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Privacy Policy

Introduction

Hostway maintains this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy and the protection of your information. As part of our normal operations, we collect and, in some instances, disclose information about you. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

Information Gathered by Our Site

When you order web hosting services from us, you are required to provide certain personal information to us to allow us to process your order, start providing you with the services you order from us, and to administer and service your account and provide ongoing technical support. The information you provide us and that we maintain in our customer account records ranges from basic contract information, to credit card and other payment information, to technical information about your web site. The on-line forms you use to order our web hosting services includes most of the personal information gathered by our site. You must provide all of the information we request from you when purchasing our services unless otherwise noted on the relevant form. When you purchase our services, you agree to provide and maintain accurate, complete and updated information.

After you have signed up for our services, we may be in communication with you about your account, technical questions you may have about services provided by us, or any other matter relating to those services. Those communications are essential to our relationship with you and to our ability to provide you with quality services that are responsive to your needs. As a result, we may maintain information about our communications with you for future use.

We may use cookies to keep track of your use of our service. Cookies are stored on your computer, and are not stored on our computers anywhere. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, and to recognize you when you visit our service.

Our Disclosure of Your Information

We never use your information for internal secondary uses (i.e. uses that do not directly relate to your ordering or ongoing use of our services), or share your information with any third parties, other than Costco. We will always provide you an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit any secondary use of your information or the disclosure of your information to third parties. We will never willfully sell, lease, or rent any personally identifiable information about you or your business to any third party to, without first receiving both your permission and Costco's permission.

We cannot ensure that all of your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not described in this Privacy Policy. For example, we may be required to disclose personally identifiable information to the government or by court order under certain circumstances, or other situations may arise requiring such disclosure. In addition, you authorize us to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate. This site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

Security

In order to maximize protection of your information, we use state-of-the-art technology to protect your data from improper use or disclosure, unauthorized access, misuse, or alteration by unauthorized third parties. Currently, we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to protect your data and secure your transactions. SSL encrypts all your personal information, including your credit card number, name, and address, as it is transmitted over the Internet. Of course, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure, and we do not warrant that your information will be absolutely secure. Any transmission of data on or through the use of our services is at your own risk. All of our employees and contractors who have access to, and are associated with the processing of your information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data.

Corrections and Changes

You have the ability to correct or change certain information in our records, such as your address and contact information. The process for changing your information is described in the contact us section of our website. You may change this information at any time and as often as necessary. If you need assistance or have questions about correcting information, you can contact us via phone at 1-800-346-1543.

General

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of your terms of service that you accept when ordering our services. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy protection practices, please contact Customer Service via phone at 1-800-346-1543.


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