PRIVACY POLICY
PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites Privacy Policy
Version 03/15/2009
At PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites, we strive to develop
innovative services to better serve our users. We recognize that
privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our services
with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy
outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use
PC-Buyer Inc. and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites's services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it.
The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is information that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address or email address. You can find more details about the data we collect on particular services by clicking the links on the side of this page.
Data collection
PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites search, the PC-Buyer Inc. and
all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites Toolbar, PC-Buyer Inc. and all PC
Buyer Inc. owned websites News and some other services do not require any personally identifying information.
PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites collects limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services.
Some of our services require you to register for an account. PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites asks you for some personal information in order to create an account (typically your name, email address and a password for your account) and we will use that information to provide the service. For certain services, such as our advertising programs, we may request credit card or other payment information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers.
When we require personally identifying information, we will inform you about the types of information we collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.
Cookies
Upon your first visit to PC-Buyer Inc. and all PC
Buyer Inc. owned websites, a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with us. PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites features or services may not function properly without cookies.
Information sharing
We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share such information in any of the following limited circumstances:
We have your consent.
We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose of processing personally identifying information on our behalf. When this is done, it is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites, its users or the public.
If you have an account, we may share the information submitted under your account among all of our services in order to provide you with a seamless experience and to improve the quality of our services. We will not disclose your account information to other people or non-affiliated companies, except in the limited circumstances described in this Policy or with your consent.
We may store and process personal information collected on our site in the United States or any other country in which PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites Inc. or its agents maintain facilities. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information among these facilities, including those located outside your country.
In the event of a transfer of ownership of PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites Inc., such as acquisition by or merger with another company, we will provide notice before any personally identifying information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share aggregated information with others. Examples of this include the number of users who searched for "Microsoft Software" or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
Updating your information
We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personally identifying information for many of our services. For more information, please see the help pages for each service.
Links
The sites displayed as search results or linked to by PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites's services are developed by people over whom PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites exercises no control. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information.
PC-Buyer Inc.
and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites may present links in a format
that enables us to understand whether they have been followed. We
use this information to understand and improve the quality of
PC-Buyer Inc. and all PC Buyer Inc. owned websites's search technology. For instance, this data helps us determine how often users are satisfied with the first result of a query and how often they proceed to later results.
Changes to this Policy
Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top of the page.
Additional Privacy Policy Terms for www.pcbuyer.com
If
you require any more information or have any questions about our
privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at
sales@listingofhomes.com.
At www.pcbuyer.com, the privacy of
our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy
document outlines the types of personal information is received and
collected by www.pcbuyer.com and how it is used.
Log
Files
Like many other Web sites, www.pcbuyer.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.
Cookies and
Web Beacons
www.pcbuyer.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, Commission
Junction, Linkshare, Amazon, .
These third-party ad servers
or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that
appear on www.pcbuyer.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.
www.pcbuyer.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. www.pcbuyer.com's privacy policy
does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such
other advertisers or web sites.
If you wish to disable
cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More
detailed information about cookie management with specific web
browsers can be found at the browsers'
If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us any time.
For more information about our practices regarding specific information or services that are not covered in this Privacy Policy, click on the links to the side of this page.
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