WebHostingRating Privacy Policy

OurPrivacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect anduse the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in makinginformed decisions when using our site and our products and services.

What Information Do We Collect?

When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two typesof information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that iscollected on an individual basis and Web site use information collected on anaggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.

1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide

RegistrationInformation.

You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you register to be a member of WebHostingRating.com, register for certain services, or register foremail newsletters and alerts. You may also provide additional comments on how you see WebHostingRating.com servicing your needs and interests.

Email Information.

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we mayretain the content of your email messages together with your email address andour responses.

2. Web Site Use Information

Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes astandard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below,"What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information abouthow our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web serverlogs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent atour Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Website.  We, our advertisers and adserving companies may also use small technology or pieces of code to determinewhich advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded tothem.

How Do We Use the Information That You Provide toUs?

Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes ofadministering and expanding our business activities, providing customer serviceand making available other products and services to our customers andprospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collectto notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and specialoffers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at legal@webhostingrating.com

What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a very small text document, which often includesan anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computerasks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your harddrive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its owncookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protectyour privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.  Some of our business partners (e.g.,advertisers) use cookies that originate from their sites. We have no access orcontrol over those cookies. 

How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?

As you use our Web site, the site uses its cookies todifferentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies toprevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log inmore than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Webserver's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of peoplevisiting our Web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helpsus gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serveour customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided tous in your cookies.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

We may enter into alliances, partnerships or other businessarrangements with third parties who may be given access to personal informationincluding your name, address, telephone number and email for the purpose ofproviding you information regarding products and services that we think will beof interest to you. In connection with alliances, partnerships or arrangements,we may also provide certain information to third parties if we have determined that the information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsiblethird party. For example, some of our partners operate stores or provide services on our site, while others power offerings developed by us for youruse. We also use third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not limited to, sending email and processing credit card payments. In connectionwith these offerings and business operations, our partners and other third parties may have access to your personal information for use in connection withbusiness activities. As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets orbusiness offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally oneof the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may alsotransfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, orany dissolution.

Notice of New Services and Changes

Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect tonotify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and specialoffers we think you will find valuable. As our customer, you will be given theopportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by sendingus an email request at legal@webhostingrating.com.

HowDo We Protect Your Information?

How Do We Secure InformationTransmissions?

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For thisreason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email.Some of the information you may enter on our Web site may be transmittedsecurely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption services. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP.Please contact legal@webhostingrating.com if you have any questions or concerns.

How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?

You may request access to all your personally identifiableinformation that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing legal@webhostingrating.com

Certain Disclosures

We may disclose your personal information if required to do soby law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a)conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties;(b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of our site,and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect thesafety of users of our site, us, or third parties.

What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?

We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web siteslinked to or from our Web site nor the information or content containedtherein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers toinformation on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Website to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Yourbrowsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites which havea link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site's own rules and policies.Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Your Consent

By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use ofyour personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change ourprivacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site tokeep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.