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We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information, such as what countries the majority of our visitors come from.

Advertisers

We use outside ad companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we don't use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.

Order Forms

Our site uses various forms for visitors to request information, products, and services. We collect contact information (like their email address), and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income level).

Contact information from those forms is used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary.

Surveys

Our online surveys ask visitors for contact information (like email address), and demographic information (like country, age, choice of vehicle).

Contact information from the surveys is used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary.

Contests

We occasionally run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for contact information (like email address), and demographic information (like country or age).

Contact information from the contests is used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. Rat Bike Zone is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. No personal information submitted via forms on this site is stored on-line.

Children's Guidelines

This web site does not contain any information specifically aimed at children. However, we care about children and understand that they have special privacy needs. Therefore, we have adopted the following privacy policy regarding children:

1. We will NOT collect, use, or distribute to third parties personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent.
2. We will NOT give the child access to unmonitored chat rooms, message boards, email accounts, or other services that would give the child the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent
3. When verifiable parental consent is not obtained, we will only use the online contact information (such as email) to:
   1. Respond directly to the child's request on a one-time basis and not use that information to re-contact the child for other purposes.
   2. Request the name or online contact information of a parent for the purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing parental notification.
   3. Respond more than once directly to a specific request from a child (such as in the case where a child requests a newsletter subscription) and not used to re-contact the child for other purposes. We will use our best efforts to provide parental notification, which will include the nature and intended use as well as an opportunity for the parent to prevent the use of the information and participation in the activity.
4. We will NOT entice the child to divulge more information than is needed to participate in any activity, game, or service.
5. We will provide the parent a description of the specific types of a personally identifiable information collected from their child upon request. We will allow the parent to refuse further use or future online collection of personally identifiable information and provide a way for a parent to obtain any personally identifiable information collected from their child.
6. We will aim NOT to provide any links to Web sites that are unsuitable for children.
7. We will encourage children to get their parent's permission before sharing personal information online.

Data Quality/Access

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

1. You can send email to www.ratbike.org or fax us on (413) 895-6586 (USA) or (0870) 120-7935 (UK)