RoyalDocks.info Privacy Policy
RoyalDocks.info is committed to protecting the privacy of its users, and making your RoyalDocks.info experience enjoyable and safe. When you use our website, register for our online services, send our electronic greetings, use our notic boards, the information you provide to us is used only to customize your experience and to deliver email notifications to you (or people you designate as your recipients). The names and email addresses you give us when you simply send a card are NOT sold, compiled into any type of mailing list, or otherwise used for any type of email solicitation. Our data collection policies with regard to current and future services allow you to choose how much information you provide to us, and to control how we use that information. Read below to find out more.
Privacy Philosophy
The Internet is rapidly changing the way all of us communicate and interact with each other. While the Internet allows each of us access to a greater array of information and services than has ever been available, these new online activities do raise new challenges, such as the privacy issues addressed in this policy. RoyalDocks.info is committed to working with public policy organizations, industry groups, and government institutions to understand and address these challenges as they arise. But most importantly, having a relationship with our customers that is founded on trust is not only good manners, it is also good business. Any feedback you’d like to provide to help us better meet your expectations in this arena is welcomed.
Our Commitment to You
RoyalDocks.info wants to make your online experience satisfying and safe. Our data collection policies allow you to choose how much information to provide to us, and to control how we use that information. Our goal is to provide you with a robust online experience while allowing you to control your privacy. RoyalDocks.info collects information online primarily to make it easier and more rewarding for you to use our services. Depending on the service you are accessing, you could be asked at various times to provide information such as your name, email address, or information about what you like and do not like. On other occasions such as when we provide items for purchase online, we may request your credit card number to conclude the transaction, or your mailing address to ensure proper delivery. We request this information to provide our strongest value to you – a personalized online experience. Customers who personalize our service come back more often – and it’s the customers that visit us often who make us successful – so we do everything we can to make RoyalDocks.info your service with your name on it and to give you just the content you want.
Information collected online is often defined as being either anonymous or personally identifiable:
1. Anonymous Information refers to information that cannot be tied back to a specific individual. For instance, we may know that 10,000 people visit this Privacy Policy today, but we do not necessarily know their names, where they live, or their date of birth. What we collect from transactions such as this constitutes anonymous information, much like how your hometown’s bus service knows how many people take a given route – but doesn’t necessarily know who those people are. Many of the individuals who access our services decline to use the personalization features that are available to them, and therefore those individuals are anonymous to us and the data we collect is similarly anonymous information.
2. Personally Identifiable Information refers to information that tells us specifically who you are, such as your name or email address. In many cases we need this information to provide the personalized or enhanced service that have requested. An example of the use of such information would be the RoyalDocks.info eCards. We hope that, like many of our customers, you will find it beneficial to judiciously provide Personally Identifiable Information to RoyalDocks.info so that we may provide more valuable free content and products to you. The only way we know something about you personally is if you register as a user on our site. In other words, we will know Personally Identifiable Information about you only if you choose to share this type of information with us.
Third Party Advertisers.
We use several companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be 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, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp
Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser.
Our Commitment to Your Family
Like you, we at RoyalDocks.info have children of our own and are concerned about their safety when they use the Internet. We want you and your family to be safe while visiting RoyalDocks.info. That is why we have established a special policy with regard to the use of our services by children. The Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) requires that service providers never knowingly request Personally Identifiable Information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting verifiable parental consent. In accordance with COPPA, RoyalDocks.info does not knowingly collect any Personally Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. No one under the age of 15 should submit any Personally Identifiable Information to our Site. In the event that RoyalDocks.info determines that a user of this site is under the age of 13, RoyalDocks.info will not maintain or use his or her Personally Identifiable Information. To ensure children’s privacy, we urge parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to become familiar with the types of content available on the Internet. Control tools are available on the Internet from online services and software manufacturers to help create a safer environment for children. For additional information on protecting children’s privacy, visit http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/index.html.
