Metrotpn.com 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. Metrotpn.com
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. Metrotpn.com
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
Metrotpn.com 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
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental
consent.
Usage tracking
Metrotpn.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of
our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data
about individual users. Metrotpn.com 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).
Metrotpn.com 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. Metrotpn.com
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
Metrotpn.com 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. Metrotpn.com 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.
Metrotpn.com 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
Metrotpn.com 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
Metrotpn.com 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: