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Effective Date:
07/14/2011
Ocean Computers, Inc.
respects the privacy of visitors to our site. This
Privacy Policy governs the use and collection of
information from you by Ocean Computers, Inc. ("we"
or "us") through your use of this site. This Privacy
Policy does not apply to any information you may
provide to us through other means; for example, at a
live event, via mail, or via telephone.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that
you understand our online privacy practices. By
visiting this site, you agree that your visit, and
any dispute over our online privacy practices, is
governed by this Privacy Policy and our Visitor
Agreement. Questions regarding privacy issues should
be directed to:
info@myoceancomputers.com
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT The
information we gather falls into two categories: (1)
information (for example, your name and address)
that you voluntarily supply (for example, when you
register as a visitor to the site, or customize our
service to provide you services specific to your
neighborhood), and (2) information gathered on usage
patterns and preferences as visitors navigate
through our sites. In some cases, it is an agent or
affiliate of ours that collects the information on
our behalf. Third-party providers featured on or
linked to by our site, such as vendors of products
and services offered through our site, may be
gathering the same kinds of information. We may use
your registration information to contact you for
customer service purposes, to inform you about the
services offered over our site or of important
changes or additions to our site, and to send you
newsletters, offers and information that you request
or that we think may interest you.
Contests and Other Promotions. From time to
time, we may offer contests, sweepstakes or other
promotions on our site. If you enter one of these
promotions, you'll have to provide information about
yourself (such as your name, address, telephone
number and email address) so that we can contact you
if you win. We may share this information with any
wholly or majority-owned subsidiary of Ocean
Computers, Inc. and any co-sponsor of the promotion
(we will identify any co-sponsor in the official
rules for the promotion). If you don't want us to
collect the information requested in the
registration form or to provide it to any wholly or
majority-owned subsidiary of Ocean Computers, Inc.
or contest co-sponsors, please do not enter the
contest or sweepstakes.
Email Newsletters.
We may offer you the opportunity to subscribe to
email newsletters on topics that we believe are of
interest to our visitors. If you have opted to
receive a particular newsletter, you may always
unsubscribe later if you decide not to receive
further mailings of the newsletter from us. Each
newsletter will include instructions on how to
unsubscribe from future issues by using either a
designated reply email address or hyperlink.
Cookies. To help make our sites more
responsive to the needs of our visitors, we use a
standard feature of browser software, called a
"cookie," to assign each visitor a unique, random
number, a sort of user ID, if you will, that resides
on your computer. The cookie doesn't actually
identify the visitor, just the computer that a
visitor uses to access our site. The only personal
information a cookie can contain is information you
supply. A cookie can't read unrelated data off your
hard drive. Our advertisers and the third parties
that provide products or services through our site
may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a
process that we don't control. We use cookies to
help us tailor our site to your needs, to deliver a
better, more personalized service. For example, we
may use cookies to allow you to search for those
businesses closest to your home. In addition, we may
use cookies to track the pages on our site visited
by our users. We can build a better site if we know
which pages our users are visiting and how often. Of
course, you can set your browser not to accept
cookies, but if you do, you may not be able to take
advantage of the personalized features enjoyed by
other visitors to our site.
Other Methods
of Collecting Information. Our web pages may
contain electronic images (called "single-pixel
GIFs" or "web beacons") that allow us and our
vendors to count users who have visited particular
pages or to access certain cookies. We may use these
tools and other technologies to recognize which
pages users visit, and which links they click on.
These features may also be included in our email
newsletters so that we can learn which messages have
been opened and acted upon. We may also be able to
verify your online purchases from us or from third
party sites that have agreed to share such
information with us.
Browser Level
Information and IP Addresses. Our web servers
automatically collect limited information about your
computer configuration when you visit our site,
including the type of browser software you use, the
operating system you're running, the resolution of
your computer monitor, the Web site that referred
you, and your IP address. (Your IP address is a
numerical address that is used by computers
connected to the Internet to identify your computer
so that data such as the web pages you want to view
can be transmitted to you.) We also use IP address
information for systems administration and
troubleshooting purposes. Your IP address does not
tell us who you are. We use this information to
deliver web pages to you upon request, to tailor our
site to the interests of our users, and to measure
traffic within our site.
DISCLOSURE OF
INFORMATION Why we want to know. We
collect information in order to make the Web site
more useful and relevant to you. For example, we may
ask you for an address so that you can map a route
from your work or home address to that of a service
provider, or so you can narrow your search to
businesses that serve your neighborhood.
Third Parties. We will not share the
personally-identifiable information you provide when
registering on our site with third parties. We may,
however, take the information you provide and
aggregate it with data from all the other people
that use this site and associated services. Then we
would use that pool of information to inform third
parties about our audience without identifying you
personally. For example, we'll be able to say to a
third party: "We have 3,470 site visitors in this
ZIP code," which happens to be your location.
Vendors and Provider Partners. To make
our sites more valuable to our visitors, we may
offer some features in conjunction with other
providers ("Provider Partners"). Our email
newsletters, email services and online classifieds
for example, may be made available through
cooperative arrangements with providers that
specialize in operating such services. In some
instances, our Provider Partners will have the same
access to your information as we do. Their use of
the information will be subject to the terms of
their respective privacy policies, which you can
find on their Web sites. We may also use vendors and
third-party contractors to help us operate our site,
analyze or process data on our behalf, or improve
the services that we offer to you. We may provide
these vendors and contractors with information about
our visitors that is necessary for them to perform
the services that we request.
Statistical
Information. Much of the information we collect
is in the form of aggregated statistics, such as the
traffic that visits various pages within our sites,
and the habits and preferences of our audience. Such
aggregated information does not include any
information that would identify you personally. We
may use such aggregated information and disclose it
to third parties as we see fit.
Sites to
Which We Link. Our site includes links to plenty
of other Web sites, and provides access to services
offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we
don't control. When you access another site or
purchase products or services or conduct other
transactions through our sites, use of any
information you provide is governed by the privacy
policy of the operator of the site you're visiting
or the provider of such products or services.
Other Disclosures. We may occasionally
release information about our visitors when release
is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our
Visitor Agreement, or to protect the rights,
property or safety of visitors to our sites, the
public, our customers, or our company and its
employees, agents, partners and affiliates. As our
business grows, we may buy or sell various assets.
In the unlikely event that our company, or the bulk
of our assets relating to this site, is acquired by
another company, information on our visitors would
be among the transferred assets.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY Children should always get
permission from their parents before sending any
information about themselves (such as their names,
email addresses, and phone numbers) over the
Internet, to us or to anyone else. We won't
knowingly allow anyone under 18 to register with our
site, to provide business information to our site,
or to provide any other personally identifying
information. If you're under 18, please do not
provide us with any personally identifying
information about yourself (such as your name, your
email address or your phone number).
STORAGE OF INFORMATION All information
gathered on our site is stored within a database
operated by us or by a contractor on our behalf.
Sensitive information, such as password or
information, is encoded (not encrypted) for storage.
We cannot guarantee the security of our database,
nor can we guarantee that information you supply
won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us
over the Internet.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
A final note: The Web is an evolving medium. If we
need to change our privacy policy at some point in
the future, we'll post the changes before they take
effect.
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