SiteGalore recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of
all information provided by users of our web sites and all of our customers.
We created this policy with a fundamental respect for our users' right to
privacy and to guide our relationships with our users.
Information Collection and Use
SiteGalore collects information from our website users, subscribers and
customers. In this section of our privacy policy, we will describe the
type of information we collect and how we use it to provide better services
to our customers.
Registration
When evaluating some of our products online, users must first register.
During registration, users are required to give their contact information
(such as name, e-mail address, mailing address and phone number). We also
may collect demographic information (such as job title and purchasing
responsibilities, company information and professional certification).
For internal purposes, we use this information to communicate with users
and provide requested services, and, for our website visitors, to provide
a more personalized experience on our sites. We use aggregate demographic
information about our audience to improve our service, for marketing purposes
and/or industry reporting purposes.
Communications with Us
We have features where users can submit information to us (such as our
feedback forms). Requests for service, support or information may be forwarded
as needed to best respond to a specific request. We may retain e-mails
and other information sent to us for our internal administrative purposes,
and to help us to serve customers better.
Communications from Us: Service Updates, Special
Offers
In order to best serve our customers, we may send updates that contain
important information about our sites and services. For example, we send
new members a welcoming message, and verify password and username for
our password-protected sites. We may also communicate with a user to provide
requested services and for account-related issues via e-mail, phone or
regular mail.
We offer our users the option to receive information about our company,
related products, services and special deals. Users can choose not to
receive these communications, as set forth in our Permission section below.
Automatic Data Collection
Our web sites have features that automatically collect information from
users, to deliver content specific to users' interests and to honor their
preferences. This information assists us in creating sites that will serve
the needs of our users.
For our internal purposes, we gather date, time, browser type, navigation
history and IP address of all visitors to our site. This information does
not contain anything that can identify users personally. We use this information
for our internal security audit log, trend analysis and system administration,
and to gather broad demographic information about our user base for aggregate
use.
We may combine demographic information supplied by a subscriber at registration
with site usage data to provide general profiles, in aggregate non-personally
identifiable form, about our users and their preferences in the content
of the site and advertising. We may share this composite information with
our advertisers and business affiliates to help them better understand
our services.
With whom your Information is Shared
we do not share personally identifiable information with other companies,
apart from those acting as our agents in providing our product(s)/service(s),
and which agree to use it only for that purpose and to keep the information
secure and confidential. Also, our parent, subsidiary and affiliate companies,
entities into which our company may be merged, or entities to which any
of our assets, products, sites or operations may be transferred, will
be able to use personal information. We will also disclose information
we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to
a court order or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response to
a law enforcement agency's request, or in special cases when we have reason
to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury
to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our
rights or property.
We may share aggregate information, which is not personally identifiable,
with others. This information may include usage and demographic data,
but it will not include personal information.
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code),
or if a user no longer desires our product(s)/service(s), we provide a
way to correct or update that user's personal data. The user should contact
Customer Support for the applicable product or service.
Security
We use reasonable precautions to protect our users' personal information
and to store it securely. Sensitive information that is transmitted to
us online (such as credit card number) is encrypted and is transmitted
to us securely. In addition, access to all of our users' information,
not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted. Only
employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example,
a billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access
to personally identifiable information. Finally, the servers on which
we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Links
Our web sites contain links to other sites. SiteGalore is not responsible
for the privacy practices or content of such other sites. We encourage
our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of each web site to which we may link that may collect personally
identifiable information.
Notification and Changes
If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page
so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it and
under which circumstances, if any, we disclose it. Users should check
this policy frequently to keep abreast of any changes. |