Yellow Door Media’s Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any personal information you submit to us through our website. "Personal Information" is information about you that is personally identifiable to you like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing.
We pay close attention to how Personal Information about our visitors is used and shared, and we use Personal Information sensibly.
We act as a service provider to our customers and may process and store on behalf of our customers Personal Information that our customers collect under the privacy policy they have posted on their websites from the users of such websites. We do not own this Personal Information.
Your privacy is critically important to us. At YellowDoorMedia we have a few fundamental principles:
1. We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
2. We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
3. We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
YellowDoorMedia LLC (“YellowDoorMedia”) operates several websites including YellowDoorMedia.com It is YellowDoorMedia’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
User Consent
By submitting Personal Information through our websites, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Statement.
You expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Statement. Personal Information may be processed by YellowDoorMedia.com, Developer(s), or User(s) in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent.
Collection of Personal Information
The Personal Information Yellow Door Media gathers from you helps us learn about our customers and potential customers. We use this information to better tailor the features, performance and support of our solutions, products and services, and to contact you from time to time with information and offers about our products and services.
Certain visitors to YellowDoorMedia’s websites choose to interact with YellowDoorMedia in ways that require YellowDoorMedia to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that YellowDoorMedia gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at wordpress.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with YellowDoorMedia – by purchasing access to the Akismet comment spam prevention service, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, YellowDoorMedia collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with YellowDoorMedia. YellowDoorMedia does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Personal Information You Provide to Us
We collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through our websites. The types of Personal Information we collect include:
* For receiving information material:
If you contact us to receive information material (such as one of our whitepapers), we will collect your name, e-mail address and the information when you plan on purchasing a website.
* For receiving our Business Builder newsletter:
If you contact us to receive our Website newsletter, we will collect your name, e-mail address, mailing address and the address of your website.
* For getting a quote:
In order to receive a quote from us, we will collect your name, phone number, e-mail address, mailing address and your Web address.
* For employment applications:
If you apply for an employment opportunity via e-mail, we will collect your e-mail address and any information contained in the e-mail you send us.
* For general information:
If you contact us via e-mail to get general information, we will collect your e-mail address and any information contained in the e-mail you send us.
* For technical support:
If you contact us via e-mail to get technical support, we will collect your e-mail address and any information contained in the e-mail you send us.
* For Strategic Distribution Partners Information:
If you contact us via e-mail to receive Strategic Distribution Partners Information, we will collect your e-mail address and any information contained in the e-mail you send us.
* For Enterprise Distribution Partner Information:
If you contact us via e-mail to receive Enterprise Distribution Partner Information, we will collect your e-mail address and any information contained in the e-mail you send us.
Personal Information Collected via Technology
As you navigate our website, certain passive information may also be collected, including your Internet Protocol address, browser type, and operating system. We also use cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and information for which you searched and viewed. This type of information is collected to make our solutions and services more useful to you.
Like most website operators, YellowDoorMedia collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. YellowDoorMedia’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how YellowDoorMedia’s visitors use its website. From time to time, YellowDoorMedia may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
YellowDoorMedia also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. YellowDoorMedia does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Personal Information We Receive from Other Sources
We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources like telephone or telefax. We may add this information to the information we have already collected from you via our website in order to improve the solutions and services we provide.
Aggregated Statistics
YellowDoorMedia may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, YellowDoorMedia may monitor the most popular blogs on the WordPress.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. YellowDoorMedia may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, YellowDoorMedia does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Use of Information
In general, Personal Information you submit to Yellow Door Media is used either to set up solutions or purchase website marketing services, respond to requests that you make, to process transactions, to facilitate your request for a quote from a third party service provider or to aid us in serving you better. We may share your Personal Information with other businesses to offer you products, services, and promotions. In addition, we may share your information with other businesses that may contact your regarding request for service. We may also use your Personal Information to provide you with electronic newsletters or promotional e-mails as well as information and offers about our products and services.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by YellowDoorMedia and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Statement: Yellow Door Media do not generally trade, rent, or share your Personal Information with third parties, we will not disclose any information that you ask us to keep confidential, and we will not disclose financial information unless you ask us to do so. In order to build the solutions for you, we may engage third parties to assist us, and, in connection with such assistance, we may provide them with Personal Information that you have provided and that is necessary for them to assist us.
To drive traffic to your website and to make your website easier to find, we will disclose keywords about your business, your business name, general and specific description about your business, information about your location, and information about your products and services to third-party services and to the general public.
We also use third parties to maintain and store your Personal Information and to process any payment you make to us. Generally, these third parties are required not to use your Personal Information other than to provide the services requested by Web.com.
We currently have subsidiaries and other companies under a common control (collectively, "affiliates"). We may share some or all of your Personal Information with these affiliates, in which case we will require our affiliates to honor this Privacy Statement.
If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that company will possess the Personal Information collected by us and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Statement.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, YellowDoorMedia may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in YellowDoorMedia’s sole discretion. YellowDoorMedia encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a wordpress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.