United Online Web Services, Inc. (“United
Online Web Services”), a United Online Company, provides various consumer
Internet subscription services including Internet web sites, web hosting
services, domain registration, e-mail services and other services
(collectively, the “Services”) under multiple brands including , without
limitation, emailMyName, mySite, FreeServers, 50megs, Community Architect,
and BizHosting. United Online Web Services is committed to safeguarding
your privacy online and created this Privacy Statement in order to
demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting the online privacy of users
of our services.
By using the Services you consent to our gathering, use and disclosure
of your information, as described in this Privacy Statement, the Terms of
Service and the other documents, agreements and materials incorporated
therein (collectively referred to as the “Rules”). This Privacy Statement
may change from time to time and United Online Web Services will provide
notice of changes as described in the Terms of Service. Questions regarding this Statement should be directed Attn: Legal
Department - Privacy, United Online Web Services, Inc., c/o United Online,
Inc., 2 Executive Drive, Suite 820, Fort Lee, NJ 07024. This Privacy Statement explains the following:
Information about you. United Online Web Services collects
personal information about you including, without limitation, personally
identifiable information (such as your name, address, phone number and
e-mail address) and financial information (such as your credit card
information). For some of our Services we may also ask other information
about you such as your age or other demographic information. United
Online Web Services may also collect your contact information and
correspondence if you contact us by e-mail or letter.
Information about your use of the Services. United Online Web
Services collects information about your use of the Services including,
without limitation, data about your computer (such as operating system
type, browser type, software installed on your computer) and your web
browsing information (such as referring URL’s as well as your IP
address).
2. How does United Online Web Services gather
information?
United Online Web Services gathers information
that you submit on any United Online Web Services registration forms,
surveys, questionnaires or other online forms. United Online Web Services
gathers information about your use of the Services during such use, and
you understand that you are not anonymous to us. United Online Web
Services may also gather new information or update information from other
sources including, for example, verifying and updating your address using
third party services, using various methods to update your credit card
expiration date or collecting information from our business partners. 3. How does United Online Web Services use the gathered
information?
United Online Web Services uses your information
to make your use of the Services more personalized and convenient. United
Online Web Services uses your information to display or deliver materials,
such as e-mails, surveys and content. United Online Web Services may use
your information to target such materials so that they may be more
relevant to you than materials that would be provided without the use of
your information. United Online Web Services may use your information to
make online transactions more convenient for you, such as pre-filling
online forms that you may submit to us or, for some of our Services, this
information may be pre-filled for third parties. United Online Web
Services may provide your information to third parties as described below
in Section 4.
United Online Web Services uses your information to conduct and
provide market research and data analysis services.
United Online Web Services uses your information to provide, support
and maintain the Services including, for example, to monitor and
diagnose the Services, to provide technical support, to bill you for the
Services and to contact you with respect to the Services or other United
Online Web Services products or services.
United Online Web Services will not disclose your personally
identifiable information to any third party, except if you have given us
your consent for such disclosure or if the disclosure is described
below. United Online Web Services may share your non-personally
identifiable information with third parties.
United Online Web Services may share your personally identifiable
information with third parties that provide services on behalf of United
Online Web Services. Such third parties do not have the right to use
your information for any purpose other than to provide the applicable
service.
United Online Web Services may share your personally identifiable
information with its affiliates that protect your personally
identifiable information from disclosure to non-affiliated third parties
in a manner similar to this Privacy Statement.
If United Online Web Services sells, assigns or transfers the part
of its business that provides a particular Service to you, your
personally identifiable information may be sold, assigned or transferred
as a part of such transaction.
United Online Web Services may disclose your personally identifiable
information, any communications sent or received by you, and any other
information that we may have about your account as follows: as may be
required by law, regulation, rule or court order; pursuant to requests
from governmental agencies or law enforcement authorities; as necessary
to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be
violating the Rules; to operate the Services properly; or to protect
United Online Web Services, our members or other third parties
including, without limitation, other emergency situations.
Third Party Sites and Co-Branded Services. United Online Web
Services may advertise, promote, reference, recommend or provide links to
third party sites, services and products. These third parties may have
their own privacy policies, which may not comply with this Privacy
Statement, even if the site, service or product is branded with United
Online Web Services’ logo or name. United Online Web Services IS NOT
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRIVACY PRACTICES OF SUCH THIRD PARTIES OR ANY OTHER
THIRD PARTIES. United Online Web Services recommends that you review the
privacy policies of any such third parties. 5. How may you access or update stored Information
about you?
You may review and update your information stored as
a part of your account in either the personal profile or billing
information areas at any time. To access such information, please click on
the “My Account” link or tab from the home page of your Service. 6. How does United Online Web Services protect your
personal information?
All of your account information is
password protected for your security. Your billing information is
transmitted and displayed using industry-standard SSL encryption. While
United Online Web Services believes that it has implemented reasonable
security, United Online Web Services cannot guarantee that our security
measures will prevent unauthorized third parties, such as hackers, from
obtaining or accessing your information. 7. Use of Cookies; E-mail Pixels.
United
Online Web Services uses a feature of your Web browser called “cookies” to
automate certain aspects of our Web site. Cookies are very small files
that are stored on your computer and that enable us to recognize your
computer each time you return to our site. By using cookies, United Online
Web Services can keep track of your preferences, what you have already
seen on our site and what you haven't, and any personalization you've
done, without requiring you to enter a password every time you come back.
United Online Web Services uses any information gathered using our cookies
in compliance with this Privacy Statement. Third parties, including advertisers with whom United Online Web
Services may have a relationship, may also set cookies. Such third parties
are responsible for placing and using such cookies and may collect
information about you through such cookies; United Online Web Services
does not have access to such cookies, control the use of such cookies nor
control over the privacy policy of such parties. We may use an e-mail delivery and marketing company to send you
e-mails. Pixel tags and cookies are used in those e-mail messages and at
our website to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and
how visitors use our site.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
