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Privacy Policy
ZipCodeWidget.com™ is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its users. The intent of this privacy policy is to detail the information ZipCodeWidget.com may gather about individuals who visit ZipCodeWidget.com (“Site”), how that information is used, and ZipCodeWidget.com’s disclosure practices. Anonymous User Information ZipCodeWidget.com collects some anonymous information each time you visit the Site so we can improve the overall quality of your online experience. We collect your IP address, referral data, and browser and platform type. ZipCodeWidget.com does not require you to share information that identifies you personally, such as your name or email address, in order for you to use the Site. ZipCodeWidget.com assigns an anonymous ID number to your requests and links the following additional data to that number: the date and time you visited the Site, your search terms, and the links upon which you choose to click. Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information. ZipCodeWidget.com analyzes the information to examine trends, administer the Site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Individual User Information From time-to-time ZipCodeWidget.com requests information from you that may identify you personally in addition to the anonymous information described above. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name, email address, shipping address, and zip code), and demographic information (such as age, gender, occupation, and household income). ZipCodeWidget.com will not use or disclose your individual user information except as described in this privacy policy. ZipCodeWidget.com collects individual user information in the following ways: Directory Services ZipCodeWidget.com offers certain personalization services within its directory services (i.e., White Pages and Yellow Pages) that enable you to give us your geographic location so we can remember it for you when you return to use our service. For example, if we know that you are searching from Rockville, Maryland for a particular company, we will pre-populate the city and state fields with Rockville and Maryland. While you are not required to use this feature of the directory services, the information enables us to provide you with a more efficient experience on the Site. In addition, ZipCodeWidget.com allows you to update, correct any errors in the listings, or include yourself in the directory services. In order to make these modifications, you may provide ZipCodeWidget.com with certain individual user information that ZipCodeWidget.com will use, along with its affiliates and third party service providers, to modify and update your information in the directory services database. Tell-A-Friend If you elect to use our referral service for informing a friend about the Site, we ask you for your friend's name and email address. ZipCodeWidget.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the Site. ZipCodeWidget.com does not store the information related to your friends and the one-time email sent pursuant to your input will be our only contact with that person for such input. Cookies ZipCodeWidget.com may set and access its or partner cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small data file that a Web site may send to your browser and which may then be stored on your system. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. For the session cookie, once you close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. We use cookie and web beacon technology to track which pages on the Site our visitors view and which Web browsers our visitors use. We may also use cookies to help us provide personalized features and preferences to you in a way that may be linked to individual user information that you elect to share with us. We also use "action tags" to assist in delivering the cookie. These action tags allow us to compile statistics and other data about our customers on an aggregate basis, by embedding a random identifying number on each user's browser. Then we track where that number shows up on the Site. Correspondence If you contact ZipCodeWidget.com, we may keep a record of that correspondence and we may collect your email address. Third Party Information Gathering The Site includes content and ads from third parties that may perform user activity tracking other than that described herein. For more information about each third party content provider, cookies, and how to "opt-out", please refer to such third party advertiser's privacy policy. The Site contains links to other sites on the Web. Please be aware that ZipCodeWidget.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave the Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the Site. Sharing Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a criminal investigation, a court order, or legal process served on the Site. We may also share your personal 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 ZipCodeWidget.com terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. ZipCodeWidget.com may use third party service providers to serve ads and emails on our behalf. These companies may use technologies to measure the effectiveness of ads and emails and use information about your visits to the Site so that we can provide a better search experience to you. For this purpose, we may also provide these third party service providers anonymous information about your site navigation. Surveys From time to time, ZipCodeWidget.com may conduct surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose individual user information. Contest information will be shared with the contest or survey sponsors to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of the Site. We may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests. These companies may use your personal information to help ZipCodeWidget.com communicate with you about offers from the Site and our marketing partners. Such third parties do not have ZipCodeWidget.com’s permission to use your personally identifiable information for any secondary purpose. Notification of Changes If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement in places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If, however, we are going to use Individually Identifiable Information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users by posting a notice on the Site for 30 days. Powered by World Choice Travel, a Travelocity Partner Company |
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