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Privacy and Information Security Policy

Effective Date November 29, 2007

This Privacy and Information Security Policy ("this Policy") discusses the information that we collect about you when you use our website http://www.thinks.com/ (the "Site") and the software, games and other services we provide on or through the Site (together with the Site, the "Service").

Who We Are. We are Demand Media, Inc. ("Thinks," "Thinks.com," "Site,""Service," "we," "us," or "our"). Thinks.com is a popular place to play free online puzzles and games for all ages: checkers, crosswords, riddles, sudoku, word search, jigsaw, trivia, wordplay, chess and much more. In conducting our business, as further described below, we collect information about the individuals who use the Service.

This Policy and the Terms of Use.

This Policy is part of and incorporated into the Thinks.com Terms of Use http://www.thinks.com/about/terms.htm (collectively, the "Terms").

BY PROVIDING PERSONAL INFORMATION OR OTHER INFORMATION TO US OR BY USING OUR SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO THIS POLICY AND THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN THE POLICY.

  1. INFORMATION YOU GIVE US. We collect any information you enter on the Service or give us in any other way (such as through an email, survey, or letter). The information that we collect varies depending upon how you use our Service.
  2. AUTOMATIC INFORMATION COLLECTION.
    1. Cookies. Like many websites, we use "cookies." Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. We use persistent, identifying cookies to remember your information and to link your activities to you. While you can take steps to warn off, block or disable cookies, if you do, the Service may not function and appear as we have designed it. Nonetheless, if you want to take these steps, you can do so by following the instructions associated with your browser. Our cookies collection information such as:
      1. the domain name and host from which you access the Internet and the Internet address of the site from which you direct-linked to ours;
      2. the date and time you access the Site and pages you visit;
      3. your computer's IP address and information about its operating system, platform and the Web browser type and version you use;
      4. demographic and other non-personally identifiable profile information about you; and
      5. information to combat fraud or misuse.
    2. Pixel Tags. In our email to your, we use "pixel tags" to determine if your email software or service can display html-formatted email (this helps us optimize the size of our email messages and conserve bandwith).
    3. Collection of Information by Third Parties. Some of the advertisers and other businesses that advertise or place other content our Site use cookies on our Site and may place a cookie on your computer. The content posted by these businesses will be identified as coming from a third party. In addition, we use third party advertising companies to serve ads. These companies (1) use information obtained from your visits to this Site and other sites to serve ads to you and (2) place unique third party cookies on your browser. Also, we use web beacons provided by third party advertising companies to help optimize our advertising. Web beacons enable us to recognize your browser when a cookie has been placed on your computer. Some but not all third party advertising companies provide a mechanism to opt-out of their technology. For more information and an identification of advertisers that provide an opt-out mechanism, please click the following: http://www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp.

      The information collected by third party cookies is subject to the privacy policy of the third party, not Thinks.com's privacy policy.

    4. Promotions, Sweepstakes, and Contests. From time to time, we may host a promotion, sweepstake, or contest on the Service. You May be asked to provide personal information or permit the transfer to a third party of your personal information in connection with such promotion, sweepstake or contest. It will be disclosed at the point of collection or transfer who is collection or transferring the information and whose privacy statement applies, and it will be your choice whether or not you wish to permit such transfer to our collection of personal information by a third party.
  3. THINKS.COM'S USE AND RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION.
    1. Use of Personal Information. We use your personal information we may have about you for such purposes as responding to your requests; monitoring and providing the Service; Maintaining your Thinks.com account; providing you with advertising and non-advertising content that we believe would be of interest to you; enforcing our rights and the rights of third parties, and investigating and ensuring compliance with the Terms http://www.thinks.com/about/terms.htm. We also email Thinks.com newsletters, and similar communications about the Service.
    2. Use of Other Information. We use other information about our users for purposes such as measuring the number of visitors to sections of our Site, making the Service more useful to visitors and delivering targeted advertising and non-advertising content. We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the Site, track a user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate, non-personally identifiable use.</l