At Auto-Responders.net, we respect your privacy. We do collect information from you, but
it is our policy and priority to ensure that all personal information remains
private and secure. To earn your trust and confidence in the Internet and in
Auto-Responders.net, we are disclosing our privacy practices and the uses of the
information we gather.
To protect your privacy, Auto-Responders.net:
- Will
not release personal identifying information about you without
first obtaining your consent, unless required to do so by law or
in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to
conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process
served on our company.
- Will
not knowingly collect personal identifying information from
children younger than 13 without parental consent.
- Will
inform you when we change our privacy policy, either by e-mail,
newsletter or via a link when you log in.
Auto-Responders.net reserves the right to amend this Privacy Statement
at any time without prior notice, and only the current Privacy Statement
may be deemed effective.
1. What general information do you collect & how is it used?
When you visit Auto-Responders.net, we collect some basic
information about your computer:
- IP
address (your computer's unique signature)
- Operating
system (e.g., Windows 95,98,2000,ME,NT)
- Browser
software (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape)
We
use it to help us better understand the people who visit us.
2. What personal information do you collect and how is it used?
During the Auto-Responders.net signup
process, we ask you to supply personal information, including your first
name, last name, address, birth date and an alternate e-mail address. If
you do not log in for a prolonged period of time, we may use your
alternate e-mail address and home address to insure that you receive
important news about your Auto-Responders.net account
or other information that you have requested. Once you have an account
with us, you will receive a periodic newsletter and service
announcements. The newsletter contains general information about your
autoresponder account and interesting news from the internet. The
service announcements contain information regarding updates to our
services, features, or products. Newsletters are mailed not more than
twice per week.
3. What are cookies and what do you use them for?
We require each member to enable cookies to login and use
our services.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a very small text file placed on your hard drive - with your
permission - by a web server.
Why do we use Cookies?
Identification: We use cookies to identify you uniquely.
Tracking and Maintaining Session info: Once you have logged
in, we use the cookie to distinguish between your autoresponder session
and that of the many other people using our service. For example: After
you have logged-in and you go to set up your autoresponder messages, we
need to display your messages and not somebody else's. Setting cookies
is currently the best method of maintaining session information over the
web.
Are cookies secure?
A cookie cannot contain program code, so it cannot be used as a virus
nor can it be used to extract data from your system. When a cookie is
set, only the server which set the cookie can access the information in
that cookie. The use of cookies allows us to provide a higher level of
security for your e-mail account.
How do I change the way my browser handles cookies?
Most browsers allow three options for handling cookies:
Our web-based autoresponder service will not function unless your
browser is set to accept cookies. Instructions for enabling and
disabling cookies can be found through the help menu on most browsers.
4. Do you protect the privacy of children younger than 13?
We believe that it's especially important to protect children's
privacy online.
Note: Auto-Responders.net defines "children" as
minors younger than 13.
In compliance with the Children's On Line Privacy Protection Act,
Auto-Responders.net does not allow children under 13 to sign up for our
services at this time.
5. How can I protect my privacy within Auto-Responders.net and the
Internet as a whole?
-
Know the risks.
If you provide your e-mail address to public domains such as chat
rooms or newsgroups, or you provide it to Web sites which don't
respect your privacy, you may begin to receive unsolicited e-mail.
Unsolicited e-mail is also known as Spam. Although
Auto-Responders.net has strict rules prohibiting Spam. It is
generally a good idea to provide your e-mail address only to people
or groups that you trust.
-
Educate yourself.
Look for a privacy statement on every site you visit on the Web, and
search for information on how to protect your privacy.
-
Teach your children
Teach children not to give out their names or other personal
information. Tell them never to fill out online registration forms
without your knowledge and consent.
- Use complex passwords.
If your password is simple, it is also simple for a hacker to break
it and gain access to your e-mail account or other private areas. To
protect your privacy, you should use complex passwords consisting of
very long and awkward keystroke combinations. This makes the
hacker's job much more difficult.
We send reminders of your account passwords only after the
appropriate security questions have been answered. NEVER
GIVE YOUR PASSWORD TO ANYONE. If someone claiming to
represent Auto-Responders.net in an e-mail or chat room asks for
your Auto-Responders.net password, DO NOT
RESPOND. The only time we ask for your password is via a web
page, when you need to access our system (such as the login
screen).
This privacy policy is part of our User Agreement and you agree to be
bound by all of its terms and conditions.
Last Updated 10 May 2003
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