Privacy Policy and Cookie Usage for Cellbits.com

The privacy of visitors to Cellbits.com is important to us.

At Cellbits.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is a desription of what types of information we may receive or collect when you visit and use Cellbits.com, and how we safeguard that information. No personally-identifiable information (PII) such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers can be or ever are collected by Cellbits.com log files or cookies.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files can include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider) name, the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site, and which pages you visited throughout our site. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable to you. This information is used to generally analyze traffic to our site and where it came from in general geographic terms, note any server problems or file/page failures, detect any unusual activity and other website administrative functions, so that our site may reliably serve you.

Cookies and Web Beacons for Web Traffic Analysis
Cellbits.com may use a cookie or several cookies (a tiny text file which is stored on your machine) mainly to discern new and return visitors. This cookie cannot collect any identifiable personal information from you or your computer. The cookie can collect information such as IP addresses/ISP info, referring or other domain names, browser or browser type used, page load times and other similarly non-personal data. As with log files, this information is only be used to generally analyze traffic note any server problems or file/page failures, detect any unusual activity, and other website administrative functions to maintain reliable service.

Cellbits.com uses Google Analytics, Google's website traffic statistical analysis tool to better understand how visitors engage with our website. Google Analytics also uses cookies to collect the type of non-personally idetifiable information anonymously as described above. It reports website traffic general trends, but does not personally identify individual visitors. Google Analytics uses The cookie is used to store information, such as when a visit occurred, whether a visitor has been to the site before, general demographics information if available, and what sites, search engines or other sources referred visitors to our web pages. A different cookie is used for each website using Google Analytics, and visitors are not tracked across multiple sites. The information collected includes: referring websites, country and city, length of visit, ISP and other similar non-personally identifiable information (which may include general demographic information such as age range, general interest categories and gender). To block this type of cookie, some browsers indicate when a cookie is being sent and will allow you to decline cookies on an individual basis. In addition to declining cookies case-by-case, or blocking them in your browser settings, you can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out add-on in your browser, which blocks Google Analytics from collecting information about your website visits.

Third-Party Advertising Cookies
Cellbits.com uses third party advertisements.  Advertising is used to help support the ongoing costs of creating the website and it's contents along with server/hosting, domain registration and other costs. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies or web beacons when they advertise on our site, which may also send these advertisers non-personally identifiable information which may include your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for geo-targeting purposes (showing Illinois real estate ads to someone in Illinois, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing video game ads to someone who frequents game sites).

Currently, Cellbits.com uses the Google, Inc. AdSense program to supply advertisements on our site. Google Adsense, as a third party advertsing vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Cellbits.com. Google's use of the Doubleclick DART cookie enables it to serve ads to visitors based on geo-location and possibly other non-personally identifiable information as well as visits to other sites on the Internet (interest-based advertising). Read more about it and how you can control Adsense/Google advertising cookies here. Users may also download a web browser opt-out plug-in here to avoid interest-based ads. With interest-based ads, the ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (for example, if you have been viewing sites about surfing, you may see surfing equipment or surf trip adventure ads when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey).  DART uses "non-personally identifiable information".  It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.  You can learn more about Google Adsense interest-based and general ad serving/networks on all sites using this advertising by visiting here.

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or any third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.  This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts. Browsers may also be set to delete browsing history upon exit.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program.  Unless you have browser settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running third-party advertisements, a new cookie may be added. Opting out of any particular cookie can be cancelled if you clear cookies from your browser regularly. Deleted opt-out cookies require renewal to be effective.

Other Privacy information

Cellbits.com relies on WAP/mobile and usual internet methods for users to download cell phone content to their individual handsets, and doesn't require any membership or sign-up for users to download our content, so, no mobile phone numbers or any other personally identifiable data are collected when a visitor downloads a file (except by requesting our newsletter, as noted below). As described above, non-personally identifiable information may be recorded.

Cellbits.com does not sell or trade any e-mail address or any other personally identifiable contact information you might provide to us in the course of normal business through requests or questions via e-mail or text.

Thank you for visiting Cellbits.com!