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Because www.texasfbt.com gathers 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
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COMMITMENT
TO YOUR PRIVACY This site is owned and operated by www.texasfbt.com. Your privacy on the Internet is of
the utmost importance to us. We want to make your online experience
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. Additional Information: Terms of
Service Information this
Site Gathers and Tracks www.texasfbt.com gathers of
information about users: ·
Information that users provide through optional, voluntary
submissions. These are voluntary submissions to participate in our message
boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and
surveys: www.texasfbt.com 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: 1. Message boards/forums ·
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must
register separately for this service (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. 2. 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. www.texasfbt.com 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. 3. Surveys ·
www.texasfbt.com 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 www.texasfbt.com may track user
traffic patterns throughout our site. However, we do not correlate this
information with data about individual users. www.texasfbt.com may 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). www.texasfbt.com 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. www.texasfbt.com uses cookies to
track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our system delivers a
one-time cookie to better track 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 www.texasfbt.com 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 enable users to participate in
polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. 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. We will not disclose any information
about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal
process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public. SHARING OF THE
INFORMATION www.texasfbt.com uses the
above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs. 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 www.texasfbt.com 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 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 www.texasfbt.com. 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. We collect the following information:
At the user's option, we may also
collect the following data:
This data will be used for the
following purposes:
This data will be used by ourselves
and our agents. The following explanation is provided
for why this data is collected: Data collected from all Web users:
access logs, and search strings (if entered). At the user's option, we will collect
the following data:
This data will be used for the
following purposes:
This data will be used by ourselves
and our agents. The following explanation is provided
for why this data is collected: COOKIES Cookies are used to track visitors to
our site, so we can better understand what portions of our site best serve
you. Cookies are a technology which can be
used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an
element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then
store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you
receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. Our site makes use of cookies.
Cookies are used for the following purposes:
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