FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ is committed to upholding fundamental principles of honesty and integrity in our relationship with visitors to our website. Our objective is to build an enduring relationship between CANOE and our users based on a foundation of integrity and trust.

To that end, FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ has adopted rigorous standards of privacy and makes the following promise to every visitor to our web site:

When a visitor to FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ is required to submit registration information as a prerequisite for accessing any content area of FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ or to use any of its interactive services, contests or newsgroups, e-commerce applications, FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ will not share or sell that personal information about our users to any outside agency, advertiser or other third party unless the user was made aware of this possibility prior to submitting their personal information.

Although FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ will use "cookies" to track user patterns on its web site, FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ will not use cookies to learn the identity of its users, nor attempt to track users after they leave the FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ site. Further, cookies will not be used by FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ to gather specific personal information about individual users. The usage patterns tracked by individual cookies will remain confidential, and FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ will not participate in any external site tracking programs. Nor will we share any cookie-generated information about individual users or user patterns with outside agencies or advertisers. A FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ advertiser may be given summaries of collective user patterns. For example, an advertiser might be told their ad was viewed by 6,000 users on a particular day and 100 clicked on the ad. But an advertiser will never be given information about individual users or their browsing habits.

FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ will not send unsolicited email to its users. Nor will the use of cookies by FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ result in an FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ user receiving unsolicited email from FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ or its advertisers.

FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ will not supply email addresses to any third party without having obtained the consent of a user.

When FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ asks its users to supply optional, personal information for contests, survey, e-commerce applications, or for any other purpose, that information will remain private and not be shared with any outside agency, advertiser or third party unless the user was made aware of this possibility prior to submitting their personal information.

FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ will compile site-wide demographic information that it will share with advertisers, but it will not compile profiles of individual users, including the gathering of names, addresses, email addresses and other personal information, to be shared with an advertiser unless the user has consented to the compilation of this material and submitted it freely in a registration form or survey.

FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ tracks user IP addresses for the purposes of systems administration, demographic profiling and traffic logging, but FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ will not use IP addresses to try to identify individual users of FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/.

FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/ will abide by all court orders, valid search warrants and subpoenae.

Questions about FOCUSNEWSMAGAZINE.COM/'s Privacy Statement should be sent to privacy@ospreymedialp.com