In addition, the user can opt to subscribe to electronic newsletters. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users. During registration, the user is required to supply a username, password, and e-mail address. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list through the subscription management pages. The instructions for unsubscribing are also clearly stated on every electronic newsletter sent out.
Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
While aggregate counts of click-through behavior are provided to advertisers, an advertiser will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. The user must provide their e-mail address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the story. The information is not used for any other purpose. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our advertisers and partners.