WNYsite is committed to protecting your privacy
and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online
experience. This WNYsite Statement of Privacy applies to WNYsite family of Web
sites and governs data collection and usage at all WNYsite sites and services.
Please read the complete WNYsite Statement of Privacy below.
Collection of your Personal
Information
At some sites, WNYsite collects personally
identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work
address or telephone number. At other sites, WNYsite collects anonymous
demographic information that is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age,
gender, preferences, interests and favorites. Some sites collect a combination
of the two types of information. Information collected at one WNYsite Web site
may be shared within the WNYsite family of Web sites.
WNYsite does not associate sensitive data, such
as your race, religion, or political affiliations, with personally identifiable
information. WNYsite takes precautions to segregate any sensitive data you may
provide on WNYsite sites and services that reference your race, religion, sexual
orientation, ethnicity or political affiliations.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose
personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through WNYsite
web sites, or other public online forums, this information may be collected and
used by others. Note: WNYsite does not read any of your private online
communications. Your e-mails, and Internet Access e-mails are completely
confidential.
WNYsite encourages you to review the privacy
statements of Web sites you choose to link to from WNYsite so that you can
understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. WNYsite
is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites
outside of the WNYsite family of Web sites.
There is also information about your computer
hardware and software that is automatically collected by WNYsite and may be
shared with other Web sites within the WNYsite family of web sites. This
information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access
times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by WNYsite for
the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide
general statistics regarding use of the WNYsite Web sites.
Use of your Personal
Information
WNYsite Web sites and their operational service
partners collect and use your personal information to operate WNYsite Web sites
and deliver the services you have requested. WNYsite sites also use your
personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services
available from WNYsite and its affiliates. WNYsite may also contact you via
surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of
potential new services that may be offered.
WNYsite does not sell, rent or lease its customer
lists to third parties. WNYsite may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of
external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest
to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail,
name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In
addition, WNYsite may share data with trusted partners to help us perform
statistical analysis. All such third parties are prohibited from using your
personal information except to provide these services to WNYsite, and they are
required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
WNYsite keeps track of the Web sites and pages
our customers visit within WNYsite, in order to determine what WNYsite sites and
services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content
and advertising within WNYsite to customers whose behavior indicates that they
are interested in a particular subject area.
WNYsite Web sites will disclose your personal
information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good
faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the
law or comply with legal process served on WNYsite or the site; (b) protect and
defend the rights or property of WNYsite, and WNYsite Web site; and, (c) act
under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of WNYsite,
its web sites, or the public.
Use of Cookies
Many of the WNYsite Web sites use
"cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is
a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies
cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are
uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain
that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to
provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to
tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if
you personalize WNYsite pages, or register with WNYsite sites or services, a
cookie helps WNYsite to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.
This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as
billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same
WNYsite Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so
you can easily use the WNYsite features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline
cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually
modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to
decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive
features of the WNYsite services or Web sites you visit.
Use of Web Beacons
WNYsite Web pages may contain electronic images
known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow WNYsite
to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services.
WNYsite may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or WNYsite
Newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon.
Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information on
the WNYsite network of sites and services; they are a technique we use to
compile aggregated statistics about WNYsite Web site usage.
Web beacons collect only a limited set of
information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a
description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. WNYsite Web pages may
also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners, to
help WNYsite determine the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns.
Use of Third Party Ad
Networks
The majority of the online banner advertisements
you see on WNYsite Web sites are displayed by WNYsite.
In addition, WNYsite also allows other companies,
called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display advertisements on
WNYsite Web sites. To do this, ad networks place a persistent cookie on your
computer. Doing this allows the ad network to recognize your computer each time
they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may compile
information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their
advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows
an ad network to deliver advertisements that they believe will be of most
interest to you. WNYsite does not have access to or control of the cookies that
may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.
WNYsite maintains relationships with a number of
the third-party ad networks currently operating. If you want to prevent one of
these third-party companies from sending and reading cookies on your computer,
you will need to visit each ad network's Web site individually and request that
you be removed from its system.
Control your Personal
Information
WNYsite will be offering its customers choices
for the collection, use and sharing of personal information. You will be
directed to the page to proactively make choices about the use and sharing of
your personal information. When available, you may choose not to receive
unsolicited marketing material from WNYsite Web sites and services or
unsolicited marketing material on behalf of external third party business
partners.
Not all sites are represented at this time;
additional WNYsite sites and services will be added in the future.
In both cases described above, you will be asked
to make your requests while logged into a WNYsite account, so that WNYsite can
associate your preferences with a particular account. This security safeguard
prevents someone else from making choices about the usage and control of your
personal information.
You may also stop the delivery of future
promotional e-mail from WNYsite Web sites by following the specific instructions
in the e-mail you receive. The instructions explain how to stop receiving such
e-mails.
There are some Web site services that send out
periodic e-mails informing you of technical service issues, product surveys, new
feature announcements and news about WNYsite products and services. These
e-mails are considered essential to the provision of the service you have
requested. You will not be able to choose to unsubscribe to these mailings, as
they will be considered a part of the service you have chosen at that time.
Security of your Personal
Information
WNYsite secures your personal information from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. WNYsite secures the personally
identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure
environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Personal
information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites
through the use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encrypted protection.
Changes to this Statement
WNYsite will occasionally update this Statement
of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. When WNYsite posts changes
to this Statement, you will see the word "updated" next to the Privacy
Statement link on the front page of WNYsite. If there are material changes to
this Statement or in how WNYsite will use your personally identifiable
information, WNYsite will prominently post such changes prior to implementing
the change. WNYsite encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be
informed of how WNYsite is protecting your information.
Questions regarding this
Statement of Privacy
If you have questions regarding this statement,
you may contact WNYsite via email
to admin@wnywebsite.com.
Contact Information
WNYsite welcomes your comments regarding this
Statement of Privacy. If you have questions or concerns regarding our policy
statement, please contact WNYsite by postal or electronic mail.
Postal Address - WNYsite.com Privacy
3806 Union Rd #102
Cheektowaga, NY 14225
Email : admin@wnywebsite.com
WNYsite
Classifieds
What
information is collected: When you participate on the WNYsite Classified
site, WNYsite may request personally identifiable information such as your name
or e-mail address as well as transactional information such as your credit card
number or shipping address.
How
does WNYsite use your personal information: WNYsite does not share any of
your personally identifiable or transactional information with any person or
entity other than it's Credit Card and online check Merchant Service Provider.
Merchant providers only use this information to operate credit card and payment
transactions and does not share it with any other parties. Merchant providers may also use
anonymous, aggregated data about popular listings and purchase patterns of
WNYsite customers to improve the WNYsite Classified overall service.
Who
else may receive my Classified information: No other third party receives
your personally identifiable information or other transactional data except for
those with whom you make classified transactions or other participants with whom
you choose to share your information.
WNYsite
Mall
What
Information is Collected: WNYsite does not collect information associated
with your purchase when you shop at one of the merchant Web sites linked to
WNYsite Shopping Mall. What you purchase is known only to the merchant. Be sure
to read the participating merchant's privacy policy to better understand its use
of your personal information.
Updated
July 2004
