MAXWEBSEARCH PRIVACY POLICY
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Effective as of April 27, 2012
MaxWebSearch
has established this Privacy Policy to disclose our information
gathering and dissemination practices for the www.maxwebsearch.com website and our Services, and to allow you to make an
informed decision about how you will use our Services. Our “Services” include www.maxwebsearch.com, the services provided thereon, and all related services,
applications, components, programs, software, listings, directories, tools,
databases and information made available and utilized. References to “you” in this Agreement means
you, your duly authorized representatives and any entity you may represent in
connection with your use of the Services.
By using
our Services, you are consenting to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to be bound by this
Privacy Policy, you should not use our Services. We reserve the right to enter into new or
different lines of business with consumers and if and to the extent we do, we
may display a different privacy policy to the consumer for such lines of
business.
This
Privacy Policy addresses only our practices with respect to information we
collect in the course of using our Services and does not apply to information
about you that might be collected by a third party website or an offering
linked to or otherwise accessible from our Services. Any information collected, obtained and/or
used by any such third parties is subject to the privacy policies of those
third parties. We encourage you to
review the policies of such third parties. Finally, to the extent any of our
Services are undertaken in conjunction with or as a co-branded service with a
third party, then both our Privacy Policy and such third party’s privacy policy
may apply.
1.
Collection
of Information
MaxWebSearch
does not, generally, track or maintain personally identifiable
information about consumers that use our Services. The only personally-identifiable information
collected through the use of our Services is gathered upon your contacting us
so that we may respond to your questions or comments. When you use or interact with our Services, we
may collect certain anonymous information that is not sufficient to permit
someone to identify you by name, email address, mailing address, telephone number,
social security number, driver’s license or other government-issued
identification. The anonymous information
we may have access to, obtain, retain and use may include:
- Information about your use of
our Services, such as the frequency with which you use them, how you use
and interact with them, when you visit them, and your responses to the
offerings and advertisements made available to you through them, among
other things; and
- Information of a technical
nature that may be gathered or received when you use the Services,
including, without limitation, the following:
- The type of browser you are
using when using our Services, including your browser’s “user agent”
(e.g., Internet Explorer, Safari, and other browsers);
- Your means of connecting to
the Internet (e.g., connection speed through broadband or narrowband
access);
- Your operating system type,
whether Windows 7, Mac OS, and CPU type (for example, Pentium);
- Your Internet protocol (IP)
address and information about the version of any software comprising a
portion of the Services that you use;
- Any information that may be
gathered regarding your geographic location and the domain name of your
Internet service provider (ISP); and/or
- Diagnostic information which
describes how our Services are operating on your system.
All of the
foregoing information is collectively referred to hereinafter as “Anonymous Information”.
We may also supplement Anonymous Information
with additional information from other third parties in some cases. Additionally, those portions of the Services
comprised of software have been configured to communicate to us any information
relating to computer errors arising from use of such software, without
providing any notice to you of the delivery of such communications. Such
communications may include the configuration settings applicable at the time of
the error. We use this data to help us clarify and fix performance issues with
and to improve the software and the Services.
2. Use of
Information
(a) Anonymous Information is used to (i) operate
and improve upon the Services, including all constituent parts of the Services
such as the software, the websites and the various offerings, among other
things, (ii) research and analyze your use of the Services, and (iii) present
you with offers for other products, offerings, programs, features and/or
services that may be of interest to you.
We will
not share your Anonymous Information with third parties unless:
- You have given us your prior
consent to disclose such information;
- The third party is our parent, subsidiary,
or an affiliated company owned by our parent company.
- We must disclose some or all of
your Anonymous Information to authorized officers of the court in order to
comply with valid legal process or to act in other urgent situations (as
further discussed below);
- Such information is needed by a
company that works for us in providing you with our Services, in which
case they will only get that portion of your Anonymous Information they
need to help us deliver our Services and they will only be allowed to use
that portion of your Anonymous Information when we request it and pursuant
to our instructions; and
(b) We note above, but it is worth
reiterating here, that your Anonymous Information, as well as other information
about you as a user of our Services, may be disclosed by us to those authorized
officers of the court in response to valid legal process, including without
limitation, a valid court order, search warrant or subpoena), as well as in
other circumstances if we believe in good faith that there is an emergency that
poses a threat to the safety of you or another person or that the Services are
being used in the commission of a crime by your or another third party. Furthermore, we may disclose your Anonymous Information
to protect our own rights, Services and property or those of our affiliated
providers, in addition to providing you with the Services.
(c) In the event that ownership of all or a
portion of the Services currently provided by MaxWebSearch were to change
as a result of a merger, acquisition or transfer to another company, your Anonymous
Information may be transferred as well.
