Safeport Network Services Privacy Policy

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This policy covers how Safeport treats personal information that Safeport collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Safeport products and services. Personal information is defined as information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, mailing address, email address, or other contact information, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Safeport does not own or control, or to people that Safeport does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

Safeport collects personal information when you register with Safeport, when you use Safeport products or services, when you visit Safeport’s website, and when you enter Safeport promotions or special offer codes.
When you register we ask for information such as your name, alternate email address, zip code, company name, and contact information. Once you register with Safeport and use our services, you are not anonymous to us.
Safeport collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of the products and services that we offer.
Safeport may automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Safeport cookie information, and the page you request.
Safeport uses information for the following general purposes: to customize our website, advertising and content, to fulfill your requests for products and services, to improve our services and customer relations, to contact you, and to conduct research.

Children

Persons under the age of 18 may not register independently for Safeport products or services. For hosting and email plans, we ask that children have a parent or guardian create a Safeport account that will serve as a family account. For email only plans, we ask that a parent or guardian serve as billing contact for the account.
Safeport will not contact persons under the age of 18 for marketing purposes without a parent’s permission.
Safeport does not ask persons under the age of 18 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to use a given product or service under the family account.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Safeport does not sell, rent, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services that you have requested, when we have your permission, under the following circumstances:

We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Safeport under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Safeport communicate with you about offers from Safeport and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information;
We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or to defend against legal claims;
We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Safeport’s terms of service, or as otherwise required by law;
We transfer information about you if Safeport is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Safeport will notify you before more information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Safeport may display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria.
Safeport will not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
Safeport advertisers may include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such a stores, airlines, and software companies).

Cookies

Safeport may set and access Safeport cookies on your computer.
Safeport may let other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Safeport’s cookies.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information

You can edit your Safeport account information at any time.
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Safeport service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Safeport Newsletter, that are considered part of your Safeport account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
You can choose to have Safeport delete your record after account cancellation. Some information may remain archived in our system records after your account has been deleted.

Confidentiality and Security

We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.
Your Safeport account information is password-protected.
In certain areas Safeport uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect sensitive data transmissions.
Safeport encourages our customers to use SSH and SCP (secure Telnet and FTP) programs in order to better safeguard customer data. These programs are free and available for download on our website.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Safeport may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Safeport account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at:

Safeport Network Services
ATTN: Customer Care
P.O. Box 341138
Bethesda, MD 20827-1138
301-217-9220
customercare@safeport.com