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This site is owned and operated by pezhq.com and Collecting
Headquarters, Inc. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost
importance to us. At PEZ Headquarters, 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 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 PEZ Headquarters and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. GATHERS
AND TRACKS
PEZ Headquarters and Collecting Headquarters, Inc.
gathers two types of information about users:
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Information that users provide through optional, voluntary
submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our
electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards
or forums, to email a friend, registration for collection
tracking and from participation in polls
and surveys:
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Information PEZ Headquarters and Collecting Headquarters, Inc.
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. Because PEZ Headquarters and
Collecting Headquarters, Inc. derives its revenue mainly from
sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated
demographic data is essential to keeping our service free or
low cost to users. Under no circumstances does PEZ Headquarters
and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. divulge any information
about an individual user to a third party without permission.
PEZ Headquarters and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. Gather User
Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some type of
voluntary submission of personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We offer a free electronic newsletter to users. PEZ Headquarters
and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. gathers the email addresses of
users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from
this mailing list by following the link provided in every
newsletter that points users to the subscription management page.
Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of
registration.
2. Message boards/forums
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register
separately for these services (both are free of charge) in order
to post messages, although they needn't register to visit the
site. During registration the user is required to supply a
username, password, and email address.
3.
"E-mail this to a friend" Service
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.
4. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share
their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks
about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are
aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user.
PEZ Headquarters and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. may use a system to
"tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only
once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with
information about individual users.
5. Surveys
PEZ Headquarters and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. 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.
Children
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.
Usage tracking
PEZ Headquarters and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. tracks user traffic
patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate
this information with data about individual users. PEZ Headquarters
and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. 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).
PEZ Headquarters and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. 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.
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. 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. PEZ Headquarters and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. uses 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 message boards, forums, polling
and surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
PEZ Headquarters and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. 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
in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to
participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. 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. PEZ Headquarters and Collecting Headquarters, Inc. never
shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including
advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our
sites users li
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