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Privacy Policy

Statement

Your privacy is important to us. This page contains information regarding Office Chat's commitment to protect the privacy of all our users. Should we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we collect, the use we make of it and the circumstances under which we will disclose it.

Office Chat collects various types of information about users. This information enables us to:

• Enhance our web site content to meet users' needs
• Help our advertisers better understand our users' characteristics and provide better service offerings for them.
  
  Office Chat derives most of our revenue from advertising so providing this data is essential to keeping services free to users.

Collection of Information

Office Chat collects user information in the following ways:

• Registration and Account information
  Data that users choose to provide through registration on our sites and updating their accounts. We may share this information about these individual users with our other advertisers and partners.

• Voting
  Office Chat offers on occasion interactive votes for users so they can express their views if they wish to do so and other
  users can see them. We may share the aggregated information in these votes with our other users, advertisers and partners. We never share any specific user's votes with any third party.

• Electronic Newsletters
  Office Chat may offer free newsletters to users. Office Chat gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the instructions provided in every newsletter that describes how to unsubscribe.

• Surveys
  On occasion Office Chat conducts user surveys to better target our content and advertisers services to our users. We may share the aggregated data in these surveys with our other users, advertisers and partners. We never share any specific user's surveys with any third party.

• Usage Tracking
  Office Chat tracks user traffic patterns throughout all our sites. We do not correlate this data with data about individual users. Office Chat 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).

• Cookies
  A cookie is a small file that certain Web sites write to your computer's hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file