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Introduction
This policy covers how DHOW.biz treats personal information that DHOW.biz collects and receives, including information related to user’s account and user use of our services. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that DHOW.biz does not own or control, or to people that DHOW.biz does not employ or manage. In addition, some companies that DHOW.biz has acquired have their own privacy policies.
Information We Collect
Registration: Our registration form requests user personal and contact information (such as user name, email address, etc.), demographic information (such as user country, street address, etc.), and user company profile (such as industry Focus, products/services, etc). User will be assigned with username and password to log on into his account. For our internal purposes, we use this information to communicate with users and provide the services they have requested, and to provide a more personalized experience on our sites. For example, user registration may allow him to use and post selling/buying leads, events announcements, etc. We use aggregate demographic and profile information about our audience in order to improve our service, for research purposes, marketing/promotional purposes and/or for industry reporting purposes, among others. By visiting our site, users are affirmatively consent to our collection and use of their data.
Newsletters and Other Communications from Us: Our registered users and customers may receive newsletters, email communications, or communications through other channels for, among other purposes, the promotion and marketing of a product or service from DHOW.biz. We may also offer other visitors to our sites the opportunity to sign up to receive such information. When there is a separate sign-up for newsletters, we ask for contact information such as name and email address, and, sometimes, demographic and profile information. By visiting our sites, you affirmatively consent to our collection and use of your data. We use this information in the same manner as we use the contact information in the Registration process described above. Recipients of our mailings can unsubscribe by following instructions that may appear at the end of email communications. Note that in order to keep our registered users informed about the operation of our services, we may send emails and announcements that are needed for the proper functioning and administration of our sites and service.
Communications with Us: We have features where you can submit information to us (such as when contacting us with a question or feedback). We may retain your emails and other information you submit to us for our internal purposes, and to help us to serve you better.
Communications with Friends: We may offer features where you can send information to others, such as "Tell A Friend" option. We will use the contact information you enter for your friends to send them the email.
How We May Use The Information
We may use the information user provide – as described above – to fulfill user requests for our services, to respond to user’s inquiries about our offerings, and to offer him other programs or services that we believe may be of interest to him. We sometimes use this information to communicate with him, such as to notify him when we make changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by him for an online newsletter, or to contact him about his account with us. We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize the user Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer him programs, or services. DHOW.biz may on occasion combine information we receive online with outside records to enhance our ability to market to the user those services that may be of interest to him. Finally, DHOW.biz will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.
Disclosure of Information
We may disclose personally identifiable information you provide via this site to third parties that are not DHOW.biz affiliates, but only:
1. To contractors we use to support our business (such as fulfillment services, technical support, and financial institutions), in which case we will require such third parties to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and use it for the same purposes.
2. In connection with the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the business of this site to which the information relates, in which case we will require any such buyer to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and use it for the same purposes.
3. To respond to law enforcement requests or where required by applicable laws, court orders, or government regulations. The collection, use, and disclosure of information contemplated in this Privacy Policy may involve a transfer of the information to jurisdictions located outside your country of residence that may not have equivalent laws and rules regarding personally identifiable information. In these cases, you will be asked to consent to such transfers and disclosures in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small data text file that gets entered into the memory of user’s browser and allows DHOW.biz to recognize him each time he visits this site. Cookies are used to help us determine past preferences, for example, sections read during user visit. In addition, the cookie will allow us to identify him as a registered user each time he visits the site, eliminating the need for him to type in his password each time he visits. Cookies can be deleted from the user’s hard drive if he wish. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but the user can change his browser settings to prevent that. Even without a cookie he can use all the features on the web site. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows. Cookies record information about the user online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalized services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly he may not be able to take full advantage of all of the DHOW.biz features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of the browser to learn how to change cookie preferences. If the user have set his computer to reject cookies he can still browse DHOW.biz anonymously until such time as he wish to register for DHOW.biz services.
Security of Your Personal Information
The security of your personal information is very important to us. In our efforts to protect your information, we use a technology called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). If your browser is capable of SSL (and most are), your personal information will be automatically encrypted, or encoded, before it is sent over the Internet. DHOW.biz has also obtained a digital certificate from Verisign, Inc., a leading provider of Internet trust services. When you enter a secure portion of this Site (which is any page containing any of your personal information), an image of a closed lock or a solid key should appear in the bottom bar of your browser window. If you click on this image, a small popup window displaying site-security information will appear. This certificate guarantees that your personal information is being transmitted in secure (encrypted) form to a DHOW.biz web server, not to some unknown or unauthorized server. Ultimately, your personal information is protected by the password you created when you created an account at DHOW.biz (or another password you chose after changing a previous password). Please keep this password confidential. No Customer Service Associate or any other representative of DHOW.biz will ever ask you for your password. The confidentiality of your password is yours to protect. You may change it anytime by going to Your Account. Log in with your username and password, then change your password from the “ User Management Panel”.
Changes to Privacy Policy
All personal information that we collect and maintain will be subject to this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time. DHOW.biz may change the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion and will provide notice of changes in the Privacy Policy and on the home page of DHOW.biz. If as the result of such changes you want to alter the ways in which DHOW.biz is allowed to use your personal information, you can do so by following the procedure described in the section entitled “Updating your personal information”. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, and will be subject to, the changes to the Privacy Policy after such notice has been posted with the following exception: if at the time you provide personal information to DHOW.biz you limit how such information will be used to communicate with you, either by DHOW.biz or by third parties, DHOW.biz will not change your preference in this regard without your express consent. However, if DHOW.biz sells assets (or the assets of a division or subsidiary) to another entity, or DHOW.biz (or a division or subsidiary) is acquired by or merged with another entity, you agree that DHOW.biz may provide to such entity customer information that is related to that part of our business that was sold to or merged with the other entity without obtaining your further consent, but DHOW.biz will provide notice of such asset sales, acquisitions, or mergers on this Site.
Updating Your Personal Information
You have the right to access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences at any time. With respect to Registration Information this may be accomplished by signing in to your account, where you can view and make changes to your personal information.
Privacy Complaints
DHOW.biz takes its users' privacy concerns seriously. If you believe that DHOW.biz has not complied with this Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information, you may send an email to customer_service@dhow.biz. In your email, please describe in as much detail as possible the ways in which you believe that the Privacy Policy has not been complied with. We will investigate your complaint promptly and get to you as soon as we can. |