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2005-07-08, Awarded "Best Award Graphic" by AFA
We are proud to announce that the HITSASeal was selected as the "Best Award Graphic" by AFA, for the month of July of 2005. To all EUTODA' staff our sincere thanks for this honour! More info about this award is available at our "Honors Granted" section.
2005-06-22, Listed #2 among 31,000 web sites at Silktide SiteScore
With a rating of 9.5 (in 10 possible), the CPSnet Web Awards attained the second position at SiteScore's TOP 750, the best 750 from about 31,000 web sites tested until this date. Silktide SiteScore is a free tool which rates how well designed, popular and accessible a website is. The entire testing process is handled by advanced computer software. SiteScore also gathers user feedback on all the websites rated, to help judge how appealing a design is. SiteScore rates all websites on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest). Scores are broken down into 5 categories: Marketing, Design, Accessibility, Experience and User Feedback.
2005-06-07, listed at "Design Snack"
Design Snack is a database of websites rated based on the quality of their design and presentation. Its unique rating scale uses "cookies" and a site can get anywhere from 0-3 cookies, 3 being the highest. The CPSnet Web Awards were rated with "One Cookie" and listed under the "Award Sites" section of the portal.
2005-05-15, rated 6 by EUTODA
We are proud to announce that our program is now one of the few Web awards programs to achieve the prestigious level 6 at EUTODA, the Academy of Fine Awards. To all EUTODA' staff our sincere thanks for this honour!
2005-02-02, recognized as a 5+ Elite Award by Award Sites!
As it states at Award Sites!, "In recognition of owner, Carlos Simões, for his efforts going well beyond his award program in 'bettering the net through excellence!'". Needless to say that we at the CPSnet Web Awards are honoured by this outstanding distinction. Thank You AS! and thank you all the awardmasters and applicants that helped building this program!
2005-01-16, selected the Site Of The Year 2004!
It is that time of the year again, when we at the CPSnet Web Awards select the best site of the previous year. And this time, our panel of invited judges and our permanent review team have selected Tim's Spider Corner as the Best Site Of The Year 2004! Congratulations Tim Beylemans, for your outstanding website! Tim's Spider Corner is an educational site for all spider fans that addresses the conservation of nature. You will find bird eating spider information, as well as an assortment of pictures, handling tips, resource links, a spider knowledge quiz, and the complete anatomy of a bird eating spider.
2005-01-09, awarded the "Humanity Award 2005" by the The Rose Awards:
"We are very proud for being granted this distinction that it is given out to... Webmasters/webmistresses who give back of themselves to the worldwide Net community, offering their talents, their skills, their web sites, as resource points for other people who are interested in bettering themselves and their own sites ... These special people are a great asset to the World Community because they offer their advice and expertise to all who seek it, and everyday, they are making the Internet a better place to be!...". More info about this award is available at our "Honors Granted" section.
2004-10-20, listed at W3 Compliant Sites
Carlos Simoes is now a "W3 Compliant Sites Member". W3 Compliant Sites is a collection of web sites that were created by designers that conform with the W3C standards. This forum provides the opportunity for them to display their work and ideas in a community that shares common interests.
2004-10-13, listed at net-guide.co.uk
The CPSnet Web Awards are now listed at net-guide.co.uk with an accessibility rating of "excellent". This directory aims to promote accessible sites and gives an accessibility rating for the websites returned for any query entered. Similarly, the directory entries also carry an accessibility rating.
2004-06-07, rated 5 by WebsAwards
A special panel of external judges, convened to assess the programs owned by WebsAwards' Staff members, has rated the CPSnet Web Awards as a WebsAwards level 5 program.
2004-05-04, rated 3 by Awardia
The Awardia Index has rated the CPSnet Web Awards as a level 3 (in 4 possible, where the fourth level is designated "Corona").
2004-04-01, rated 4 by EAI:
The Euro Award Index reinstated this award program at "Level 4" (in 5 possible).
2004-03-23, joined WSG:
We have joined the Web Standards Group (WSG). The Web Standards Group is for web developers/designers who are interested in web standards, CSS and (X)HTML and related topics.
2004-03-15, web site redesigned:
The CPSnet Web Awards have now a brand new website, fully compliant XHTML 1.0 Strict, "made with CSS" and WCAG-WAI Level AAA. Thank you to Webmates, of which we are proud members, for all the help and for the inspiration!
2004-01-15, announced the Best Site of Year 2003:
Announced back in 15/January 2004: "Explore Mars Now". In this outstanding website, visitors can walk through a Mars habitat simulation learning about science and technology as they explore. There are over 100 photo-realistic 3-D images of a near term Mars Habitat concept that are "brought to life" in Macromedia Flash.
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For those familiar with the notation used in compact privacy policies, as delineated by W3C, this website's policy can be described as:

CP="NON DSP COR LAW CURa ADMa DEVa IVAi IVDi HISi OTPi OUR PUBo IND PHY ONL COM NAV INT DEM CNT OTC"

You should be aware that personally identifiable information - such as your name or e-mail address - that you voluntarily disclose on message boards or in chat areas that are accessible to other users in other pages of this domain could be collected and disclosed by others. The CPSnet Web Awards cannot take any responsibility for such collection or disclosure.

