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Privacy Policy
Your privacy is among our top priorities as a company. Except
as permitted by this Privacy Policy, we will not willfully disclose your
personal information to a third party without first receiving your express
permission. If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy
Policy, you should contact Member
Services.
1. The information that we gather and track.
- When you register to receive one of our services, we ask
that you give us your first and last name, address (country-if applicable),
phone number, and e-mail address, collectively, your "contact information."
In addition, we ask that you provide us with certain demographic information
(for example, gender, income range, education, and age group.) You may also
have the option of providing us with additional demographic information such
as your interests.
- As part of the registration for our free services, we do
not ask for any credit card or other financial information. However, we will
require that you provide us with your credit card or other financial
information if you register for one of our paid services. We do not store
credit card information. Any relevant financial information (such as a
credit card number or bank account number) you choose to provide to a third
party for a paid service or product is used to administer the service or
issue the product and to bill you for such products and services. In this
situation, the third party's privacy and disclosure policies will
apply.
- From time to time, we may collect non-personally
identifiable information through the use of data harvesting and mining
techniques.
2. How we use your information
- The contact information provided to us during the
registration process is used in reserving and maintaining sub domain name at your request.
We also use this information to contact you when necessary and to maintain the correct
identity with each sub domain name. Since your domain name may be your permanent online identity it is necessary to keep your information to advise you of information about
your domain name. Additionally, the contact information that you provide on
the registration form is used to send you information about our products and
services and may be used to contact you via direct mail,
electronic mail or telephone regarding service information or
offers. You may not opt-out of receiving these messages from
us.
- The demographic information that we collect from you is
used to tailor your experience with our service by displaying and listing
information that could be of interest to you. We will occasionally provide
information, in aggregate form, to certain advertisers or direct marketers
so they can target groups of members and to display appropriate
individualized advertisements. We also work with third parties that serve
ads throughout our service.
- We may disclose your contact information to a third party
in connection with any dispute related to the domain name provided to you as
part of our Free Service (whether relating to alleged infringement of
intellectual property or other rights, violations of our use policy or
otherwise.) We will not otherwise disclose your information unless acting
under a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to
legal requirements or comply with legal process; (2) protect and defend
rights or property; (3) enforce our Terms of Service; or (4) act to protect
the interests of our members or others, including law enforcement
investigation.
- You may receive direct marketing materials from us or from
our advertisers or partners. In connection with these direct marketing
programs, we may share your email address with our advertisers and partners.
You may not opt-out of receiving direct marketing materials from our
advertisers and partners. We do not sell any of your personally identifiable
information to any outside source, although we may rent out lists containing
this information to third parties.
3. Security of data transmission over the Internet
- While we strive to protect your personal information, we
cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to
us or from other online products or services, and you do so at your own
risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure
its security on our servers.
4. Additional privacy issues
- Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose
personal information online - for example on message boards, through e-mail,
or in chat areas - that information may be collected and used by others.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your
passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible
whenever you're online. In short, if you post personal information online
that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from
other parties in return.
5. Privacy Protection for Children
- We require parental consent to allow children between the
ages of 14 and 17 to join our service. We also encourage children to seek
the consent of their parents or guardians before providing any information
about themselves to anyone on the Internet. Children should never reveal
their addresses, phone numbers or other personal information to any
strangers on the Internet.
6. Contests and
Sweepstakes
- Occasionally, we may run contests and sweepstakes and other
promotions on our web site or through our service, in which we request
entrants to provide certain personally identifiable information. In some
cases, entrants may be required to answer survey questions. We use the
information collected in the entry form to verify the entrant's identity and
to communicate with entrants. We will not share any of the entrant's
personally identifiable information with any third party, except as provided
for in this Privacy Policy. We may make information about entrants available
in aggregated form to advertisers, partners and the general public.
7. Third Party Web Sites
- WE MAY REFERENCE, RECOMMEND, CO-BRAND WITH OR PROVIDE LINKS
TO WEB SITES SPONSORED BY PARTNERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES. WHILE WE STRIVE
TO SELECT THIRD PARTY PARTNERS WHO HAVE OR SHARE THE SAME STANDARDS IN
REGARDS TO PRIVACY POLICIES COMPARABLE TO OUR OWN, YOU AGREE THAT WITH
RESPECT TO SUCH WEB SITES, WE CANNOT BE RESPONSIBLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE
FOR THE USE OF ANY INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO ANY SUCH PARTNER OR THIRD
PARTY. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO REVIEW THE PRIVACY POLICIES POSTED ON THESE WEB
SITES.
8. Privacy Policy Changes
- If we decide to change any of our privacy policies, the
changes will be posted here in this area so that you will always know the
information we gather, how we might use that information and to whom we will
disclose it. We reserve the right, at our discretion to change, modify, add
or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please make sure to check
this page periodically for any changes.
9. Surveys
- Occasionally, we will conduct surveys in order to target
advertisements and content and to better understand a member's needs
relating to our services. We will not share survey information about
individuals with any third party. We may share, in aggregate form,
information we collect from these surveys with our advertisers and
partners.
10. Acceptance of These Terms
- By registering to receive any of our services, you signify
your agreement to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of
this policy, please do not provide us with any information. Your continued
use of any of our services in light of changes to this policy will mean that
you accept the changes. Please feel free to send us an e-mail with any
questions. If at any time you believe that we have not adhered to these
principles, please notify us by e-mail via Member
Services and we will use all commercially reasonable efforts to promptly
determine and correct the problem.
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