3. Web Beacons and
Cookies
(a) In providing the Services to you, we may
use web beacons and cookies or similar technologies in conjunction with your Anonymous
Information to personalize and improve your use of and experience with the
Services, including, without limitation, to operate and improve the Service’s
offerings; to present, measure and research the effectiveness of our Service’s
offerings, advertisements, and communications to you, such as by determining
which pages you visit, which ads you click on, communications you respond to,
and functionality you use; to store and allow retrieval of information that you
have provided to third party services that are integrated with the Services,
and configuration preferences; and to customize the content and advertisements
provided to you through the Services. In
addition, third party advertisers on our site might also use cookies or web
beacons downloaded through our Services to accomplish many similar goals in
connection with the effectiveness of their advertising through our Services and
in general. We do not have access to the
cookies or web beacons employed by advertisers through our Services and such
cookies or web beacons are not governed by this Privacy Policy, but rather by
the privacy policy of such advertiser.
(b) Web beacons or clear GIFs are relatively
small pieces of code placed on webpages that can be used for a number of
purposes, including counting the users who visit that webpage, or to deliver a
cookie to the browser of a user viewing that page. A cookie is a small text file transferred from
MaxWebSearch to your computer that records information about your
preferences and use of the Services. We may also use such cookies to help us
identify your location by determining your IP address, or to allow us to recall
certain Service settings that you have chosen previously. You can control cookies through your browser's
settings. However, if you reject all cookies, you may not be able to take
advantage of most our Service offerings.
4. Username and
Password
You are
responsible for keeping any password you use for third party services that are
integrated with and/or accessed from the Services confidential and secret. As
such and for other important security reasons, we urge you to keep any such
password secure and safe at all times. By using our Services, you acknowledge
that you and you alone are responsible for the security of any username and
password.
5. We Are Committed
to Security
MaxWebSearch stores Anonymous Information in a database on MaxWebSearch computers. These computers have security measures, such as a firewall, to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under MaxWebsearch's control. Notwithstanding such measures, MaxWebSearch cannot guarantee that its security or privacy protection measures will prevent its computers from being illegally accessed and the data on them stolen or altered.
6. General Internet
Hazards
Any time
you receive files over the Internet from third parties, regardless of the
application used, whether MaxWebSearch, email or other application, you
may be subjecting yourself to receiving harmful files or files that are not
compatible with your operating system. Prior to accepting any files from any
Internet user, including those from an account that appears familiar to you, we
highly recommend verifying that the person sending you such files is the person
you believe he or she is. You should be
extremely careful about accepting files from users you do not trust, from users
you do not know, or from users whose identity you have not been able to
confirm. You should also be aware that communications sent over the Internet
are not secure unless they are encrypted. MaxWebSearch does not encrypt your
communications through the Services. Further,
your communications made through MaxWebSearch may be routed through
different countries which may have different laws, rules, regulations and
standards regarding activities on the Internet. As such, MaxWebSearch cannot accept any
responsibility for any unauthorized access to your communications made through
the Services or any loss of data.
7. European Union
Members - International Transfer of Data
Our
Services are international in scope. By
using the Services you consent to your Anonymous Information and any personal
information that you provide to us being sent and processed in other
jurisdictions, including the United States and other jurisdictions outside the
European Union and European Economic Area where there may be less stringent
data protection laws.
8. Children
Our
Services are intended for a general audience, and children under the age of
thirteen are not permitted to use the Services. We do not intentionally solicit or collect
personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If you believe that we might have any
information from or about a child under age 13, please contact us through our
contact form at: http://www.maxwebsearch.com/contact. We strongly recommend that minors between the
ages of 13 and 18 ask their parents’ permission before sending information
about themselves to anyone over the Internet or receiving any information from
persons unknown to them.
9. Changes to this
Privacy Policy
MaxWebSearch
Change may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in its sole discretion,
as reflected in the “Effective as of” date above. As such, you should review
this Privacy Policy frequently.
10. Who We Are
Any
references made in this Privacy Policy to “us”, “we”, “our” and/or “MaxWebSearch” shall be deemed to have been made to MIVA AK, Inc., as well as any
company that controls MIVA AK, Inc., directly or indirectly, and any other
subsidiary of that controlling company.
11. More Information
For more
information about protecting your privacy, you may wish to visit
http://www.netcoalition.com and http://www.privacyalliance.org. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission
Consumer Response Center offers a helpline at 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357)
to allow consumers to make comments or inquiries regarding companies and
business practices.
If you
have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our
contact form at http://www.maxwebsearch.com/contact
or write to us at:
MaxWebSearch
Attn: Legal Department
5220 Summerlin Commons Blvd., Suite 501
Fort Myers, FL 33907