Wow Rides is committed to safeguarding your privacy online.
Please read the following statement to understand how your personal
information will be treated as you make full use of the Wow Rides Web site. The Wow Rides Web site is owned and operated
by Wow Rides Inc.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please
feel free to contact us by e-mail at privacy@wowrides.com.
Gathering of Information Voluntary Submission
Wow Rides does not collect personally identifying information
about any individual Wow Rides Web site user except when knowingly
provided by such individual. For example, we may ask you for
information when you register for a contest or survey or to receive
a newsletter. You always have the option not to provide the information
we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request,
you can still visit most of the Wow Rides Web site, but you
may be unable to access certain options and services.
Cookies
A cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to your
computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file
can contain information, such as a user identification code,
that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. Wow Rides uses cookies solely to track user traffic patterns throughout
the Wow Rides Web site. We use this data on an anonymous basis
and we do not correlate this information with personal data of
any user.
Most Web site browsers automatically accept cookies, but you
can usually change your browser settings to display a warning
before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However,
if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our Web
site, you may not be able to use certain features of the site.
Browser Level Information
Wow Rides Web servers automatically collect information about
a site user's IP address, browser type and referrer by reading
this information from the user's browser (information provided
by every user's browser). This information is collected in a
database and used--in an aggregated, anonymous manner--in our
internal analysis of traffic patterns within our Web site. This
information is automatically logged by most Web sites.
Use of Information
Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance
your experience on our Web site. We achieve this goal by, among
other things, providing interactive communications such as our
electronic newsletters to the e-mail address that you provide
to us, and developing future editorial content based on your
interests. To develop content targeted to your interests, we
use aggregated user information to determine which areas of our
Web site users prefer based upon traffic to those areas. We do
not track what individual users read, but instead how well each
page or content area performs overall.
Wow Rides is a free Web site and we derive revenues from advertising.
In order to attract and retain advertisers we use the aggregated,
anonymous information that we gather (as well as information
from third-party market researchers) to describe our services
to partners and to assist our advertisers and sponsors to better
understand our audience. This is essential to keeping our service
free of charge to our users. We do not disclose personally
identifying information about our users to these parties.
Wow Rides may also disclose information about our users when
we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is required
by law.
When you are on an area of Wow Rides and are asked for personal
information, you are sharing that information with Wow Rides
as well as business partners and vendors providing hosting and
other services for Wow Rides. If you do not want your information
to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer of your
information by not using that particular service. These parties,
as well as advertisers who contract directly with a third-party
service to serve their advertisements, may set their own cookies.
In addition, any personally identifiable information provided
by our users as part of an advertiser promotion online may
be provided directly to advertisers.
Please be aware that Wow Rides sponsors, advertisers or Web
sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable
information about you. The information practices of those parties
and Web sites linked to Wow Rides are not covered by this privacy
statement. Wow Rides users should also be aware that, when
you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas or
bulletin boards, that information may be collected by others
and may result in unsolicited messages from others.
Kids under 13: Do not send any information about yourself to
us--including information such as your name, address, or e-mail
address. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from children under 13. In the event that we learn
we have collected any personal information from a child under
the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will
delete that information from our database as quickly as possible.
How to Contact Us:
If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please
feel free to contact us by e-mail at privacy@wowrides.com.
This statement may change from time to time, so please check
back periodically.
© 2000 Wow Rides Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Definitions:
IP address: Every computer connected to the Internet has a numeric
address called an “IP address." This may or may not
correspond uniquely to a particular computer. In some cases,
IP addresses can be resolved to domain names, which may indicate
a site visitor's Internet service provider, employer, university,
etc. As part of its database analysis Wow Rides resolves IP
addresses to domain names.
Browser type: A user’s browser is a software program running
on a computer that allows users to access documents on the World
Wide Web. Browsers can be either text or graphic. They read HTML
coded pages that reside on a server and interpret the coding
into what the user sees as Web pages. Netscape Navigator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer are examples of Web browsers. Browser
type typically discloses hardware platform, operating system,
and browser software and version.
Referrer: The referrer is the URI of the Internet resource or
page that causes a browser to request a page or image from Wow Rides servers.
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