The information we collect

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the"CPSnet Web Awards" website.

We do not collect any personally identifiable information from a visitor to our website unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it. Under no circumstances do we collect any personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health, or sex life. If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you.

When you visit our site, we are, however, able to collect and store statistics about your visit. This information does not identify you personally, but rather about a visit to our site. We may monitor statistics such as how many people visit our site; the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com or princeton.edu); the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.

We use these statistics about your visit for aggregation purposes only. These statistics are used to help us improve the performance of our Web site. Generally, we are only able to collect and store the last thirty (30) visitors. We do not keep any kind of permanent record of this information.

Note: we do not use "cookies"(*) on this site.

On a particular page, you can submit your site for evaluation by our evaluation panel. The types of personal and demographic information collected at that page are:

  • Name;
  • e-mail address;
  • Homepage address;
  • Country;

The way we use information

We use the information you provide about yourself when submitting a site for evaluation only to complete that evaluation . We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that evaluation, for instance, assigning an evaluator to the evaluation request. Evaluators are considered as staff members of this Award program and therefore, obligated to respect this Privacy Policy.

We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties. We only keep the e-mail addresses of our Awardees, that will be used only if and when this Privacy Policy is changed or any change regarding the status of the Awardees (for instance, removal from the Winners list if the site has been found in non-conformity with the Award criteria). E-mail addresses (and messages) from non-eligible and not awarded candidates are discarded as soon as the evaluation process finishes. URL from non-winners are kept.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

By sending us your application for one of our awards, you are giving formal authorization to the owner of this award program to: Give access to the information you are providing to the CPSnet Review team; Include excerpts of this information (excluding email address) in any eventual and public "Status List" or "Recent Applications" list; Include excerpts of this information (excluding email address) as well as a screenshot of your website, in our public Winners lists if you and your website are awarded the award you are this way applying for. A link to any website under evaluation and the site's title can be displayed and publicly available, during the review, in any eventual "Status list". If you do not want this information to be publicly available, please state "NO STATUS" in the first line of the "Description" field in the application form.

Also, the winners listing will include a screenshot (approx. 180 x 140 pixel image) linked to the website, webmaster's name, the URL and the website's name, date awarded and a brief synopsis or description of the website. This way our visitors may have a first impression of the site. Authorization for this special listing is hereby assumed to be given by every winner.

Our commitment to data security

To prevent unauthorized access and ensure the correct use of information, we keep a database containing personal information in some restricted area(s) of the web server(s) hosting this program. All information we have about you will be safeguarded with appropriate security methods and technologies provided by the hosting service(s). We cannot however be considered responsible by any stolen data resulting from a successful hacking attempt. We will, at all times, maintain internal measures designed to limit access to your personally identifiable information to only those site evaluators who require access in order to do their evaluations. All of our judges will be informed of our privacy policy as well about how your personal information should be considered critical.

Our commitment to children's privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason we have published our own policy on this issue, that can be found at the CPSnet Web Awards Children Online Privacy and Safety Policy.

How you can correct, update or remove your information

If you would like to update, correct or remove any information in our Winners list, please contact us using the Contact form.

When sending us an e-mail:

By sending us an electronic mail (e-mail) message, you may be sending us personal information such as your name, address, and e-mail address. We may store your name, address and e-mail address of the requester in order to respond to your request or otherwise resolve the subject matter of the e-mail. Under limited circumstances, we may be required by law to disclose the information you submit.

Remember that e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception. If your communication is very sensitive, or includes personally identifiable information, you might want to send it by postal mail instead.

How to contact us

Should you have other questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact:

Name: Carlos Simoes
Position: Owner and webmaster
Address: P.O. Box 28, 2071-909 Cartaxo, PORTUGAL

Privacy Compliance and Disputes

Our privacy policy compliant with Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and Portuguese Law 67/98 of 1998-10-26, in force since 1998-10-27. In addition to any rights which you may have at law, we provide you with the option of using APEX dispute resolution services subject to the conditions specified at its Web site.

If you do not agree with this Policy, do not use the web pages hosted by the CPSnet Web Awards.

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Personal information means individually identifiable information about an individual collected online, including:

  1. A first and last name;
  2. A home or other physical address including street name and name of a city or town;
  3. An e-mail address or other online contact information, including but not limited to an instant messaging user identifier, or a screen name that reveals an individual’s e-mail address;
  4. A telephone number;
  5. A Social Security number, a Fiscal identification number and/or a National Identitity Card number;
  6. A persistent identifier, such as a customer number held in a cookie or a processor serial number, where such identifier is associated with individually identifiable information;
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  8. Information concerning a child or the parents of that child that the operator collects online from a child and combines with an identifier described in this definition.