Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. At Chicago Water Pros, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Website Visitors
Like most websites, Chicago Water Pros collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Awesome Motive’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Chicago Water Pros’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Chicago Water Pros may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Chicago Water Pros also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Chicago Water Pros only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Chicago Water Pros websites choose to interact with Chicago Water Pros in ways that require Chicago Water Pros to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Chicago Water Pros gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our products to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Chicago Water Pros updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Chicago Water Pros collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Awesome Motive. Chicago Water Pros does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Chicago Water Pros may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Chicago Water Pros may monitor the most popular pages on the Chicago Water Pros.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Chicago Water Pros may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Chicago Water Pros does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Chicago Water Pros discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Chicago Water Pros’ behalf or to provide services available at Chicago Water Pros website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home county; by using our websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Chicago Water Pros will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Chicago Water Pros discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Chicago Water Pros believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Chicago Water Pros, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the Chicago Water Pros website and have supplied your email address, Chicago Water Pros may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Chicago Water Pros and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Chicago Water Pros takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Chicago Water Pros uses cookies to help Chicago Water Pros identify and track visitors, their usage of Chicago Water Pros website, and their website access preferences. Chicago Water Pros visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Chicago Water Pros website, with the drawback that certain features of Chicago Water Pros website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Chicago Water Pros, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Chicago Water Pros goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Chicago Water Pros may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Chicago Water Pros and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Chicago Water Pros may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Chicago Water Pros sole discretion. Chicago Water Pros encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.