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Nethosts Interactive Ltd - Privacy PolicyNethosts Interactive has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices. Personal InformationWe use your IP address to help detect diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and email address), demographic information (like your postal code, age, income) and information about your interests or hobbies. We use customer contact information from the registration form to send the user information about our company and promotional material from some of our partners. We will under no circumstances share your personal information with anyone outside the company. We may provide partners with statistics but this will be purely generic and never tied to a specific user. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the User visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data for other purposes. We use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. This site contains links to other sites. Nethosts is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. Nethosts Interactive displays adverts on our pages. At present we only log the number of clicks on the adverts, nothing else.
Children's GuidelinesNethosts Interactive is not intended for children below 15 years. However children under 15 may of course register their own e-mail address, with parental consent. However, parents or legal guardians may of course register on their child's behalf. [Under UK law, minors cannot make a binding contract. It is therefore preferable to require the parents to actually sign up on the child's behalf. However, please note our previous comments regarding the increased liability that this may entail].
Nethosts Interactive PledgeNOT collect online contact information without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other purposes without prior parental consen NOT collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent NOT distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information with out prior parental consent NOT give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent NOT entice by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity.
Security PracticesAt Nethosts Interactive, security has been put on top of the list from day one. This site has many security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. For users who require added security we support SSL encryption throughout the whole Nethosts network. SSL provides a secure link between you the user and our systems which protects against eavesdropping. Our servers all run the Linux Operating System, ensuring a stable and secure service. The service consists of several servers. The server containing your personal mail is located on a separate network from the Internet and thus making it virtually impossible to break into.
CookiesSo-called cookies are small pieces of information which resides on your computer. Your browser handles all the cookies on your computer. Cookies can contain many types of information, and most large websites on the Internet use them. At Nethosts cookies are used solely for:
Some browsers, such as the popular Internet Explorer encrypt your cookies. Should someone gain access to your computer the cookies stored on your hard drive will be of no value as they are already encrypted and therefore unintelligible. Our servers are under constant surveillance to provide you with an uninterrupted and secure service. Any breach of security will be given immediate attention and in most cases reported to the police.
Opt-In-Out / UpdateOur site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. You can set your own preferences in your client area should you wish to opt out of future communications. Should you wish to update or correct any information that we hold about you, you may do so using your client area. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us.
Last updated 1 September 2008 |
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