PRIVACY POLICY
This document represents a legal document that serves as our Privacy
Policy. It governs the privacy terms of our Website and Services. Our Privacy Policy is part of our Legal
Terms. Capitalized terms, unless otherwise defined below, have the
meaning specified within our Terms of Service.
The last update to our Privacy
Policy was posted on March
7, 2013.
We break up the
types of information you share into Non Personal Information and Personally Identifiable
Information.
"Non
Personal Information" is information that is not personally identifiable
to you and that we automatically collect when you access our Website with a web
browser.
"Personally
Identifiable Information" is non-public information that is personally
identifiable to you and obtained in order for us to provide you within access
to certain features of our Website.
Personally Identifiable Information may include information such as your
email address, physical location, business name, and other related information
that you provide to us or that we obtain about you. It may also include payment information for Services any content you that upload our Services.
Generally, you control the amount
and type of information you provide to iHosting HQ when using our Website.
As a visitor, you can browse our Website to find out
more about us and our Services.
You are not required to provide us with any Personally Identifiable
Information as a visitor.
However,
if you register an Account with our Website, you must provide Personally
Identifiable Information to iHosting HQ in order for us to provide you
with our Services. We collect your
Personally Identifiable Information in the following ways:
When
you register for an Account, you will provide us with name, location, email,
and payment information.
By
using our Services, you can upload content to your Website. However, your website content is NOT
subject to our Privacy Policy.
There
may be online forms used in our Website.
The information you enter into these online forms may contain Personally
Identifiable Information.
When you use our Service, iHosting HQ automatically collects
certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web
browser with our Website. Such
information is typically considered Non Personal Information. iHosting HQ also collects the following:
Our Services uses “Cookies” to
identify the areas of our Website that you have visited. A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on
your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to personalize the Content
that you see on our Website. Most web
browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not
be able to access functionality on our Website correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable
Information in Cookies.
We may also use a
technology called, web beacons, to collect general information about your use
of our Website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The
information we collect by Web Beacons allows us to statistically monitor the
number of people that open our emails. Our
Web Beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our Website. We do not link Non Personal Information from
Web Beacons to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission.
We
automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the
Website from which you entered our Website, if any, as well as the name of the
Website to which you’re headed when you leave our Website. This information also includes the IP address
of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your
Internet Website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and
computer operating system. We use all of
this information to analyze trends among our Users to help improve our Website.
We do not store any credit/debit
card details. All payment processing is carried out using a 3rd
party using the strictest protection and encryption standards. We will however
store information such as time and date of payment, your billing address and
your name.
iHosting HQ uses the information
we receive from you as follows:
iHosting HQ may use the Personally Identifiable information you
provide to us along with any computer information we receive to provide our
Website and Services to you as well as to make improvements to them.
When iHosting HQ communicates with you about our Website, we will use the email address
you provided when registering as a Member.
We may also send you Website alerts regarding your use of our Service. Finally, we may also send you emails with
promotional information about iHosting HQ, unless you have opted out of
receiving such information. You can
change contact preferences at any time through your account. While you can opt-out of promotional
messages, you cannot opt-out of receiving Website alerts.
iHosting HQ does not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your
Personally Identifiable Information to third parties for marketing
purposes. However, we may use
demographic information for data aggregation purposes which might be sold to
other parties at our discretion. Any
such data aggregation would not contain any of your Personally Identifiable
Information. We may provide your
Personally Identifiable Information to affiliates that provide Websites to iHosting HQ with regards to our Website (i.e. payment processors, webhosting companies,
etc.); such affiliates will only receive information necessary to provide the
respective Websites and will be bound by confidentiality agreements limiting
the use of such information.
Our
Website may offer the capability for Users to communicate with each other
through online Community Discussion Boards.
iHosting HQ does not filter or monitor what is posted on such
discussion boards. If you chose to post
on these discussion boards, you should use care when exposing any Personally
Identifiable Information as such information is not protected by our Privacy
Policy nor are we liable should you choose to disclose Personally Identifiable
Information through such postings.
iHosting HQ may be legally required to disclose your Personally
Identifiable Information, if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law,
or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or
government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or
otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal
action or claims from third parties including you and/or other Members; and/or
(e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal
safety of iHosting HQ, our Users, employees, and affiliates.
If iHosting HQ is acquired or merges, in whole or in part, with another business that
would become responsible for providing the Service to you, we retain the right
to transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to the new business. The new business would retain the right to
use your Personally Identifiable Information according to the terms of this
Privacy Policy as well as to any changes to this Privacy Policy as instituted
by the new business.
We
believe in everyone’s right to privacy.
If any content you upload to your website contains the images of third
parties (i.e. bystanders), you need to make sure you have permission to include
them in your content. While we are not
legally liable for the actions of our users, we will remove any images for
which we are notified that such images violate the privacy rights of others.
Your
Account comes with privacy settings, which allows you to hide certain
Personally Identifiable Information such as your email address and age. If you
choose to show Personally Identifiable Information in your Account you accept
full responsibility for any further consequences. Also, please note that
Administrators will still have access to all of your Account information.
Our Website may contain links to
other websites. You agree that iHosting HQ has no control over such websites and that such websites are NOT subject
to this Privacy Policy. These websites
may have their own privacy policies and other legal documents. It is your sole responsibility to verify the
privacy policies and other legal documents of such websites to see how they treat
your personal information. You acknowledge that your use and access of these websites
is solely at your own risk.
iHosting HQ and our affiliates
fully comply with international laws regarding SPAM. You can always opt out of receipt of further
email correspondence from iHosting HQ and/or our affiliates. We agree that we will not sell, rent, or
trade your email address to any unaffiliated third-party without your
permission.
iHosting HQ has constructed our Service
with security in mind. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the Internet, we
cannot completely guarantee that your Personally Identifiable Information is
completely protected. We strongly urge
you to protect any password you may have for our Website and to not share it
with anyone. You should always log out
of our Website when not in use, especially if you are sharing a computer or
mobile device with someone else or are using a public computer.
iHosting HQ reserves the
right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. You should review this Privacy Policy
frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you
here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. We will also change the
"Last Updated" date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. Any changes we make to our Privacy Policy are
effective as of this Last Updated date and replace any prior Privacy
Policies.
You may change your email address
or other Personally Identifiable Information at any time using the Account
management features found on our Website.