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Effective August 4, 2007

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When you register at crimelabreport.com we may ask you for personal information. We pledge to respect your right to privacy. We will not provide, sell or lease your personally identifiable information - including name, address, phone number or email - to any third parties. We gather this information so we can contact members in the event of problems, and to facilitate the distribution of our publications.  From time to time, we will send you e-mail announcements, including announcements on new products, offers and services from Crime Lab Report or its sponsors and affiliates.

GENERAL PRIVACY POLICY

Crime Lab Report respects the privacy of individuals who visit our site. This Privacy Policy outlines the information that we collect through crimelabreport.com and how we use that information, so that you can decide whether and how you wish to provide information to us. In adopting this Privacy Policy, our intent is to balance our legitimate operational and organizational interests in collecting and using information obtained through our program with your reasonable expectations of privacy.

Your viewing of this document confirms that you have read and accept the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

WHAT INFORMATION DOES CRIME LAB REPORT COLLECT?

Personally Identifiable Information: Personal data is collected when users voluntarily subscribe to Crime Lab Report’s publications or participate in its research studies.  This includes, but is not limited to, name, phone, address, email, and organizational affiliations.  You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of all our web site's features.

Anonymous and Aggregated Information: Anonymous and aggregated information, such as which web pages users access, the number of daily visits to crimelabreport.com and anonymous responses to questions, is automatically collected through various methods. In the course of using crimelabreport.com, we may also automatically track certain information about you. This information includes the URL that you just came from, the URL you go to next, and the Internet browser you are using. This statistical information is important to allow us to evaluate and improve the services we provide, to monitor the site's performance and to make it easier for visitors to use crimelabreport.com.

Use of Cookies: The crimelabreport.com site or its sponsors and affiliates may use "cookies" to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that most web sites write to your computer's hard drive or memory for record keeping purposes when you visit them. Cookies allow activities to be measured on the various areas of the crimelabreport.com site and to improve your user experience, for example by remembering your passwords and viewing preferences, thus allowing you to visit various parts of crimelabreport.com without re-registering.

You may also get cookies from our advertisers in connection with serving advertisements. We do not have access to cookies set by third parties or the information that they may contain.

Most Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent.

Information That is Not Covered by this Policy: This Privacy Policy only covers information collected at crimelabreport.com, and does not cover any information collected by any other web site or offline by our sponsors and affiliates or any other company.

Through crimelabreport.com, you will be able to access information, advertisements, web sites, features, contests, extensive news coverage, and offers by other parties. Such third party content and resources may be accessed through links to other web sites, pop-ups, frames within the crimelabreport.com site, or other technological means. Crime Lab Report will always endeavor to identify the third party source of the content. Users should review the privacy policies of those third parties before providing personally identifiable information on a co-branded, affiliated, framed or linked site. Such third parties may send their own cookies to you, and may collect data and make uses of it that Crime Lab Report would not. We do not control these sites or uses, or bear any responsibility or liability for them.

Performance data and information associated with competition that you choose to post with Crime Lab Report is also not covered by this Privacy Policy, and is not considered a confidential communication.

Children Under 13: In general, Crime Lab Report does not knowingly collect any personal data at crmelabreport.com from individuals under 13 years of age. If you are under 13, do not send any information about yourself to crimelabreport.com, including your name, address or e-mail address. In the event crimelabreport.com conducts a research project that requires the submission of information from younger persons, we will collect such information only with prior verified parental consent. If we learn that we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible. Crime Lab Report encourages all parents to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of the Internet.

HOW DOES CRIME LAB REPORT USE AND SHARE INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH CRIMELABREPORT.COM?
Crime Lab Report's use and disclosure of information obtained through the use of crimelabreport.com will comply with the terms set forth below. In all cases, we will use your information only as permitted by law.

Crime Lab Report's Use of Information: Crime Lab Report uses both the personal and aggregated and usage information we collect for multiple purposes. For example, we use this information to plan programs, cultivate sponsorships, administer information requests and provide requested services. We may use your e-mail or other address information to contact you regarding customer service issues or billing matters. Personal and aggregated information may also be used to improve the content of crimelabreport.com, perform system administration activities, and to customize the content, advertising and layout of the site for each individual user.

We may also use your information to contact you regarding matters that we believe will be of interest to you. For example, we may send you e-mails regarding updates to crimelabreport.com, promotions or contests being conducted through the site, and services and products offered by Crime Lab Report, our affiliates, or third parties.

Please note that we may combine the information about you that we collect at crimelabreport.com with information available to us from other sources, including registration information and information received from promotional partners or other third parties.

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties:

Affiliates and Service Providers. Crime Lab Report will not share your information with our sponsors and affiliates or any other third party.

Unaffiliated Third Parties. Crime Lab Report will not share your personally identifiable information with third parties.

Aggregate Information. Crime Lab Report may share anonymous or aggregated user information with third parties for advertising and other purposes.

Legal Actions. Crime Lab Report may disclose user information in connection with law enforcement or governmental investigations or inquiries, to enforce compliance with the policies governing crimelabreport.com and applicable laws, and to protect and enforce the intellectual property and other legal rights of Crime Lab Report and third parties.

Sale of Business. In the event that Crime Lab Report, the bulk of its assets or one or more of its web sites is acquired by another company, Crime Lab Report may sell, transfer or otherwise disclose user information in connection with such transaction.

WHAT CHOICES DO I HAVE ABOUT CRIME LAB REPORT COLLECTING, USING AND SHARING MY INFORMATION?
It is possible for you to use much of crimelabreport.com without giving us any personally identifiable information. You can request at any time that Crime Lab Report not send future e-mails to you by requesting deactivation of your account. All publications include an “opt-out” link for unsubscribing from our publication list. 

SECURITY
Crime Lab Report takes reasonable measures to protect the security of the information transmitted between browsers and our web server. To protect your privacy, however, please do not use e-mail or crimelabreport.com to communicate information you wish to be kept strictly confidential. You acknowledge that any transmission of data may be illegally intercepted and used by third parties. Crime Lab Report shall not be responsible for any interception of data transmitted to or from our web server.

CHANGES
Crime Lab Report reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. It is your responsibility to review this policy from time to time to be familiar with changes. At the beginning of the policy, we will post the date on which it was last updated. You can e-mail us with any further questions at editors@crimelabreport.com.

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