Privacy Policy
Initial Version: June, 30th 2001 - Last Revision: February, 19th 2002

• About Us
• Collection of Data
• Cookies
• Frequently Asked Questions

About Us

Newave is the French company owning and operating World-Of-Newave.com.

Legal registration information :

R.C.S. Pontoise B 404 529 406 (1996B00668)

Siret: 404 529 406 000 13

APE: 722C

Capital: 20 000 €

Newave respects privacy of Internet Users and does not collect personally identifying information without the Internet User's permission.

This policy applies to the web site owned and operated by Newave located at http://www.world-of-newave.com (World-Of-Newave). The full text of our privacy is available on the Web at : http://www.world-of-newave.com/privacy-en.htm.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy by e-mail at: info@world-of-newave.com or by mail at our headquarters address:

Newave
82 rue de Beaumont
Maffliers, 95560 
France

Newave does not collect Internet User identity or contact information from Internet User's visits to World-Of-Newave. For each visit to World-Of-Newave a given number of information are collected and stored on our servers:

• Click-stream data:
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  • URI of requested resource:
    The full URI requested by the user. This mean the full address of the page being requested. This information is only used for statistics purpose to determine which parts of our site are the most visited. This information is never linked to an individually identified person.
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  • Request timestamp:
    Time that the request was processed by the server. We are using this information to watch the evolution of visits along days, weeks and months. For example this helps us to schedule maintenance operations. This information is never linked to an individually identified person.
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  • Client's IP address:
    The IP (Internet Protocol) address of the user's computer. This data is anonymous, this is simply a number in the form xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx. In theory this is possible to find exactly who you are, or more precisely where you are thanks to this number. However in practice this data can only be use to record the number of unique visitor and their country. That's all. Like for all the other information we are collecting it's never linked to any individually identified person. We are only using this information in a global way to know how much visitors are from the USA, Canada, France, UK, and so on, that's all. This only help us determine the kind of audience of our site and therefore try to customize as much as possible to match visitor's interests.
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  • Data bytes in response:
    Data bytes returned by the server in response. This is the size of the files served. This information help us manage our bandwidth.
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  • Response status code:
    HTTP status code generated by the server for the response. Status codes allows tracking possible missing files or broken links (well known 404 error) .

• HTTP protocol elements
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  • User agent information:
    The client description string sent by most Web browsers, giving the type, version, and platform type of the user's Web browser. This is sent by clients as the User-Agent: HTTP header. This information is used for statistics to know how much visitors are using Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, etc... We are also using this information to customize HTML pages. It appends that sometimes Web browsers do not interpret exactly the same way an HTML code. So with this information we can serve page which are compatible with visitor's Web browser.
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  • Last URI requested by the user:
    This is sent by clients as the Referer: HTTP header. This data is not linked to an individually identified person and is only use to know from where visitors are coming and how they browse our site.

• Search terms:
  Words or other text entered on a "search" form, either for searching site, or for searching the entire Web. These search terms are threaded in a global way and not individually simply for statistics purpose

To sum up the above data are used for the following purpose:

• Access statistics.
• Web site and system administration.
• Anonymous user profiling and decision-making.

The above data are marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

• User targeting
• Pseudononymous analysis
• Pseudonym-based decision-making
• Research and development

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Cookies are used to track visitors to our site, so we can better understand what portions of our site best serve you. Cookies are also used to customize your use of our site.

We are using cookies to:

• Avoid showing you more than on pop-up banner per day.
• Save your preferences.

Frequently Asked Questions

Here are common questions and answers regarding our privacy policy.

What information does Newave collect from you?

• You can visit our site and use many of our services without having to tell us who you are or reveal any personally identifiable information to us. It is only when, use certain Newave services, or enter contests, that you will be asked to provide us with personally identifiable information.

• Newave may set and access cookies on your computer. Cookies are used to store your preferences/options and other kind of information to customize your use of World-Of-Newave.com.

• Whenever you visit World-Of-Newave.com, our web server logs automatically receive and record anonymous information from your web browser including your IP Address, World-Of-Newave.com cookie information, the World-Of-Newave.com page(s) you request, and any search terms you query.

• When using some particular services of World-Of-Newave.com you may be requested to supply personal information such as your email address. For example, when submitting a site you need to provide a user name (which can be a nickname) and a valid email address.

• Newave uses this anonymous information to customize your experience on our site, to improve our services, and to show you more relevant advertising messages. We ordinarily do not attempt to link this information to a specific person, with certain important exceptions.

• Newave uses personally identifiable information for three main purposes: to fulfill your requests for certain services, to personalize the advertising and content you see on our pages, and to tell you about special offers and new products and services.

Do any third parties receive or collect your information through World-Of-Newave.com?

• Newave will not share personally identifiable information with other companies or individuals.

• Newave allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Newave's cookies

What are you doing with e-mail addresses?

• When using some particular services of World-Of-Newave.com you may have to submit a valid e-mail address. For example if you want to contact us (this will be much more convenient if you want an answer :-)).

• Newave may occasionally send a newsletter to keep you informed with major news and enhancement concerning our site. Please note the "may occasionally" terms. This is not our goal to fulfill your mail box with unsolicited mails ! Up to know we never had the need to send more than one mail per year ! (nb: you are given the choice to unsubscribe to this newsletter).

• Newave will never share these e-mail addresses with other companies or individuals.

if you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: info@world-of-newave.com