PRIVACY STATEMENT FOR
Wireless Cove
This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices
that Wireless Cove will adhere to when gathering, handling, correcting,
or disposing of information about visitors to its web site.
Wireless Cove is committed to the following
privacy principles:
- No area of this web requires any visitor to
provide any personal information.
- Any information provided to Wireless Cove at a
visitor's option will never be willfully disclosed to any third party
without the visitor's permission.
Information Collected by
Wireless Cove
- Visitors can optionally provide an email address to
request that they be notified of updates to the Wireless Cove web site
in general and specifically to the Wireless Cove database for a
particular ZIP code.
- Visitors can optionally elect to provide an email
address to be placed on a mailing list to receive promotional messages from
Wireless Cove advertisers.
- In the Wireless Cove discussion forums users
may optionally supply an email address to be notified when new messages are
posted.
- Visitors can optionally provide more detailed
personal information, as much or as little as desired, in order to provide
feedback on their experience using the Wireless Cove web site.
- To use the Tell-a-Friend feature users must enter
their own email addresses and a list of email addresses of people they would
like to inform of the Wireless Cove web site.
- Wireless Cove records traffic and usage
patterns for the web site.
- Like most standard web site servers we use log files.
This includes IP (internet protocol) addresses, browser type, ISP (internet
service provider), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and
#of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in
the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.
- Wireless Cove may occasionally conduct surveys
and/or interactive polls for informational and/or entertainment purposes.
Participation in survey will never require personal information to
participate and is never recorded with personal information about visitors.
We may share the aggregated information in these surveys with our
advertisers and partners. The polling mechanism may use information about a
visitor's server to exclude visitors from voting more than once in a
particular poll or survey.
- In order to post ads in the Wireless Cove
classified ads section, users are required to supply an email address. Email
addresses submitted for this purpose are not publicly displayed in the ad
but used to relay messages to users responding to posted ads.
- Wireless Cove itself does not use cookies in
any part of the web site, however, other companies that place advertising on
our site may use cookies. Wireless Cove cannot control other
companies' use of cookies. These cookies cannot be used to individually
identify visitors.
- On our website, we display advertisements for other
companies, agencies and advertising networks. These advertisements may place
cookies with your machine, and use different privacy and security policies
than Wireless Cove.
Use of the Information
Collected by Wireless Cove
- We use information about traffic and usage patterns
for the web site to determine which areas are popular and which areas need
improvement.
- If and only if, a visitor has requested the service,
we will use their email address to send them email to notify them of updates
and improvements to the Wireless Cove web site and databases.
- If and only if, a visitor has requested the service,
we will place their email address on a list to receive promotional messages
from Wireless Cove advertisers. Email addresses on this optional list
will never be given or sold to any third parties, instead
Wireless Cove will relay messages from these advertisers without
revealing or releasing the email addresses.
- Posts made in any Wireless Cove discussion
forums, and all the information that you choose to associate with those
posts, are publicly displayed.
- Email addresses submitted in the discussion forums so
that users can be notified of newly posted messages are not used for any
other purposes in the web site and will never be passed on to any third
parties. Email addresses submitted for this purpose will, however, be
visible to other visitors using the discussion forums. Wireless Cove
can not control any other visitor's use of those publicly visible email
addresses.
- If you use Wireless Cove's 'Tell-a-Friend'
feature, we use the email addresses you submit to send email referrals of
the site to those email addresses. These email addresses are not maintained
after the referrals are sent.
- Email addresses submitted for the purpose of posting
classified ads are not publicly displayed or retained beyond the expiration
date of the ad. Your email address is only revealed to people responding to
your ad if you respond by email to their initial response.
- Other companies that advertise, or are linked to from
Wireless Cove may collect information about visitors when they click
on these companies' advertisements or links. Wireless Cove can not
control information collected in this manner. However, remember that if you
do not provide personal information directly to third party web sites you
can not be personally identified. Wireless Cove will not pass any
personal information to third parties.
Opt-Out and Correcting &
Updating
Wireless Cove provides users the opportunity to
opt-out of receiving further communications from us or correcting the
information they have provided.
To have your information removed from our database,
please follow the instructions included in the email received from
Wireless Cove or send an email to: newsletter@WirelessCove.com
To change, modify, correct or review information
previously provided, please send an email to: newsletter@wirelesscove.com with
the details of your request.
Email addresses submitted for use in the discussion
forums cannot at this time be deleted, removed or changed. However, at your
request, originating from the email address in question, Wireless Cove
will delete any post containing your email address.
Notification of
Changes
If we are going to use your personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection
we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we
use your information in this different manner. However, if you have opted out
of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated your account, then
you will not be contacted. Nor will your personal information be used in this
new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy
practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database,
we will post a prominent notice on our web site notifying users of the change.
In some cases where we post a notice we will also email users, who have opted
to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our
privacy practices. We will use information in accordance with the privacy
policy under which the information was collected.
Security
Protecting your privacy and your information is a top
priority at Wireless Cove. Wireless Cove uses industry standard
efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable
information, such as passwords and server monitoring.
We have taken careful measures to secure your
information and our physical premises, however, complete security can not be
guaranteed.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement,
the practices of this site, or dealings with this Web site, you can contact:
laura@wirelesscove.com
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