MyPortabels PRIVACY POLICY
Written in accordance with the provisions of Law 677/2001, regarding
individual protection about collecting and free circulation of personal
data.
SoftNews NET has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our
firm commitment to privacy over the internet. The following discloses our
information gathering and dissemination practices for this website:
MyPortabels.Info is operated by SoftNews NET, located in Bucharest, Romania.
During the administration process of the website, MyPortabels needs to take
over some personal information, in order to personalize the website usage
and make it easier for each one of the users. Also, collecting information
(such as name, e-mail etc) is useful for SoftNews NET in order to adapt our
ads to your preferences. SoftNews NET respects and grants confidentiality
for personal data collected over from its users at several different points
on the website. We are the sole owners of the information gathered within
the MyPortabels.Info website. We shall not sell or rent this information to
others in any way. We shall not share this information in ways different
from what is disclosed in this statement.
The clauses of this policy are valuable for all kinds of information
gathered from MyPortabels users. Additional clauses, if any, will be added
if necessary for special services that we may offer in the future. This
privacy policy informs you about the type of personal data that we may
collect from you, the way we can use it, the way we understand to protect
it, who has access to it and how the possible mistakes can be corrected.
Information that we collect
MyPortabels may collect information from its users in three different ways:
directly from the user, from traffic references of hosting servers and from
cookies. Information provided directly by the user: when you subscribe to a
service provided by MyPortabels, we may ask you about your name, e-mail
address or other personal data. For example, when you register to our
website, you need to enter your username, e-mail address and password.
Information from traffic references: when you visit a website, you unveil
certain information about you, such as your IP address, time of visit, place
from which you accessed our website. MyPortabels, like other operators,
stores this information.
Information collected from cookies: in order to offer you a personalized
service, MyPortabels may use cookies to ease storing and tracking your
preferences. For instance, we may use cookies to make sure you don't see the
same ad repeatedly, or to deliver content specific to your interests; the
content contained is not distributed to third parties.
Cookies are “txt” files offered to your browser by a web server and then
stored on the hard-disk of your computer. Most of browsers are set to accept
cookies. But if you prefer, you can reset your browser so as to let you know
whenever you receive a cookie or even to refuse cookies. However, you should
know that some parts of MyPortabels website can only be normally seen if
your browser allows cookies.
You need to acknowledge that, whenever you disclose information in public
areas on the website, such as message boards (comments) or forums, that
information becomes public and can easily be tracked and used by
unauthorized persons. Although SoftNews NET does its best in order to
protect your personal data, we cannot entirely grant you its safety. You
should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
You should also know that you are the only one responsible for keeping the
secret of your passwords, usernames etc.
How and when we use the information
MyPortabels uses the information collected from you for several purposes,
depending on the type of data collected:
- information provided directly by the user: this information is used only
in order to personalize the services that we offer you and to check your
identity;
- information from traffic references: this type of info helps us identify
the parts of our site of most interest for you. MyPortabels also collects
the IP addresses of its users, in order to safely manage our computer
system;
- information collected from cookies: MyPortabels uses cookies to help you
with our services and with getting statistic information for the services
improvement. Cookies allow us to save your passwords and your preferences so
that you do not have to introduce them again at your next visit.
How we protect information collected from you
We show great interest in confidentiality. SoftNews NET does not offer your
personal data to third parties without your prior express consent. Any
statistics that we may offer to our partners or to advertisement networks
does not include any personal identifying information about any individual
user.
Your access to certain services on the website is protected by a password.
We advise you not to unveil this password to anyone. MyPortabels will never
ask for the password of your accounts through any kind of messages or
unsolicited phone calls. We strongly advise you not to unveil your passwords
to those who may ask you to. As a plus, if possible, you should remember to
click “log off” / “sign out”, at the end of any working session in your
account. We also advise you to close your browser window when you quit using
the sites or the services provided by SoftNews Net.
These pieces of advice are meant to restrain the access of unauthorized
persons to your personal information or mail, especially when you work in a
computer network in a public place (net cafe for example).
Unfortunately, no data transmission by means of internet can be 100% sure.
As a consequence, despite our efforts to protect your personal data,
SoftNews NET cannot guarantee the safety of your information. All this kind
of transmission whatsoever is made on your own risk.
Still, we can grant you that we carry out all our efforts to ensure safety
for our systems, according to the security standards imposed by Romanian
legislation. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our servers have
strict security in place to prevent an intruder from retrieving personal
information about our users. Staff checks server access daily to ensure the
above holds true.
Unsolicited communication
MyPortabels will not use your e-mail address in order to send you any kind
of unsolicited or promotional mail. It is your choice whether you decide to
receive or not newsletters from us. You can always choose to unsubscribe
from our newsletter services.
Who has access to the information collected from you
As a rule, SoftNews NET will never unveil any sort of personally
identifiable information about any of its users, without their prior express
consent. On the other hand, SoftNews NET may unveil this kind of data when
expressly permitted by law or when this measure is necessary in order to
protect MyPortabels rights and interests.
As a conclusion, when you access MyPortabels website and are asked to offer
information about you, only SoftNews NET will have access to them. However,
you acknowledge that our site contains links to some partner sites.
MyPortabels is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of
such websites.
Our online surveys may ask visitors for contact information (like their
e-mail address) and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or
income level). The customer's contact information is only used to contact
the visitor when necessary. We do not share this information with third
parties.
We may use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may
contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site,
cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do
not have access to this information.
How we can correct errors contained by data collected from you
If you create an account to one of our services, we shall send you a
confirmation e-mail in which we give you the details of the newly created
account. The confirmation message will be sent at the e-mail address that
you provided. We strongly advise you to keep this confirmation mail secret,
because it contains information that can be useful when you encounter
problems in accessing our services.
Children's Guidelines
This site gives children under the age of 18 the ability to publicly post or
distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior
parental consent. Please take proper measures if you do not wish your child
to have access to public forums and message boards. As always, exercise
caution when deciding to disclose personal information in a public forum.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our
Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how
we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point
we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different
from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way
of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their
information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance
with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
If you feel that this company is not abiding by its posted privacy policy,
you should first contact MyPortabels . For any suggestions and comments
regarding MyPortabels or our Privacy Policy, please contact us at
info(at)myportables(dat)info.
This Privacy Policy is guided by the Romanian legislation and has been
updated today, 7th of January, 2008. And Privacy Policy source : SoftPedia
Privacy Policy
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