PRIVACY POLICY
We Care About Your Rights
Protecting your privacy online is a main concern at Spectrumnews.net. The following Spectrumnews.net privacy policy is based upon EU and U.S. fair information practices and informs how we respect your privacy and protect any information you may provide us while visiting our site or utilizing any of our services.
What information is collected
Situations may arise in which we will ask you to supply us with information about yourself. The scenario may also occur that you provide unsolicited information about yourself. There is a third scenario in which we may divine such information from seperate sources. Information collected may include, among other things, your name, physical address, e-mail address, phone number, and credit card details. We may also ask for more sensitive information such as your age, birthdate or gender.
How information is collected
Spectrumnews.net, will collect and log your IP address in order to best determine how to facilitate services online. Your IP address gives us an indication as to where we should be concentrating our services and to what location in the world we need to localize with. We may collect information using a number of services that best suit your purpose for visiting our site. Information is divined using one or a number of the following, registration, chat rooms, passwords, forms, order forms, message boards, surveys, contests.
'Cookies'
Cookie technology is used when you visit our site to help us track various activity on the site including which pages you visit, how many times you visit, how long you spend visiting, and how to recognize you as a 'user' so as to best enhance your experience with us. That is all a Cookie does, it cannot obtain information about you. Cookies are pieces of data normally stored by your browser, and you can quite easily prevent cookie data from being sent by adjusting your browser settings.
Use of information
We collect this information soley for the site based purposes. Occasionally we may collect information to provide customer specific offerings, online marketing, or for promotional purposes. In these cases we feel that we can best service your requirements through the assistance of our affiliates. Spectrumnews.net may also share data it collects with various third parties, partners, site sponsors, or sites with links to our site. Additionally, you may choose not to receive any further correspondence from us or from our affiliates, by simply opting out. It is important to note that any credit card information you do furnish us with is deleted from our database after its purposeful use.
Any information gathered is to the best of our knowledge collected lawfully and fairly through our website, all information is assumed accurate and up to date and only information which is adequate and not excessive to our purpose for collection is obtained.
Anonymous Browsing
You can visit Spectrumnews.net on the Web without offering any information about yourself. In those cases, our web servers collect the name of the domain you used to access the Internet (such as "aol.com") and the website you came from and visit next. This information is used by us and others with whom we have business relationships to measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics about visitors to our website. We also use this data to monitor site performance and to make the site easier and more convenient for you to use.
When you submit your information to Spectrumnews.net, whether it be your name, address, or information such as your credit card information, we do our utmost to ensure that information is protected against loss, misuse, alteration, destruction or unauthorized access. Spectrumnews.net uses encryption tools such as SSL to help protect your personal information.
Encryption can be used after your data has left your internal system. Encryption renders your data unreadable using a mathematical formulae known as the key. Your data is turned back into readable form, i.e. deciphered, by applying the correct key.
Spectrumnews.net keeps information collected secure by using a key encryption service. Within this encryption service are measures which protect the misuse or alteration of credit card data in particular. Furthermore, in relation to utilizing information soley for the purpose provided, credit card data is securely deleted after its purposeful use. Due to the nature of eCommerce there is always a remote danger of information interception no matter what barriers are in place, we suggest that if you are still concerned with security, or unsure of the implications of transacting data online, you may contact us at specnews@venus.he.net for alternative methods of communication.
Employees within Spectrumnews.net with access to your information provided are instructed to utilize such information only in adherence to this Privacy Policy. Employees who utilize information for any reason other than the reasons stated within this policy may be subject to reprimand or even legal proceedings.
Spectrumnews.net may share information you provide to us with third parties, partners, linked sites or sponsors in order to offer you other products and services not available through Spectrumnews.net. Again we do provide an opt-out policy if you are not interested in additional services. It is also important to note that this site may contain links to other sites, Spectrumnews.net is not responsible for the policy of linked sites and we suggest you review their privacy statement for adherence to principles.
Correction of information/Accessibility of information
In accordance with EU regulations, we provide users with 24 hour access to their personal information after it has been collected. Information can be accessed through our member login section. You may also wish to amend or correct inaccuracies on information provided, inaccuracies may be amended by using our password access system.