Privacy Statement

UsingEnglish.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site.

Registration Forms

Our site's registration forms sometimes require users to give us contact information (like their name and e-mail). Contact information from the registration forms is used to provide additional functionality, and maintain and improve the quality of service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the UsingEnglish.com site. Contact information from the registration forms may also be used to maintain a mailing list which is used by UsingEnglish.com to inform site users of changes to the site and is not passed on to any third parties.

Information collected from registration forms regarding the general demographic make up of UsingEnglish.com visitors (i.e. percentage of visitors from Canada) may be made available to third parties, but not that information which is associated only with individuals (i.e. e-mail addresses, names).

Information Automatically Logged

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Like most web servers, ours stores your IP address in a log file when you visit the site. This information is for internal use only, and will not be given out.

Cookies

UsingEnglish.com uses cookies in some areas of the site (for example, the forum section of this Web site). The information stored is to enable the site to function correctly and give you additional features and benefits such as automatic log in.

Your Login Information

This information is kept strictly confidential, and is not shared with any third parties/companies or anyone outside of UsingEnglish.com.

Email

As a member of UsingEnglish.com you will receive our monthly site update newsletter. You might also receive emails from our forum if you have selected to subscribe via email to any of our forum discussions.

Advertisers

We use an outside ad companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.

Public Forums

This site makes one or more of the following available to its users: chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise great caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

See the BBC ChatGuide for more information.

Links

This site contains links to sites owned or operated by parties other than UsingEnglish.com. UsingEnglish.com does not control outside sites and is not responsible for their content. Inclusion of links to an outside site does not imply any endorsement of the material on the site or, unless expressly stated otherwise, any sponsorship, affiliation, or association with its owner, operator, or sponsor.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can use our contact us form.

UsingEnglish.com reserves the right to amend this Privacy Statement at any time without notice, and only the current Privacy Statement may be deemed effective. To ensure you are viewing the most current statement, select the refresh option in your browser.