The Hosting Hut is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of The Hosting Hut.com. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically. This policy will let you know: What personal identifiable information is collected from you? What are cookies are and how they are used? How your information is used? Who is collecting your information? With whom you information may be shared? What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information? How you can access, update or delete your information? The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of you information? How to protect children's privacy? What else you should know about your online privacy? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What personal identifiable information is collected from you? The Hosting Hut collects information in several ways form several parts of our web site. Some personal information is gathered when you register. During registration, we ask for your name and email address. the system will also ask for your street address, city, state/province, zip/postal code, country, telephone number. This information is used solely for verification process and nothing else. Once you register you are no longer anonymous to us. You have a username and are able to take full advantage of the many offerings of The Hosting Hut.com. In addition to registering we may ask you for personal information at other time, including (but not limited to) when you place listings or take advantage of the other features of The Hosting Hut.com Online Sites. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What cookies are and how they are used? As part of the offerings and providing customizable and personalized services, The Hosting Hut may use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Several features of The Hosting Hut.com requires that you accept cookies in order to work properly. Generally, we use cookies for the following purposes: To Identify and label all "new" listings since your last visit to the site. Optionally to permanently save your password on your computer so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. To enable you to "checklist" listings that you want to mark for future retrieval and viewing. Advertise networks that serve listings on The Hosting Hut.com may also use their cookies. The Hosting Hut.com may also collect IP addresses for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How is your information used? The primary goal of The Hosting Hut.com in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience and to assist your navigation throughout the site -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who is collecting your information? When you are asked for personal information on The Hosting Hut.com, you are sharing that information with The Hosting Hut.com alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. However, some activities will, by their very nature, result in your personal information being revealed to other users of The Hosting Hut.com.. For example, when you enter personal information on the listing posting forum, this information will generally be included in your listing, Unless specifically stated otherwise. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With whom your information may be shared? As a general rule, we will not disclose any of your personal identifiable information except when we have you permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Please see our Terms of Service or user agreements for each of our products and services for more information about how your personal information may be shared. We may disclose account information in special cases when we have a reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the Terms Of Service of the or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the rights or property of the, other users of the or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. We may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administration and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What choices are available to you regarding collecting, use, and distribution of your information? If you choose not to register or provide personal information you can still use most of The Hosting Hut.com, but you will not be able to access the areas or use features the require registration. You also have choices with respect to cookies. by modifying you browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those services of The Hosting Hut.com that require registration in order to participate. These services include the identification of new listings since your last visit., auto-fill in of the logon form, and the checklist feature. You can still use most of the features of The Hosting Hut.com Online Site even if you do not accept cookies. We do not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use the particular service. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How you can access, update or delete your information? We will provide you with the means to ensure that your personal information is correct and current. You may edit or delete your profile at any time by clicking on the "My Profile" link or graphic provided by the system once you are logged in. Once you have onto the system during a given session, wherever you go on The Hosting Hut.com, your information will stay with you until or unless you click on "Logoff" link, which is accessible from within the "My Profile" screen. If you are a previously registered user and you have lost or forgotten your password, you may obtain it by email by using our "Support" feature. Click the button on any login page to request that your password be emailed to you. We cannot provide your password by any other means. Your The Hosting Hut can be deleted, but doing so will result in not being able to access any of the features of the program that require user registration. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration or your information? Other than the administrator of The Hosting Hut.com or other authorized personnel of The Hosting Hut.com, you are the only person who has access to your personal information. You user registration is password protected to prevent unauthorized access. We recommend that you do not share your password to anyone. We will never ask you for your password in a unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. As an extra security precaution, you may want to logoff once you have completed the session in The Hosting Hut.com Online Site. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or a Internet Cafe. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot insure or warrant the security of any information your transmit to us or from our online services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure it's security on our systems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How we protect children's privacy? The Hosting Hut.com is a general audience web site. Children should always ask a parent for permission before sending personal information to anyone online. The Hosting Hut.com does not share personal information about users under the age of 13 with third parties and we do not sell or rent personal information about any of our users, regardless of age. In addition, The Hosting Hut not send any direct email offers to uses who indicate they are under the age of 13. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What else you should know about your online privacy? Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example in listing that you post or through email - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the security of your passwords and/or any other account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.