4D WEBMASTERS, LLP PRIVACY STATEMENT
This Privacy Statement states the privacy practices for 4D WebMasters, LLP. ("4D", “4D WebMasters” "We", “Our” or "Us") and how it treats the information that 4D WebMasters collects and receives, including information related to your use of 4D WebMasters products and services. This policy only applies to the practices of 4D WebMasters and does not cover companies that we do not own or control, or to people that 4D WebMasters does not employ or manage.
Information that Is Collected
Directly by 4D WebMasters:
4D collects account
and billing information from customers in order for 4D to perform work on their
behalf. This work may include such services as registering a domain name,
procuring a web hosting site or creating graphics and text. This information may
be collected in person, over the phone or via a website. Information collected
includes:
Contact information: e.g. name, address, email, phone
Financial Information: e.g. Credit Card number, expiration date
This information is used for billing purposes by 4D WebMasters and our business
partners.
Information that Is
Automatically Collected on 4D Websites.
IP Address
We do not currently collect or use IP addresses. However, this information may
be collected in the future to identify trends, optimize and administer the
website, or gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses
are not liked to any “Personal Information”.
Cookies
A cookie is a parcel of
text sent by a
server to a
web
browser and
then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server.
HTTP cookies
are used for
authenticating,
tracking, and maintaining specific information about customers, such as site
preferences and the contents of their
electronic shopping carts.
Cookies
may be used to allow customers to log into a site and not have to enter their
password more than once. Customers have the ability to reject the cookie. This
site will still function properly although the customer may have to
re-authenticate.
4D WebMasters Referral Program
Some pricing packages
require that the customer agree to be a reference account for 4D WebMasters.
The exact nature of the reference is negotiated individually; e.g. email only,
phone only, US mail only, or any combination there-of; and is included in the
individual customer contract.
4D WebMasters Accounts Created
by a Third Party on Your Behalf.
4D WebMasters does not
directly host website nor register domain names. These services are coordinated
by 4D on your behalf. You may have also registered you domain name and/or
engaged a hosting service directly without the support of 4D (e.g.
http://hometown.aol.com/<yourscreenname>/myhomepage/<yourbusiness>.htm) Also,
if you received your domain name from someone else, without registering for it
yourself, your domain name may belong to a managed domain. In this case the
administrator of that company (e.g. your ISP) can create your domain name for
you. You can then use the domain name like any other domain name. The
administrator, however, has access to the domain name and can edit your 4D
WebMasters profile, reset your password, and manage your website without your
additional consent. In addition to the terms mentioned in this Privacy
Statement, an account created by a third party allows any of your Personal
Information within that account to be available to that third party as if they
were you. We have no access to or control over the third party to prevent their
disclosure of your information.
Communicating with Our
Customers:
We use Personal Information (such name, telephone number or email address) to
communicate with our customers when they have questions, concerns or comments
about their accounts or the services that we provide. Likewise, we use the same
information to contact customers directly during the normal course of our
business relationship. Emails and voice mails may or may not be saved for some
period of time.
Promotional Communications
from 4D WebMasters
Customers will occasionally receive information from 4D WebMasters on products,
services and promotions. However, our customers have the ability to Opt-Out.
Customers who do not wish to receive such information can opt-out by replying to
the message and typing "unsubscribe" in the subject line in the email. The may
also send email directly to
support@4dwebmasters.com .
Information Shared With Third
Parties.
We
share information with third parties as required by Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)* in order to give our customers access to
full suite of service. This includes:
Ö Submit the name, postal address, e-mail address, and phone numbers associated with the registrant, administrative, technical and billing contacts of a domain name to the appropriate Registry or registration database. This information is included in a publicly available 'Whois' database, in accordance with ICANN rules. This sharing of information is required by ICANN rules.
Ö Use a credit card processing company to bill customers for goods and services. These companies do not use Personal Information for any use other than credit card processing; however, we will not be responsible or liable for use of the information required by credit card companies in contravention of their policies, contractual obligations or general good business procedures.
