Svetlozar Online, Ltd., owner and operator of Svetlozar.com, provides the IT world with premium content, including in-depth analyses, thoughtful commentaries, a wide range of reviews and articles of great informative and educational value. As a respected source of information, we consider your privacy seriously.

The following document examines the treatment of personal information collected by Svetlozar Online when you are using Svetlozar Online's web site and its web-based services. This statement discloses what information is gathered, how it is used and handled, and how it may be edited or deleted.

Overall Privacy Policy Conditions

It is Svetlozar Online's policy to exert extreme caution and to apply maximum confidentiality when personally identifiable information of our users is collected and handled. This information is used only in the ways described below. In addition, certain portions of our web site may contain third-party contents, such as advertisements and sponsor links, which is subject to other privacy policies. For links to third-party privacy statements, please click here.

Information Collection and Use

Types of Collected Information

 Svetlozar Online's servers log various non-personal information for statistical and management purposes, such as our user's browser and platform type, IP address, Svetlozar.com cookie data and web page requests.

 When a user chooses to register as a Svetlozar Online member, we collect additional personal information, including their full name, electronic mail address, birth date, gender, time zone, country of residence, and, in some cases, region (state, province, territory, etc.). Once you obtain a member account and login with your member name and password, you are no longer anonymous to us.

Ways of Collecting Information

 Cookies: Most web browsers have a feature called "cookies", which enables web sites, such as Svetlozar.com, to store small amounts of data about users' visits on their computer hard drives. Cookies do not disclose any personal information unless you provide us with such. Although Svetlozar.com may be fully visible without cookies enabled, we advise you to turn (or leave this feature) on, since it will greatly enhance your web site experience.

 Web Bugs: Our web site may contain single-pixel transparent images, also known as "web bugs", which help us track various statistical information.

Usage of Collected Information

Svetlozar Online's primary goal in collecting personal information is to assess our users' interest in our web site, in order to provide the most useful content and services. In addition, information collection is essential to maintaining advertising on the web pages served.

 Statistical Information: By means of various tracking technologies, Svetlozar Online accumulates aggregate information for statistical purposes, such as:

	determining what portions of the web site are of most and least interest;
	keeping count of visits to our and our advertisers', sponsors', and partners' sites;
	identifying user system information for determining problem areas and technical incompatibility issues.

Web Site Experience: Svetlozar Online may save information our users provide us with to enhance the web site experience of our visitors. In general, such information is aimed at facilitating our users and customizing the content of our web pages to suit their needs best.

Third-Party Content: Svetlozar Online's web pages may contain advertisements and/or sponsor links served by third-party companies. Often these companies use their own tracking technologies to measure advertisement effectiveness. The gathering and usage of information by third-party advertisement companies is subject to their own privacy policies. In addition, Svetlozar Online does not provide any personally identifiable information to these companies as part of our business relationship. Click here for links to third-party privacy statements.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Svetlozar Online will not sale or rent any personally identifiable information to anyone. In addition, Svetlozar Online will not share or disclose such information unless:

	We have your consent to do so;
	We need to share this information to provide you a product or service you requested;
	We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process; or we find that your actions violate Svetlozar Online's Terms of Service, or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.

Statistical Information: Svetlozar Online may disclose non-personally identifiable, aggregate, statistical data to our advertisers, sponsors, partners, or the public at large for marketing, promotional, or other purposes.

Information Transfer: As part of our business activities, Svetlozar Online may merge or be acquired by another company. In this case, some or all of our users' information may be transferred to another business, in order to retain the continuance of our services.

User Choice

In general, personally identifiable information is provided to us by registering as a Svetlozar Online member, by subscribing to a newsletter, or by participating in various activities such as Community Discussions or feedback submissions. It is our users' choice not to provide us with such information. You may continue using Svetlozar.com without registering, opting to receive newsletters, etc.

If you have already provided us with personally identifiable information, it is your right to choose whether or not to retain it in our database. By accessing their member account, a user can delete any personal information provided to us as part of our relationship. In addition, users may choose to unsubscribe from newsletters maintained by Svetlozar Online at any time, thus removing any sensitive information (such as full name and e-mail address) from our database.

A user can also correct or change information provided to Svetlozar Online as part of any registration or subscription process. Detailed instructions can be found at the appropriate areas across our web site.

Privacy Policy Amendments

Svetlozar Online may modify its privacy policy from time to time. If substantial changes in the ways of gathering and collecting personal information are made, we will post a prominent announcement on our web site.