This site is owned and operated by Traversis, LLC. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Traversis, LLC, we want to make your experience online 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.

Traversis, LLC, gathers two types of information about users:

• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive additional information about our products and services via email, or to receive additional information from one of our advertisers.
• Information Traversis, LLC, gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances does Traversis, LLC, divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

Traversis, LLC, gathers user information in the following processes:

• “Contact Us” Policy
  Our site users can request additional information about our products and services by submitting a web form. This form collects name, email, and optional phone information. The information collected in this form is used by our sales staff to contact the interested party by email, or by phone if requested by the user. Traversis, LLC, never shares this information with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
• "E-mail an Advertiser" Policy
  Our site users can choose to electronically create an email to an advertiser by clicking "e-mail this advertiser". The user must provide their email address. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.
• "E-mail this to a Friend" Policy
  Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Traversis, LLC, tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Traversis, LLC, does 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). Traversis, LLC, sometimes tracks and catalogs 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.

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. But 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. Traversis, LLC, only uses cookies to maintain encrypted authentication and session information for “members-only” areas of the site. These are areas that require authentication via a user ID and password. 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 the public area of this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, and “members-only” areas.

Traversis, LLC, uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users. As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide to receive additional information about our products and services via email, or, if applicable, to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, forums, and “members-only” areas. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Traversis, LLC, NEVER shares our internal mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

Traversis, LLC, uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's preferences. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Traversis, LLC, operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

• Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
• Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users.

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Traversis, LLC. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.