Information Collection & Use

Registration

In order to use this Web site, you may be required to first complete the registration form and create a user name and password.  During registration you may be asked for contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.

DCguide.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. DCguide.com collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

Tell-A-Friend

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address.  We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site.  DCguide.com does not store this information and it is used for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. 

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)

We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers.  This information does not identify individual users.
We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Personally identifiable information

We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served upon us.

Log Files

As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files.  This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click data. 

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. 

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

We use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. 

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies.  A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies via your Internet browser.

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.

Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site.  We have no access to or control over these cookies.

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by DCguide.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Third Party Advertisers

The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by various services.   We share Web site usage information about users with reputable third party advertising services for the purpose of targeting our Internet advertisements on this site.

These services sometimes uses cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow it to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that these services collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable.

Links to Other Sites

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by DCguide.com. Please be aware that we, DCguide.com, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. 

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms/Comment Posting

If you use a bulletin board, chat room, or comment posting service on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages.  We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by e-mail

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at