Climate Change Central Privacy Statement

Climate Change Central is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following statement to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of the Climate Change Central website. The Climate Change Central Website is owned and operated by Climate Change Central

Gathering of Information

Voluntary Submission

Climate Change Central does not collect personally identifying information about any individual Climate Change Central website user except when knowingly provided by such individual. For example, we may ask you for information when you register for a contest or survey or to receive our C3 View's newsletter. You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of the Climate Change Central website, but you may be unable to access certain options and services.

Cookies

A cookie is a data file that certain websites write to your computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. Climate Change Central uses cookies solely to track user traffic patterns throughout the Climate Change Central website. We use this data on an anonymous basis and we do not correlate this information with personal data of any user.

Most website browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However, if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our website, you may not be able to use certain features of the site.

Browser Level Information

Climate Change Central web servers automatically collect information about a site user's IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this information from the user's browser (information provided by every user's browser). This information is collected in a database and used--in an aggregated, anonymous manner--in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our website. This information is automatically logged by most websites.

Use of Information

Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience on our website. We achieve this goal by, among other things, providing interactive communications such as our C3 Views newsletters to the e-mail address that you provide to us, and developing future editorial content based on your interests. To develop content targeted to your interests, we use aggregated user information to determine which areas of our website users prefer based upon traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but instead how well each page or content area performs overall.