Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) and the Rubicon Media Group takes seriously
the issue of safeguarding your privacy online. Please read
the following to understand our views and practices regarding
this matter, and how they pertain to you as you make full
use of our publication. This statement discloses the privacy
practices for our publication "Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com)"
including: - What
information this site gathers/tracks about you
- What
this site does with the information it gathers/tracks
- With
whom this site shares the information it gathers/tracks
- This
site's opt-out policy
Questions
regarding these statements should be directed to the Offroad.com's
(Off-Road.Com) Editorial Staff at estaff@off-road.com
Frequent Asked Questions
Answers
Does Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) ask for personal information?
In
general you are not require to divulge any personal information
in order to read the content on Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com)
(ORC). However you may be asked for some information when
accessing certain of Offroad.com's (Off-Road.Com) features
such as described below:
- ORC
Mailing lists: ORC Mailing lists: When subscribing
to an ORC sponsored mailing list you will have to supply
your name and email address in order to receive List
Email. ORC reserves the right to sell advertisings space
in the email list venue. Commonly, advertisements are
small text ads located in the header or footer of list
traffic messages sent to list subscribers. By joining
an ORC Mailing List you agree to recieve this information.
- ORC
Bulletin Board System: You may be asked to supply
a name, your email address for the primary purpose of
preventing abuse of our BBS system. ORC may also send
system and site announcements regarding content or features
released on our system. By joining an ORC BBS you agree
to recieve this information.
- ORC
Free Community Web Pages: You will be asked for
detailed personal identifying information such as your
name, address, phone number, email address, etc. ORC
primarily gathers this information so we may identify
the people who are posting web pages through our service,
prevent abuse of this service and prevent illegal or
detrimental activities. ORC may also send system and
site announcements regarding content or features released
on our system. By obtaining an ORC Free Home Page Account
you agree to recieve this information.
- ORC
Contests or Sweepstakes: In order to enter any of
Offroad.com's (Off-Road.Com) contests or sweepstakes
you will be required to enter certain personal identifying
information such as your name, address and phone number
and may be asked certain demographic information as
well. In this instance the demographic information is
separated from the identifying information. The necessary
identifying information such as names and addresses
may be supplied to the companies furnishing the prizes
for these contests. The demographic information, without
any specific personal identifiers, is used by Offroad.com
(Off-Road.Com) to develop summarized demographic information
about our readership. Companies sponsoring contests
or sweepstakes in direct partnership with Offroad.com
(Off-Road.Com) agree not to sell or distribute the information
derived from that contest.
- ORC
Store Order Forms: When buying products from Offroad.com's
(Off-Road.Com) store you will have to enter personal
identifying information and financial information such
a credit cards numbers. This is done via Offroad.com's
(Off-Road.Com) secure server. The information is used
only to process your order and for internal, statistics
gathering purposses.
- ORC
Advertisers: Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) is an advertising
supported commercial publication. Companies may run
ads on our publication and those ads may lead to the
companies web sites and/or product order forms. Those
sites, ads or order forms, whether hosted on our site
or off of our site, may ask you for certain specific
information. Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) has no control
over what these outside companies may do with the information
that you supply them.
- Banner
Ads: In addition to our regular banner advertising,
Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) displays banner advertisements
from "Double Click". We encourage you, the consumer,
to visit the Double Click site, and review their Privacy
Policy to determine if the use of their banner advertisements
and services meet your needs in regards to privacy issues.
Off-Road.com makes no guarantees, nor assumes any
liability resulting from the reader/consumer's use of
Double Click derived banner ads. To view the Double
click Privacy Policy, please see http://www.doubleclick.com:8080/privacy_policy/,
or send e-mail to info@doubleclick.net for further information.
- Commercial
Inquiries: Companies or individuals seeking information
about advertising on Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) or entering
a listing into our yellow pages database are asked to
provide information about their business. The information
collected is used by our marketing staff to respond
to the inquiry. In respect to our on-line, Yellow Pages,
commercial data is made available to our readers as
a resource for the commercial entity.
How
does Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) use my personal information? Offroad.com's
(Off-Road.Com) goal in collecting the limited personal
information it does is to provide you, the user, with
the best web experience possible and to prevent the abuse
of our services.
What if I make a purchase through a site hosted by Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com)
or a merchant who advertises on Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com)? If
you place an order at a merchant site hosted by Offroad.com
(Off-Road.Com) or with a merchant advertising on Offroad.com
(Off-Road.Com) they may collect information from you,
including your credit card and contact information. This
information will be used by the merchant. Offroad.com
(Off-Road.Com) does not own these businesses and all transactions
and use of any customer information are the sole responsibility
of the merchant. For further information regarding the
merchant's use of customer information, contact that business
or merchant directly.
