Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At WaggyWeb we have a few fundamental principles:

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.)
We don't share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don't store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
In our web builder products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what's visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

WaggyWeb ("WaggyWeb") operates a website called waggyweb.com. It is WaggyWeb's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, WaggyWeb 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. WaggyWeb's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how WaggyWeb's visitors use its website. From time to time, WaggyWeb may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

WaggyWeb also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. WaggyWeb 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.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to WaggyWeb's websites choose to interact with WaggyWeb in ways that require WaggyWeb to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that WaggyWeb gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a website at waggyweb.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with WaggyWeb - by purchasing a Deluxe hosting account for example - are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, WaggyWeb collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with WaggyWeb. WaggyWeb 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.

Aggregated Statistics

WaggyWeb may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, WaggyWeb may monitor the most popular websites on the WaggyWeb.com site. WaggyWeb may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, WaggyWeb does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

WaggyWeb discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on WaggyWeb's behalf or to provide services available at WaggyWeb's website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using WaggyWeb's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. WaggyWeb will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, WaggyWeb discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when WaggyWeb believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of WaggyWeb, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an WaggyWeb website and have supplied your email address, WaggyWeb may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with WaggyWeb and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. WaggyWeb takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. WaggyWeb uses cookies to help WaggyWeb identify and track visitors, their usage of WaggyWeb website, and their website access preferences. WaggyWeb visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using WaggyWeb's websites, with the drawback that certain features of WaggyWeb's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

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 WaggyWeb and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, WaggyWeb may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in WaggyWeb's sole discretion. WaggyWeb encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a waggyweb.com account, you should also check your member page 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.

Our privacy policy is based on that used by Automattic(makers of WordPress), which they have been good enough to make available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license.