Privacy Statement
Lycos’ position regarding data protection
- Lycos only uses collected data within the legal framework or with your permission. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
- Lycos will not pass on personal data without your prior formal consent, however: this excludes a situation whereby Lycos would be legally obliged to pass on the data.
1. Collecting and processing of data:
Lycos collects and automatically saves your Server Log Files information, which your browser communicates to us. These are: • Browser type/version • Technical specification of the inquiring PC (operating system, screen resolution, javascript setting etc.) • URL reference (page visited prior) • Host name of the accessing PC (IP-address) • Time of page access, and the web address (i.e. the complete URL) is saved of all the pages which you visit at Lycos. Lycos is not able to allocate this data to you, since the data is not brought together with others to identify relevant data sources. Collecting and saving the data is common and necessary to safeguard server operation (fault diagnosis when problems occur and similar) and to create general anonymous access statistics to optimize the online content.
2. Use of cookies
Lycos uses so called cookies at various locations on this website
which help to make our online presence more user friendly, more
effective and safer.
Most browsers are set up to accept these cookies automatically. You can
of course de-activate the function that saves cookies, or set up your
browser to inform you about the placing of cookies. We would like to
point out, however, that in this case you might not be able to access
all functions.
Cookies are small amounts of data in the form of text information, which
the web server sends to your browser. These are only saved to your hard
disk. They can then only be read by the server, which saved them
initially, and receives information on what pages you looked at on the
website and when. The information saved in the cookie is then sent to
the web server by the web browser when a new connection is established.
The web server will then analyze this data. Cookies are not computer
programmes, they do not sneak around your PC to find out what your
doing, nor can they transmit any virus.+
Our website uses a server (e.g. 24/7 Real Media, Inc.) which displays
the advertising on our website. It is be possible that our advertising
partner also uses cookies which will be saved to your hard disk when the
advertising is displayed. Lycos is not legally responsible for those
cookies. Please check 24/7 Real Media, Inc.’s data protection
information by visiting the following link: http://www.247realmedia.com/EN-US/privacy-policy.html
Lycos also uses on its website Google Analytics, which is a web analysis
service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so
called "cookies", text files which are saved to your computer to enable
an analysis of your use of the website. The information created by the
cookie regarding your use of this website (including your IP-address) is
transferred to one of Google’s servers in the USA and saved. Google uses
this information to analyze your use of the website and to create
reports on website activity for the website operator and to provide
related services for website use and internet use. Google may transfer
this information to third parties if required legally or if third
parties process the data on commission of Google. Google will in no
event allocate your IP-address with other Google data. By using this
website you agree that the data collected about you is processed by
Google in the way described above and for the purpose explained.
3. What kind of technical precautions are taken by Lycos to protect my data?
Lycos works with secure data networks, which are protected with industry standard firewalls as well as being password protected. We work with a range of security measures to guarantee the protection against loss, change or misuse of your data.
Contact
If you have any questions about this data protection information then
please send an email to:
privacy@lycos-inc.com
