Privacy Policy

Our commitment to privacy - Last updated June 5, 2008

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available via a link at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested by webhostshift.com

WebhostSHIFT.com is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Web site www.webhostshift.com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Jimmy Tanzil at:

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If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.

The information we collect
This notice applies to all information collected on the webhostshift.com website, or submitted to webhostshift.com at any time through any of our services on the website. Personally Identifiable Information - When visiting WebhostSHIFT.com web site and signing-up for or using an webhostshift.com service such as registering as a web host or redeeming WebhostSHIFT voucher, you may choose to supply webhostshift.com with information that identifies you personally. This information may include your name, email address and contact information, as well as other demographic or commerce related information.

Cookies and log files
When a domain owner decides to stop receiving his current webhost provider’s service, he is served by a facility to redeem his shift to another webhost provider. We do not use any cookies to store personally identifiable information. Webhostshift.com does not use Cookies or log files to collect end users' names, physical addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, social security numbers, or any other information which can be used to identify a specific person. We may match the IP address and domain owner’s referral id in order to counter fake referrals, we ask for domain owner’s email id and domain name to facilitate them with voucher and redeem information to meet user's interests, but will not share this information with third parties. We do not receive or request any information of domain owner from webhost companies /webhost resellers. For improved domain tracking we may use domain name and email address associated web hosting company. This email address does not enable Webhostshift.com to personally identify an Internet User. Thus, there is no direct connection between an end user’s online choices and his or her personal identity. Our cookies and log files are used to track aggregate data for the purposes stated above, but not to identify you personally. Some of our business partners (e.g., our Live Help administrators) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies.

The way we use information
We use the information you provide about yourself or others to complete the transaction for which it is intended. This may include administering a service such as registration, email, forum, etc., or contacting you if you have indicated your permission to do so by agreeing to accept further notification and service announcement from us on your member profile page. You can choose to opt-out of receiving any further notification from your member profile page. We do not share this information with outside parties without your permission. See “Choice/opt-out” below.

Surveys by participating web hosts
Webhostshift.com cannot be held responsible for the content of surveys or pages hosted under our service created by our participating web hosting companies, or for the manner in which they are distributed to third parties. Webhostshift.com does not review these surveys or pages for content before they are posted, and does not verify, endorse or otherwise take responsibility for the contents of any user-created surveys or pages. However, we reserve the right to remove any surveys or page from our servers in our sole discretion, including any that we determine are in violation of our rules and guidelines or is otherwise objectionable. Users are solely responsible for all developed materials, and may be held legally liable for the contents of their surveys or pages.

Communications from Webhostshift.Com
When we receive email, we use return email addresses to reply with the information requested. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties. When supplying contact information to webhostshift.com you can indicate your preference if you would like to be contacted to receive information and updates about our services by logging in to your webhostshift.com account, going to your member profile page and choose not to receive any further notification emails from us or other information pertaining to webhostshift.com. Information you submit to us will not be used for this purpose unless you indicate this as your preference. When supplying contact information to webhostshift.com you can indicate your preference on your members profile page to participate in the webhostshift.com program if you would like to receive special offers from other companies that we think may be of interest to you through our periodically newsletter. Information you submit to us will not be used for this purpose unless you elect to participate in the webhostshift.com program or otherwise consent. You will receive a confirmation email from us when placing an order on our site and paying through one of our trusted 3rd parties such as PayPal or 2Co. They only share back information with us about the transaction such as your name, item ordered, email address, etc.

Choice/opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you register for our services, but choose not to receive any promotional newsletter concerning our updated services. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication. We offer an opportunity to opt-out of certain communications on our member profile page, or you may contact us at:

or to 39380 Civic Center Dr #301, Fremont, CA 94538 to opt-out.

You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.

Generally, you may not opt-out of service related communications (such as replying to your emails, order confirmation emails, etc.) which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account by contacting us at .

Information sharing and disclosure
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our service providers such as shipping companies and advertisers. The information shared with service provided may only be used for the specific purpose it is intended and not for promotional purposes. The information shared with third parties such as advertisers does not identify individual users. We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our Web site and services, and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our Web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women use a certain service, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals unless they indicated this as their preference by participating in the webhostshift.com program. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Personally identifiable information:
Webhostshift.com does not share, sell, rent, or trade PII with third parties for their promotional purposes except with your consent as described in this privacy policy Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described within this privacy policy without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

How you can access or correct your information
You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by logging into your password-protected account and selecting to update your profile or personal info. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information. You can also correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Specific terms and conditions
Webhostshift.com considers email transmitted via our service to be the private correspondence between the sender and recipient. We will not monitor, edit or disclose the contents of a user`s private communications, except as required by law, to comply with legal process, if necessary to enforce the Service Agreement, to respond to claims that such contents violate the rights of third-parties, or to protect the rights or property of webhostshift.com. By using the service you agree that technical processing of email communications is and may be required to send and receive messages, to conform to the technical requirements of connecting networks, to conform to the limitations of the Service, or to conform to other, similar technical requirements. By using the service you acknowledge and agree that webhostshift.com do not endorse the content of any user communications and are not responsible or liable for any unlawful, harassing, libelous, privacy invading, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, tortuous, or otherwise objectionable content, or content that infringes or may infringe the intellectual property or other rights of another.

Legal disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site

Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at:

Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by webhostshift.com. Please be aware that we, webhostshift.com are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Webhostshift.com Privacy Department
39380 Civic Center Dr #301
Fremont, CA 94538, USA

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