Privacy Notice:
At MrWhy.com, we are committed to protecting online user privacy. This "Privacy
Policy" discloses the privacy practices governing our knowing collection, use, and
disclosure of information. In order to ensure your privacy, information we collect
is used only in the manner and for the purposes described below.
Anonymous User Information: MrWhy.com collects some anonymous information
each time you visit MrWhy.com so we can improve the overall quality of your online
experience. We collect your IP address, referral data, and browser and platform
type. You do not have to register with MrWhy.com before we can collect this anonymous
information. We do not collect any unique information about you (such as your name,
e-mail address, etc.) except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information.
MrWhy.com does not require you to share information that identifies you personally,
such as your name or email address, in order for you to use the MrWhy.com search.
MrWhy.com assigns an anonymous ID number to your requests and links the following
additional data to that number: the date and time you visited MrWhy.com, your search
terms, and the links upon which you choose to click. Like most standard Web site
servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information.
We analyze this information to examine trends, administer the site, track user's
movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. MrWhy.com may present links in a format that enables us to understand whether
they have been followed. We use this information to understand and improve the quality
of the MrWhy.com search.
Cookies: We use a feature of Internet web browsers called a "cookie," which
is a small file that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. This enables
us to store user preferences and track user trends and search patterns. We use cookies
to improve the quality of the MrWhy.com services and to better understand how users
interact with us. We do not and cannot use Cookies to retrieve individual personally
identifiable information about you from your computer unless you knowingly and willingly
provided such information. The cookie technology we use cannot obtain information
from your hard drive or pass on a computer virus. You can reset your browser to
refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some MrWhy.com
features or services may not function properly without cookies.
Information security: We take appropriate security measures to protect against
unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of
data. We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees
who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
Aggregated General Information: We may share aggregated general information
about our site with our corporate partners or others. Examples of this include the
number of users who searched for "Classic Cars", the daily number of unique visitors,
or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Aggregated data does not
contain any personally identifiable information that could be used to contact or
identify you. Information sharing We may share personally identifying information
to other companies or individuals in any of the following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent.
- We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose
of processing personally identifying information on our behalf. When this is done,
it is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information
only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.
- When required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary
to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a criminal investigation, a court
order, or legal process served on our Web site. We may also share your personal
information if we believe it is necessary 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 MrWhy.com's terms of
use, or as otherwise required by law.
- If you have an account, we may share the information submitted under your account
among all of our services in order to provide you with a seamless experience and
to improve the quality of our services. We will not disclose your account information
to other people or non-affiliated companies, except in the limited circumstances
described in this Policy or with your consent.
- We may store and process personal information collected on our site in the Canada
or any other country in which MrWhy.com or its agents maintain facilities. By using
our services, you consent to the transfer of your information among these facilities,
including those located outside your country.
- MrWhy.com may use third party service providers to serve ads and emails on our behalf.
These companies may use technologies to measure the effectiveness of ads and emails
and use information about your visits to MrWhy.com so that we can provide a better
search experience to you. For this purpose, we may also provide these third parties
service providers anonymous information about your site navigation.
- We may share certain information about you with carefully selected business partners,
including those who may offer services that complement those provided by us or which
we believe may be of interest to you. We may also disclose information to third
parties who assist us in providing our services to you. For example, we may engage
third parties to make improvements on our site, to offer new products and to allow
us to customize your experience on the Site.
Correspondence: If you contact MrWhy.com, we may keep a record of that correspondence
and we may collect your email address.
Third Party Information Gathering: MrWhy.com includes content and ads from
third parties that may perform user activity tracking other than that described
herein. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect
data or solicit personal information. For more information about each third party
content provider, cookies, and how to "opt-out", please refer to such third party
advertiser's privacy policy MrWhy.com contains links to other sites on the Web.
Please be aware that MrWhy.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such
other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to
read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected
by this Web site.
Children's Privacy: MrWhy.com does not knowingly request or collect personally
identifiable information online or offline contact information from users under
13 years of age nor do we knowingly use or share personal information from users
under 13 years of age with third parties.
Sale of Assets: In the event that another company acquires all or substantially
all of the assets related to the business of MrWhy.com, we reserve the right to
include any or all stored personal information among the assets transferred to the
acquiring company.
Paid Submissions: The Information that is gathered when submitting a URL
to the MrWhy Directory is only used to contact the customer and will not be sold
or otherwise transferred without their explicit permission.
Changes to Privacy Policy: We reserve the right to amend or revise this privacy
policy from time to time. We will post these changes to this page. Use of information
that we gather now is subject to the privacy policy in effect at the time the information
is used.