Privacy Notice
We know you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your
trust that we will handle everything carefully and responsibly. This notice describes
our privacy policy. By visiting SearchEngineNews.com, you are accepting the
practices described in this Privacy Notice.
Topics Covered in this Notice
What Personal Information Does SearchEngineNews.com Gather?
The information we gather helps us personalize and continually improve your
experience at SearchEngineNews.com. Here are the types of information we gather.
- Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information
you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to
provide certain information, but then you might not be able to utilize some of the
features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding
to your requests, customizing your transactions with us, improving our site, and
communicating with you.
- Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of
information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many websites, we use
cookies, and we obtain certain types of information when your Web
browser accesses SearchEngineNews.com.
What About Cookies?
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard
drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and
to provide personalized features.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to
prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you
when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However,
cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of SearchEngineNews.com's coolest
features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Does SearchEngineNews.com Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are
not in the business of selling it to others. However there may be instances where we
are required by law or other mandate to share information in such cases as:
- Protection of SearchEngineNews.com and Others: We release
account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to
comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements;
or protect the rights, property, or safety of SearchEngineNews.com, our users, or
others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations
for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not
include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable
information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments
set forth in this Privacy Notice.
- With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will
receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will
have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.
What About Information Security?
- We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by
using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you
input.
- We reveal only the last four digits of your credit card numbers when confirming
an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate
credit card company during order processing.
- It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password
and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared
computer.
What About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites?
SearchEngineNews.com may include third-party advertising and links to other
websites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these
advertisers or third-party websites.
These third-party websites and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies
working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or "serve") the
advertisements that appear on our website directly to your browser. They
automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies,
JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other
technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising
content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they
may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites
are not covered by this Privacy Notice. Please contact them directly for more
information about their privacy practices. In addition, the Network Advertising
Initiative offers useful information about Internet advertising companies (also
called "ad networks" or "network advertisers"), including information about how to
opt-out of their information collection.
Which Information Can I Access?
If you choose to enroll as a member, you will be provided the means to view and
change any personal information stored with us.
What Choices Do I Have?
- As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information although
doing so might prevent you from becoming a member, completing a transaction, or
utilizing a feature or function of SearchEngineNews.com.
- If you become a member of SearchEngineNews.com, you can add or update
certain information on your personalized page within our Membership Center. When
you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our
records.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to
prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you
when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
Examples of Information Collected
Information You Give Us
You provide us with your information mostly when you make a purchase or communicate
with customer service. For example, you provide information when you place an order
through SearchEngineNews.com. You provide information in Your Customer
Profile—and you might have more than one if you have used more than one e-mail
address when shopping with us—whenever you communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or
otherwise, and whenever you login using your e-mail address and password.
Automatic Information
Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol
(IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet;
computer and connection information such
as browser type and version, operating system, and platform
. The full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream
to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number. During
some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect
session information, including page response times, download errors, length of
visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks,
and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
Information You Can Access
All enrolled members of SearchEngineNews.com can easily access
up-to-date information regarding recent orders; personally identifiable information
(including name, e-mail, password, phone number) and payment settings on their own
personal accounts.
Any Further Questions on Privacy Issues can be directed to: Customer Service