Privacy statement

This website is owned and operated by INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS. We care deeply about your Internet privacy, just as you do and we want your Internet interaction with us to be enjoyable as well as safe and sound.

We do collect specific types of statistics, data, and information that you should understand. We want you to be aware of our information gathering, how we use information, and our privacy policy. With that in mind, this privacy policy discloses what data we collect and how we use it.

Right here at INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS, we gather two kinds of information and data about our site’s visitors: voluntary information and aggregated tracking information.

Our users often submit optional, voluntary information. Examples of this include when a user signs up for an electronic newsletter, engages in our online forums or message boards, emails a link to a friend, and engages in our interactive polls and surveys.

Here at INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS, we also gather data and information by using accumulated tracking techniques. Predominantly, this information, statistics, and other data are gathered by tallying the page views that take place throughout our websites. This data and information is used for developing relevant web content that is aligned with the needs of our users. It is also used for helping our partners recognize, understand, and evaluate our users' demographics.

Much of INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS's revenue is earned through connections, partnerships, and advertising agreements. This makes the accumulated demographic information, statistics, and other data indispensable in helping us provide services to our visitors for free.

Under no circumstances will INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS reveal any information about a particular user to a 3rd party.

CHILDREN

As described in the 1998's Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will never knowingly ask for privately identifiable information, statistics, and other data from anyone age 13 or younger without requesting parental consent.

The following mechanisms are used by INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS to collect information about our site’s users:

DISCRETIONARY VOLUNTARY INFORMATION AND DATA

We offer the following no-cost services: e-newsletters, "e-mail this to a friend" links, polls and quizzes, and user surveys. Each service requires the voluntary disclosure of private and personal information.

1. Email newsletters or dispatches - INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS collects the email addresses of visitors who voluntarily subscribe to our free electronic newsletters or Letters. Each electronic newsletter contains an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing allows users to remove themselves from future mailings from us. At the time of registration, users can sign up for the electronic newsletters ("ezines") as desired.

2. "E-mail this to a friend" links - Many web pages, hyperlinks, and documents found on INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS can be forwarded electronically to someone else when visitors click our "e-mail this to a friend" hyperlinks. Both the user's e-mail address as well as the recipient’s e-mail address must be entered by the user. We use these e-mail addresses to tell the addressee who sent the link. We also use the addresses when errors in transmitting the link occur. We do not use this data and information for any other purpose.

3. Polling – We often post interactive polls on INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS. Users can share their viewpoints and opinions with other users as well as view the poll’s results. We aggregate the responses and opinions submitted. The results do not reveal identifiable data to any other visitors. INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS periodically uses tags visitors after voting in the poll. This ensures that users can vote only once per poll. Tags are not connected with any other data about specific users.

4. Surveys - INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS often conducts user surveys. This helps us develop important content for our site. The comprehensive survey data is periodically shared with our advertisers and sponsors and partners. Specific data is never shared with any third party.

USAGE TRACKING

INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS tracks how our site is used as well as the traffic patterns of our site’s visitors throughout each and every one of our web sites. We do not match this data to individual visitors' data and information. INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS breaks down the overall usage information and statistics of our websites down into the user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type. All Web browsers contain this type of information. We obtain it from the browser string.

INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS occasionally tracks and indexes the search terms that have been submitted by users into our web site's Search bar. We do not match these search terms to individual visitors. We evaluate this information and determine the popularity of our Web site’s pages based on web traffic. We also use this information to measure the performance of each web page.

COOKIES

INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS uses, and may place, a "cookie" on your computer. Cookies are tiny text files. INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS's cookie does not contain personal data or information. The only private information stored in a cookie is data that the user has given himself. We use this information to determine a relationship between how you use INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS and the information that you have knowingly and specifically offered. Cookies cannot read data from your computer's hard disk or read other cookie files on your computer.

INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS uses cookies to track user Internet traffic patterns. A one-time cookie is used for tracking and evaluating click-thru rates and number of ad impressions. Visitors can decline cookies by turning off cookies in the browser or by configuring the web browser to prompt the user to accept cookies. INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS does not require the acceptance of cookies; however if you plan on fully participating in the community forums, messaging systems, polls and surveys, you must accept cookies from us.

USE OF INFORMATION

INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS uses any user data voluntarily given to supplement the overall user experience of our sites. This data is often used to provide interactive or personal and individualized features as well as for developing additional web content to better match our users' needs.

Information and data voluntarily submitted by users is used for sending out e-newsletters and enabling user participation in polling and surveys, bulletin boards, and our community forums. Electronic newsletters, or ezines, are sent to our subscribed readers on a regular schedule with special editions and dispatches delivered when we feel that the topic is appropriate and of interest to our subscribed readers. INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS will never sell or share our mailing lists with any 3rd parties, including partners.

Tracking information, statistics, and other data is amassed to track and analyze how each webpage performs. INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS does not track what a given user reads on our site. We use evaluations and tracking to improve our services. The terms used for searches entered in the Search field are signals of our users' interests. We do not track the terms used for searches a particular user enters in the Search field.

INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS generates reports detailing our site’s demographics and the traffic patterns of our visitors. These reports are shared with our partners, sponsors, and advertisers and partners. This makes our advertising and sponsors more efficient and able to target the needs of our visitors. The usage patterns of individual visitors are not tracked and partners do not know which users have viewed their advertisements.

 

INFORMATION SHARING

INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS uses the afore-mentioned data to be sure that our web site is applicable to our users’ unique needs and to gain a stronger understanding of the demographics of our viewership. The collection of data is essential for keeping the INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS service free. INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS will not disclose any information and data about any particular user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our visitors or the public.

SECURITY

INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS operates secure data networks protected by secure security systems including firewall and password protection systems. Only those we have authorized have access to user-provided data. We often re-evaluate our security policies and privacy policies and improve them as needed.

OPT-OUT POLICY

Whenever possible or required, INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS gives visitors options. Opting out options include:

• Deciding not to sign up for email newsletters.
• Choosing not to participate in specific interactive areas. By opting out, collecting any personally identifiable data from our visitors isn’t necessary.

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information and data by INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS. If INSURANCEHOUSTON.WS eventually changes this Privacy Statement, we will post those changes on this webpage where you can learn more about the information collected, its use, and under what circumstances we disclose it.