Privacy Policy
Last updated: January 31, 2006
Information Collection and Use
Registration
Anyone is free to browse the site without registering. In order to use the services of this website and to view detailed member information, you must first complete the registration form, agree to the Terms of Use, create a user name and password, and be logged into the site. During registration you are required to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
You have the option to provide non-required information to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a higher level of service on our site.
IDENTITY DEVELOPMENTS is the sole owner of the information collected on WAYMADADS.COM. IDENTITY DEVELOPMENTS collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our website.
Purchasing Services
If you purchase a service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you. You must provide contact information (such as name, email) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fulfill your request. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
Surveys or Contests
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name, email, and address), and demographic information (such as zip code).
We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic or personalize the site (in the case of anonymous information collected in surveys), to send participants an email.
We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users' personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site or a listing, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. IDENTITY DEVELOPMENTS uses this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.
Uses of Information [This paragraph should elaborate on how the site itself actually uses the information users submit. The service the site performs should be incorporated here. Also, a discussion of the use of aggregate (i.e.,non-personally identifying) information should be disclosed here as well. Be as specific as possible, without being contingent. Avoid 'we may do this' 'we might do that' type of language.]Communications from the Site
Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on services and promotions. You can sign up for these emails from us on our registration page.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the "Choice/Opt-out."
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, and/or clear gifs to create a "profile" of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.
We do not share your profile with other third parties.
Information You Share With Other Members
When you provide personal information to another member, IDENTITY DEVELOPMENTS has no control over how that information might be used by that individual. We do provide you the ability to limit what information is available in your listings. Additionally, members must be logged in to contact you or to view personal contact information. When you initiate contact through our system, you may enter an email address that will be revealed to the other member for communications.
Information You Place In Listings
In an effort to facilitate a trusting buying and selling community, we provide you with the option to submit pictures and/or a description of your item or service. When you post your listing on WAYMADADS.COM, the ad description or any information provided in that description and pictures are displayed on the site and accessible to visitors on WAYMADADS.COM.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users.We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
Personally identifiable information:
We DO NOT Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties
Agents
We use an outside payment and credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to "opt-out" of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference.
If you no longer wish to receive promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication or by emailing us at support[AT]waymadads.com.
Log Files
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
IP addresses are tied to communications made through our system such as registration, purchasing services, ratings, and communications with other members to help monitor against fraud, spam, and any other actions that may be detrimental to the site or other members.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as member areas and services, will be limited.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) may use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See "Third Party Advertisers." This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by WAYMADADS.COM[this site] only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We may employ [or our third party advertising partners may employ] a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers' personally identifiable information.
Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this website are delivered to users through our own ad server. We share aggregate website usage information with our advertisers for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.
The ad server and our advertisers may use cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which recognizes a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that collected and shared through this technology is not personally identifiable.
Links to Other Sites
This website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by IDENTITY DEVELOPMENTS. Please be aware that we, IDENTITY DEVELOPMENTS, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.
Co-branded sites
We provide special customizable member listing pages. Members using these pages may customize their listing page, which may or may not identify WAYMADADS.COM. These sites may employ clear GIF's or other tracking code, however no personally identifiable information is shared through this technology.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) to purchase services, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL) or the process is handled on a third party payment processor secure server.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Business Transitions
In the event IDENTITY DEVELOPMENTS or WAYMADADS.COM goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Nothing in this policy shall limit, prohibit, or otherwise deny the ability of IDENTITY DEVELOPMENTS to (1) transfer, assign, or sell our assets to a third party without limitation, or (2) dispose of our assets in any manner, through bankruptcy or similar proceeding. In addition, IDENTITY DEVELOPMENTS makes no warranties or claims regarding the accuracy or completeness of the information we collect and disclose through our site, and disclaims any liability regarding its use.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.