Hispanic Heritage Month - La Familia Network is a Hispanic community website that promotes the contributions of Hispanic engineer, Hispanic entrepreneurs, Hispanics and Latinos in the United States to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. La Familia focuses on the Hispanic engineer, Hispanic entrepreneurs, and Latinos in information technology, engineering, communication technologies, and IT. La Familia also highlights Hispanic engineer, Hispanic entrepreneurs, and community computer technology awareness program activities for Hispanic Heritage Month throughout Spanish-speaking America and in the U.S.
This privacy statement is applicable to La Familia Network
La Familia Network does not collect personally identifiable information about
individuals except when such individuals specifically provide such information
on a voluntary basis. For example, such personally identifiable information may
be gathered from guest book signings, registration for free Web-based email or
the registration process for services in connection with content submissions,
community postings (e.g., chat and bulletin boards), suggestions, voting/polling
activities and transactional areas.
Personally identifiable information on individual users will not be sold or
otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without the approval of the
user at the time of collection. At such points of collection, the user will have
the opportunity to indicate whether he or she would like to "opt out"
of receiving promotional and/or marketing information about other products,
services and offerings from La Familia Network and/or any third parties.
Further, notwithstanding any opt out of promotional information by the user, La
Familia Network reserves the right to contact a user regarding matters relevant
to the underlying service and/or the information collected.
La Familia Network reserves the right to perform statistical analyses of user
behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the
various areas of the site and to inform advertisers of such information as well
as the number of users that have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising
banners. La Familia Network will provide only aggregated data from these
analyses to third parties. Also, users should be aware that La Familia Network
may sometimes permit third parties to offer subscription and/or
registration-based services through a EGG site. La Familia Network is not
responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and users should
check the applicable privacy policy of such party when providing personally
identifiable information.
Additionally, users should be aware that when they voluntarily disclose
personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) on the
bulletin boards or in the chat areas of the La Familia Network sites, that
information, along with any substantive information disclosed in the user's
communication, can be collected and correlated and used by third parties and may
result in unsolicited messages from other posters or third parties. Such
activities are beyond the control of La Familia Network .
Users also should be aware that non-personal information and data may be
automatically collected through the standard operation of La Familia Network 's
Internet servers or through the use of "cookies." "Cookies"
are small text files a web site can use to recognize repeat users, facilitate
the user's ongoing access to and use of the site and allow a site to track usage
behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and
targeted advertising. Cookies are not programs that come onto a user's system
and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the
user that has no meaning outside the assigning site. Users should be aware that
La Familia Network cannot control the use of cookies or the resulting
information by advertisers or third parties hosting data for La Familia Network
.
If a user does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there
is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to deny or accept
the cookie feature; however, users should note that cookies may be necessary to
provide the user with certain features (e.g., customized delivery of
information) available on the La Familia Network site.
Upon request, La Familia Network will allow any user to "opt out" of
further promotional contacts at any time. Additionally upon request, La Familia
Network will use reasonable efforts to allow users to update/correct personal
information previously submitted which the user states is erroneous to the
extent such activities will not compromise privacy or security interests. The
foregoing policies are effective as of March 1, 1999.
La Familia Network reserves the right to change this policy at any time by
notifying users of the existence of a new privacy statement. This statement and
the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any
contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.
