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MotoClicks Privacy Policy
Version 02/10/2005
At MotoClicks, we strive to develop innovative services to better serve our
users. We recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design
and operate our services with the protection of your privacy in mind.
This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we
gather when you use MotoClicks's services, as well as some of the steps we
take to safeguard it.
The
following principles apply to the personally identifying information we
ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is
information that individually identifies you, such as your name,
physical address or email address. You can find more details about the
data we collect on particular services by clicking the links on the
side of this page.
Data collection
- MotoClicks search and some other services do not require any personally identifying information.
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MotoClicks collects limited non-personally identifying information your
browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log
information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type,
browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more
cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this
information to operate, develop and improve our services.
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Some of our services require you to register for an account. MotoClicks
asks you for some personal information in order to create an account
(typically your name, email address and a password for your account)
and we will use that information to provide the service. For certain
services, such as our advertising programs, we may request credit card
or other payment information which we maintain in encrypted form on
secure servers.
- When we require personally
identifying information, we will inform you about the types of
information we collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you
make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with
us.
Cookies
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Upon your first visit to MotoClicks, a cookie is sent to your computer that
uniquely identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a small file containing
a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a
website. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to
better understand how people interact with us. MotoClicks does this by
storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and
patterns of how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to
accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to
indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some MotoClicks features or
services may not function properly without cookies.
Information sharing
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We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other
companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share
such information in any of the following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent.
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We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the
sole purpose of processing personally identifying information on our
behalf. When this is done, it is subject to agreements that oblige
those parties to process such information only on our instructions and
in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality
and security measures.
- We conclude that we
are required by law or have a good faith belief that access,
preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary
to protect the rights, property or safety of MotoClicks, its users or the
public.
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If you have an account, we may share the information submitted under
your account among all of our services in order to provide you with a
seamless experience and to improve the quality of our services. We will
not disclose your account information to other people or non-affiliated
companies, except in the limited circumstances described in this Policy
or with your consent.
- We may store and process
personal information collected on our site in the United States or any
other country in which MotoClicks or its agents maintain facilities.
By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information
among these facilities, including those located outside your country.
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In the event of a transfer of ownership of MotoClicks, such as
acquisition by or merger with another company, we will provide notice
before any personally identifying information is transferred and
becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
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We may share aggregated information with others. Examples of this
include the number of users who searched for “Mars Rover” or how many
users clicked on a particular advertisement.
Information security
- We
take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized
access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
- We
restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees
who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or
improve our services.
Updating your information
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We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personally
identifying information for many of our services. For more information,
please see the help pages for each service.
Links
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The sites displayed as search results or linked to by MotoClicks's services
are developed by people over whom MotoClicks exercises no control. These
other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data
or solicit personal information.
- MotoClicks may
present links in a format that enables us to understand whether they
have been followed. We use this information to understand and improve
the quality of MotoClicks's search technology. For instance, this data
helps us determine how often users are satisfied with the first result
of a query and how often they proceed to later results.
Changes to this Policy
Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We
expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are
more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page
and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more
prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top of the page.
If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us any time at privacy@motoclicks.com.
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