Privacy Policy | Afore Media

Privacy

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This privacy policy regards how we store and deal with your user information.
You can only use this site if you agree to this Privacy Policy.

When registering at AforeMedia, you will agree to have read, understood, and accepted the following terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any of these terms, you must not register.

1. COOKIES
1.1. Your browser must accept cookies.
1.2. You allow us to use cookies to store any session, unique identifiers, preferences, or any other data that will help us among others to identify you as a visitor or logged in member, and provide you with the best browsing experience at our site.
2. USER ACCOUNT
2.1. Your email addresses will not be shown, given or sold.
2.2. Your personal email address will only be used for Aforemedia to communicate with you and to send you a new password in case you request it.
2.3. Your payment processor email addresses will only be used for us to send you your requested payments and to confirm what you purchase.
2.4. Your user password will be stored in an irreversible format.
2.5. Your user password will never be shown, sold or given.
2.6. The activity of your account will be closely monitored and recorded for quality and security purposes in order to provide you with better support and to act as an extra assurance against any misusage. Your account’s activity / data will not be freely shared with third parties under any circumstances and it will not be used in any other way nor to any other end.
2.7. Conversations between you and our support are private. You are not allowed to publicly display them.
3. USERNAME
3.1. Your username will be kept hidden by default from other users if you sign up without a referrer.
3.2. Your username will be shown by default to other users if you sign up under a referrer.
3.3. Regardless of the default setting, you will still be able to override the display status at any time.
3.4. Regardless of the setting you have, your username will always be displayed in the Forum and in the Chat.
4. ADVERTISEMENTS
4.1. AforeMedia is not responsible for any of the contents in advertisements shown at AforeMedia. This applies to all advertisement information we may display.
4.2. It’s your responsibility when you click an advertisement link, click a link inside the advertisement page or browse its contents.
4.3. All advertisements are the responsibility of its advertiser and you must comply to their own Terms of Service and Privacy Policies.

DATA COLLECTION

AforeMedia Cares about your privacy, so we follow The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project, or P3P practices. P3P was designed to give web users more precise control of the kind of information that they want to allow to be released.

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as “statements”.) Our policy contains 4 data groups. The data practices of each group will be outlined separately as follows:

GROUP “ACCESS LOG INFORMATION”

We collect the following information:

Click-stream data
HTTP protocol elements

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity
Web site and system administration
Research and development

This data will be used solely by AforeMedia , and its agents. The following explains why this data is collected. Our Web server collects access logs containing this information.

GROUP “COOKIES”

We collect the following information:

HTTP cookies
Flash Cookies

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Research and development.
One-time tailoring.

This data will be used solely by AforeMedia , and its agents. The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected: Cookies are used to track visitors to our site, so we can better understand what portions of our site best serve you. We also use cookies to allow our server to maintain information about the contents of your shopping cart.

GROUP “TRANSACTION INFORMATION” (REQUIRED)

We collect the following information:

Physical contact information
Online contact information
Demographic data
Purchase information

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity
Research and development

This data will be used solely by AforeMedia and its agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:

Contacting visitors for marketing of services or products.

This data will be used solely by AforeMedia and its agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:

Delivery services

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Information we collect in order to process your purchase.

COOKIES

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.

Flash Cookies (local shared objects) are a technology offered by Macromedia Flash Player. You can set your operating system permissions so, that browser will not be able to write any information on your disk to protect your privacy. Next option how to avoid Flash Cookies is to uninstall Macromedia Flash Player from your computer.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

User targeting
Research and development

COMPACT POLICY SUMMARY

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:

CP=NOI CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa CONa OUR DELa BUS IND PHY ONL UNI PUR COM NAV DEM STA

The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

COMPACT POLICY SUMMARY

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:

CP=NOI CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa CONa OUR DELa BUS IND PHY ONL UNI PUR COM NAV DEM STA

The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

Field	Meaning
`CP=`	This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy.
`NOI`	No identifiable information is collected, so no access is possible.
`CURa`	The data is used for completion of the current activity.
`ADMa`	The data is used for site administration.
`DEVa`	The data is used for research and development.
`TAIa`	The data is used for tailoring the site.
`CONa`	The data is used for contacting the user.
`OUR`	The data is given to ourselves and our agents.
`DELa`	The data is given to delivery services.
`BUS`	Our business practices specify how long the data will be kept.
`IND`	The data will be kept indefinitely.
`PHY`	Physical contact information is collected.
`ONL`	Online contact information is collected.
`UNI`	Unique identifiers are collected.
`PUR`	Purchase information is collected.
`COM`	Computer information is collected.
`NAV`	Navigation and clickstream data is collected.
`DEM`	Demographic and socioeconomic data is collected.
`STA`	State-management data is collected

The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.

POLICY EVALUATION

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy’s compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie’s policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy’s compact policy against Microsoft’s stated behavior for IE6.

Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.

Unsatisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered unsatisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. The behavior of Internet Explorer 6 regarding cookies set under this compact policy is as follows:

	First-party usage	Third-party usage
Persistent Cookies	Low: Policy satisfactory at this level; cookies will be accepted. Medium: Opt-out is not provided for all unsatisfactory purposes and recipients, so the cookie will be downgraded to a session cookie. Medium High: No opt-out is provided, so the cookie will be blocked. High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked.	Low: Opt-out is not provided for all unsatisfactory purposes and recipients, so the cookie will be downgraded to a session cookie. Medium: Opt-out is not provided for all unsatisfactory purposes and recipients, so the cookie will be blocked. Medium High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked. High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked.
Session Cookies	Low: Policy satisfactory at this level; cookies will be accepted. Medium: Policy satisfactory at this level; cookies will be accepted. Medium High: Policy satisfactory at this level; cookies will be accepted. High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked.	Low: Policy satisfactory at this level; cookies will be accepted. Medium: Opt-out is not provided for all unsatisfactory purposes and recipients, so the cookie will be blocked. Medium High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked. High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked.

A policy which is considered unsatisfactory by Internet Explorer 6 contains certain categories of data which are used or shared in a particular manner. This policy is placed in the unsatisfactory category, because the following categories of data are associated with this policy’s cookies:

Physical contact information is collected.
Online contact information is collected.

In addition, the data is used in the following manner, marking the policy as unsatisfactory:

The data is used for contacting the user.

Note that allowing an opt-out will make this policy acceptable under the Low and Medium settings, and under Medium High for first-party cookie usage. At the High setting, and at the Medium High setting for third-party cookies, all of these data uses must be opt-in for the policy to be considered satisfactory.