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Your Privacy and The Register

What we do with personal data that we've recorded.

The Register believes in the importance of keeping readers' personal information personal. The site does not use cookies - though some of our partners do (see below) - and while a user's IP address is recorded by our server - as all Web servers do - we use this information solely for monitoring the volume of traffic the site receives and measuring the number of readers. We do not use the information for tracking the activities of specific visitors to the site.

Those readers who choose to subscribe to our optional headlines-by-email service may be asked to supply personal data, but are not obliged to give it. If they choose to do so, that information is recorded and used for broad demographic information - it is not used to target specific users with commercial services provided by The Register or third parties.

So, while we might say to a potential advertiser that ten per cent of our 900,000 readers run corporate IT departments, we will not tell them who those 90,000 readers are or where they are.

Readers who enter The Register competitions will be asked for some personal information, but only to allow us to judge the validity of their applications and to contact them should they be declared a competition winner. Again, personal data obtained this way is not used for either internal purposes or for commercial activities, either by ourselves or by third-parties.

We reserve the right to publish emails and letters sent to The Register. If the sender asks that that we don't reveal his or her identity, that information won't be published.

The Register contains links to many third-party Web sites and displays advertisements from third-parties through third-party advertisement servers. Current Register advertising server partners include DoubleClick and VibrantMedia. The latter's cookie, activated through a 1x1-pixel 'invisible' image, only records the URL of the page you are already viewing, for the purpose of returning you to that page should you click on an ad served by VibrantMedia. No personal data is recorded.

DoubleClick's privacy policy stresses that it does not use any information gathered through its cookies for its own use. Such data as it makes available to us is not used beyond the collation of broad calculations to measure the size of our readership. Concerned users can opt out of its cookie system here.

The Register Reader Survey is provided by Metafacts and hosted on Metafacts' own Web site, which also uses cookies. The data collected by Metafacts through the registration process is not passed on to other parties, and the information gathered through Survey polls is solely used for collective analysis and not for highlighting individuals. Readers who register to join the Survey may receive emails inviting them to join future polls and to announce the results of specific polls.

Finally, our online store, Cash'n'Carrion, inevitably records some personal data, including names, addresses and credit card details. However, this information is retained solely by us, and is not and will not be passed on to third-parties.

If you wish to discuss our privacy policy or comment upon it, please feel free to drop us a line here ®

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