Privacy
Privacy Policy
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register for an account
on FreeLinksHighway.com.
When registering on our website, as appropriate, you may be
asked to enter you’re: name, e-mail address, mailing address,
phone number. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
Like most websites, we use cookies and/or web beacons to enhance
your experience, gather general visitor information, and track
visits to our website. Please refer to the 'do we use cookies?'
section below for information about cookies and how we use them.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of
the following ways:
Your information helps us to better respond to your individual
needs.
Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your
customer service requests and support needs.
The email address you provide for registering will only be used
to send you information and updates pertaining to your account.
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the
safety of your personal information when you place an order or
access your personal information.
Whenever payments are made online, sensitive information is
transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Payments
to FreeLinksHighway.com are made through PayPal or 2Checkout.com
and both companies provide SSL encryption.
Your personal data is encrypted into our Database to be only
accessed by those authorized with special access rights to our
systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
Do we use cookies? Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or
its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive
through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites
or service providers systems to recognize your browser and
capture and remember certain information
We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your
shopping cart.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties
your personally identifiable information. This does not include
trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website,
conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those
parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also
release your information when we believe release is appropriate
to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect
ours or others rights, property, or safety. However,
non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided
to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
This web site does from time to time display Google ads !
Google Advertising Cookie and Privacy Policies What is the
DoubleClick DART cookie?
The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served
on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When
users visit an AdSense publisher's website and either view or
click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's
browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to
help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their
site(s) and across the web.
•Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on
your site.
•Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your
users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the
Internet.
•Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Because publisher sites and laws across countries vary, we're
unable to suggest specific privacy policy language. However, you
may wish to review resources such as the Network Advertising
Initiative, or NAI, which suggests the following language for
data collection of non-personally identifying information:
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you
visit our website. These companies may use information (not
including your name, address, email address, or telephone
number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to
provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to
you. If you would like more information about this practice and
to know your choices about not having this information used by
these companies.
What are cookies?
A “cookie” is a small text file containing a string of
alphanumeric characters. There are two types of cookies: a
persistent cookie and a session cookie. A persistent cookie gets
entered by your Web browser into the cookie folder on your
computer’s hard drive. A persistent cookie remains in that
cookie folder, which is maintained and governed by your Web
browser, after you close your browser program. A session cookie
is temporary and disappears after you close your browser.
DoubleClick’s ad-serving and paid search listing (“DART Search”)
products utilize the same cookie: the DART cookie. The DART
cookie is a persistent cookie and consists of the name of the
domain that set the cookie (“ad.doubleclick.net”), the lifetime
of the cookie, and a “value.” DoubleClick’s DART technology
generates a unique series of characters for the “value” portion
of the cookie.
What is the DoubleClick cookie doing on my computer?
If you have a DoubleClick cookie in your Cookies folder, it is
most likely a DART cookie. The DoubleClick DART cookie helps
marketers learn how well their Internet advertising campaigns or
paid search listings perform. Many marketers and Internet
websites use DoubleClick’s DART technology to deliver and serve
their advertisements or manage their paid search listings.
DoubleClick’s DART products set or recognize a unique,
persistent cookie when an ad is displayed or a paid listing is
selected. The information that the DART cookie helps to give
marketers includes the number of unique users their
advertisements were displayed to, how many users clicked on
their Internet ads or paid listings, and which ads or paid
listings they clicked on.
Why does your cookie keep coming back after I delete it?
When you visit any website or search engine on which
DoubleClick’s DART technology is used, our servers will check to
see if you already have a DART cookie. If the servers do not
receive a DART cookie, the servers will try to set a cookie in
response to your browser’s “request” to view that Web page. If
you do not want a DART cookie with a unique value, you can
obtain a DoubleClick DART “opt out” cookie. Alternatively, you
can adjust your Internet browser’s settings for handling
cookies. This is explained in the next question.
How can I adjust my cookie settings to accept or decline
cookies?
To eliminate cookies you may have currently accepted, and to
deny or limit cookies in the future, please follow one of these
procedures:
IMPORTANT: IF YOU DELETE YOUR OPT-OUT COOKIE, YOU WILL NEED TO
OPT-OUT AGAIN. IF YOUR BROWSER BLOCKS ALL OR THIRD-PARTY
COOKIES, YOU WILL BLOCK THE SETTING OF OPT-OUT COOKIES.
If you are using Internet Explorer 6.0, go to the Tools menu,
then to Internet Options, then to the Privacy tab. This version
of Internet Explorer is the first to use P3P to distinguish
between types of cookies. P3P uses standardized privacy
statements made by the cookie issuer to manage your acceptance
of cookies. Under the “Privacy” tab, click on the “Advanced”
button. Select “Override automatic cookie handling” and choose
whether you want to accept, block or be prompted for
“First-party” and “Third-party Cookies.” If you want to block
all cookies coming from DoubleClick’s doubleclick.net domain, go
to the “Web Sites” section under the “Privacy” tab and click the
“Edit” button. In the “Address of Web site” field, enter “doubleclick.net,”
select “Block,” click OK (menu will disappear); click OK again
and you will be back to the browser.
