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PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Host Compare. Your privacy on the Internet is
importance to us. At Host Compare, we want to make your experience online
satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our
users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and
conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy
statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION HOST COMPARE GATHERS AND TRACKS
Host Compare gathers information through aggregated tracking information derived
mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us
to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and
sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because Host
Compare derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing
such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to
users. Under no circumstances does Host Compare divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
Host Compare Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary
submission of personal information by users:
Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions
with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues.
Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to
any particular user. Host Compare may use a system to "tag" users after they
have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not
correlated with information about individual users.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998
(COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information
from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
Host Compare tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However,
we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Host
Compare does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain
name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser
string (information contained in every user's browser).
Host Compare sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in
our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual
users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users
like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what
individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This
helps us continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your
computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it
will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have
specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie
can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off
your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Host Compare uses
cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your
browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning
message with each cookie.
Privacy Policy Use
How the information you gather is used if relevent.
USE OF INFORMATION
Host Compare uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance
their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or
personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on
the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to
enable users to participate in polls.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users
like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what
individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This
helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms
entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users.
But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
Host Compare creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns
for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise
more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are
pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of
individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user
clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user
except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the
personal safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Host Compare uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit
your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's
demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share
information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with
applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our
users or the public.
SECURITY
Host Compare operates secure data networks protected by industry standard
firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are
periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals
have access to the information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
* Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely
alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our
users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by
Host Compare. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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