Information We Collect
You're not required to provide information directly, but when you use certain site functions like registering for services or accessing content/features on our website - we may ask you to provide certain information. This includes:
Basic contact information like name and email address:
- Username and password
- Information shared in community discussions and other interactive online features
- Search queries conducted on the Site
- Correspondence sent to us
The Site automatically collects certain information when you visit and interact with it. This includes:
- Your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address
- Your browser type and operating system
- The web pages you visited immediately before and after you came to the Site
- Activities within community discussions
- Web pages and advertisements you view
- The links that you click on within the Site
- Your bandwidth speed and information about the software programs that are installed on your computer
Aggregated data about email click-through rates and user video viewing
- Standard server log information
- Information collected through HTML cookies, Flash cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies. For more information, read our cookies policy.
We may access information about you from third-party sources, including:
- Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting
- Social networking sites
- Databases
- Online marketing firms
- Ad targeting firms
This information is collected if you access third-party social networking services (such as Facebook Connect or Twitter) through the Site. The information collected includes your username and connection lists for those services. This information collected may include:
Demographic data, such as age range, gender, and interests:
- Advertisement interaction and viewing data, such as ad click-through rates and information about how many times you viewed a particular ad
- Unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers, can identify the physical location of such devices as per the applicable law.