If you are using Netscape 6.0+, go to “Edit” in the menu bar,
click on “Preferences,” click on “Advanced,” and select the
“Cookies” field. Now check either the box that says, “Warn me
before accepting a cookie” or “Disable cookies.” Click on “OK.”
Now go to your “Start” button, click on “Find,” click on “Files
and Folders,” type “cookies.txt” into the search box that
appears, and click “Find Now.” When the search results appear,
drag all files listed, into the “Recycle Bin.” Now shut down and
restart your Netscape. Depending on your earlier choice you will
either be prompted by new cookie sets or no cookies will be set
or received.
If you are using Mozilla or Safari, please go to their websites
to find out how to disable cookies in those programs.
What are Web beacons?
Web beacons are small strings of HTML code that are placed in a
Web page. They are sometimes called “clear GIFs” (Graphics
Interchange Format) or “pixel tags.” Web beacons are most often
used in conjunction with cookies. DoubleClick uses Web beacons
in connection with its products and services, including ad
serving and paid search listings (“DART Search”). Because a Web
beacon is only 1 pixel high by 1 pixel wide, it appears
invisible on your computer screen. If Web beacons were made
larger (e.g., 100 pixels high by 100 pixels wide), it would take
much longer for your Web page to load and would clutter up the
page that you have requested.
In 2002, working with a broad spectrum of companies, including
other technology companies, seal providers and websites,
DoubleClick helped draft “Best Practice” guidelines for
disclosing the use of Web beacons. Please click here to see
these guidelines – and a list of the companies that participated
in developing them.
What is “personally identifiable information” (“PII")?
“Personally identifiable information” is any information that
can identify or locate a particular person, including but not
limited to name, address, telephone number, email address,
social security number, bank account number or credit card
number.
What is “non personally identifiable information” (“non-PII”)?
“Non-personally identifiable information” is information that
cannot identify a particular person. This type of information
includes a user’s Internet Service Provider, a computer’s
operating system and browser type, and a unique DoubleClick DART
cookie ID.
DoubleClick’s ad-serving and search products utilize non-PII.
Some of our clients may associate PII that you have given them
(for example, a customer number, if you have registered at or
purchased from their websites), with their advertising
campaigns. Although this customer number may be passed from the
client to DoubleClick’s ad servers during the ad delivery
process, DoubleClick cannot recognize this information as PII
and cannot link it to any person.
What is “sensitive information?”
To DoubleClick, “sensitive information” categorically includes
but is not limited to data related to an individual's health or
medical condition, sexual behavior or orientation, or detailed
personal finances, information that appears to relate to
children under the age of 13 at the time of data collection; and
PII otherwise protected under federal or state law (for example,
cable subscriber information or video rental records).
DoubleClick does not use any “sensitive information” to target
Internet advertisements.
What is ad serving?
In order to support their content without charging visitors,
websites sell advertising space on their Web pages. Companies
like DoubleClick provide technology for the websites and
advertisers to use to display ads on the websites. DoubleClick’s
ad servers work at the direction – and on behalf – of our
clients.
When you visit a website, your computer’s Internet browser
transmits a “request” to that website’s server, “asking” that
server to send you the Web page that you are seeking. Most Web
pages contain components that are pulled from different sources.
For example, a Web page at a news site may get its weather
section from one provider, its sports results from a different
source, and advertisements from other servers.
If the website is using DoubleClick’s technology to display ads
on its site, the Web page will contain coding that directs your
browser to fill the ad space on the Web page with content from
one of DoubleClick’s ad servers. DoubleClick’s clients select
the format, content, and location of the ads, as well as the
criteria for controlling which ads to show and when to show
them. DoubleClick’s ad-serving technology uses a cookie to help
clients determine what ads to display. When a “call” is received
by DoubleClick’s ad servers, the server checks to see if the
“calling” browser has sent a cookie with the request for
advertising. If the server doesn’t “see” either a unique
DoubleClick cookie or an opt-out cookie, after “testing” to see
whether the browser will accept cookies, the server sets a
unique DoubleClick ad cookie. If the browser already has a
unique DoubleClick ad cookie, the server “recognizes” the cookie
and uses the unique ID for targeting and reporting purposes as
specified by the DoubleClick client. If the browser has an
opt-out DoubleClick cookie, the server uses only the non-cookie
related information that is automatically transmitted in the
Internet environment (e.g., browser type, Internet service
provider, and information about the general content of the site
or page displayed on your browser) to determine which ad to
show. Sometimes Web beacons are used in conjunction with the
DART cookie when clients want more versatile targeting or
reporting capabilities.
How does an ad-serving client use DoubleClick’s technology to
target or select which ad to deliver?
Our clients store their ads on DoubleClick’s ad servers. When
you visit a Web page on which a client is using DoubleClick
technology to deliver ads, coding that the website publisher
placed in the Web page tells your computer’s browser to send a
request for an ad to the DoubleClick ad server. When the
DoubleClick ad server receives a request, it will select an ad
based on the criteria that the client has chosen together with
any information logged against the unique cookie id.