What Personally Identifiable Information of yours is collected
As always, we are committed to making your RoyalDocks.info experience enjoyable and safe. When you download our software, our photos, register for our online services or send our electronic greetings, the information you provide to us is used only to customize your experience and to deliver email notifications to you (or people you designate as your recipients). The names and email addresses you give us are NOT sold, compiled into any type of mailing list, or otherwise used for any type of email solicitation. To enable many of the features provided by RoyalDocks.info, we will assign “cookies” to your Internet browser (such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer). A cookie is a small text file that contains a unique identification number stored on your computer. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. This unique identification number automatically identifies your browser – but not you – to our computers whenever you interact on our site. When you visit our site, a cookie in effect says to our server computers “Hello, I’m browser #655. What do you do just for me?” Every Web page that you access that includes advertising or content served from the RoyalDocks.info will have the contents of your cookie reported in our server logs. But only when you agree to provide Personally Identifiable Information directly to RoyalDocks.info, such as through registration, will we be able to know anything about you other than the random number that our server computers originally assign to your browser.
There is a lot of confusion about cookies, how they are used, and what they can do. Cookies only contain information that the server computer “knew” in the first place, and can only be read by the serving domain that placed them. For instance, Yahoo! utilizes cookies, but RoyalDocks.info’ servers can’t read their contents nor can Yahoo!’s servers read ours. Cookies are an essential part of how the Internet works today, and allow server computers to recognize your computer’s browser when you return. If you have ever gone to a Web page that automatically provides personalized content without you having to “sign in” this is almost certainly being accomplished with a cookie. Since cookies are only text files, they cannot “run” on your computer and have no ability to search your computer for other information, or transmit it to anyone.
Information Distribution
If you are providing us Personally Identifiable Information, it will only be used within RoyalDocks.info’ site. RoyalDocks.info will never share, rent or sell your information to third parties without your permission. Although unlikely, RoyalDocks.info may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide Personally Identifiable Information to the appropriate governmental authorities. If requested by law enforcement or judicial authorities, we will provide this information upon receipt of the appropriate documentation.
What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information
RoyalDocks.info offers you the ability to control the email communications we make to you. It is our intention to give you as much control over our relationship as possible. First, as mentioned earlier, the consumer always has the final word on whether RoyalDocks.info – or any Internet company – knows who you are. It is your choice to share Personally Identifiable Information with RoyalDocks.info and we encourage you to consider only sharing information with any site on the Internet if you receive true value in exchange for that information transfer and if you respect the privacy practices of the firm. RoyalDocks.info will always give you a chance to unsubscribe to any email communication from us – clear directions for doing so will appear in any email message we send to you. At times, RoyalDocks.info may enter into cobranding arrangements with other companies, and if so, an opt-in question may be present for contact from these firms as well. Their opt-out features are specific to each organization, but you should never receive email from these organizations unless you have indicated that it is acceptable. All email from from co-brand partners who gain your permission to send you commercial email, will include an opportunity to opt out of future communications. RoyalDocks.info reserves the right to send a one-time registration confirmation email, and infrequent Service Alert messages to its customers to inform them of specific changes that may impact their ability to use a service they have previously signed up for, regardless of email contact opt-in status. An example of a Service Alert message would be notification of the impending closing of an account that is believed to be abandoned. Finally, we also reserve the right to contact you if compelled to do so as part of a legal proceeding or if there has been a violation of our Terms of Service. RoyalDocks.info is retaining these rights because in limited cases we feel that we may need the right to contact you as a matter of law or regarding matters which will be important to you. These rights do not allow us to contact you to market a new or existing service if you have asked us not to do so, and issuance of these types of communications are rare.
What kind of security procedures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under the company’s control
RoyalDocks.info operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers. Any particularly sensitive information, such as a customer’s credit card number collected for a commerce transaction, is encrypted prior to transmission. You the consumer are ultimately responsible for the security of your RoyalDocks.info Member Name and password. Please take care to store you RoyalDocks.info Member Name separately from your account password, or better yet, choose a password that you don’t need to write down at all.
How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information
RoyalDocks.info believes strongly in providing you with the ability to access and edit the personal information that you have provided to us. Where this is not possible you can contact us using the customer service form