A2ZHOST Privacy Policy

Version 2.5 - Last updated April 30 2006
A2ZHOST™ has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: A2ZHOST

At A2ZHOST™, we recognize the privacy needs of our Customers. You should be able to choose what information you want to share and decide what will happen to that information once it has been shared. Protecting your personal information is vitally important. Please read the following Privacy Policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. This policy may change from time to time without notice so please check back periodically. We hope this will increase your awareness about online privacy.

Information Automatically Logged

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information. As an example, all servers keep a log of the traffic to any given web site. We only use this log to give us an idea of our popular web pages, error pages received, how visitors found us, what search engine they used, keywords used or which search engine crawler has visited our web site. In other words it is just a broad overview of our web site activity.

Cookies

We use cookies to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our support "Help Desk". This is just a convenience for the customer and you can choose to not use or accept cookies in your browser. You will then just need to reenter your username and password each visit to the "Help Desk".

Advertisers

We may use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies only for purposes mentioned in the above section, cookies received with banner ads are possibly collected by our ad company. The only information that is normally collected, is the number of times a banner is clicked on or accessed. This is just a record keeping process. If you are concerned about any advertising that we use from outside sources, please contact us.

Registration Forms

Our site's "Help Desk" registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their username or email address), and unique identifiers (like their passwords).

Contact information from the help desk registration form is used to establish a support account that keeps track of your support requests and its status. The customer's contact information is only used to get in touch with the customer for these support request issues.

Unique identifiers (email addresses, account numbers and passwords) are collected from the customer to verify the user's identity and not used for any other purpose.

Order Forms

Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect contact information (like their email address), financial information (like their account or credit card numbers), and unique identifiers (passwords), within a SSL secure environment.

Contact information from the order forms is used to process purchases, to establish an account and to occasionally receive information about our company. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the customer when necessary, such as support requests or to verify an order.

Customers may opt-out of receiving occasional company mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services. A2ZHOST™ does not store their customers sensitive financial information online and it is not accessible via the Internet.

Unique identifiers (such as email addresses and passwords) are collected from Web site customers to verify the user's identity, and for use as account numbers in our record system.

Search Engine Ranking and Submission Tools

We do collect email addresses from our visitors and customers using our free search engine ranking tool and our search engine submission tool. While entering your email address is voluntary for the ranking tool, it is a requirement for the search engine submission tool. The search engines require that a valid email address be sent with the URL so that this can be verified as a actual submission. A few of the search engines will also email a confirmation message that must be confirmed before your URL is accepted.

We will never reveal these collected email addresses to any other company or person. We use these for the sole purpose of sending out update emails about our free use tools and we may also include information on any specials we may be running at the time.

If you do not want to receive these occasional mailings, then please read the Choice/Opt-out section below

External Links

All links provided at A2ZHOST™ are for the convenience of our customers and visitors. We provide what we feel is true and helpful information. After leaving A2Z, via any outside links, we are not responsible for where your travels may lead you. We do not have any control over these sites. If you find that any of our outside links contain other links to sites that are offensive or contain offensive material, please contact us with this information. We will investigate and remove the link that is involved.

Special Relationships

A2ZHOST™ is in partnership with PayPal payment services as a convenience to our customers. Some customers prefer to use PayPal services for their web hosting and web design payment processor. PayPal will not sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information to third parties. PayPal may use cookies to identify the customer on a return visit, but for no other reason. For a complete description of PayPal's privacy policies,
Please visit: PayPal's Privacy Policies

A2ZHOST™ also uses one of the worlds most well known payment processors, LinkPoint. CardService International Merchant Services and LinkPoint process credit card payments for our clients and will not store or use this information for any other purpose.

A2ZHOST™ has partnered with Wild West Domains to be able offer our customers the great low domain name registration prices that we offer. Wild West Domains is the partner division of Go Daddy Software and is an ICANN accredited registrar. Wild West Domains and Go Daddy Software, Inc. will never use any of your personal information for any other purpose than to process domain name registrations. They have even took one more step and guaranteed A2ZHOST™ that they would not contact our customers to offer any of their other products. Wild West Domains may use cookies to identify the customer for a return visit, but for no other purpose. If you would like further information on Wild West Domains and Go Daddy Software, Inc's privacy policies,
Please visit: GoDaddy Software

Please Note: That A2ZHOST™ and Go Daddy Software, Inc. will never directly share your personal information with any other third parties, other than what is required through the domain name registration process. We do share your domain name information between our two companies, but only for accounting and support issues for our customers. But due to the nature of domain name searches, any information that is directly related to a domain name will be displayed to the public, via any available whois lookup. One way to avoid having this information available on the web is topurchase our privacy option when registering your domain name. This will assure the complete privacy of who owns your domain name.

Security

A2ZHOST™ has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Ordering online with A2ZHOST™ is secure and convenient. Our ordering process is protected by Starfield Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") protocol, which encrypts your information before completing your transaction. Netscape Navigator 2.0 + (or better) and Internet Explorer 3.0+ (or better) support the SSL protocol. We recommend you use the latest browsers to ensure that you are protected by advances in security technology. We also provide highly secure password protected areas to ensure the privacy of our customers.

Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services. A2ZHOST™ does not store their customers sensitive financial information online and it is not accessible via the Internet.

Customer E-mails

A2ZHOST™ will not read or disclose web hosting e-mail content to others unless required by a court of law or deemed necessary to operate our Services.

Choice/Opt-Out

A2ZHOST™ provides visitors and customers the opportunity to opt-out of receiving occasional update information and promotional materials from us.

You can send email to: Click Here and please be sure to include the email address that you want removed.

Data Quality/Access

This site gives customers the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided by our customers:

Contacting our Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of our site, or your dealings with our web site: Click Here