This site is owned and operated by Connecting Rainbows. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Connecting Rainbows, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
Connecting Rainbows gathers two types of information about users:
Under no circumstances does Connecting Rainbows divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
Connecting Rainbows 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 policy
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Connecting Rainbows gathers the names and email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the instructions provided in every newsletter.
2. "E-mail this" policy
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.
3. Blog subscription policy
We will offer a free blog subscription to users. Connecting Rainbows gathers the names and email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this subscription list by following the instructions provided by the subscription service provider.
4. Blog comment policy
We may offer interactive blog comments 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 are posted at the users discretion.
Usage tracking
Connecting Rainbows tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Connecting Rainbows 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).
Connecting Rainbows 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
Connecting Rainbows does NOT use "cookies".
Connecting Rainbows 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 within our blog. 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.
