Cackalacky Privacy Policy & Legal Notice
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Inc. First in Interstate and International Commerce Notice: Cackalacky,
Cackalacky Jack, and all associated logos are the trademarks and/or
service marks of Cackalacky, Inc. These trademarks may be registered in
certain jurisdictions. The Cackalacky website, web pages and all content
provided therein, are protected by copyright, trademark, and other
applicable intellectual property and proprietary rights laws, and are
owned, controlled, and/or licensed by Cackalacky Inc. and/or its
affiliates and related companies. Some stories and characters appearing
thereon, including the stories, tales and adventures set forth therein
and on the site(s), may be fictional, or may be based loosely upon
facts, or are stories that belong to the public domain. Any likeness or
similarity to any person, character or event is purely coincidental and
unintended. Nothing contained on these site(s) should be considered as
granting, by implication, estoppel, custom, usage or otherwise, any
license or right to use any trademarks, copyrighted material, logos, or
other names or intellectual property, in whole or in part, including,
but not limited to, those who may be identifying the site(s) and/or its
affiliates and related companies or their respective products and
services displayed on the site, without first having the expressed
written consent of Cackalacky Inc. or such third party that may own such
trademarks, logos and other names displayed on the sites. As always, you
may enjoy our site, its content, but don't even think 'bout using it
wrongfully!
Commitment
To Your Privacy:
This site is owned and operated by Cackalacky, Inc. Your privacy on the
Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Cackalacky, Inc., 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.
The Gathering & Tracking Of
Information By Cackalacky, Inc.
Cackalacky, Inc. gathers two
types of information about users:
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, and
from participation in polls and surveys:
Information Cackalacky, 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
Cackalacky, Inc. derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and
advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to
keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances does
Cackalacky, Inc. divulge any information about an individual user to a
third party.
Cackalacky, Inc. Gathers
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:
Electronic newsletters
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Cackalacky, 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.
Surveys
Cackalacky, 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. That's just plain creepy.
Usage tracking
Cackalacky, Inc. may track user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. Cackalacky, 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).
Cookies
Although it is highly unlikely, 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. Cackalacky,
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.
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Use Of Information
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Cackalacky, 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. Cackalacky, 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 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 track search terms
entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our
users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
Sharing Of Information
Cackalacky, Inc. uses the above-described information to tailor our
content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand
our audience's demographics. 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.
Security
Cackalacky, Inc. 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.
Opt Out Policy
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.
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this
information by Cackalacky, Inc. 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.
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