Privacy Policy

 

This site is owned and operated by Diaz Engineering. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Diaz Engineering, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.

Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

 

1. GATHERED INFORMATION:

 

1. 1. Diaz Engineering may gather information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys. Some of this information may be considered personally identifiable.
   2. Diaz Engineering may gather information through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers’ needs, troubleshoot the website and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. This information may include the referring URL, your IP address, your ISP, your browser type, and date/time stamp of website access. Note that your IP address gives an indication of the physical location of your ISP and by extension and indication of your physical location.
   3. Consistent with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

 

2. USAGE TRACKING:

 

1. 1. Diaz Engineering may track user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Diaz Engineering does break down overall usage statistics according to a user’s domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user’s browser).
   2. Diaz Engineering may track and catalog the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

 

3. COOKIES:

 

1. 1. We may place a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personally identifiable information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personally identifiable information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Diaz Engineering uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system may deliver cookies to better track ad impressions and click rates.
   2. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you’ve set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.

 

4. USE OF INFORMATION BY DIAZ ENGINEERING:

 

1. 1. Diaz Engineering uses any information voluntarily given by our users to communicate with our users, provide customer service and to enhance user’s experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
   2. As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in forums, polls and. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Diaz Engineering never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
   3. We may use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We may track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don’t track which terms a particular user enters.
   4. Diaz Engineering may create aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for our use and for use by our advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows us and our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don’t track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

 

5. SHARING INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES: Diaz Engineering uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers and sponsors better understand our audience’s demographics. We will not share personally identifiable information with third parties as part of our regular course of business. However, it’s possible that we may share personally identifiable information to comply with applicable laws or valid legal process, or in order to protect the personal safety of our users or the public. Also, we might acquire or merge with or be acquired by another company or that we might dispose of some or all of our assets. If that happens, your personally identifiable information may be disclosed to another company, but that disclosure will be subject to the privacy policy then in effect.

 

6. SECURITY: Diaz Engineering operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

 

7. OPT-OUT POLICY:We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

 

1. 1. Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
   2. Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users.

 

8. YOUR CONSENT: By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Diaz Engineering. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.