VeryGoodSearch.com
Privacy Policy Statement
VeryGoodSearch is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our search engine. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.
First and foremost we will not sell or give your email address, street location or real name to anyone at any time for any reason. We will not sell your email address to people who collect them and in return send SPAM to your mailbox. We hate SPAM too!
We do reserve the right to divulge your true identify and other information to any law enforcement or legal agency requesting that information if any abuse or illegal activity has been found or reported on on VeryGoodSearch or through use of search engine. Please see below for exact information as to our divulging your information to a law enforcement agency if it is so requested.
This policy will let you know:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you
- What cookies are and how they are used
- How your information is used
- Who is collecting your information
- With whom your information may be shared
- What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information
- How you can access, update or delete your information
- The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information
- How VeryGoodSearch protects children's privacy
- What else you should know about your online privacy
What personally identifiable information is collected from you
VeryGoodSearch collects information in several ways from different parts of our web site, depending on what you are doing here.
For those of you who are just here to search, we collect no information on you whatsoever that is ever seen or looked at. You IP# is sent to our stats system which is where we track the number of visitors who use our service. The IP# is used only as a tracking method to see how many unique visitors we get (that is different IP#s). There is nothing identifiable to you in our collection of information.
If you are an advertiser and you have opened a PPC account, some personal information is gathered when you register. During registration, we ask for your name and email address, postal address and some other information. This information is used only as tracking to try and indentify multiple accounts from the same person. If there a problem arises with charge or other payment trouble then this information may be referenced for validation purposes.
If you are adding your URL free, your email address will be verified before you can add your URL. Your name, and email address, URL are the only information we take about you. That information is used to spider your site. In remains in our database.
We reserve the right to email our account holders, and those who have added their URL. If you do not wish to receive email from us, please unsubscribe from the link that is always are the bottom of the email we send to you. Unsubscribing will sent a message to us to delete your account, all URLs, whether it be PPC account or a free account. Any balance in your PPC account, Permanent Paid account or any other account you may have made a deposit to are forfeited.
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We use third-party advertising companies 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.
What cookies are and how they are used
As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized service, VeryGoodSearch may use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Several features of working with your PPC account (if you have one) at VeryGoodSearch require that you accept cookies in order to work properly. (See "What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information" for more information on cookies.)
Generally, we use cookies for the following purposes (which may or may not be enabled):
(1) To identify your account, username, and other information.
(2) Optionally to permanently save your password on your computer so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site.
Advertising networks that may be running advertisements on VeryGoodSearch may also use their own cookies.
VeryGoodSearch may also collect IP addresses for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is personally unidentifiable information.
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How your information is used
The primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience and to assist your navigation throughout the VeryGoodSearch. We in no way use this information to target email campaigns, sell or rent your information, or any use beyond what is outlined within this Privacy Policy. We do not sell or rent your email address.
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Who is collecting your information
When you are asked for personal information you are sharing that information with VeryGoodSearch alone.
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With whom your information may be shared
Your personal information will not be shared with anyone else. We will not sell your email address or home location to anyone for any reason. We hate SPAM and will never do anything that will bring SPAM into your mailbox.
We reserve the right to email you at any time, although we do so very infrequently.
As a general rule, we will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Please see the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for each of our products and services for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared.
VeryGoodSearch may disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the Terms of Service of VeryGoodSearch or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the rights or property of VeryGoodSearch, other users of VeryGoodSearch, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. VeryGoodSearch may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.
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What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information
If you do not wish to have this information collected do not open an account to add your URL to any facet of our search engine.
You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use some of the features we have for webmasters within their PPC accounts.
VeryGoodSearch does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service.
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How you can access, update or delete your information
You can log into your account and change any of the information any time you wish. You should keep the information up-to-date. When will email you very infrequently, but we reserve the right to cancel and delete any account whose email bounces back to us as undeliverable.
If you are a previously registered user and you have lost or forgotten your password, you may obtain it by email by using our "Forgot Password" feature. Click the button on any login page to request that your password be emailed to you. We cannot provide your password by any other means.
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The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information
Other than the administrator of VeryGoodSearch or other authorized personnel of VeryGoodSearch, you are the only person who has access to your personal information. Your user registration is password-protected to prevent unauthorized access.
We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. VeryGoodSearch will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, VeryGoodSearch cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
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How VeryGoodSearch protects children's privacy
VeryGoodSearch is a general audience web site. To those simply using us as a search engine there is very little concern with privacy issues, whether they be children or adults. (See cookies above).
To open any account you need to have a credit card, or through Pay Pal, an account with them. This generally excludes children from opening an account with us. Children should always ask a parent for permission before sending or divulging personal information to anyone online.
We have in no way attempted to make our site "child safe". We are NOT an adult wesite, nor are we a child safe website.
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What else you should know about your online privacy
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.
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