Original Web Ventures Inc, owner and manager of the WWW.com website, is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of consumers of its interactive products and services. Throughout cyberspace, we are committed to providing a safe and secure environment for our consumers' information. Questions regarding this statement should be directed to Original Web Ventures Inc. by sending an email to legaldept@www.com.
This statement outlines the privacy practices of WWW.com, as well as WWW.com branded pages. We have clearly marked WWW.com and any co-branded web sites with our logos, as seen at the bottom of this page, so you know where this policy applies. It does not apply to any other companies' or organizations' web sites to which we link, and you should check their privacy policies to understand how they may collect or use information about you.
The only personally identifiable information collected by WWW.com is information that you provide voluntarily as part of a registration or membership process. Other than that, WWW.com collect only mechanical information necessary to enhance the user experience and assist advertisers with general, non-user-specific information. If you link to or place an order through a merchant on WWW.com then that merchant will probably need to collect information from you to complete your request, as we do not pass them any information about you. (We recommend that you read the privacy policies of merchants for specific information)
WWW.com collects some information about general usage of the sites through a technology tool called a "cookie." The cookie is a piece of computer software that communicates between your computer and WWW.com and is used to determine the number and frequency of visits to the WWW.com sites. This data is aggregated and used just like the ratings information compiled by television networks to determine how many people tune in to a program. These cookies allow us to calculate various metrics, but do not allow WWW.com to identify you specifically by name unless you volunteer this information. We provide ratings or response rate information to advertisers and/or partners, so that they can understand how frequently consumers use their sections and our sites.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use non-identifying information about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. We do not share you personal information (including your name, address, email address or telephone number) with any third parties.
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser. WWW.com is not responsible for managing the content and usage of cookies set on third party sites.
We use information you give us to enhance the user experience and improve the quality of our sites. WWW.com automatically log information such as IP addresses, ISPs and browser type into files for many general purposes. We collect this information for reporting, advertising, and general site clickthrough rates. We gather a wide range of demographic information to track user patterns and movement and for advertising and general clickthrough numbers. We use this aggregate information we collect to improve the sites and your experience while visiting.
We do not share any personally identifiable information you provide with third parties without your permission. The option of granting permission will be clearly explained within any product or member registration area. The only time WWW.com will ever disclose personaly identifying information is to comply with a valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order, or to otherwise comply with legal requirements of conducting business. The only reason a user would receive email from WWW.com is if they voluntarily sign up for our web-based email (username@www.com) product or become a member or customer of one of our sites.
If a user chooses to submit a posting to any of our sites then that user may as part of the process provide their email address, name, and other information. Please keep in mind that when you submit your email address or any other personally identifiable information over any public forum that others will have access to that information. WWW.com is not responsible for any information that you post in a public domain.
You have the choice to cancel or update your current information at any time by going to the site, clicking on "update" or "remove" or "cancel" (depending upon the specific service or area), entering your password, registration number, or other identifying information, and following instructions on the screen.
WWW.com does contain links to other web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links you are clicking to another web site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these links sites as their policies may differ from ours.
Please remember that what you write or publish in the public areas on any of our sites is visible to the public and that the information can be seen and used by others. While we do the utmost to protect your privacy, when you make information available on the public areas of WWW.com you do so at your own risk. In addition, it is important that you keep your passwords secure and stay informed by reading the privacy policies of WWW.com partners, advertisers, and merchants.
If we decide to change the WWW.com privacy policy, we will post changes here in the form of an updated Privacy Policy. This ensures that by checking here frequently all visitors to WWW.com are informed about our information gathering practices, how we might use that information and whether it will be disclosed. If at any time Original Web Ventures does decide to alter the way in which we utilize the user's information then the user will be notified and given the opportunity to opt-out prior to that change.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of our websites, or your dealings with our websites, you can contact: Original Web Ventures Inc., owner and executive manager of the WWW.com website at 2 Bradley Farm Crt., Kanata, ON, K2L4B5, Canada or via email at support@www.com.
Updated Dec 5 2007