Nice Gift is Committed to Your Privacy
This site is owned and operated by Nice Gift, a subsidiary of That’s
Nice, LLC. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.
At Nice Gift, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you
should fully understand our policy and 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.
INFORMATION NICE GIFT GATHERS AND TRACKS
Nice Gift gathers two types of information about users:
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Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions.
These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to
participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from
participation in polls and surveys:
- Information Nice Gift 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.
Because Nice Gift derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising,
providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service
free to users. Under no circumstances does Nice Gift divulge any information
about an individual user to a third party.
Nice Gift 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:
- Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Nice Gift gathers the
email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves
from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter
that points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe
to the newsletters at the time of registration.
- Message boards/forums policy
Users of the site’s Message Boards and Forums must register separately
for these services (both are free of charge) 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.
- “E-mail this to a friend” policy
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents
to someone else by clicking “e-mail this to a friend.” The user
must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This
information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course,
to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used
for any other purpose.
- 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. Nice Gift 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.
- Surveys
Nice Gift may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content
to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information
in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share
any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information
from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage Tracking
Nice Gift tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However,
we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Nice
Gift 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).
Nice Gift sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter
in our Search function, but this tracking is 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. Nice Gift 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
Nice Gift 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 newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls,
surveys, message boards and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers
on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send
out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested
in something we are doing. Nice Gift never shares newsletter mailing lists
with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
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. But we don't
track which terms a particular user enters.
Nice Gift creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns
for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise
more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent
to their needs. Because we don’t track the usage patterns of individual
users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked
their ad. 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
Nice Gift uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit
your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics.
This is essential to keeping our service free. 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
Nice Gift 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 customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
- Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
- 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 Nice Gift. 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.
