Web Impact Website(s)

Privacy Policy

This policy is effective as of May 12, 2008 and governs the collection of personal information through websites controlled, hosted, and managed by Web Impact Inc. on or after this date. 

This policy describes the types of information Web Impact Inc. collects from the users of its websites and how that information is used. Please read this policy carefully before providing us with any personal information. If you have questions about this policy please contact us by sending us an email to info@web-impact.com.

Collection of Information

1. Unregistered users.

We encourage you to register with us in order to take advantage of many personalization features of our websites. However, you may choose not to register and take advantage of any feature of our site where registration is not required.

If you do not register, then the information we collect from you is limited. We log your IP address in order to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Websites and track usage statistics. Your IP address may vary each time you visit, or it may be the same, depending on whether you access our site through an always-on type of Internet connection, or through a dial-up connection. Either way, it would be extremely difficult for us to identify you through your IP address. If you reached our website(s) by clicking on a link or advertisement on another website, then we also log that information.

We also place a small file known as a "cookie" on your computer's hard drive. A cookie may contain information that allows us to track your path through our Web site and to determine whether you have visited us before. However, unless you register with us, it contains no personally identifiable information that would allow us to identify you. We use cookies in this manner to help us understand how visitors use our site, and to help us to improve our site. You may refuse to accept a cookie from us by following the procedures specific to your Web browser.  However, this will prevent you from fully enjoying our website(s).  We suggest you allow cookies on your computers. 

If you visit our site by "clicking-through" from a site operated by one of our partners, and you have registered with that partner, then certain information about you that you have provided to that partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the privacy policy of the Web site from which you reached our site in order to determine what information was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that information. We may or may not retain that information; if we do, then we will only use it in accordance with our privacy policy, regardless of the policy of the partner site from which you came to us.

2. Registered users.

We suggest that you register with Web Impact’s website(s) as this will give you access to other valuable features only available to registered users.  The benefits of registering will increase over time as we get to know you better and introduce new features. We encourage you to register so that you can experience everything that our website(s) have to offer!

If you register with us, we will collect personal information from you in addition to the non-personal information described above. That personal information may include your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, travel preferences, user name and password, as well as contact information for other people that you provide to us. The information we collect may vary, but we only collect the information that you manually enter into our forms or otherwise authorize us to collect. We may store all or some of that information in a cookie file on your hard drive. To improve services and enhance personalization, we may periodically obtain information about you from other independent third-party sources and add it to your registration information. Additionally, authorized Web Impact personnel may update your registration information to accurately reflect any new information included in communications received from you.

If you visit our Website by "clicking-through" from a website operated by one of our partners, and you have registered with that partner, then certain information about you that you have provided to that partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the privacy policy of the Website from which you reached our site in order to determine what information was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that information. We may or may not retain that information; if we do, then we will only use it in accordance with our privacy policy, regardless of the policy of the partner Website from which you came to us.

If you reach our Website through one of our partners (whether or not you have registered with our partner), and you choose to register with us, we may be required to give our partner some or all of your registration information. We will only do so in accordance with this policy, but we cannot control how our partner uses the information. If you have questions about our partner's privacy policy, you should review their policy before providing information to us. Of course, you can ensure that the personal information you provide to us is not shared with our partners (except in accordance with this policy), by visiting us directly instead of clicking-through from one of our partners.

If you reach our Website and you choose to register with us, and choose, further, to transact in such a way as to subscribe to content, products, or services of one of our partners, we may be required to give our partner some or all of your registration information.  We will only do so in accordance with this policy, but we cannot control how our partner uses the information. If you have questions about our partner's privacy policy, you should review their policy before providing information to us. Of course, you can ensure that the personal information you provide to us is not shared with our partners (except in accordance with this policy), by visiting us directly instead of clicking-through from one of our partners.

Use and Disclosure

In addition to improving our websites’ functionality, we may also use your personal information to periodically contact you with news or important information from us, to provide you with other information or invitations related to your membership or our various online communities, and to request your feedback on our site. In addition to these periodic updates, we may email you additional materials, but only if you specifically request them. These might include opt-in newsletters and other materials that you proactively request from us.   In addition to these communications, if you have provided an email address, we may use your personal information to send you notifications about special offers or to tell you about opportunities available from our partners.   You may opt-out of any or all marketing communications from us in any commercial e-mail we send or at any time, as well as access and update your personal information, by visiting your profile page on the website.   We may also use certain information that you provide in order to present you with advertising that may be relevant to you. 

You can cancel your registration with us by sending us an email. We will send you an e-mail to confirm your request. After we receive confirmation, we will remove your information from our active database, but some information may remain in our archives. We may not be able to remove your information from our partners' databases, if we have transmitted any information to them.

We may aggregate personal information from all of our users and provide that information in the aggregate to other parties, including advertisers, for marketing and promotional purposes.  We may share some of your personally identifiable information with our parent company, our subsidiaries and sister companies around the world that are committed to providing you with interesting and valuable services and content. 

We also may share your personal information with third-parties specifically engaged by us to provide services to us.  In addition, We must cooperate with legal authorities, and may in some circumstances be required to disclose personally identifiable information in response to requests from law enforcement authorities, or in response to a subpoena or other legal process.  We can also turn over information about you if we believe we must in order to prevent a violation of the law, and by accepting this policy, you consent to our doing so, in our sole discretion. You also consent to our disclosing information about you in the course of legal proceedings if we are legally required to do so, if we reasonably believe that doing so may mitigate our liability, or if doing so will assist us in enforcing our legal rights. We also may share your information in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, and in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Managing Personal Information

You can review and update the personal information you have provided through the registration process by visiting your profile page on the website.

Children's Privacy

Our website(s) are general audience Website(s), and we do not knowingly collect information about children. Should a child whom we know to be under 16 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this policy should we deem it advisable to do so. If we make material changes that will affect personal information we have already collected from you, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes and to give you the opportunity to amend or cancel your registration.