GoldenSearch.net Privacy Policy

Effective 10/22/2009

If you have any questions or concerns, we can be reached via e-mail using the contact information located at http://www.goldensearch.net/contact.php

Data Collection

For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes the referring URL, the IP address, the Operating System and the Web Browser type.  This is typical of all web servers.  This information is not directly related to your personal information such as your name.

We collect aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit and information volunteered by the consumer such as survey information and/or site registrations.

Our scripts may use cookies.  Cookies are used for user authentication purposes only.  Our scripts only read cookies made by scripts located on our server.  Third-party advertisers' ad servers may also use cookies.  see Ad Services below.

NO information regarding your domain name or e-mail address is collected. 

All Data collected is confidential and will not be sold or shared with third party companies.

Members Contact Information Usage

You may be contacted at your email and/or postal address for reasons related to your GoldenSearch.net member account.  You may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. 

Telephone numbers will only be used to contact members with information regarding orders that they have placed or to resolve problems with their account.

Members are required to provide us with your correct name, email address, physical address, and phone number. We will never share your contact information with any commercial third party organization. 

The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web site, validate member identity, and to notify consumers about purchases and/or account updates.  Personal information is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.  Personal information can/will be shared with investigative authorities if fraudulent activities are suspected.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information may be used, you should check back at our Web sites privacy policy periodically.

GoldenSearch.net members may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by contacting us.

Upon request we provide site members with access to unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or password) that we maintain about them a description of any other information that we maintain about them.

Consumers can access this information by e-mailing us, or by writing to us.

Updating Personal Information

At any time, we offer GoldenSearch.net members the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information and unique identifiers.

Members can have this information corrected by visiting us at:
http://www.goldensearch.net/cgi-bin/search/accounts.cgi?action=edit.

Financial Information

Financial information is NOT collected by GoldenSearch.net.  Before financial transactions are done, we redirect members to a secure web server to process the payment.  Payments are processed through PayPal and e-gold.  Please refer to their privacy policies for details about how your information is used.

PayPal - http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside

Ad Services

To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of affiliated advertisers below. Third-party advertisers are including but limited to the following:

Google Adsense - http://www.google.com/privacy.html

External Links

We provide links to external websites as a free service to Web searchers.  We do not endorse external websites and can not control the policies of these companies.  Please read the privacy policies of any website before you give your personal information.

Complaints

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, please contact us and notify us of the problem.  If the issue is not resolved, then contact the state or local chapters of the Better Business Bureau, the state or local consumer protection office, or The Federal Trade Commission by phone at 202.FTC-HELP (202.382.4357) or electronically at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm.

Policy Changes

From time to time, this privacy policy may change.   If a policy change is made, the new policy will be posted here.