Information
gathered by Review Zone
Information about you gathered by Review Zone is twofold. Firstly, there is information you provide voluntarily when emailing us, subscribing to features offered by the site (such as the announcement mailing list) or participating in online surveys conducted by this site. Secondly, there is information gathered by tracking of page views and usage statistics. The methods by which information can be gathered, and our policies on each of them are outlined below.
·Announcement
mailing list
Review Zone provides a free announcement mailing list service that gathers email addresses from users who voluntarily subscribe to the service. Users who subscribe will also be asked, if they are so willing, to provide some personal information for survey purposes. This is entirely voluntary and any information gathered in such a manner will be used only for tracking aggregated demographic data. Such aggregated demographic data may be shared with advertisers, but no user-specific information will be divulged to any third parties and aggregated demographic data is not correlated with individual users. Users who subscribe to the mailing list will be notified by email when Review Zone publishes new articles. Instructions on how to unsubscribe or change their voluntarily submitted information are provided in every such email. (Please read the Opt-out Policy section below.)
·Online
surveys/ polls
Sometimes Review Zone conducts online surveys or polls in order to gauge our readers’ opinions and ideas, so that we may better target our content to our audience. These surveys and polls are entirely voluntary. During these surveys and polls, users may be asked to provide, if they are so willing, some general personal information. Any information gathered in such a manner will be used only for tracking aggregated demographic data. Such aggregated demographic data may be shared with advertisers, but no user-specific information will be divulged to any third parties and aggregated demographic data is not correlated with individual users.
·Message boards/ forums
This site makes Delphi chat rooms and forums/ message boards freely available to users. Users are required by Delphi forums to supply a username and password, as well as some personal information, such as an email address, gender and birthdate, in order to use these features. This information is required by Delphi Forums and not Review Zone. Please see Delphi's privacy policy if you are concerned about how they gather and disseminate these data. (Please see the Public Forums/ Message Boards section below.)
·Email
If you choose to email us directly, whether to take advantage of our technical advice email service, to present your opinions, suggestions or comments, or for any other reason, your email address will automatically become available to us. This information will be used only to respond to your communication. Your email address and personal information, should you choose to provide any, will be treated as confidential and will not be shared with any third parties.
·Usage tracking
Review Zone tracks user traffic patterns and IP addresses throughout the website in order to gather broad demographic information, to diagnose server problems and for website administration. While we track overall page views to determine which sections of our website are preferred by a majority of users, this data is not correlated with individual users, nor do we keep track of individual usage statistics. Overall statistics are gathered in order for us to better tailor our website to your needs. Broad demographic information gathered in this manner may be shared with advertisers, but no user-specific information will be divulged to any third parties and aggregated demographic data is not correlated with individual users.
Other relevant data that you should know are outlined below.
·Cookies
Cookies are small data files that some websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. At present, Review Zone does not use cookies. However, services offered by Review Zone, such as the announcement mailing list using Listbot and the Delphi forums, do use cookies to keep track of users. Please see the explanation of cookies below.
About cookies: Cookie files are written to your hard drive by some websites when you visit them. Such files can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself: cookies cannot read data off your hard drive. You can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or to refuse cookies altogether.
·Links to other websites
The Review Zone website contains links to other websites as well as advertisements linked to our sponsors. Review Zone is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any such websites that you may access from a link or advertisement on our site. Please contact them directly if you have any questions about how they gather and use information about you when you access their content.