Privacy Notice

COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

This site is owned and operated by the Mobile Robotics Community. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. The Mobile Robotics Community wants 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.

Definition of the Information the Mobile Robotics Community will gather and keeps track of.

The Mobile Robotics Community gathers two types of information about users:

• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic alerts, to participate in our forums and from participation in polls and surveys
• Information the Mobile Robotics Community gathers 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 and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances does the Mobile Robotics Community divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

The Mobile Robotics Community Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:

OPTIONAL VOLUNTARY INFORMATION

We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

1. Electronic Alerts (Dispatches)

We will offer free electronic alerts to users. The Mobile Robotics Community gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this alert list by following the instructions on the alert management page.

2. Forums

Users of the site's Forums must register for these services in order to post messages, although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.

3. Polling

We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. The Mobile Robotics Community may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.

4. Tagging

We may offer interactive tagging to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about a page relates to. Tags are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. The Mobile Robotics Community may use a system to "tag" information after users submissions, so they can later retrieve the information based on the tag. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.

USAGE TRACKING

The Mobile Robotics Community tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. The Mobile Robotics Community 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).

The Mobile Robotics Community sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms entered by users into our Search function, but this tracking are 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.

COOKIES

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal 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 personal 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. The Mobile Robotics Community uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.

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.

USE OF INFORMATION

The Mobile Robotics Community uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their 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.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic alerts and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys and forums. The Mobile Robotics Community never shares alerts mailing lists with any third parties.

When 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. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users.

The Mobile Robotics Community creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for site administrators and sponsors. This allows our sponsors to receive information that are pertinent to their needs. 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.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION

The Mobile Robotics Community uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and to help understand our audience's demographics. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SECURITY

The Mobile Robotics Community 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 users.

OPT-OUT POLICY

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

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

Your Consent

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by the Mobile Robotics Community. 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.