Please
read our privacy statement before submitting any personal information.
We value your privacy! At Digital Women, we strive to provide resources
and services to better serve our users and members. We understand that
privacy is a very important issue, so we maintain our services with the
protection of your privacy in mind at all times. This Privacy Policy
outlines
the different types of personal information we gather when you use the
Digital Women web site, as well as some of the steps we take to
safeguard
it for you.
The
following principles apply to the personally identifying information we
ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is
information
that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address
or
email address.
1.Information.
Digital Women obtains information from and about you in different ways.
Digital Women
resources,
free web page access and some other services do not require any
personally
identifying information from you.
Digital
Women collects
limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes
available
whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your
Internet
Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of
your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your
browser.
Digital Women uses this information to develop and improve the services
for you.
Some of our
services require
you to register for a membership account. Digital Women asks you
for some personal information in order to create a Professional Member
account (typically your name, email address and a username and password
for your account) and we will use that information to provide the
service
and we may request credit card or other payment information which we
maintain
in encrypted form on secure servers.
When Digital
Women requires
personally identifying information, we will inform you about the types
of information we collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you
make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with
us.
A.
Some information
is gathered automatically when you access the Site such as IP address,
browser information and operating system as an example.
B.
Personal Information
is not gathered automatically at the site. If you wish to provide
Personal
Information, you must do so voluntarily such as a submission of an
online
form or via email submission. This information is never used to be
given
to third parties, BUT any information that you voluntarily post online
to be seen on the web site is subject to viewing and collecting by
outside
visitors to the web site and out of our control.
C.
Cookies are small
pieces of data that are stored by a user's Web browser on the hard
drive
of a user's computer. Cookies can remember what information a user
accesses
on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site
by the same user. Cookies are usually used to store information such as
products you have clicked to add to your shopping cart. The shopping
cart
cannot "tally" a total without using Cookies to remember what you have
selected to purchase so far.
Upon your
first visit to
Digital Women, a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely
identifies
your browser. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of
characters
that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. Digital Women
uses
cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand
how people interact with us. Most browsers are initially set up to
accept
cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to
indicate
when a cookie is being sent. However, some Digital Women features or
services
may not function properly without cookies.
1a. Information
Sharing
1.
We do not ever rent or sell your personally identifying information to
other companies or individuals. We may share demographic information on
the site and with those wishing to advertise at Digital Women. This
ONLY
includes demographic information and NOT your personal information.
2. If
you have an account, we may share the information you submitted under
your
account among all of our services and only those employed by Digital
Women
in order to provide you with a seamless experience and to improve the
quality
of our own service. We will never disclose your account information to
other people or non-affiliated companies.
3. We
may store and process personal information collected on our site in the
United States or any other country in which Digital Women or its agents
maintain facilities. By using our services, you consent to the transfer
of your information among these facilities, including those located
outside
your country.
4. In
the event of a transfer of ownership of Digital Women such as
acquisition
by or merger with another company, we will provide notice before any
personally
identifying information is transferred and becomes subject to a
different
privacy policy.
2.General Use
and
Disclosure of Information
A.
General
Information such as browser used, date of query, window display, etc is
gathered to understand site demographics and content preferences, and
will
do so without notice to or permission from you.
B.
Personal Information
is voluntarily provided by you for Digital-Women to be able to contact
you for special events and promotions for your business.
Personal
information is
NEVER given to third parties for advertising or any other reason.
Some personal
information
is published on the web site such as your business name and business
address
in the areas where you have voluntarily submitted and are willing to
have
that information published so that you can promote your business on the
Internet.
We use
third-party advertising
companies like Google to serve ads when you visit our website. These
companies
may use information (not including your name, address, email address,
or
telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order
to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your
choices about not having this information used by these companies,
click
here. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google
ad and content network privacy policy.
3. Community
Programs,
Interactive Mail List, and Directories.
Digital-Women
cautions
you to use discretion when sharing personal information in community
areas
on this web site such as message boards, mailing lists and
directories.If
you disclose personal information in such areas, you understand and
agree
that such personal information may be found, used, and disclosed by
others
without restriction.
4. Information
Security
1.
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized
access
to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data and
check
this on a regular basis.
2. We
restrict access to your personally identifying information only to
employees
who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or
improve
our services.
Updating your
information
We provide ways
for updating
and correcting your personally identifying information for many of our
services at Digital Women.
Digital
Women may present links in a format that helps us to understand whether
they have been followed, (clicked on). We use this information to
understand
and improve the quality of the services offered at Digital Women. For
example,
this data helps us determine how often users are interested in a
particular
subject or advertisement.
