Privacy Policy 24orange:
As part of your experience, we want you to feel confident that we will respect your privacy: We will
protect the
confidentiality not only of the information you provide to us, but also the information you
obtain using the
24orange web site. This Privacy Policy is designed to accomplish four objectives:
24orange ' sole purpose in operating the web site is to provide intellectual property services to
its users.
24orange never has, and never will "mine" the search strings submitted by users to our
site for any reason.
24orange has never sold any customer information to any third party, nor will
we ever do so.
We will continue to do everything in our power to protect the privacy of our customers'
searches and
link exchange information. We collect only the information we need to provide
accurate listings on our
website and to our link exchange members.
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
24orange believes it is important for you to know what types of information we collect when you use
our site
or sign up for one of our related services. We gather information about you when you visit
our pages and
when you contact us for information about any of our services. We automatically
record the name of the
domain; the IP address from which you access our website; the type of
browser and operating system used
to access our site; the date and time you access our site; the
Internet address of the website from which you
linked directly to our site; and the pages you visit.
2. WHY DO WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION?
We use this information in order to serve the needs of our customers. We use the information we
collect to
personalize the advertising and content you see on our pages. We also use your
information
to process
your requests to improve our customer service, to contact you, to conduct
internal
investigations, and to
supply anonymous statistics for internal and external clients.
3. HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION PROTECTED?
All
employees that we do hire have to sign a confidentiality agreement that forbids
them from
disclosing any
information to which the employee has access, to other individuals or
entities.
We also have back up servers
and power supplies to guard against power outages and
other natural
occurrences that could pose a threat
to the integrity of your personal information.
When an employee
is terminated or is no longer with the company,
we change the access codes
that the employee used
to access any customer accounts.
4.WHO HAS ACCESS TO MY INFORMATION?
We do not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with any third parties or nonaffiliated
companies except under the following circumstances: Employees in our technical department may
have
access to your information in order to conduct routine checks on the integrity of our system
and in order to
perform necessary maintenance work. Customer service representatives may also
have access to your
information in order to better serve you. Furthermore, judicial requests by a
duly authorized court will require
us to divulge certain information regarding you should that
situation arise. We may also share your information
if we believe it is necessary in order to
investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our
terms of use, or as otherwise
required by law. Finally, should our company ever be bought or sold, your account
information
would then become the property of the new owner/entity. We may share the statistical information
we gather from our web site visitors, such as how many unique IP addresses visit our site, with
advertising
partners or other third parties.
NOTICE OF CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time. However, if any changes do occur,
we will
publish the changes to our web site and post a notice on the home page that a new
privacy policy has been
implemented. We will also take reasonable steps to contact you
personally to let you know of the new changes.
Should the company be bought or sold to
someone else, we will take reasonable steps to notify you personally.
You will then be given
the option to keep your account open or to terminate.