Privacy Policy & User Agreement at vrbwebs.com
Your privacy is very important to us. We do not sell or rent your
personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes
without your explicit consent. Please read this privacy policy to
learn more about the ways in which we use and protect your personal
information.
By visiting this website you agree to be bound by the terms and
conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, we ask that
you do not use or access our Site.
Notice About Children (minors) using this Site
The information available at vrbwebs.com is safe for viewing by
anyone including children (persons under the age of 18). We do not
knowingly collect any personal information from minors and we specifically
ask that children do not submit any personal information to us.
If you are under the age of 18, you may only use this Site in conjunction
with and under the supervision of your parents or guardians.
Purpose for the Information That We Collect
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide
you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience as
well as to allow us to bill and collect for the goods and/or services
that we provide to our customers. We will only collect personal
information about you to the extent that it is necessary for achieving
the above stated purposes.
We respect your privacy
and NEVER collect email addresses
or other personal information for the purpose of selling, renting
or
providing such information to any third party.
You may browse the Site without providing personal
information or telling us who you are. Once you give us your personal
information, you cease to be anonymous to us. If you choose to use
our services, we may require you to provide contact and identity
information that will be used in the following manor:
For customer registration purposes on our server(s) - To issue
user login names, and the associated passwords for domain registration
and hosting;
To facilitate your purchase of products and services that are provided
from within our Site, we may request and use financial information
including your email address, name, address, telephone number, domain
name, credit card number and expiration date that you provided for
the following purposes and in the following manner:
- To verify the accuracy of your email address, name and postal
address
- To Bill you and collect for services that we provide;
- To investigate and resolve system errors associated with server
space and it’s functions, and email services;
- To validate your identity in protected areas of our server(s);
- To inform you of important information related to the services
we provide to you;
- To enforce our Terms of Use and Privacy Polices and to protect
our other customer information, which includes prevention of unauthorized
use of our client’s information and resources located on
our server(s).
Your Rights
Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and fields
that are optional. You retain the option and the right to not provide
any information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature.
You also have the right to refuse any “cookie” presented
to you during your visit to our Site. You may do this by setting
the privacy controls in the browser functions of the personal computer
that you are using to access our Site. There may be instances however,
where certain features do not behave as expected or may not function
properly without having "cookies" turned on. Additionally,
some services may be unavailable to you if you do not provide certain
information.
Automatically Tracked Information
Certain information is automatically tracked when you use our
Site. The collection of this type of data is standard procedure
on the internet. We use this information to research our Site user's
demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect
and serve you and our website community. The specific information
that we collect may include the URL that you just came from (whether
said URL is located on our Site or not), the URL you next go to
(whether said URL is located on our Site or not), the keywords that
you typed into a search engine to find our Site, the browser information
that your computer used to view our Site, your IP address, and the
date and time of your visit to our Site.
Concerning "Cookies"
Generally we do not use “cookies” to track your movement
within our Site. We may, however, use standard data collection methods
which may include "cookies" on certain pages of our Site
to assist in evaluation of page views, popularity and use of specific
web pages, to gauge the effectiveness of the pages you use, and
to promote trust and safety at our site. "Cookies" are
defined as small files placed on your hard drive that assist in
providing certain services. In addition, you may occasionally encounter
"cookies" or other similar devices on certain pages of
our Site that are placed by third parties. We have no control over
the use of cookies by third parties. Should you have questions about
third party cookies, you should refer to the individual privacy
policy in force at the third party Site.
Concerning Message Boards, Guestbooks, Public Forums & E-mail
If you choose to post messages in our forums, guestbooks or if
you complete and submit feedback forms, we will collect that information
you provided to us which may include but is not limited to your
IP address, your email address, your name, the date and time of
your visit and information about the web browser that your computer
used to view or interact with our Site. We retain this information
as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot
problems as permitted by law.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters,
or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about
your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information
into a file that identifies you by the email address and name submitted
by you.
How We Use Your Information
We use your personal information to facilitate the services you
request. We use your personal information in the file we maintain
about you, and other information we obtain from your current and
past activities on the Site to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems;
help promote safe trading; collect fees owed; gauge consumer interest
in our products and services, inform you about online and offline
offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience;
detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity;
protect our client's data; enforce our Privacy Policiy and User
Agreements; and in other ways that may be described to you at the
time of collection. On occasion, we may evaluate the activities
of multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and
in particular we may examine your personal information to identify
users using multiple User IDs or aliases. We may compare and review
your personal information for errors, omissions and for accuracy.
