Vote Monitor - America Votes 2008

Virtual Vote Monitor Network (VVMN) takes your privacy seriously. Because we gather certain types of information about our users we want to help you understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. These privacy practices apply to the version of the web site you were viewing when you clicked through to this policy, which is operated by VVMN its partner or affiliate.

Any personal information provided to VVMN via votemonitor.net will be used solely for the purposes of calculating votes and generate statistics and shall not be supplied to anyone outside VVMN.

If you are aged 16 or under, please obtain your parent/guardian's permission BEFORE providing personal information to votemonitor.net. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information VVMN makes no warranty however that all votes rendered by such persons shall be removed from final vote counting although it shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that its systems provide appropriate safeguards for such. Similarly VVMN absolutely does not accept and nor can it reasonably be expected to accept any liability for voting conducted by persons who obscure or mislead as to their age.

If you have authorized VVMN to contact you for the purposes of information updates and other communication, your details may be placed on the VVMN databases. You may at any time ask to be removed from these databases by sending your details to remove(at)votemonitor.net. There may be a delay between when we receive your notification to be removed from our databases and the actual removal, and you may continue to receive updates.

VVMN may collect following anonymous information

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Web bugs & servers: We use electronic images known as Web bugs - sometimes called single-pixel GIFs, transparent GIFs, or clear gifs - that allow us to track general user traffic patterns. As is usual, VVMN also automatically receives and records information from its servers and from your browser, including your IP address, the time, and information about the page you requested.

We use tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including: keeping count of return visits to our site or our advertiser' or partners' sites, accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass), statistical information on Web site and advertisement usage determining which features users like best saving your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our sites.