This website is owned and operated by FFS. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. FFS wants to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because FFS gathers certain types of information about its users and clients, you should fully understand FFS's policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy policy discloses what information FFS gathers and how it is used.
- Information that FFS gathers and tracks: FFS gathers two types of information about users:
[1] Information that users provide through optional and voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive services, products, information, electronic newsletters from FFS and to participate in FFS message boards or forums, to email a friend, and for participation in polls and surveys.
[2] The information FFS gathers through aggregated tracking information derives mainly by tallying page views throughout this website. This information allows FFS to tailor web content better to reader's needs and to understand the demographic pattern of the audience better. Under no circumstances does FFS divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
- Electronic newsletters policy (dispatches): FFS may offer a free electronic newsletter to users. FFS 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.
- Message boards/forums policy: Users of FFS website's message boards and forums must register separately for these services in order to post messages, although they need not register to visit the website. During registration, the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.
- Email this to a friend/forward policy: FFS website users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "Email this to a friend" or “Forward” or similar buttons. 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.
- Polling: FFS may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what the audience of this website thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. FFS 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.
- Surveys: FFS may occasionally conduct user surveys to deliver contents in a better way to the audience. FFS never shares any of the information about specific individuals with any third party.
- Usage tracking: FFS may track user traffic patterns through different web pages on the website. However, FFS does not correlate this information with data about individual users. FFS 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). However, such information will be strictly for internal use and not for sharing with any third party. FFS may sometimes track and catalog the search terms that users enter in a search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. FFS uses tracking information to determine which areas of the website users like and do not like based on traffic to those areas. FFS does not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps FFS continue to build a better service for you.
- Cookies: FFS 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 website to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. However, the only personal information a cookie can contain is the information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other websites. FFS uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you have 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 website. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
- Use of information: FFS uses any information voluntarily given by the users to enhance their experience in this website: Whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the websites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of the users. As stated above, FFS uses the 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. FFS sends out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when FFS thinks subscribers might be particularly interested in something FFS is doing. FFS never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties.
- Disclosure: FFS will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process to protect the personal safety of this website users or the public.
- Security: FFS operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems for its clients. FFS's security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary.
- Your consent: By using this website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by FFS. If FFS decides to change the privacy policy, FFS will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information is collected, how it is used and under what circumstances FFS discloses it.
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