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OUR PRIVACY POLICY
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Introduction:
At checkmywebsite.com and/or toddruggeri.com we recognize that your privacy
is important. This Policy applies to all products and services offered by
checkmywebsite.com/ and/or toddruggeri.com, its subsidiaries or affiliated
companies. In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our
privacy practices, we have posted separate definitions near the bottom of this
Policy. Any information in this Policy applies to checkmywebsite.com and
toddruggeri.com, regardless of which is referenced.
If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us
through our website or write to us at Privacy Matters, c/o CheckMyWebsite.com,
P.O. BOX 50838, Phoenix, Arizona, 85076 USA.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
You can visit the websites of checkmywebsite.com without revealing any personal
information. However, checkmywebsite.com needs certain personal information if
you wish to purchase our products, or use certain checkmywebsite.com services.
Where required, this information may include your personal contact information
and/or your company contact information. Checkmywebsite.com will use this
information to reply to your inquiries, to provide you with requested products
and services, to set up your member's account, and to contact you regarding new
products and services.
By accessing the services of checkmywebsite.com and voluntarily providing us
with the requested personal information, you consent to the collection and use
of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information
Checkmywebsite.com automatically receives and records non-personal information
on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie
information and the page you requested. Hyper Templates may use this information
to customize the advertising and content you see and to fulfill your requests
for certain products and services. However, checkmywebsite.com does not connect
this non-personal data to any personal information collected from you.
Checkmywebsite.com may also allow third party companies that are presenting
advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your
computer. Again, these cookies are not connected to any personal information.
Third party cookie usage is subject to their own privacy policies, and checkmywebsite.com
assumes no responsibility or liability for this usage.
Checkmywebsite.com processes personal information on our servers in the United
States of America.
Consent
If you do not consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal
information as outlined in this policy, please do not provide any personal
information to checkmywebsite.com. If you have provided personal information to
Hyper Templates and no longer consent to its use or disclosure as outlined
herein, please notify checkmywebsite.com at through our website or write to us
at Privacy Matters, c/o CheckMyWebsite.com,
P.O. BOX 50838, Phoenix, Arizona, 85076 USA.
SECURITY
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be considered 100%
secure. However, your information is protected by checkmywebsite to the best of
our abilities for your privacy and
security. In certain areas of our websites, as identified on the site,
checkmywebsite.com uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.
We also safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access, through
access control procedures, network firewalls and physical security measures.
Further, checkmywebsite.com retains your personal information only as long as
necessary to fulfill the purposes identified above or as required by law.
Third-party Website Design
We may use third party Website design templates that we customize exclusively
for individual clients. There are legal terms of use policies that apply
to the use and sale of these third party Website templates that
checkmywebsite.com complies with as outlined in the third-party terms of use
policy and/or in accordance with applicable copyright and intellectual property
right laws. However, checkmywebsite.com reserves the right to withhold the
name of these companies and/or websites unless this
information is requested by a formal written request via U.S. postal service
at our address listed herein. This policy is to also serve notice by
checkmywebsite.com that we do not claim intellectual or exclusive ownership of any
third party Website design templates, modified or unmodified that
checkmywebsite.com may use in
the course of providing Website design services to its clients. All products remain
the property of independent content providers.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we will
ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner
different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your
consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those
described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer
you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those
other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes
other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service
notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which
case checkmywebsite.com may not be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
Checkmywebsite.com only shares personal information with other companies or
individuals outside of checkmywebsite.com in the following limited
circumstances:
• We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any
sensitive personal information.
• We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other
trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information
on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information
based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other
appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
• We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of
such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law,
regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce
applicable terms of service, including investigation of potential violations
thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical
issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety
of checkmywebsite.com, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If checkmywebsite.com becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of
sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal
information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the
management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to
or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include
internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and
security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against
unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to checkmywebsite.com employees,
contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate,
develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality
obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal
prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
Checkmywebsite.com processes personal information only for the purposes for
which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable
service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and
processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the
personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take
reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate,
complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their
personal information whenever necessary.
Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not
reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we
expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy
changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more
prominent notice on our website. Each version of this Policy will be identified
at the bottom of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior
versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.
Example: Effective Date: June 9, 2006
Revision: 1.1.
POLICY DEFINITIONS:
1. What is personal information:
"Personal information" is information that you provide to us that personally
identifies you, such as your name, email address or billing information, or
other data which can be reasonably linked to such information by
checkmywebsite.com.
2. What is a cookie:
A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to
your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the
cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user
preferences and other information. You can reset your browser to refuse all
cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some website
features or services may not function properly without cookies.
3. What are server logs:
Like most Web sites, our servers automatically record the page requests made
when users visit our sites. These "server logs" typically include your web
request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and
time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your
browser.
Here is an example of a typical log entry where someone has visited our Website,
followed by a breakdown of its parts:
123.45.67.89 - 25/Mar/2003 10:15:32 - http://www. checkmywebsite.com /privacy.html
- Firefox 1.0.7; Windows NT 5.1 - 740674ce2123e969
• 123.45.67.89 is the Internet Protocol address assigned to the user by the
user's ISP; depending on the user's service, a different address may be assigned
to the user by their service provider each time they connect to the Internet;
• 25/Mar/2003 10:15:32 is the date and time of the query;
• http://www. checkmywebsite.com/privacy.html is the requested URL, including
the specific page within the Website hierarchy.
• Firefox 1.0.7; Windows NT 5.1 is the browser and operating system being used;
and
• 740674ce2123a969 is the unique cookie ID assigned to this particular computer
the first time it visited checkmywebsite.com. (Cookies can be deleted by users.
If the user has deleted the cookie from the computer since the last time s/he
visited checkmywebsite.com, then it will be the unique cookie ID assigned to the
user the next time s/he visits checkmywebsite.com from that particular
computer).
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel
free to contact us any time through this web site or at the address listed
below.
Sincerely,
Todd A. Ruggeri
Website Owner
Privacy Matters
c/o CheckMyWebsite.com
P.O. BOX 50838
Phoenix, Arizona, 85076
U.S.A.
E-mail:
privacy@checkmywebsite.com
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