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Privacy Policy Statement for HelpWithWindows.com


We have created this Privacy Policy Statement in order to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site:


Anonymous Information

"Anonymous Information" means information that cannot be traced back to you as a specific individual. Like many other Web sites, WindowsBBS.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.


Personally identifiable information

"Personally identifiable information" is non-anonymous information such as your name, phone number, credit card information, address or email address -anything that could identify you personally.

Visitors to our Web sites are not required to provide personally identifiable information to use our site or services.

There are only a few cases in which we receive names, email addresses, or other information that identifies you personally. They are:

  • You have to provide your email address in order to be able to post messages to our WindowsBBS.com support forum.
  • Your name and email address and any additional information you volunteer while using our comment/feedback scripts, when purchasing our products, or when you contact us by email.
  • Your email address if you subscribe to our newsletter or email announcement list(s) or participate in contests.


This information will not be shared, or resold, to any other company without your explicit consent. Included in each of our newsletters will be instructions on how to unsubscribe.


Cookies and Web Beacons

HelpWithWindows.com does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include Google Adsense, Tribal Fusion, Kontera, PulsePoint, Commission Junction.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on HelpWithWindows.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

HelpWithWindows.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. WindowsBBS.com's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish, you can disable the use of cookies in your Web browser (If you don't know how, visit Cookie Central). For more general information on cookies, visit this page at Cookie Central.

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into our forums.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

DoubleClick DART Cookies

We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google's DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests ("interest based targeting"). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about travel, you may see travel related advertisements when viewing a site not related to travel, such as on a news site). DART uses "non personally identifiable information". It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx.

Kontera

We use third-party companies to serve ads and collect non-personally identifiable information (e.g., the pages you visit, and which links you click, which ads you see and click on, and the categories of search terms you enter) when you visit our web site. These companies may use the information outlined above (which does not include your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These companies often use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.


Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

In an effort to be compliant with COPPA, it is our policy to collect NO personally identifiable information from children. Therefore, all individuals are required to be 14 years and older to submit their email address and subscribe to the newsletters.


Usage of information

The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web site, used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site, and solicit advertisers. E-mail addresses are not shared with other organizations.


Opting-Out

If you receive an email newsletter or other communication from one of our divisions and do not wish to receive further notices from the same source, please use the unsubscribe links furnished in the communication. The unsubscribe is then handled automatically and your name is immediately removed from that mailing list. Since we have more than one newsletter, you would need to unsubscribe from each communication as provided in order to be removed from that specific mailing list.

If you supply us with your postal address on-line you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address.

We work with third parties serving ads to our Web sites. We have no control over the information collected by these third parties.

We will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of us and our Web site(s); and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of our users, our web sites, or the public.


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315 Seaview Ave. #2616
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