Will Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) disclose any of my personal information?
Offroad.com
(Off-Road.Com) will not disclose any of your personal
information, except when we believe in good faith that
the law requires it as explained when we ask you for the
data to protect the rights or property of Offroad.com.
Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) may disclose aggregated user
or demographic statistics.
Will Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) use my information for direct mailings?
Offroad.com
(Off-Road.Com) will send you public service, breaking
news and other items of general or specific interest to
the off-road community. use of your Email information
may be sold or distributed to organizations and/or business
for the purposes of delivering advertisements of general
interest to off road enthusiasts.
What
about kids? Off-Road.com
does not provide content, services, or products for children.
If you are under 18, you may use off-road.com only with
involvement of a parent or guardian.
Does Offroad.com
(Off-Road.Com) use cookies?
Yes,
Cookies may be used on Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) in various
ways:
- At
this time cookies are primarily used to control the
delivery of various media including banner ads to our
readers. These benign cookies are used to keep you from
seeing the same rotating advertising over and over again.
These cookies may be set when enter our site, a specific
section or each page and should be erased when you have
left our site.
- Offroad.com
(Off-Road.Com) does not use cookies to collect any personal
identifying information about you or your computer except
that it may attempt to determine your browser family,
screen size and display information for purposes of
showing you web pages in the best format possible.
- Cookies
may be used in Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com)'s stores to
help create and maintain a personalized shopping cart.
- Cookies
and/or IP Addresses are also used to estimate our audience
size and page traffic statistics. Each browser accessing
Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) may be given a unique cookie,
which is then used to determine repeat usage versus
initial usage, and to help analyze traffic patterns.
- In
the future Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) may use cookie-based
technology to provide personalized services, to remember
login information or to provide more advanced features.
- Advertisers
or merchants, either on or off of our site may use cookie-based
technology. We have no control over their use of cookies.
- Lastly,
advertising networks that serve ads onto Offroad.com
(Off-Road.Com) may also use cookies.
Does
Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) use or collect my IP Address? Offroad.com
(Off-Road.Com) collects IP addresses for the purposes
of system administration and to track and report readership
and site performance statistics.
What
is Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com)'s Opt-Out Policy?
Reading
Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) and using our services is an
entirely voluntary action. On any form where you are asked
to submit any personal information that you are not comfortable
submitting you may elect not to fill out the form and/or
utilize the service. Where appropriate we may also provide
an Opt-Out or Opt-In option, or options, that let you
elect how parts of the information you are providing is
used. Any such option will be clearly indicated. We have
no control over how our advertisers or sites linked to
or hosted by Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) use information
that they may collect, or their privacy policies.
What
else should I know about my privacy? Please
keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily post or disclose
personal information online - for example on message boards,
through email, or in chat areas - that same information
can be collected and used by others. In short, if you
post personal information online that is accessible to
the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from
other parties in return. Furthermore,
while we endeavor to take all reasonable precautions to
protect your personal information, Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com)
cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information
you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. In
addition, Offroad.com's (Off-Road.Com) advertisers, merchants,
partners, and third party Internet sites and services
accessible through or linked to Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com)
or parties whom we inform you are collecting data in connection
with sweepstakes, promotions, direct, email advertisements
etc., have separate privacy and data collection practices,
independent of us. Offroad.com (Off-Road.Com) has no control
over, or responsibility for or liability in regards to
these independent policies or actions. REMEMBER: You are solely responsible for protecting your personal
information and the secrecy of your passwords and/or any
account information. Please be careful and responsible
whenever you're online. We will do the best we can to
help you, but you have to take reasonable precautions
and have reasonable expectations as well.
We
do not have any control over sites that may advertise
with us, or merchants that may have various forms of advertising,
sites, or storefronts on our servers, or sites which may
be linked to us. However, if you become aware of any privacy
abuses by any of those merchants, sites or services please
inform us so we can take any action we deem appropriate. Third
Party Advertising
We use MaxOnline and other third-party advertising companies
to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies
may use information (not including your name, address,
email address or telephone number) about your visits to
this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements
on this site and other sites about goods and services
that may be of interest to you. If you would like more
information about this practice and to know your choices
about not having this information used by these companies,
please click
here. Third
Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site,
our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique
“cookie” on your browser.
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