MDhorse.com Privacy Policy
Thank
you for visiting the MDhorse.com web site and reviewing our privacy statement.
Our privacy policy is clear: We will not collect any personal information about
you when you visit our web site, unless you choose to provide that information
to us.
Information Collected and Stored
Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but
browse through the web site, read pages, or download information, we will
gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This
information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and
store only the following information about your visit:
- The Internet domain (for example,
"xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or
"yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and
IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to
your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our
web site;
- The type of browser and operating
system used to access our site;
- The date and time you access our
site;
- The pages you visit; and
- If you linked to the MDhorse.com
web site from another web site, the address of that web site.
We use this information to help us make
our site more useful to visitors - to learn about the number of visitors to our
site and the types of technology our visitors are using. We do not track or
record information about individuals and their visits.
If You Send Us Personal
Information
If you choose to provide us with
personal information, as in an email to the editor, veterinarian, trainer, or
fill out a form with your personal information and submit it to us through our
web site, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us
locate for you the information you have requested. We do not collect personal information for any purpose other than
to respond to you. We only share the information you give us with another party
if your inquiry relates to that party. Moreover, we do not create individual
profiles with the information you provide or give it to any private
organizations.
Our primary
goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with an
efficient and customized experience while using our services. This allows us to
provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to
customize our service to make your experience easier and quicker.
To fully use our services or to upload
a listing, you will need to register using our online registration form, where
you will be required to provide us with your contact information.
Our Use of Your Information.
We use
personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and
promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our
content and product offerings, and to customize our site's content, layout, and
services. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor
it to meet our users' needs.
We may also
use your data to deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to
your interests or related to concerns or questions raised. By accepting the
User Agreement you expressly agree to receive this information. You can remove
yourself from receiving some of this information by sending an email to mdhorse@MDhorse.com.
We use your
email address, your mailing address, and phone number to contact you regarding
administrative notices and communications relevant to your use of the site. If
you do not wish to receive these communications, you may send an email to mdhorse@MDhorse.com and request to be
removed from the list.
Our Disclosure of Your Information.
Due to
existing regulations, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications
and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways
not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without
limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the
government in relation to any unlawful activity. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect
your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your
personally identifiable information or private communications will remain
private.
As a general
proposition, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information
about you to any third party. The following describes some of the ways that
your personally identifiable information may be disclosed.
Advertisers. We do
aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in
aggregate to advertisers and for other marketing and promotional purposes.
However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any
information that could be used to personally identify you.
Third Party
Service. MDhorse.com offers a variety of services
from third party providers (e.g., veterinary, farrier, trainer, etc.). Your data, in the form of your request for
information, will be forwarded to one of these services in seeking a response
to that request. If you choose to
provide your name with your request, that may be forwarded for his or her
response. You can send it anonymously, in order that your name not be included
(email addresses will not be forwarded unless you make a specific request). Because
we do not control the privacy practices of these third parties, you are subject
to their privacy policies.
Other
Information Collectors.
Except as otherwise expressly discussed
in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of
information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your
information to other parties or other sites throughout the Internet, different
rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you
disclose to them. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your
personal information to others.
Links to Other Sites
Our web site has links to other sites.
Once you access another site through a link that we provide you are subject to
the privacy policy of the new site.
Web Site Security
Information
presented on the MDhorse.com web site is considered copyrighted information and
may not be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits
is requested.
- For site security purposes and to
ensure that this service remains available to all users, this computer
system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify
unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause
damage.
- Unauthorized attempts to upload
information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited
and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National
Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
MDhorse.com uses industry standard
efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable
information, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers. Please keep in mind,
however, that “perfect security" does not exist on the Internet