Ö Partner with third parties who provide services to our customers. When the customer signs up for or agrees to receive a specific service provided by the third party ( e.g online advertisers), we share the information that is needed for the third party to provide the services.
Ö Share the publicly available domain contact information submitted by our customers for inclusion in the Whois database with third parties. We do not control the use of this Personal Information by third parties.
* ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California, ICANN is a California non-profit corporation that was created on September 18, 1998 in order to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U.S. Government by other organizations, notably IANA. The tasks of ICANN include managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses. To date, much of its work has concerned the introduction of new generic top-level domains. The technical work of ICANN is referred to as the IANA function; the rest of ICANN is mostly about defining policy.
Legal Concerns:
We will provide Personal Information:
Ö to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes.
Ö to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
Ö to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of 4D WebMasters' terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
Sale or Transfer of 4D
WebMasters:
If all or a portion
of 4D WebMasters is transferred, sold, merged, ceases operations, goes bankrupt,
or is otherwise involved in a transaction where the ownership or management of
4D WebMasters is changed then all Personal Information or other customer
information may be transferred or assigned to a third party as part of the
transfer.
Correction/Updating Personal
Information
Customers must provide accurate and correct contact information (name, address,
e-mail, phone number) for their domain name(s) Registrant, Administrative,
Technical and Billing contacts, which will be listed in a publicly accessible
'Whois' database, in compliance with ICANN rules. If a customer's Personal
Information changes, or if a customer no longer desires 4D WebMasters' services,
we will provide a way to correct, update or remove that customer's personal data
provided to us. This can be accomplished by emailing support@4dwebmasters.com.
Terminated 4D WebMasters
Business Relationships
If the business
relationship between a customer and 4D WebMasters is completed, terminated or
cancelled, all of your Personal Information will remain in our possession. We
retain and use your Personal Information as necessary to enforce our policies or
to address contractual issues, and may contact you for future marketing or
promotional purposes.
Use of the 4D WebMasters
Website by Persons Under Age 13
This website is not
intended for use by anyone under the age of thirteen (13), and any individual
under such age should not provide us with Personal Information. We do not
knowingly contact, market to, solicit, collect or use Personal Information from
or about any individual under the age of 13. It is possible that by fraud or
deception we may receive information pertaining to children under 13. If we are
notified of that we have personal information regarding a person under the age
of 13, as soon as we reasonably verify the information, we will either obtain
parental consent or otherwise delete the information from the account and/or
service.. To notify us of our receipt of information by children under 13,
please do sending email to:
support@4Dwebmasters.com.
Linking to Third Party
Websites:
This website may
contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy
practices of other websites. We encourage our customers to be aware when they
leave our website and to read the Privacy Statements of each and every website
that collects Personal Information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to
information collected by this website.
Customers Must Protect Their
Personal Information
Customers are required
to keep their passwords confidential and to not share this information with
others. If you choose to reveal or share your password and account name, we are
unable to guarantee the security of your account.
Changes to Our Privacy
Statement:
This Privacy Statement may change, and use of information that we gather now is
subject to the Privacy Statement that is in effect as of the time of use. You
are responsible for periodically checking our Privacy Statement. You may opt-out
of any posted change to our collection, use or disclosure of your personal
information by sending an e-mail to
support@4Dwebmasters.com.
If we make minor changes to this Privacy Statement, the changes will be
immediately effective upon posting the revised Privacy Statement to the website.
If we make material changes to this Privacy Statement or in how we will use or
collect your Personal Information, we will prominently post a notification on
our website of the changed Privacy Statement ten (10) days prior to implementing
the change. The date at the bottom of this Privacy Statement is the date that
the Privacy Statement is effective.
Notice
4D WebMasters will use your information in accordance with the Privacy Statement
that is currently in effect. If you have any questions about the security at our
website, you can send an email to
support@4Dwebmasters.com.
Effective date: July 21, 2006