Privacy Policy
Your privacy is vital to our long-term relationship with you, and protecting your privacy is just one part of our mission to provide you with highly personalized and valuable service. In addition, in an effort to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly collect personally identifying information from children under the age of 13.
- What Information is Collected; How Information is Collected; and by Whom is Information Collected
- The Sharing of Collected Information
- How You Can Access, Change or Limit the Information Collected About You
- Security of Information
- Amendments to Our Privacy Policy
What Information
is Collected;
How Information is Collected; and
by Whom is Information
Collected
Required Personally Identifiable Information
To register on our Web site, you must submit your name and e-mail
address. In addition, in the process to request a quote or to purchase a
product or service, you must submit additional information, which can include
your address, phone number and credit card information. This required
personally identifiable information is necessary for us to process transactions
for you, protect you against credit card fraud and contact you. When you
register with WebdesignInternational.com, we will ask you for a "user name."
The user name you select may appear on the web site in connection with future
services we provide, such as discussion forums in which you may voluntarily
participate.
In the case of domain name registrations, a publicly accessible domain name registration database (WHOIS) has to include basic information about each domain name registered with us, including the names, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of individuals designated as points of contact for a given domain name.
Transaction Information
When you
authorize a purchase transaction, we will collect certain information related
to that transaction such as the location from which you are requesting the
search or transaction, the product or service involved, the quantity or amount
of the product or service and certain personally identifiable information, such
as your password, your credit card information and any special handling
requests. This personally identifiable information will never knowingly appear
in public areas of our Web site.
Third Party Information
During the
processing of your transactions, we collect verification information from our
credit card authorization services. Credit card authorization services verify
that credit card information and address that they have on file for you matches
the information that you have provided to us.
Questionnaires and Surveys
From time
to time, we may ask you to complete questionnaires or surveys, which we use to
obtain additional demographic information about our users, to measure and
improve the quality of our service and to better assess your interests and
needs. If we ask you to complete a survey or questionnaire, we will explain how
we intend to use the information that you provide to us. You always have the
option of not responding to any questionnaire or survey.
General Information
We collect
general information about you when you visit our web site. This information
includes technical information related to your computer and the manner in which
you are accessing our site and includes such information as the Internet
protocol (IP) address of your computer, what operating system your computer is
using, what browser software (e.g., Explorer, Netscape or other) your computer
is using, and who your Internet service provider is, the Uniform Resource
Locator ("URL") of the web site from which you just came and the URL to which
you go next and certain operating metrics, such as the amount of time you use
our Web site.
The general information that we gather about you may be aggregated with general information of all users to help us better understand how our site is used. In addition, we aggregate the general information and the personal information. We compile and analyze this aggregated information so that we can gain more meaningful information about the success of our website and provide more relevant content to you.
The Sharing of Collected Information
Personally Identifiable Information
As noted above, in the case of a domain name registration, we currently have to
make certain information about you available to the general public via domain
name registration database lookup and directory services (WHOIS). In addition,
we may share certain information about you with those of our vendors who are
responsible for handling your account or performing other necessary services
that you require. Although we may share your information in the domain name
registration database and with partners where necessary or appropriate, we will
not share your personally identifying information with other third parties
without your consent, except for the following limited purposes:
- We are compelled to do so by law or by an order of a court or governmental authority.
- In order to cooperate with law enforcement authorities or governmental regulatory bodies.
- As necessary to complete a transaction for you.
- As we deem necessary to protect the rights, safety or property of WebdesignInternational.com, our users or others or to enforce our terms of use agreement or privacy policy.
In addition, we may share aggregated general information about our site with our business partners or the general public. For example, we may share information regarding the daily number of unique users to our site with potential corporate partners or others. Aggregated data does not contain any information that could be used to contact or identify you.
Third Party Sites
We may publish
links to other sites from our web site. Please note that
WebdesignInternational.com does not control the content, practices or policies
of any other site, including what information those sites collect about you.
Accordingly, we do not endorse or hold ourselves responsible for the privacy
policies or information gathering practices of any site that you may link to
from our site. In addition, you may choose to respond to advertisements that
are posted on our web site or made available via our service or to direct
marketing offers from third party sponsors or advertisers. We do not control
the content, practices or policies of our sponsors or advertisers and,
accordingly, do not endorse or hold ourselves responsible for the privacy
policies or information gathering practices of any sponsor or advertiser who
may collect information about you.
How You Can Access, Limit or Change the Information Collected About You
E-Mail
You can request that the
information collected about you be updated at any time by sending an e-mail
request to info@WebdesignInternational.com.
Security
WebdesignInternational.com uses the highest security standard available (SSL) to encrypt all of your credit card and personally identifiable information while it is in transit to us. All data stored on the WebdesignInternational.com server is protected by a secure "firewall" so that no unauthorized use or activity can take place. Although WebdesignInternational.com will make every effort to safeguard your personal information from loss, misuse or alteration by third parties, you should be aware that there is always some risk that thieves may find a way to thwart our security system or that transmissions over the Internet will be intercepted.
Amendments to Our Privacy Policy
We may, from time to time, amend our Privacy Policy. If we do, then we will post such amendments to this document so that you may always have access to our most recent policy. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of our Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. If at any point we decide to disclose personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by e-mail. You will be given t he choice at that time to "opt-out" of any disclosures of your personal information that you made available to us prior to the change in our policy.
Acknowledgment and Acceptance of our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Statement is incorporated into and subject to the Terms of Use contained on this web site (the "Terms"). As you know, your use of the WebdesignInternational.com web site is subject to the Terms. When you register with us, you affirmatively agree to all terms of the Terms, including this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this Web site constitutes your continued agreement to the terms of the Terms, including this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of our Privacy Policy, you should cease using our Web site.