For example, a client’s website may attract an audience of
mainly men, aged between 18 and 45, who are interested in
sports, fashion and electronic gadgets. The client will
therefore approach sports, fashion and electronic gadget
retailers to see if they would like to advertise on the site.
Those retailers will provide the client with ads, which the
client will store on the DoubleClick ad servers. The client will
assign those ads specific codes, such as sports = 1, fashion =
2, and electronic gadgets = 3. On the pages where the website
publisher wants to show all three categories of ads, the website
will install an ad tag that contains all three codes. On pages
of the website that the client thinks attracts only men
interested in sports, an ad tag that contains only the code for
sports, code 1, may be installed.
DoubleClick does not tell clients which criteria to select or
which advertisements to target against those criteria. Clients
choose the categories they wish to attach to the advertising
that they have contracted to show, what code(s) they wish to
attach to those categories, and which code(s) they wish to
include in each of their ad request tags. In their contracts
with DoubleClick, DoubleClick’s ad-serving clients promise not
to use information that DoubleClick could recognize as either
“sensitive” or “personally identifiable” to target ads.
What information is collected by a client using DoubleClick’s ad
serving technology?
Each time one of DoubleClick's ad servers receives a request for
an ad or for a Web beacon, information about the request
received and the ad or Web beacon served – for example, the
date, the time, the website to which the ad or image was
delivered, the cookie ID to which the ad was shown, the
operating system which the browser was using – will be recorded.
Does DoubleClick itself do anything with this ad-serving
information?
No. The information that is recorded on the DoubleClick servers
by our clients’ use of our technology belongs to our clients.
Although that information may be logged on a DoubleClick server,
DoubleClick's relationship with the client is that of an agent
or processor. Consequently, DoubleClick does not own that
information and cannot, therefore, use that information for its
own business purposes or in any way not authorized by the
relevant client. DoubleClick clients do, however, give us
permission to use statistical or aggregate information derived
from their use of the technology – e.g., statistics about the
number of ads served through the technology per month or
analyses about, for example, what time of day is the best time
to target certain types of ads.
Does DoubleClick sell the ad serving information to other
companies?
No. The data that DoubleClick’s servers record during ad serving
belong to DoubleClick’s clients, and DoubleClick cannot and does
not sell that information to other companies. DoubleClick can,
however, use its aggregate analyses about the effectiveness of
ad campaigns to help clients develop more efficient and
successful campaigns.
What are pop-ups and why do I see pop up advertising?
A pop-up is basically the opening of a new window in your
browser.
DoubleClick provides its ad-serving clients with a means of
choosing and reporting on ads. It is the website owners or the
advertisers with whom they contract that make the decisions
about the format of the ads. The advertisers choose whether they
want to have banner ads or pop ups delivered, and they use our
technology to make it happen. The website owners and advertisers
choose the size and frequency of pop-up ads. DoubleClick has no
control over which ad format website publishers or their
advertisers choose.
Generally, there are a couple of different ways that you might
receive pop up advertising:
1.The site you are currently visiting has sold an advertising
opportunity to a marketer and that marketer has chosen to create
an advertisement that opens a new browser window. This is a form
of “traditional” Internet advertising.
2.You have some kind of ad-delivery software installed
(intentionally or unintentionally, knowingly or unknowingly) on
your computer. This type of software often comes bundled with
freeware such as P2P (Peer-to-Peer) music sharing applications.
It may track the sites you visit and scan their contents looking
for triggers that match criteria identified by advertisers that
purchased space from the software manufacturer. The software
program will then display advertisements on your monitor.
What is spyware?
This term has been applied to a very broad range of technologies
and activities -- from the mere setting of a cookie to the
surreptitious installation of key-logging software on consumers’
computers. There are many anti-spyware programs on the market
and they each have their own definition of “spyware”. For
example, some programs identify cookies as “spyware”, while
others do not. Some software programs that monitor the websites
that consumers visit in order to deliver context-based
advertisements have been categorized as “adware.” Many of these
adware programs are responsible for the pop-up advertisements
that you see.
DoubleClick does not consider its products either “spyware” or “adware.”
We believe that consumers should be provided meaningful notice
and choice with respect to information collected and used about
them.
While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or
other third parties may use cookies or other technology to
attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve
information about you. For example, some of our advertising is
served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the
advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular
advertisement before. Other features available on our site may
offer services operated by third parties and may use cookies or
other technology to gather information. Our Web site does not
control the use of this technology by third parties or the
resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or
policies of such third parties.
You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose
Personally Identifiable Information on message boards or in chat
areas, that information can be viewed publicly and can be
collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and
may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or
third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Our Web
site and this policy.
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s
Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any
information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website,
products and services are all directed to people who are at
least 13 years old or older.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected
through our website and not to information collected offline.
Terms and Conditions
Please also visit our Terms of Service section establishing the
use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability.
You’re Consent
By using the FreeLinksHighway.com service, you consent to our
web site privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on this page.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may
contact us.