The advertising that appears on the Lexifind Word Finder site (hereinafter "this Web site") is served by third party advertising companies that may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These companies may use cookies and/or Web beacons to collect information about your visits to this Web site and other sites.

A cookie is a small file which is placed on your computer's hard drive. Cookies allow Web applications to respond to you as an individual, without having to know your name or other personal information. By using a cookie, a Web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. Setting your browser to decline cookies may prevent you from taking full advantage of various Web sites that you may visit, if those Web sites have capabilities that are dependent upon the storage of such cookies on your system.

In particular, Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads to this Web site. Google's use of the Doubleclick DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to this Web site's users based on their visits to this Web site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy page.

The following are links to vendors who may supply advertising to this Web site:

• Google
• Other Vendors

You can visit the Web sites of these vendors to opt out of cookies (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability). Opting out of such data collection may result in advertising that is less relevant to your interests and/or needs. Users can opt out of some, but not all, of these cookies in one location at the Network Advertising Initiative's opt-out Web site at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. That site can also provide additional information about this practice, and about your choices regarding not having this information used by these companies.

This Web site also makes available a set of buttons from the third-party company addthis.com which you can use to conveniently share information about this site (e.g., via a social network) online. When you use these buttons, addthis.com may collect additional, not personally-identifiable, information that is used according to its own privacy policy, whiich can be viewed here. In addition, addthis collects statistical information on the number of times its buttons are used in various ways, which is made available to Lexifind through a private interface. This statistical information is usage data, and is not tied to specific users.

This Web site also uses a third party service that uses a cookie to collect anonymous (not personally identifiable) data regarding the traffic on this Web site. This Web site makes use of this data to determine various statistics of interest, such as total site traffic and the sources of that traffic.

Like most Web sites, this Web site maintains its own logs of traffic that include your IP (Internet Protocol) address, the browser you used to visit our site, the pages that you visited, and other information.

If you contact us using our Contact/Comments page and provide us with an email address, we may, at our sole discretion, use that address to contact you regarding matters relating to your request.

Other than as described above, this Web site presently has no need to directly place cookies on visitors' browsers. That could change in the future without notice if this Web site were to need such information to support new features, such as the storage of preferences on a per-user basis. This Web site does not anticipate a need to place such cookies for reasons other than supporting the features of this Web site, beyond the cookies placed by third parties that have already been described on this page.

This Web site may contain links to other Web sites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other Web site. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the Web site in question.