DashBoardHosting Privacy Policy
We at DashBoardHosting are committed to maintaining your privacy. This privacy policy and agreement ("Privacy Policy" or "Policy") covers how we collect, use, and treat personal information that you may provide through our website (the "Website" or the "Site") or while using the Facilities on our Website (the "Facilities"). Our Terms and Conditions of Use (the "Terms") govern your use of the Site. The terms “you” and “your” refer to any visitor to the Website, including: (i) casual visitors to our Site who have limited access to the Facilities ("Visitors"), and (ii) registered members of our Site including: (a) new members, (b) paid members; and (c) VIP members (collectively, "Members" unless indicated otherwise). The terms "DashBoardHosting", “we” and “us” refer to DashBoardHosting, LLC.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully; once you consent to this Policy's terms, it creates legal obligations on you and on DashBoardHosting. We ask you to show your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy in different ways, depending on your relationship to the Site. The procedures for consenting to this Policy are (i) less formal if you are simply a casual Visitor, and (ii) more formal if you are seeking to become a Member of the Site.
Information you may provide while visiting our Site or using our Facilities falls into two broad categories (i) personally identifiable information, and (ii) aggregate information. We use the term “Personally Identifiable Information” to mean any information that could reasonably be used to identify you including, for example, your name, address, e-mail address, age, photograph, or any combination of this or similar information. “Anonymous Information” is information that does not identify you, and may include statistical information concerning, for example, your use of our Facilities or the pages on our Site that you visit most frequently. These two categories of information can be further divided into (a) information that we collect from you, and that you provide to us ("Site-Directed Information"), and (b) information you intend to provide or make available to other Members or Visitors on our Site ("Member-Directed Information"). Our Privacy Policy governs all Site-Directed Information—whether this information is Personally Identifiable Information or anonymous information—and does not govern Member-Directed Information, as we have no direct control over the collection or use of Member-Directed Information.
We will not share Personally Identifiable Information you provide to us via the Website with any third party, other than as expressly disclosed in this Policy. We collect information from Visitors and Members at different points on our Website and through our Facilities, and use this information as follows:
Member-Directed
Information is information you intend to provide or make available to other
Members on our Site via our Facilities including, but not limited to, our forums
and chat rooms as well the information that you include on your profile. Although we counsel you to take care if you include
Personally Identifiable Information—such as your full name or a photograph of
yourself—in your Member-Directed Information, our Privacy Policy does not cover
Member-Directed Information. If you choose
to disclose any Personally Identifiable Information, any such information can
be collected and used by other Members and Visitors, and you may receive
unsolicited communications or contact as a result. We provide a range of Facilities to assist
you in making good choices concerning the information you disclose. Please see Section 8 (Additional Tools for Protecting Your Privacy) for a
description.
We use Anonymous Information to analyze the effectiveness of our Site, to improve our Facilities, and for other similar purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may undertake or commission statistical and other summary analyses of the general behavior and characteristics of users using our Facilities and the characteristics of Visitors at our Site, and may share Anonymous Information with third parties. Rest assured, though, that Anonymous Information provided to third parties will not allow anyone to identify you, or determine anything personal about you. We may collect Anonymous Information through features of the software that supports our Facilities, through cookies, and through other means described below.
To enable us to better
understand the characteristics of our customers and/or to provide Facilities
tailored to your needs, we may link (i) the Personally Identifiable Information
you have provided, with (ii) Anonymous Information. If we combine or link any Anonymous Information
or other information with your Personally Identifiable Information, the
resulting combination will be treated and protected as Personally Identifiable
Information under this Privacy Policy.
Accordingly, no unrelated third parties will have access to this
information, and any of our service providers who are granted access to this
information will be bound to protect it in accordance with this Policy.
We will not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information
to unaffiliated third parties without your express consent, except in the following
limited circumstances:
We recognize that users may provide more personal information than they intend, or should, over the public areas in social networking sites. We provide a range of features to assist our Members seeking to preserve an appropriate level of privacy, including the following:
We have put in place security systems designed to prevent unauthorized access to, or disclosure of, personally identifiable Site-Directed Information that you provide to us, and we take all reasonable steps to secure and safeguard this Information. Our site's password-protected section requires users to give us unique identifiers such as their username and password. Moreover, we store all Site-Directed Personally Identifiable Information in a secure fashion. DashBoardHosting employees (and employees of our affiliates and Site Vendors) are required to acknowledge that they understand and will abide by our policies with respect to the confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information. Moreover, we provide access to our databases containing Personally Identifiable Information on a need-to-know basis only.
Our security systems are therefore structured to deter and prevent hackers and others from accessing information you provide to us. We also use software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Please understand, though, that this information should not be construed in any way as giving business, legal, or other advice, or warranting as fail proof, the security of information provided by or submitted to DashBoardHosting. Due to the nature of Internet communications and evolving technologies, we cannot provide, and disclaim, assurance that the information you provide us will remain free from loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties who, despite our efforts, obtain unauthorized access.
We reserve the right to modify, in our sole discretion, this Policy. If we modify this Policy, any such modifications will take effect proactively, upon your subsequent access to the Website. If we modify this Policy then we may, in our sole discretion, inform you of any changes by posting a notice on our Site.
This Privacy Policy must be read in conjunction with our Terms, and the provisions of our Terms are incorporated herein. To the extent the Terms conflict with the terms of this Privacy Policy, the terms of this Privacy Policy will control.
If you wish further information concerning privacy policies in general, concerning online social networking and safety, and concerning the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, you should visit the following sites:
http://www.safeteens.com
http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html
http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/privacyinitiatives/childrens_educ.html
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/index.html
http://www.wiredsafety.org/internet101/blogs.html
http://www.netsmartz.org/netteens.htm
http://www.isafe.org/channels/sub.php?ch=op&sub_id=media_tips
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the
practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Website, please contact us
via certified mail at:
DashBoardHosting, LLC
P.O. Box 9896
Coral Springs, FL 33075
The effective date of this Privacy Policy is
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