About Your Privacy on WorldCountries.info
The privacy of visitors to WorldCountries.info (WCI) is important to us.
We recognize that privacy of your personal information is important to you as well. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit WCI, and how we safeguard your information.
We never sell your personal information to third parties.
Log Files.
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site. Any site which uses an analytics software of some kind to track visitors and usage obtains this same information, which is most sites on the Internet.
Cookies and Web Beacons.
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. We also use third party advertisements on WCI to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
You should be aware of the following information:
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website.
- Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to WCI and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the advertising opt-out page. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
If you have not opted out of third-party ad serving, the cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on this website.
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Your email address. WCI may request your email address for new feature notifications, should you choose to receive them, or as part of a registration process, should be elect to implement members only features in the future. Under no circumstances will WCI sell your email address to anyone for any reason.
These policies are subject to change, so be sure to check back often!
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