As an Internet pioneer,
CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds understands the power that the Internet holds for
changing people's lives, expanding their horizons, and enhancing the ease
with which they perform their jobs. All these benefits are at risk if people
are concerned about their personal privacy. CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds is
committed to providing its users with an Internet experience that respects
and protects their personal privacy choices and concerns.
Our privacy policy and practices are detailed below,
and we ask you to read them thoroughly. This policy is derived from three
pledges that we make to you, our users:
We pledge
that we will not release personally identifiable information about you
without your permission (except as needed to provide to you the services you
have expressly requested, as explained in greater detail in the section on
"third party relationships" below).
We pledge
that we will provide the means for you to manage and control the information
that you have voluntarily provided to us.
We pledge
that we will provide mechanisms for you to communicate your privacy questions
and concerns to us and that we will respond to them thoroughly and
thoughtfully.
We are
constantly improving the tools you can use to manage the data that you provide
to us. Please refer to this page from time to time to see these new features.
This policy
applies to sites whose URL terminates in CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds. When we
talk about FreeAds or "we" in this policy, we are referring to CTD,
Inc. and Direct Investments.
Helpful
Definitions
Personally
identifiable information is information—such as your name, birth date, e-mail
address or mailing address—that can be used to uniquely identify you.
Anonymous Information is not personally identifiable information. Anonymous
information is information about how you use our site (such as places visited
and search queries performed). Anonymous information also includes the domain
names and/or I.P. addresses (as explained in greater detail
below) of browsers that visit our site, time of day the site was visited and
other non-personally identifiable information. Anonymous information is
information that is not tied to any individual, but
helps to characterize FreeAds users.
The next sections tell how and when CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds collects
anonymous information and personally identifiable information.
Collection
and Use of Personally Identifiable Information
Registration
We want to assure you that you can visit our site and use many of our services
without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable
information about yourself to us.
Although the majority of our services do not require any form of customer
registration, we do require registration for the use of certain services, the
auctions and classifieds. During this registration process
we require you to complete certain fields, offer optional fields for you to
complete, and ask you to select a user name and password.
CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds uses this contact information in several ways:
- to welcome you to the CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds Network
- to send communications from us about new features and services available through CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds (unless you tell us not to)
- to display advertisements on your screen that closely match your interests (unless you tell us not to)
If you indicate to us that you do not want to receive certain types of communications at the time of registration,
we will respect your wishes, and comply with your preferences. If you already are a registered user and would like to review or
change the choices you have made, you will be able to do so.
Anonymous Information
When you use our site, we collect anonymous information, even if you have not registered
with CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds. We use this information to personalize your
experience at our site, show you more relevant advertising messages, and
generally to improve our services. We share this anonymous information with
selected advertisers and partners, in order to deliver to you more relevant
advertising messages.
CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds will not share any anonymous information about
your use on our site if that information is or will be linked to your
personally identifiable information because we don’t
have your information.
Cookies: How They Are Used and Opting-Out
A "cookie" is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser
from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not
damage your system or impair its functioning in any way. We use cookies to
help us provide customizable services and to allow you to sign-in to our
site. For example, we can store your zip code in a cookie and this enables us
to display your local weather each time you visit our site. Cookies also make
web surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you're on our site.
You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your
browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your
browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If
you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our site and other
Web sites may be diminished and some features will
not work as intended.
Opting-out - You can opt-out during the CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds Member registration
process or at any time from our site. You can also ask to have all
information related to your registration removed by choosing this from our site.
Special Categories of Information
We will not share any personally identifiable information about our users that is of medical, financial or sexual nature.
Use of IP Addresses
An Internet protocol (I.P.) address is a set of numbers
that is automatically assigned to your computer
whenever you log on to your internet service provider or through your
company's local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). Web servers -
the powerful computers that provide web pages for viewing - automatically
identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your session
online.
CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds may collect I.P. addresses for purposes of system
administration, to report anonymous user information to our advertisers (as
explained above), and to audit the use of our site. We do not ordinarily link
a user's I.P. address to personally identifiable information of that user,
which means each user's session will be logged, but
the user remains anonymous to us. However, we can and will
use I.P. addresses to identify users of our site when we feel it is necessary
to enforce compliance with our site's terms of use or terms of service, or to
protect our service, site, or other users.
PLEASE NOTE: Under certain circumstances, I.P. addresses and/or domain
names may be linked to personally identifiable
information, when said information is stored in databases managed by Internet
registrars or registries.
You will find direct links on CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds to the sites
offered by third parties. You should read the privacy policies of those sites
before you share your information with them. Again, you should read these
third party privacy policies, and make an informed decision on your own as to
whether or not to continue based upon these sites' privacy practices, at your
own discretion. No third-party or advertisers sites
are covered by this Privacy Policy.
CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds
operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and
password protection. CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds has security measures in
place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your
user data under our control.
Only authorized employees have access to the information you provide us. For
example, we impose strict rules on CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds employees who
have access either to the databases that store user information or to the
servers that host our services. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse
or alteration to data will not occur, we make every effort (such as the use
of employee passwords and non-disclosure agreements) to prevent such unfortunate
occurrences.
Contacting Us
If you have questions about this privacy
policy or the practices of this site, please contact:
CheaperThanDirt.com/FreeAds reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy
at any time. All changes will be posted to this
page, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of any
material changes to this privacy policy.
