This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time; the date of the most recent revision will appear on this page, so check back often. Continued access of worldiscoveries by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Privacy Policy.
It is the goal of worldiscoveries.com to bring you information that is tailored to your individual needs and, at the same time, protect your privacy. The following is a summary of the various ways we treat the information you provide us while using our site.
Worldiscoveries.net generally collects personally identifying information with your specific knowledge and consent. For instance, when you enter an article contest, subscribe to our newsletters, or receiving articles by email, or register for any portion of our services, you are asked to provide information, such as your e-mail address, name or phone number. Optional information such as your age or gender and short curriculum vitae may also be requested. This information will be displayed as author's information of your article. Nevertheless, some parts of your information \ may not be displayed if you choose to do so.
Worldiscoveries.com uses this information to provide you with the service you have requested. For example, if you subscribe to any of our newsletters, we may use your e-mail address to send you a confirmation notice and your mailing address to send you your newsletter. Similarly, we will use this information to notify you about special offers, We may also use the information to communicate with you about new features, products or services, or to improve the services that we offer by tailoring them to your needs.
Worldiscoveries.com provides an environment whereby you may submit your own written work for publication on our site. Obviously, if your material is accepted it will be displayed on the site. You have complete control as to the author information displayed with the article. While we do ask for your real name and an email address for the purposes of communicating with you about your submission, we will never use these on site. We provide separate "username" and "public email" fields which you may optionally use to control your visibility on the site.
We also allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with services, such as technical maintenance or forums, but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide those services. And if you accept your article be used by online or offline publishing media we may forward your information to those publishers. Also we will forward your email information to third parties for services such as credit card processing and order fulfillment. We may also provide your information to our advertisers, so that they can serve ads to you that meet your needs or match your interests. While worldiscoveries.com will seek to require such third parties to follow appropriate privacy policies and will not authorize them to use this information except for the express purpose for which it is provided, worldiscoveries.com does not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of third parties. There may also be occasion when we are legally required to provide access to our database in order to cooperate with police investigations or other legal proceedings. In those instances, the information is provided only for that purpose. Worldiscoveries.com will never use your email for forwarding to Third Parties using email addresses for spam purposes. We will never "spam" you, nor provide your address to other parties. Ever.
The raw logging information will not be shared with anyone else. We may however sometimes disclose high level information about our levels of site traffic to selected partners. This would include only broad strokes information such as number of total visitors per month, number of pages viewed, etc.
When you visit our pages, you are completely anonymous unless you explicitly volunteer information in the process of registering for our forum and services. But, as with most web sites, we do collect some rudimentary statistical information to help us assess our levels of site traffic. This anonymous numerical information does not identify you to us in any relevant way, nor will we ever try to draw any connections. It is used strictly for analyzing levels of site traffic, number of visitors, etc.
This site uses chat rooms, forums, message boards, personal profile, and/or rss/blog news available to its users and publishers. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Your Internet Protocol ("IP") address is usually associated with the place from which you enter the Internet, like your Internet Service Provider, your company or your university. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, gather broad demographic information, and administer our Web site. IP addresses may be used in cases such as violation of terms of use and privacy, articles abusing and harrasing other Parties or individuals, etc.. in order to blockwebasite access to these IP address PCs.
Worldiscoveries.com is intended for use by children and kids, even by those under age 13. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information or use our public discussion areas, forums and chats without the accompanement of an adult. Minors between the ages of 13 and 17 must get the permission of their parent(s) or legal guardians(s), including subscriptions, on this site.
If your children disclose information about themselves in our public discussion areas (forum), they may get unsolicited messages from other parties. Accordingly, you should tell them not to do so.
We also use outside ad companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we may use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by the ad companies, and we do not have access to this information.
We provide many links to other sites on our pages. We of course make no claims of responsibility as to the privacy policies of these various linked sites.
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