Our Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell or rent any of your personal information to third
parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
However, the following describes some of the ways that your personal
information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to
provide our services. From time to time we may use non-personally
identifiable information in conjunction with other users of our
site, for marketing and promotional purposes. For example, the number
of times you visited our Site may be included in a total count along
with other visitors to our site and released as a total number of
visits to specific areas of our site. In this instance, we will
not disclose to any third party, any information that could be used
to identify you personally. In any case, certain information, such
as your name, email address, password, credit card number, and bank
account number are for our internal use only and are not disclosed
to any third party without your consent.
In addition, other third parties, unknown to us, may intercept
or access private communications or information transmitted across
the internet in an unlawful manner. Similarly, a third party user
may collect, misuse or abuse any publicly accessible information
that is stored on our server(s).
SPAM Policy
Vrbwebs.com does not endorse nor tolerate SPAM. You are prohibited
from using email addresses located on our server(s) for the purpose
of sending SPAM and use of our server(s) to collect such information
for this purpose is strictly prohibited.
Acceptable Use of Email Tools
You may not use the Recommend to a Friend service or other email
services that we offer to send SPAM or otherwise send content that
would violate our User Agreements. We do not permanently store email
messages or the email addresses sent from these tools. If you send
an email using the Recommend to a Friend service to an email address
that is not registered in our community, we do not use that email
address for any purpose other than to send your email. We do not
rent, sell or otherwise use these email addresses.
Concerning the use of Passwords and User IDs
You agree to assume responsibility for all actions taken with
your User ID and password, including fees charged to your account.
It is our recommendation that you NOT disclose your user ID or password
to any third parties. If you choose to share your User ID and password
or your personal information with third parties, you assume all
responsibility for all actions taken with your account and therefore
you should review that third party's privacy policy. If you lose
control of your password, be aware that you may lose control over
your personal information and you may be liable and legally bound
to actions taken by any third party on your behalf. If you believe
that your password has been compromised for any reason, you should
take immediate action to ensure that the password is changed.
Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
We offer you the ability to automatically review and change the
information you submit to us by logging into the Site and entering
in the new information yourself. Generally, we will not modify your
personal information based on your request because it is very difficult
to authenticate your account manually. You can change your user
Id, email address, contact information, financial information, shipping
information and user preferences by going the preferences and setup
section in You must promptly update your personal information if
it changes or is inaccurate. Once posted, you may not be able to
change or remove any public postings made on our Site including
our message areas or the feedback area.
Upon your request, we will deactivate your account, contact information,
billing information, and financial information from our active databases.
Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible
based on your account activity and in accordance with our deactivation
policy and applicable laws governed by the state of Texas in the
United States of America.
Retention of Information
We will retain in our files, certain personal information that
you have requested be removed, in order to prevent fraud, to collect
any fees owed for services rendered, to resolve disputes, to troubleshoot
problems with our servers, to assist with investigations, to enforce
User and Privacy Policies and to comply with legal requirements
permitted by law. You should not reasonably expect that all of your
personal information will be completely and permanently removed
from our databases in response to your request for removal. However,
any remaining personal information that remains will be deactivated
and removed from public view and will only be available to select
vrbwebs.com personnel on a need to know basis or as required by
law, to government or law enforcement agencies.
Disclaimer
Because of existing laws and regulations, we cannot ensure that
all of your private communications and other personal information
will never be disclosed in ways that are not described herein. For
example, we may be forced to disclose personal information to the
government or third parties under certain circumstances. We will,
if required by law, disclose your name, company name, street address,
city, state, zip code, country, phone number or email address to
an authorized law enforcement agency or entity in connection with
an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy,
or other unlawful activity.
We reserve the
right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the
amended terms on our Site.
HOW TO REPORT VIOLATIONS of TERMS at vrbwebs.com
Anyone who believes that there has been violation of this agreement
by any user of vrbwebs.com or any domain hosted by vrbwebs.com,
may direct the information to our Abuse Department by sending email
to abuse@vrbwebs.com or by calling 817.795.2873 |