Privacy Policy
InfoSpace, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“we”, “us” or "our") owns and operates
a number of different sites on the Web (each, an "InfoSpace Site"), including
www.nation.com (“Nation”), and is strongly
committed to protecting the privacy of our user community. This privacy policy provides
details on our information collection and use practices that are specific to Nation.
For our general information collection, use and disclosure practices, please review
our global privacy policy located
here on the InfoSpace corporate website. Please note that this policy applies
only to us and the Nation website, and not to other companies or organizations or
their web sites to which we may provide links or to any software that may be downloaded
from the InfoSpace Sites.
Anonymous User Information
We collect anonymous information each time you visit Nation, and use this information
to provide our services and improve the overall quality of your online experience.
Each time you use our search services to submit a query, we collect your IP address,
referral data, and browser and platform type. We do not require you to share information
that identifies you personally, such as your name or e-mail address, in order to
use the search services available on Nation. We collect this information by assigning
an anonymous ID number to your queries and linking the following additional data
to that number: the date and time you visited Nation, your search terms, and the
links upon which you choose to click. Like most standard website servers, we use
log files to collect and store this anonymous user information.
Individual User Information
From time-to-time we may collect or request information from you that identifies
you personally in addition to the anonymous information described above. This information
may include your contact information (such as name, e-mail address, shipping address,
and zip code) and demographic information (such as age, gender, occupation, and
household income). We will not use or disclose any information that identifies you
personally except as described in this privacy policy.
We may collect or request such personal information in the following ways:
Correspondence
If you contact us, we may keep a record of the contact information you provide us
in order to communicate with you regarding your correspondence.
Surveys, Promotions or Contests
From time to time, we may conduct surveys, promotions or contests on Nation. Participation
in these events is completely voluntary and you will always have a choice whether
or not to participate. Any personal information collected as part of the event will
only be collected and used for purposes of the event, such as to notify the winners
and award prizes for a promotion or contest. Survey information will be used for
purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of the InfoSpace Sites.
User Groups
If you register for a user group on Nation, we request individual user information.
If you choose to participate in a user group, your individual user information will
be used to qualify you and to contact you for various projects at InfoSpace's discretion.
You may opt out of a user group at any time by following the opt out provisions
of the user group and your individual user information will be deleted.
Tell-A-Friend
If you use our referral services for informing friends or family about any of our
services, we may ask you for individual user information and the name and email
address of your friend or family member. We will only use the information you provide
us to send the person an e-mail inviting them to visit the site or use the service.
Third Party Information Gathering
Nation contains links to other websites on the Internet. Please be aware that InfoSpace
is not responsible for the information collection and use and privacy practices
of such other websites and third parties. We encourage our users to be aware when
they leave Nation and to read the privacy statements of each and every other website
that may collect their personally identifiable information. This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by us from the Nation website.
We use third party companies to serve advertisements when you visit Nation. These
companies may use information about your visits to Nation in order to provide advertisements
about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving
advertisements to Nation, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie
on your computer or use other technologies such as pixel tags. Our privacy policy
does not cover any use of information that a third-party ad-serving company may
collect from you. These companies have their own policies as to record keeping and
data retention. If you would like more information about this practice, or would
like to know your choices about not having this information used by advertising
companies, please click here:
http://www.networkadvertising.org/.
Cookies
We and our third party advertising partners (as described above) may place and access
cookies on your computer when you use our services. A cookie is a small data file
sent to your browser and which may then be stored on your computer. We use both
session cookies and persistent cookies. For the session cookie, once you close the
browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file
stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can
be removed by following the instructions provided in your Internet browser help
file.
We use cookie technology to track which pages you view and which Web browsers you
use on Nation. We may also use cookies to help us provide personalized features
and preferences to you in a way that may be linked to individual user information
that you elect to share with us. We also use "action tags" to assist in
delivering the cookie. These action tags allow us to compile statistics and other
data about our customers on an aggregate basis, by embedding a random identifying
number on each user's browser. Then we track where that number shows up on our site.
Sharing
We may need to disclose the personal information we collect from you when required
by law or otherwise necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a criminal
investigation, a court order, or legal process. We may also share your personal
information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take
action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential
threats to the physical safety of any person or violations of our terms of use.
To the extent we use third party service providers or have co-sponsors of any survey,
promotion or contents, the information we collect from you may be accessed or shared
as part of the service or event with any such third party or co-sponsor, provided
that any such disclosure will be subject to written agreement with such third party
or co-sponsor to only use such information for the purpose of the service or event
and to not share or make any other use of the information.
Mergers; Business Transitions
In the event InfoSpace goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being
acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets that involve Nation,
the information we collect from Nation will, in most instances, be transferred to
the third party as part of the assets.
Choice/Opt-out
We desire to keep you in control of the personal information you provide to us.
Accordingly, you can request to review, correct, change or remove the personal information
we collect and store from you at any time by filling out the
contact us
form.
Notification of Changes
If we change or update our privacy policy, we will post the new policy in this location
and provide an updated effective date for the policy so that you are always aware
of our information collection and use practices.
If we change the manner in which we use your personal information from that stated
at the time of collection, we will notify users by posting a notice on our website
for 30 days.
Special Notification with respect to Children's Privacy (Users under the age of
13)
In response to concerns about protecting children's privacy online, Congress enacted
the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"), which
sets forth rules and procedures governing the ways in which websites may collect,
use and disclose any personal information for children under the age of 13. In accordance
with InfoSpace policy and COPPA regulations, we DO NOT:
- Request or knowingly collect personally identifiable information online or offline
contact information from users under 13 years of age; or
- Knowingly use or share personal information from users under 13 years of age with
third parties;
It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information given to us
or pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify
the information, we will immediately delete the information from our servers
Questions regarding children's privacy should be directed to:
InfoSpace, Inc.
601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1200
Bellevue, Washington 98004 USA
+ (1) 425.201.6100 phone
+ (1) 425.201.6150 fax
Contact Us
Policy effective May 1, 2008