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Click here to view the Real Cities Network Privacy Statment.
We welcome you to our site. We ask that you review these Terms and Conditions, which are intended to constitute a binding license agreement that conditions your use of this site ("Agreement"). We have tried to avoid unnecessary legal verbiage and hope that you understand that we are simply trying to protect our rights in order to provide you with access to the free content available at this site. If you do not wish to be bound by this Agreement after you have read it, please leave the site. If you remain at this site, or return thereafter, you agree to be bound by this Agreement.
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3. Links. We may provide links from our site as a convenience to our visitors. We have no control over linked sites and make no representations about any content or material available at these locations. Links are not intended to imply sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement. If you believe that we have provided a link to a site that contains infringing or illegal content or which makes available cracker tools or other circumvention devices, we ask that you notify us so that we may evaluate whether (in our sole discretion) to disable it.
4. Discussion Boards. Although we do not have any obligation to monitor this board, we reserve the right at all times to check this board and to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We also reserve the right to permanently block any user who violates these terms and conditions.
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| Real Cities Network Privacy Statement |
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The Real Cities Network (or "RCN") is a national network of Internet site and services serving
geographic and common interest communities across the United States. The privacy
policies described below are applicable to each site in the Real Cities Network.
You can view the sites included in the Real Cities Network at
http://www.realcities.com.
How is
my personally identifiable information used?
Our main goal is to provide you with a customized and targeted user experience within the Real Cities Network. For instance, your personally identifiable information enables us to greet you when you return to a Real Cities site or service, and provide you with news and services we think will be of interest to you. We review our users' preferences, demographics, traffic patterns, and other information in the aggregate so that we can better understand who our audience is, and what it is you want. Tracking user preferences also helps us serve you targeted advertising. Targeted advertisements are probably more interesting for you, and are definitely more productive for our advertisers. If a local grocery market wants to advertise an upcoming sale, we can target the ad to registered users who live near that grocery market. Please note that we do not share your personally identifying information with the advertiser.
We use a third party to serve ads when you visit our site. This third party ad server may use certain information about your visit to our site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you, but they are not entitled to collect or use personally identifiable information about you i.e., your name, address, email address or telephone numbers). We, or third party ad servers, acting on our behalf, act as the middleman between you and the advertisers that want to reach you. We use the information we collect in non-intrusive common sense ways, like using your credit card number to provide you with products and/or services that you request. All credit card information is transmitted in an encrypted form, using SSL (secure socket layer) encryption, the industry-standard. Although, we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the privacy of your personal information, transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. The RCN assumes no liability for disclosure of data due to errors in transmission or unauthorized third parties.
Finally, if you register for one or more of our sites or services, from time to time, we will send information to you via e-mail about our products and services, or third party products and services we believe may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive these mailings, you can simply check off the appropriate box when you register, or update your profile at any time after registration so you no longer receive such offers and mailings. Please check the registration screens applicable to the service, promotion, or product offering for which you are signing-up for specific instructions on how to update your user profile and/or opt out of receiving offers and mailings. Also, please remember that third party vendors also sell products and services on the Real Cities network, and their policies may differ from ours.
Cookies.
The RCN uses cookies to store and track your
preferences to provide you with a more personalized user experience.
Third party advertisers and our ad server may set and access their cookies
on your computer in accordance with their own privacy policies.
A cookie is a message that is sent to your browser from a Web server
and stored on your computer's hard drive. Most Internet sites use cookies.
You can set your browser preferences to reject all cookies (see below) but
then you will not be able to participate in most customized services, and
you may be required to repeatedly type in your personally identifying
information in order to participate in various services, promotions, or
product offerings. Cookies make your experience easier by saving your
preferences, purchases, and passwords. For example if you choose
"Automatic Login" during registration, the RCN will store a scrambled
version of your username in a permanent "cookie" file on your hard drive
so that we can track your personalized services and preferences from one
visit to the next. We also use cookies that contain no personal information
at all. These cookies, help us estimate our audience size, determine which
areas of the RCN are the most popular, and serve targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about the use of cookies by our
third party ad server and your ability to opt out of receiving
cookies from this third party, please click here.
http://www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy
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