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Privacy Policy
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As an Internet pioneer,
Gofindit4.me.uk 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. Gofindit4.me.uk 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.
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Coverage
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This policy applies to sites whose URL terminates in
Gofindit4.me.uk. Our affiliates have their own privacy
policy statements, which we encourage you to read whenever
you visit these sites. When we talk about "Gofindit4.me.uk"
or "we" in this policy, we are referring to Company
and its majority-owned or majority-controlled subsidiaries.
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Helpful Definitions
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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 Gofindit4.me.uk's users.
The next sections tell how and when Gofindit4.me.uk
collects anonymous information and personally identifiable
information.
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Collection and Use of Personally Identifiable Information
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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. It is only during registration
to become a registered user will you be asked to provide
us with personally identifiable information.
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. For
example, we ask for contact information (such as first
and last name, email address, and zip code). Gofindit4.me.uk
uses this contact information in several ways:
- to welcome you to the Gofindit4.me.uk
Network
- to send communications from
us about new features and services available through
Gofindit4.me.uk (unless you tell us not to)
- to display advertisements on
your screen that closely match your interests (unless
you tell us not to)
- to provide a first and last
name on messages sent from your Gofindit4.me.uk email
account
- to share your information with
select sponsors and partners who work with Gofindit4.me.uk,
only if you allow us to do so (as we explain below)
- to allow our sponsors and partners
to communicate with you, but only if you tell us you
want to receive these communications about their services
and offers
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.
Contests, Etc.
From time to time, we may run contests on our site in
which we ask participants for contact information, such
as their email address(es). If you participate in contests, your contact information
will be used primarily to reach you in connection with
the contests. We may also use the collected contact
information to send you information about Gofindit4.me.uk,
our services, as well as offers tailored to your interests
by our advertisers and sponsors, if you have opted to
receive these communications. You may choose to opt-out
of receiving such mailings at the time of registration
for the contest, or afterwards.
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Sharing Personally
Identifiable Information with Third Parties
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To
deliver advertising to you that most closely matches
your interests, we share your personal information with
carefully selected companies with whom we have relationships
and trust. However, we will not share your personally
identifiable information unless we have first given
you notice that we might share your data, and you have
authorized us to do so. If you have not opted-in to
receive these offers, and would like to do so now, you
will be able to change your preferences. If you have
previously opted-in, but now wish to remove yourself
from these mailing lists, you will be able to change
your preferences, or you may send email directly to
us, and we will modify your preferences accordingly.
Our partners who receive information from us have the
right to use the data we provide them (sometimes, in
connection with other information they may have gathered
about you), but are generally prohibited from sharing
this information with other companies or people. In
addition, if we add new features or services that might
require the sharing of your personal information with
an additional advertiser or sponsor, we will provide
you with notice and the opportunity to opt-in to receive
these offers.
PLEASE NOTE: In certain special cases, we may
disclose your personally identifiable information when
we have reason to believe that disclosing this information
is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action
against someone who may be causing injury to you, or
otherwise injuring or interfering with Gofindit4.me.uk's
rights, property or operations, other Gofindit4.me.uk
users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.
We may also disclose your personally identifiable information
when we believe the law requires it, or in response
to any demand by law enforcement authorities in connection
with a criminal investigation, or civil or administrative
authorities in connection with a pending civil case
or administrative investigation.
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Anonymous Information
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When you use our site, we collect anonymous information,
even if you have not registered with Gofindit4.me.uk.
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.
Gofindit4.me.uk 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
unless we have given you notice as described above and
you have given us authorization to do so. If you prefer
that anonymous information not be shared with other
companies, then you may choose to opt-out during registration,
or by updating your preferences at any time.
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Cookies: How They Are Used and Opting-Out
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How They Are Used
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. Cookies may also be used by
Gofindit4.me.uk partners on co-branded Web pages, as
explained below in "third party relationships," so please
be aware of this as you visit these Web pages.
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 Gofindit4.me.uk 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.
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Special Categories of Information
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Gofindit4.me.uk will not share any personally identifiable
information about our users that is of medical, financial
or sexual nature.
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Use of IP Addresses
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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.
Gofindit4.me.uk 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.
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Keywords
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Certain advertisers have paid for the right to display
advertisements on search results pages corresponding
to certain words. For instance, a particular resistor
manufacturer may want its advertisement to be displayed
when users search for its resistor. We want to be clear:
by serving these ads, we are not affecting
the integrity of the search results in any way. The
only difference is that the ads that you see on the
page may be influenced by the words searched. Of course,
many of the ads on the search results page may also
be randomly generated, so there is no clear-cut way
of knowing which ads are targeted to certain "key words"
searched for, and which are not. This is true whether
or not you are a registered user of our site.
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Third-Party Relationships
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In order to provide you with news and features that
match your interests, Gofindit4.me.uk has relationships
with many of the best media and services companies throughout
the world. You can recognize these sites by the joint
branding of Gofindit4.me.uk and such companies. For
example, if you see a logo in the upper-right corner
of the page that says 'Powered by ______', you will
know you are on a co-branded Web page. If you ever have
any questions about whether certain information, content
or services pertain to us, or are "powered by" one of
our partners, please contact us at enquiries@gofindit4.me.uk.
Whenever you provide registration information on certain
co-branded Web pages or for certain services provided
in conjunction with third party partners, we want to
be clear that some data you provide is shared with partners.
You should make every effort to read the privacy policies
provided by or in association with such third parties,
and make an informed decision on your own whether or
not to continue utilizing the services based upon the
privacy policies posted on these co-branded Web pages,
at your own discretion. However, we will make every
effort to ensure that you have the ability to opt-out
of the sharing of such data with partners. You may email
us directly at enquiries@gofindit4.me.uk
and we will forward your request to the appropriate
company, and help you follow up to ensure that your
concerns are adequately handled.
In addition to finding co-branded Web pages, you will
find direct links on Gofindit4.me.uk to the sites offered
by third parties. Some of these sites are authorized
to use the Gofindit4.me.uk brand and/or logo. Gofindit4.me.uk
carefully evaluates all parties that are authorized
to use its brand and/or logo, and believes that all
such sites have adopted acceptable privacy policies.
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 sites are covered
by this Privacy Policy.
VERY IMPORTANT: If you feel that a site using
the Gofindit4.me.uk brand and/or logo has not posted
an acceptable privacy policy, or is not following the
privacy policy it has posted, please send us an email
at enquiries@gofindit4.me.uk. We will
forward complaints to the appropriate third parties
and help you follow up to ensure that your concerns
are adequately handled. Of course, if any of these third
party companies does not have a privacy policy that
is acceptable to you, you should refrain from providing
information until your concerns have been satisfactorily
addressed.
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Security
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Gofindit4.me.uk operates secure data networks protected
by industry standard firewall and password protection.
Gofindit4.me.uk 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 Gofindit4.me.uk 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.
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Contacting Us
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If you have questions about this privacy policy or the
practices of this site, please contact:
Gofindit4.me.uk
Email : enquiries@gofindit4.me.uk.
Gofindit4.me.uk 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.
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