Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us, below
explains the information we collect from you, what we do with that
information and our information security policy.
Your Information
When you sign up for any of our services we will
ask you to provide contact information for your convenience as well as
legal reasons. This will include name, home address, e-mail addresses
and payment details (credit or debit card and PayPal). If you need
support our staff may need to know information to solve the problem such
as operating system, browser software and editing software. When you
visit this website we do record certain information using Google
Analytics such as your location, browser version, ip address, screen
resolution, operating system and flash support. This is so we can
continue to provide the most convenient web site for all our visitors.
Our website is protected by a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and verified by
Equifax. This helps prevent eavesdropping on our website, just look for
the padlock.
How Your Information Is Used
We will use your personal identifiable information in the following ways.
- For payment purposes and to provide convenient and targeted support.
- To contact you and announce special offers, general announcements and news. Please note you can opt out of receiving these emails at anytime by following the instructions at the bottom of the e-mail.
- To improve our service and the marketing of our service. This could include using your demographic location to improve targeting of our website and customise your visit.
We will NEVER provide your
personally identifiable information to any persons other than A law
enforcement or regulatory agency at their request, third parties who
provide services on our behalf such as payment processing, only if they
agree not to miss use this information.
We do not under any circumstances apart from the above give away or sell your information to any third parties.
Your personal information is safe with us,
your information is safely encrypted using SSI. Our service is not
available to anyone under the age of 13, never will we intentionally
maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a
users computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this
site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any
personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. We use
both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies
to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie
expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your
hard drive for an extended period of time much like the cookie used for
our affiliate program. You can remove persistent cookies by following
directions provided in your Internet browsers ‘help’ file. We set a
persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you do not have to enter
it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target
the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. If
you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but you will be asked to
enter your username and password again every time you closed your
browser or your session has timed out.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain
information automatically and store it in log files. This information
includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet
service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system,
date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which
does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the
site, to track users movements around the site and to gather
demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link
this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable
information. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable
information to prevent and block abusers to keep using our services such
as members who violates our terms of service. We use a third-party
tracking service that uses cookies and log files to track non-personally
identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate of
usage and volume statistics to determine how our users navigate through
our website and to know how many users are using our services
demographically. We use the information you provide about yourself or
others to complete the transaction for which it is intended. This may
include administering a service such as registration, email, forum,
etc., or contacting you if you have indicated your permission to do so
by agreeing to accept further notification and service announcement from
us on your member profile page. You can choose to opt-out from
receiving any further notification from your member profile page. We do
not share this information with outside parties.
Surveys
Upon using our free services, you may be
requested to participate in our periodic internal surveys that are
conducted by Linix Networking to determine your personal interests.
These surveys are strictly voluntary. The data collected through these
surveys will only be used to improve our products and services and will
never be sold to any third parties.
Communications From The Site
When we receive email, we use return email
addresses to reply with the information requested. Such addresses are
not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
When supplying contact information to Linix Networking you can indicate
your preference if you would like to be contacted to receive information
and updates about our services by logging in to your Linix Networking
account, going to your member profile page and choose not to receive any
further notification emails from us or other information pertaining to
Linix Networking. Information you submit to us will not be used for this
purpose unless you indicate this as your preference. When supplying
contact information to Linix Networking you can indicate your preference
on your members profile page to participate in the Linix Networking
newsletter. You will receive a confirmation email from us when placing
an order on our site and paying through PayPal.
Newsletter
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-in’ and
‘opt-out’ of our newsletter at any time. Our newsletter is sent every
month so it will certainly contain allot of useful information and any
offers we may have. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and
promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them at any
time.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We collect information from our website visitors
using Google Analytics. We use this information to better design our Web
site and services. This information is never shared with any third
party. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable
information.
Personally Identifiable Information
Linix Networking does not share, sell, rent, or
trade personally identifiable information with third parties. We never
use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us
online in ways unrelated to the ones described within this privacy
policy without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise
prohibit such unrelated uses.
How You Can Access /Correct Your Information
You can access all your personally identifiable
information that we collect by logging into your password-protected
Linix Networking account and selecting to update your ‘My Details’ We
use this procedure to better safeguard your information. You can also
correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by
sending us a request that credibly shows error. To protect your privacy
and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity
before granting access or making corrections.
Specific Terms and Conditions
Linix Networking considers email transmitted via
our service to be the private correspondence between the sender and
recipient. We will not monitor, edit or disclose the contents of a
user`s private communications, except as required by law, to comply with
legal process, if necessary to enforce the Service Agreement, to
respond to claims that such contents violate the rights of
third-parties, or to protect the rights or property of Linix Networking.
By using the service you agree that technical processing of email
communications is and may be required to send and receive messages, to
conform to the technical requirements of connecting networks, to conform
to the limitations of the Service, or to conform to other, similar
technical requirements. By using the service you acknowledge and agree
that Linix Networking do not endorse the content of any user
communications and are not responsible or liable for any unlawful,
harassing, libellous, privacy invading, abusive, threatening, harmful,
vulgar, obscene, tortuous, or otherwise objectionable content, or
content that infringes or may infringe the intellectual property or
other rights of another.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally
identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that
disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a
judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web
site.
Security
The security of your personal information is
important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to
protect the personal information submitted to us, both during
transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the
Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however we
have taken every step possible to make your information safe. This
website is protected by Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to protect your
information. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable
means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its
absolute security.
Links To Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that
are not owned or controlled by Linix Networking. Please be aware that
we, Linix Networking are not responsible for the privacy practices of
such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site
and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that
collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement
applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Changes To This Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we
will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and
other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what
information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if
any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy
statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make
material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or
by means of a notice on our home page. For more information please do
not hesitate to send your questions via our contact page.