Privacy Policy
Last updated February 1, 2009.
PLEASE NOTE: OUR PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES FROM TIME TO TIME AND CHANGES ARE EFFECTIVE UPON POSTING. PLEASE CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY FOR UPDATES AS IT IS YOUR SOLE RESPONSIBILITY TO BE AWARE OF CHANGES.
By reference, this Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Website Terms of Use. Your use of the Website and any personal information you provide via the Website or through other official SmartHostingNow.com contact remains subject to this Privacy Policy, as well as the Terms of Use and/or other stated policies.
1. Collection of Information
1.1 Personal Information
On occasions, SmartHostingNow.com obtains information from individuals include (1) when an individual submits a review on the SmartHostingNow.com site, and (2) when an individual voluntarily subscribes to a SmartHostingNow.com service or newsletter.
1.2 Cookies and Other Info Collected Using Technology
SmartHostingNow.com at times uses cookies to associate certain Internet-related information about an individual with information about the individual in our database. Additionally, SmartHostingNow.com may use other new and evolving sources of information in the future (together, Technology Information).
(a) Cookies: A cookie is a small amount of data stored on the hard drive of the individual’s computer that allows SmartHostingNow.com to identify the individual with his or her corresponding data that resides in SmartHostingNow.com’s database. You may read more about cookies at http://cookiecentral.com. Individuals who use the Website need to accept cookies in order to use all of the features and functionality of the Website.
(b) New Technology: The use of technology on the Internet, including cookies, is rapidly evolving, as is SmartHostingNow.com’s use of new and evolving technology. As a result, SmartHostingNow.com strongly encourages individuals to revisit this policy for any updates regarding its use of technology.
1.3 Outside Information
SmartHostingNow.com may receive information about individuals from Third Parties or from other sources of information outside of SmartHostingNow.com including information located in public databases (Outside Information).
1.4 Individual Information
As used herein, Individual Information means Review Information, Third Party List Information, Other Information, Technology Information, and Outside Information, and any other information SmartHostingNow.com gathers or receives about individuals such as usage data, file transfer and viewing data.
1.5 No Information Collected from Children
SmartHostingNow.com will never knowingly collect any personal information about children under the age of 13. If SmartHostingNow.com obtains actual knowledge that it has collected personal information about a child under the age of 13, that information will be immediately deleted from our database. Because it does not collect such information, SmartHostingNow.com has no such information to use or to disclose to Third Parties. SmartHostingNow.com has designed this policy in order to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
2. Use of Individual Information
2.1 Discretion to Use Information
THE COMPANY MAY USE INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION FOR ANY LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE IN COMPANY’S SOLE DISCRETION.
The following paragraphs in Section 2 describe how SmartHostingNow.com currently uses Individual Information, but SmartHostingNow.com may change or broaden its use at any time. SmartHostingNow.com may use Individual Information to provide promotional offers to individuals by means of email advertising and/or online banner advertising, among other possible uses.
2.2 Email
SmartHostingNow.com uses Individual Information to provide promotional offers by email to individuals. SmartHostingNow.com may maintain separate email lists for different purposes. If email recipients wish to end their email subscription from a particular list, they need to follow the instructions at the end of each email message to unsubscribe from the particular list. To unsubscribe from all SmartHostingNow.com email lists, a person must send an email to unsubscribe @@ smarthostingnow.com. SmartHostingNow.com only sends email to individuals who have explicity agreed on the Website to receive email from SmartHostingNow.com or to individuals who have agreed on Third Party websites to receive email from Third Parties such as SmartHostingNow.com. SmartHostingNow.com does not send unsolicited email messages. As a result, statutes requiring certain formatting for unsolicited email are not applicable to SmartHostingNow.com email messages.
2.3 Use of Technology Information
SmartHostingNow.com uses Technology Information (1) to match a person’s Personal Information and Third Party List Information to other categories of Individual Information to make and improve profiles of individuals, (2) to track a person’s online browsing habits on the Internet, (3) to determine which areas of SmartHostingNow.com’s web sites are most frequently visited. This information helps SmartHostingNow.com to better understand the online habits of individuals.
2.4 Profiles of Individuals
SmartHostingNow.com may use Individual Information to make a profile of an individual. A profile can be created by combining Review information and Third Party List Information with other sources of Individual Information such as information obtained from public databases.
2.5 Storage of Individual Information
SmartHostingNow.com stores the Individual Information in a database on our hosting companies computers. These computers have security measures (such as a firewall) in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under SmartHostingNow.com’s control. Not withstanding such measures, SmartHostingNow.com cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent our databases from being illegally accessed, and the Individual Information on them stolen or altered.
3. Dissemination of Individual Information
3.1 Sale or Transfer to Third Parties
SmartHostingNow.com does not sell or transfer any Individual information to Third Parties.
3.2 Legal Process
SmartHostingNow.com may disclose Individual Information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, and other legal processes.
3.3 Summary Data
SmartHostingNow.com may sell or transfer non-individualized information, such as summary or aggregated anonymous information about all persons or sub-groups of persons.
3.4 Access
Individuals have access to their Individual Information collected to provide an opportunity for an individual to correct, amend, or delete such information. Access can be obtained by contacting contact @@ smarthostingnow.com.
4. Privacy Practices of Third Parties
4.1 Advertiser cookies
Advertising agencies, advertising networks, and other companies (together, Advertisers) who place advertisements on the Website and on the Internet generally may use their own cookies, web beacons, and other technology to collect information about individuals. SmartHostingNow.com does not control Advertisers’ use of such technology and SmartHostingNow.com has no responsibility for the use of such technology to gather information about individuals.
4.2 Links
The Website and email messages sometimes contain hypertext links to the web sites of Third Parties. SmartHostingNow.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other web sites. Linked web sites may contain links to web sites maintained by Third Parties. Such links are provided for your convenience and reference only. SmartHostingNow.com does not operate or control in any respect any information, software, products or services available on such Third Party web sites. The inclusion of a link to a web site does not imply any endorsement of the services or the site, its contents, or its sponsoring organization.
4.3 Affiliated Companies
SmartHostingNow.com may disclose, transfer, and sell Individual Information to entities affiliated with SmartHostingNow.com at our discretion. Should SmartHostingNow.com be subject to an acquisition, merger, sale or other change of control or business entity status, SmartHostingNow.com reserves the right to transfer or assign the Information collected from the Website.