NowBytes

1. Nowbytes.com Online Privacy Policy

Nowbytes collects data, including personally identifying information, from people who use the Nowbytes Web site. This section of our privacy policy explains how we collect and use this data. Please note that Nowbytes subscriber data is maintained separately from data gathered from our online users. 

Information we collect and how we use it

When you visit the Nowbytes Web site, Nowbytes collects several forms of usage data, including:

• Log data. Our servers automatically record certain information sent by your browser, such as your Web request, your Internet Protocol address, your referring URL, your browser type and language, and the date and time of your request.
• Traffic and advertising data. Other cookies are used to enable Nowbytes and our advertisers and service providers to gather and analyze site traffic and usage information, and to manage the content and advertisements presented. These cookies sometimes work in conjunction with other techniques, such as clear GIFs or pixel tags. The cookies placed by Nowbytes do not contain personally identifying information, but they may gather information about what sites and types of content you have visited and use that information to determine which content and ads appear when you visit various Web sites, including the Nowbytes site.

Browsers or third-party software can allow you to block the use of cookies while you surf our site. Or you can use third-party anonymizer services to mask information in your cookies or even general data such as your IP address. In such cases you would not be able to take advantage of most of the personalization services offered on the Nowbytes Web site.

The aggregated information we collect is used for a number of purposes including the following:

1. To improve the content and design of the Nowbytes Web site.
2. To enable our audit bureau to verify our claims of traffic to the site.
3. To help advertisers, potential advertisers or marketers assess the suitability of the site for their ad campaigns.
4. To help us understand more about the interests of our users, so that we can offer goods and services we believe may be of interest.

Many portions of the Nowbytes site can be used without registering or giving us any personal information such as (but not limited to) your name and e-mail address.

User Tracking. This Site implements a user tracking feature, whereby the activities of each unique visitor to the Site are monitored. This is done regardless of whether the visitor has registered on the Site or is visiting the Site anonymously. If you do not register on this Site or fill in your personal details on any forms, you do remain anonymous and we do not discover your identity. If you do register on this Site, our use of user tracking enables us to identify your future and prior activities on the Site, including your activity before you registered. This includes pages on our Site that you visited. User tracking also allows us to determine through which means you have reached our Site (i.e. which search engines or links) up to one web page back. The purpose of our user tracking is to analyze our visitors' actions in order to improve the user experience of visitors to our Site, as well as to better understand the priorities and interests of our potential customers and partners in order to better suit their needs and increase the efficiency of our sales and marketing processes.

Use of Cookies.

A "cookie" is a small text file transferred by a Web Site to a computer that is browsing the Web Site. Even if you do not register on this Site, upon your first visit to this Site (or subsequent visits if you delete the cookie), a cookie is stored on your computer, which automatically identifies you to the Site. This is done for several technical reasons, including enabling the "User Tracking" described above. In addition, for your convenience, the cookie can "autofill" information on forms on the Site, precluding the need for you to fill out the same information on our registration forms each time you want to access information that requires registration. However, cookies by themselves cannot be used to discover the identity of the user; the only personal information we learn about you is that which you provide to us, as described above. If you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can change the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. In addition, you can delete any cookies that have already been placed on your computer.

Internet Protocol Addresses. We collect the IP addresses of all visitors to our Site. We use your IP address in order to administer the Site, help diagnose problems with our server, to gather broad demographic information, and for the "User Tracking" described above.

Hyperlinks.

This Site contains hyperlinks to other web sites. This privacy policy applies only to this Site and not to any other sites, including sites accessed by hyperlink from this Site. Nowbytes has no responsibility, liability for, or control over those other web sites or Internet resources or their collection, use and disclosure of your personal information, nor has it any control over the privacy policies of any of these sites. When you leave the Nowbytes Site via one of the links then you should read the privacy policy, if any, provided by the site that you have visited.

3rd Party Based Advertising.

• Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Nowbytes.com
• Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.