Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. Because we gather certain types of information about the users of Smartfone.net's network of sites and services, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it.

Smartfone.net delivers newsletters, marketing and product offerings via email to only registered recipients from our subscription center. The email tracking system recognizes the URL that was clicked, and records some information about you and your computer,  such as the email address that you provided to us, the browser, operating system and IP address.

Smartfone.net also uses the feature of your browser to set a "cookie" on your system. This allows us to measure and report the click through rate on e-mails delivered and them better determine future content.

While aggregate counts of click through behavior are provided to advertisers, an advertiser will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. Smartfone.net does not target advertising against specific user information. Smartfone.net will not provide specific user information to any third party company.

• Smartfone.net's "Send This Story to a Friend" Service
A reader can choose to electronically forward a news story to someone else by clicking the link at the top of that story. 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 story. The information is not used for any other purpose.

• Surveys
Occasionally Smartfone.net conducts user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.

• Contests and Sweepstakes
Smartfone.net offers contests and sweepstakes in which we request certain personal information. At a minimum, the required information includes name and email address;  in some cases, the user must answer mandatory survey questions about a range of other personal data. The information gathered in the entry form is used to verify the entrant's identity, to send the entrant an email notification that their entry has been received, and to contact winners and/or prize recipients. There are two situations in which Smartfone.net will divulge this information to a third party--provided the user gives express consent:

1. A user may expressly choose to receive additional information from the contest sponsor, in which case the user's personally identifiable information is divulged to the advertiser.

2. Some of the contests may be hosted on the Smartfone.net site but administered by the sponsor; in such cases, the informatiouser provides is passed on to the third party as long as that user gives express consent.