PRIVACY POLICY
RankTrend.com is fully committed to preserving the privacy of your personal information
that is collected when using any of our online services. This Privacy Policy explains
how we treat the information we collect when you send data to any personal computer
owned or managed by the Company.
Web Form Information
Personally identifiable information may be collected from you when you open an account
with RankTrend.com. This information may include your name, address, email address,
credit card number, Paypal information. We do not intentionally collect personal
information from individuals under the age of eighteen.
Web Site Usage Information
IP addresses and information about web site usage is automatically collected when
you access any of our online services. We use this information to determine how
our visitors and subscribers move around and make use of our web site. We do this
by summing up or otherwise combining this information on a cumulative basis. This
information includes the number and frequency of visitors and subscribers to each
web page, the length of their visits as well as other similar information.
How We Use Information Collected
Information is used in a variety of ways including the following:
- For the purposes you expressly provided the information such as enabling us to handle,
authorize and confirm purchases and updates to your site linking and ranking information.
- To register you as a subscriber and create an account for you.
- To send you email notifications about our products (new or current) as well as other
offerings or to contact you on important system updates and activity.
- To survey you for input on enhancements to current features or create new offerings
or features.
- To provide cumulative data on our customer base and their patterns for usage to
advertisers and other third parties.
- To permit us to personalize, based on individual characteristics or preferences,
the displayed advertising and content that you and others see.
- We will not share your personally identifiable information outside of RankTrend.com
with the exception of what is expressly explained in this Privacy Policy. Exceptions
on sharing personally identifiable information include such special circumstances
as when it is necessary to put in force our service agreements or terms of use or
when the law requires us to provide this personally identifiable information.
Cookies
A cookie, as defined for this policy, is a small piece of data which is sent from
a web server to a web browser and stored locally on the user's machine. RankTrend.com
uses cookies to allocate short-term identification values on computers that access
our web servers. This ID allows us to award valid sales credits to our affiliates,
prevent attacks on our systems such as denial of service attacks and identify and
thwart fake transactions. Unless specifically stated, all RankTrend.com cookies
are: temporary, less than 10KB in size, only accessible to RankTrend.com servers
and completely free of any personally identifiable information.
Security
We have implemented safeguards to protect any personally identifiable information
we collect about you and only store this information on servers that have limited
access. We keep personally identifiable information only as long as required to
complete a purchase or maintain a subscription, prevent fraud and scams, supply
customer service, or continue your account with us.
Effective Date and Policy Modifications
This policy is current as of November 1st 2006. Over time this policy may change.
Any changes will be posted here so be sure to check this page periodically.
Comments and Questions
We welcome your questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy. Please
send them to us at: support AT RankTrend.com.