advertisers and business partners. CPN will not disclose your individual identity or personal data. When CPN does present aggregated information to potential advertisers and business partners, no one will be able to identify you or contact you. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy or practices, please do not hesitate to contact us using the contact form.
