This site is owned and operated by Realtek
Technologies. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost
importance to us. At Realtek Technologies, we want to make your
experience online 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.
Definition of the Information Realtek
Technologies gathers and tracks
Realtek Technologies gathers two types of
information about users:
Information that users provide through
optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary
submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to
participate in our message boards or forums, to email a
friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:
Information Realtek Technologies gathers
through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by
tallying page views throughout our sites. This information
allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and
to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the
demographics of our audience. Because Realtek Technologies
derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and
advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is
essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no
circumstances does Realtek Technologies divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
Realtek Technologies 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. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Realtek
Technologies gathers the email addresses of users who
voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this
mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter
that points users to the subscription management page. Users can
also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register
separately for these services (both are 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.
3. "E-mail this to a friend"
Service
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link,
page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this
to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as
well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in
the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the
recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used
for any other purpose.
4. 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.
Realtek Technologies 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.
5. Surveys
Realtek Technologies 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
We will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting
parental consent.
USAGE TRACKING
Realtek Technologies tracks user traffic patterns throughout all
of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with
data about individual users. Realtek Technologies does 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).
Realtek Technologies 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. Realtek Technologies
uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described
above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to
better track ad 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
Realtek Technologies 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 send out electronic newsletters
and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message
boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a
regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally
send out special editions when we think subscribers might be
particularly interested in something we are doing. Realtek
Technologies never shares newsletter mailing lists with any
third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
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.
Realtek Technologies creates aggregate reports
on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers,
sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise
more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements
that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the
usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor
will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. 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
Realtek Technologies uses the
above-described information to tailor our content to suit your
needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's
demographics. 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
Realtek Technologies 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 register to receive our
electronic newsletters.
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 Realtek Technologies.
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.
