At vista-news.com, we care a lot about your privacy, and since we regularly accept content from users it is important that you are clear about our privacy policy.

Vista-news.com collects personally identifying information only during (i) contest or sweepstakes Registration, (ii) subscription Registration for sites that require subscription, (iii) opt-in email lists where content is specifically presented, and (iv) online shopping. In addition, Registration is required and information is collected in certain portions of sites in which guests provide content submissions and suggestions or participate in interactive online activities (i.e., community postings, voting, chat, games, or bulletin boards). vista-news.com may use such information to fulfill prizes, track compliance with our House Rules, or for editorial and feedback purposes (to the extent that is explained when guests provide the information). In the event that vista-news.com plans to post any such information on a site, guests are provided prior notification of such posting and given the option of preventing such posting.

Policies for Individuals Under 13

vista-news.com strongly encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the interactive activities offered on the sites.

No information should be submitted to or posted at vista-news.com’s Web sites by guests under 13 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.

Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, vista-news.com does not provide any personally identifying information, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever.

No information collected from guests under 13 years of age is used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside vista-news.com

Guests’ e-mail addresses are never posted on vista-news.com Web sites, except where a guest uses our message boards. The Guest has an option to have his or her email address appear.

Policies for Individuals 13 Years of Age or Older

With the permission of a guest who is 13 years of age or over, information submitted at the time of Registration or submission may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by vista-news.com and may be shared with our affiliates or companies that have been prescreened by vista-news.com. If a guest objects to such use for any reason, he/she may stop that use by e-mail request. Once you have registered with vista-news.com, every effort will be made to maintain your information in a secure environment by vista-news.com and our affiliates.

If you wish to modify your Registration information or stop receiving e-mail updates from vista-news.com, please to let us know through the contact page.

About IP Addresses

vista-news.com collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. We also collect IP addresses when you post a submission or a comment on the website.

An IP address is a number that’s automatically assigned to your computer whenever you’re surfing the Web. Web servers — the big computers that “serve” up Web pages — automatically identify your computer by its IP address.

When guests request pages from vista-news.com sites, our servers log the guests’ IP addresses. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that a user’s session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us.

Use of Cookies

By showing how and when guests use the site, cookies help us see which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies. If you accept the first tracking cookie from any vista-news.com web site, you won’t be offered as many afterwards.

How vista-news.com Sites Do Not Use Cookies

vista-news.com sites never use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie. Except as described below, vista-news.com sites do not use information transferred through cookies for any promotional or marketing purposes, nor is that information shared with any third parties whatsoever.

vista-news.com sites do not use cookies to identify specific individuals, except in such cases as online shopping (see above) and contest registration (where a cookie allows you to enter a contest every day without registering again each time).

You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. vista-news.com does not control these cookies, and these cookies are not subject to the vista-news.com cookie policy. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you’d prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, it is possible that some parts of the site, such as the shopping, contest, and game areas, will not function properly if you do so.

Other information collected through Google Analytics

In order to improve the quality of our website we also collect the following details:

  • The language that your computer/browser is set to
  • What browser you are using to view pages on vista-news.com as well as which operating system you are using
  • Screen Resolution

However, please keep in mind that any statistical information we collect through Google Analytics does not contain any personally identifiable information.

Links to Other Sites

Users should be aware that when you are on vista-news.com sites you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from vista-news.com sites that take you outside our service. For example, if you click on a banner advertisement or a vista-news.com search result, the click takes you off the vista-news.com site. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors, and partners that may use vista-news.com’s logo as part of a cobranding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. Always be aware of where you end up.

Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online – for example, via message boards or chat – that information can be collected and used by people you don’t know. While vista-news.com strives to protect its users’ personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online, and you do so at your own risk.

Your Acceptance of These Terms By using this site, you signify your assent to the vista-news.com Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our sites. Your continued use of the vista-news.com sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. You can contact us with any further questions from our contact page.