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Privacy Policy
Online Privacy Statement
The following statement explains how the Web sites operated by The AlaskaZone Network collect and use your personal information. These Web sites include: alaskazone.com, dogsled.com, mechbox.com and airsoftrepair.com.
The basic principle
In general, we will never intentionally disclose your personal information to any third party for their use without first receiving your express permission. We will not send you e-mail unless you have requested it or unless it's in the course of a transaction you have initiated.
Free to use
You can access our Web sites and use many of our services without providing any information at all. Some of our most popular content - such as top stories and headlines are available for free.
The people who make it possible for us to provide free content to you
are our advertisers. To enable advertisers to invest their media
dollars appropriately, we target advertising through cookies (described
below) and provide advertisers with a general summary about the
demographics of our readership and usage of our sites. We never tell
our advertisers your identity unless you expressly give us permission
to do so.
When do we collect your personal information?
You must provide personal information in order to use some features of our Web sites. Some examples:
* Signing up for e-mail services such as race results alerts (Dogsled.com)
* Participating in online sweepstakes, contests and games
* Participating in online forums
* Participating in an online survey
What information do we collect?
The information we collect for services such as these will vary, but
can include your name, address, zip code, gender, user name, password,
e-mail address, birth date and phone number. We also collect credit
card information for purchases. Wherever we collect personal
information, we will make an effort to link to our privacy statement.
How do we use your personal information?
We do not share or provide personal information we may collect, such as
names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers with our advertisers without
your express permission.
Please note that some of our online sweepstakes or contests are
sponsored by advertisers. In these cases we clearly state that by
participating in the contest or sweepstakes your entry information is
shared with advertisers. If you do not wish to have your information
shared, do not enter the contest.
We will not send you e-mail unless you have requested it or unless it's in the course of a transaction you have initiated.
Who else has access to your personal information?
Third-party technology providers: In some cases, the service you sign
up for is provided by a third-party technology or content provider.
When you use these third-party services offered on our sites, personal
information you provide may be collected directly by these third
parties solely in order to deliver the services you have requested.
These third-party partners may not use or distribute our users'
information in any capacity outside of the service for which we
contracted and they must comply with our privacy policies.
Transactional partners: In some cases we partner with another company
to co-promote their services within our Web sites. In these cases, you
are transacting directly with the other party, and the personal
information you enter on those services is shared both with that
transactional partner and The AlaskaZone Network. On those pages
requiring personal information, the transactional partner's brand is
clearly visible, and their privacy statement is posted. We encourage
you to read it.
How do we use site usage statistics?
The AlaskaZone Network collects some information automatically via
server logs and cookies. This information can include your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring URLs. We use
this information to prepare for peak usage times and ensure a
fast-loading site, to help diagnose problems with our server and to
understand which features of our site are being used and when.
How do we use cookies?
A cookie is a small file that stores information in your browser on
your computer. The AlaskaZone Network places cookies in your browser
that contain some of the information you provide when you register with
us and when you set up a personalized service such as a "favorites
list." We do not store highly sensitive personal information such as
your password, e-mail address or credit card in cookies.
We use cookies to provide personalized services such as saving your
preferences on dogsledforum.alaskazone.com. We also use cookies to
provide a more useful online experience - such as allowing you to
quickly enter a sweepstakes if you're already logged on. And it can
allow us to limit users to only one entry for an online poll.
Cookies enable us to summarize overall usage patterns for our analysis.
The AlaskaZone Network never tracks your path when you leave
Dogsled.com.
You may opt-out of the cookies delivered by The AlaskaZone Network by
changing the setting on your browser. Depending on your privacy
settings, please be aware that this may disable all cookies delivered
to your browser, not just the ones delivered by The AlaskaZone Network.
Disclosures Required by Law or for Security and Safety
Regardless of your choices with respect to your information, The
AlaskaZone Network will disclose personal information when it believes
in good faith that such disclosures are (a) required by law, including,
for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or (b) will help
enforce our terms of use, enforce contest and sweepstakes rules,
protect your safety or security and/or protect the safety and security
of The AlaskaZone Network, our Web sites, our property, or our
employees; or (c) to protect the safety or security of third parties.
Children's guidelines
Our sites are not intentionally targeted at children under 13, but some
educational areas of our sites are targeted to middle-school and
high-school age children. We require written parental consent for
children under 13 to register or submit personal information on our
sites. Contact
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for information on how to
provide parental consent.
* Children: Be sure to ask your parents for permission before you send
any personal information about yourself to us or anyone else over the
Internet.
* Parents and guardians: We encourage you to get involved with your
children's online usage and to be aware of the activities in which they
are participating.
How to correct and update your personal information
The AlaskaZone Network allows you to change your personal information
through the Forums login. After logging in, you may select "My profile"
and update the information there, including e-mail address, user name,
password and phone number.
Notification of policy changes
We retain the right, at our discretion, to change any of these policies
in the future. Our current procedures will be disclosed on this page.
How to contact The AlaskaZone Network
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices
of our Web sites, or to resolve a dispute, you can contact us:
* By e-mail: Use our Contact directory
* By mail: Available upon request via e-mail.
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