Hostalgia Technologies
(hereafter referred to as "Hostalgia").
respects the privacy of every individual who visits
our websites. This privacy statement provides
notice of the standards and terms under which
Hostalgia protects the privacy of information
supplied by visitors to sites on the World Wide
Web that are owned and operated by Hostalgia.
This privacy statement provides notice of our
information collection practices and of the ways
in which your information may be used. This policy
may change from time to time, so please check
back periodically to review this information.
In the course of serving its
customers, Hostalgia acquires stores and transmits
customer communications and information that customers
may regard as private or sensitive. Some of this
information - such as the customer's name, address,
telephone number, and credit card data - is provided
to Hostalgia by its customers in order to establish
service. Other information - such as the customer's
account status, choice of services, and customer
logs - is created and maintained by Hostalgia
in the normal course of providing service.
Hostalgia also uses cookies,
which are small pieces of information that a web
site can store in a designated file on a user's
computer for various reasons. For example, Hostalgia
uses cookies on the landing pages of products
sold online which record the customer information
that is required on the order form. This information
is then forwarded to an internal sales tracking
database within Hostalgia. In addition, Hostalgia
may store customers' electronic mail and other
communications as a necessary incident to the
transmission and delivery of those communications.
A. How customer information
is used:
When personally-identifiable information is provided
to Hostalgia through one of our websites, it will
be used to fulfill a specific request. In most
cases, the opportunity is given to select whether
or not Hostalgia can to use this information for
additional purposes. Hostalgia reserves the right,
in its discretion, to send bulletins and other
important information about Hostalgia services
to its clients and visitors.
In the absence any instructions
otherwise, Hostalgia may use information personal-identifiable
provided to provide information about additional
services and products offered by Hostalgia business
affiliates and partners, Hostalgia authorized
agents, and other goods and services providers
with whom Hostalgia has relationships and whose
offerings might be of interest to our clients
and visitors. Hostalgia will not, however, sell
or trade your personally-identifiable information
unless we are authorized or legally required to
do so, or in the case of imminent physical harm
to the visitor or others (See: Disclosure
of customer information and communications).
On those Hostalgia sites where
credit card information or other ordering information
is provided via the web, Hostalgia protects and
secures this information by employing commercially
customary web-based security and encryption protocols,
examples of which include Secure Socket Layer
(SSL) and Secure Electronic Transaction (SET).
On those sites where information is voluntarily
offered using any feedback, data, answers, questions,
comments, suggestions, ideas or the like, Hostalgia
will treat that portion of the information as
non-confidential and nonproprietary and, except
as otherwise expressed in this privacy statement,
Hostalgia assumes no obligation to protect such
information from disclosure.
B. Disclosure of customer
information and communications
Hostalgia will not otherwise disclose its customers'
personal and account information unless Hostalgia
has reason to believe that disclosing such information
is necessary to identify, make contact with, or
bring legal action against someone who may be
causing harm or interfering with the rights or
property of Hostalgia, Hostalgia's customers,
or others, or where Hostalgia has a good faith
belief that the law requires such disclosure.
Hostalgia also will not, except
for reasons stated below, disclose to third parties
the contents of any electronic mail or other electronic
communications that Hostalgia stores or transmits
for its customers. The circumstances under which
Hostalfia will disclose such electronic customer
communications are when:
- it is necessary in order
to provide service to the customer;
- it is necessary to protect
the legitimate interests of Hostalgia and its
customers;
- it is required to cooperate
with interception orders, warrants, or other
legal process that Hostalgia determines in its
sole discretion to be valid and enforceable;
and
- it is necessary to provide
to a law enforcement agency when the contents
are inadvertently obtained by Hostalgia and
appear to pertain to the commission of a crime.
Hostalgia disclaims any intention
to censor, edit or engage in ongoing review or
surveillance of communications stored on or transmitted
through its facilities by customers or others.
Hostalgia will, however, review, delete or block
access to communications that may harm Hostalgia,
its customers or third parties. The grounds on
which Hostalgia may take such action include,
but are not limited to, actual or potential violations
of Hostalgia's Acceptable Use Policy.
C. Your Hostalgia hosted
website, server, bulletin boards, forum, Third-Party
Sites:
Information that is disclosed in a public space,
including on any bulletin board, chat room, or
website Hostalgia may host for you as part of
your Hostalgia services, is available to anyone
else who visits that space. Hostalgia cannot safeguard
any information disclosed in these locations.
Additionally, Hostalgia websites contain links
to sites that belong to third parties unrelated
to Hostalgia. Hostalgia cannot protect any information
disclosed in these sites and recommends that you
review the privacy policy statements of those
sites you visit.
D. Exceptions:
In connection with the potential sale or transfer
of any of its interests, Hostalgia reserves the
right to sell or transfer your information (including
, but not limited to name, address information,
and other information you provided to Hostalgia)
to a third party that:
- concentrates its business
in communication products or services;
- agrees to be Hostalgia's
successor in interest with regard to the maintenance
and protection of information collected and
maintained by Hostalgia; and
- agrees to the obligations
of this policy statement.
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