Please read this agreement thoroughly as it contains valuable information about your legal rights and options.
1. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Host Lint's privacy policy. The protection of your personal information is a top priority for Host Lint. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy. This policy explains how we obtain, use, and protect personal data when you utilize our cloud services, web hosting, domain name registration, and related goods and services.
In this policy, when we refer to "Host Lint," "we," "us," or "our," we are referring to Host Lint, the organization responsible for protecting your data by the terms of this policy (referred to as the "Data Controller").
Your personal data may include the following:
- Name
- Address
- Telephone number
- Date of birth
- Email address
- Billing and payment information
- Candidate information (for job applicants)
- Additional information gathered that might be used to identify you directly or indirectly.
This policy applies to the personal data collected through our website, services, or other platforms (the "Platform"). It describes how we handle personal data ("Personal Data") that can be utilized directly or indirectly to identify a specific person.
Reach us at [email protected] if you have any questions about this policy or require assistance with your data. We are prepared to assist.
2. Confidentiality and General Principles
Your privacy and data protection are our top priorities at Host Lint. When handling your data, we adhere to the following general principles:
- Lawfulness, Fairness, and Transparency: We handle your data in a lawful, fair, and transparent manner, ensuring you are aware and informed of how your data is used and processed.
- Purpose Limitation: Your personal information is collected and processed by us for specified, legitimate goals. Your data will never be processed in a way deemed incompatible with these goals.
- Data minimization: We make sure that the personal information we gather is sufficient, relevant, and only used as much as is required to fulfill the processing aims.
- Accuracy: To maintain the integrity and dependability of your personal information, we take steps to keep it accurate and current.
- Storage Capacity: For processing purposes, we do not keep your personal information any longer than required. When your information is no longer required, we promptly delete it after securely storing it.
- Integrity and discretion: To protect the security of your personal information, we take the necessary organizational and technical steps. This covers the defense against unauthorized or unlawful processing, unintentional loss, devastation, or harm.
At Host Lint, we adhere to confidentiality standards regarding all data saved on our platform. To protect your data and guarantee that only competent and authorized individuals have access to it, we have put in place strong security measures.
3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you utilize the Host Lint Platform, we collect certain information about you. This information is necessary for us to provide you with services and to abide by legal obligations. Your Host Lint Account can be deactivated if you fail to supply this information.
- Account Signup Information: When you create an account with Host Lint, we ask for basic details like your email address and password, we may ask for additional information like your name and contact details for domain name registration.
- Identity Verification: We may gather identity verification data, such as pictures of your passport or ID card, to abide by ICANN regulations for domain name registration.
- Payment Information: We might need specific financial information when you pay for our services. Since we employ outside payment processors, we do not keep credit card data on file.
- Messaging, Chats, and Communications: When you communicate with Host Lint, we record the conversation and any information you wish to include.
Additionally, you can add more details by using forms, searches, account updates, polls, or other Host Lint Platform capabilities. Sharing sensitive material should always be done with caution, and you should never post anything you would not want the world to see.
Host Lint uses your consent, legal requirements, and our legitimate interests as a data controller to process your information.
Disclaimer:
To preserve your privacy, we ask that you refrain from communicating with us using sensitive information such as your social security number, financial information, or personal health information. Only include the data you absolutely must that pertains to your request.
Right to Delete Your Data:
By signing into your Host Lint Account, you may access and modify your contact information. Please write a request at [email protected] to have your account deactivated and your email deleted.
Please email us at [email protected] if you have any questions or issues about our privacy practices.
- Information We Collect when You use the Platform
When you use the Host Lint Platform or contact us directly via any communication channel, we may gather data, including personal data, about the services you use and how you use them.
We need this information to carry out our obligations under contracts, abide by laws, and enhance the functionality of the Host Lint Platform.
Automatic Data Gathering
- Log data and device information are automatically logged when you access and use the Host Lint Platform. Your IP address, browser type, ISP, referring and exit websites, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data are all included in this data.
- Tracking technologies and cookies: We use cookies, beacons, tags, scripts, and similar technologies to gather data on the operating system, phone model, device ID, and customer number of your device.
- Usage Data: We use Google Analytics to track how you use the Host Lint Platform, including the pages you visit, the material you see, the listings you search for, the reservations you make, and other actions. It will help us to improve our services. Visit Google for further information.
- Geo-location Information: When you access the Host Lint Platform, we use your IP address to collect your approximate location to improve user experience and comply with legal requirements.
Legal Basis for the Processing
We handle this data based on the following legal justifications:
- Your agreement
- Performance of the Agreements and Obligations between the User and Host Lint
- As the Data Controller and administrator of the Host Lint Platform, Host Lint is pursuing these interests legally.
4. HOW WE USE YOUR DATA?
We collect, store, and process data, including personal information, to provide, improve, and develop the Host Lint Platform. Here is how we make use of your information:
- To identify users and offer help, we gather and use personal identification data. This data helps us to update you on valuable information including updates and usage policy changes.
- To provide a trustworthy and safer environment, we authenticate and validate the information you supply. We use the data we have gathered to spot and stop illegal activity such as spam, fraud, abuse, and security breaches.
- Aggregated Statistical Data and Market Research: We analyze and conduct market research using aggregated, non-personal information to better understand client demands and trends.
- Device and Usage Data: To diagnose server issues, manage the platform, optimize applications, and improve user experience, we analyze data on device usage, OS systems, and browsing habits.
- Customized Marketing: To give more individualized marketing offers, we analyze data based on the information you submit and your experiences with the Host Lint Platform.
- Service and Billing Messages: We may contact you to let you know essential information about our services, such as reminders about payments, maintenance notifications, support responses, and service updates. These notifications are mandatory and cannot be unsubscribed from.
- Domain Name Registration: In compliance with ICANN regulations, information on domain name registration can be found by conducting a "WHOIS" search. We keep this data on file and provide access to it. We are not liable for third-party solicitation based on WHOIS data.
- Feedback: We might send you an email asking for your thoughts on our products and services. We may use a third party to collect feedback, sharing your name, email address, and reference number.
- Our use of your data is to deliver, run, and improve our services.
- Data security and fraud prevention are our primary concerns, and we take precautions against fraud.
- Laws Obligations: We comply with all applicable rules and laws.
We value your privacy and ensure that your data is handled securely and responsibly.
5. Sharing with Trusted Third Parties:
Your privacy is important to us, we only share your personal information within circumstances with trusted third parties. These consist of:
Affiliated Companies: To ease the supply of our Services and guarantee a seamless user experience, we might share your personal information with businesses within our corporate family.
Integration Partners: To improve our services, we might collaborate with outside service providers whose products we can use to enhance our own. To enable the integration and provide the desired functionalities in such circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to these dependable partners.
Service Providers: We choose trusted outside parties to carry out specific tasks on our behalf. These service providers could be:
- Credit card payment processors: To safely handle your payments.
- Advertisers: serving up suitable advertisements, as will be explained further below.
- Administrators of surveys or contests: To carry out surveys or contests on our behalf.
- Analytics providers: To examine our Services' usage trends and comprehend our customer base's demographics.
- Facilitators of communication: To successfully manage customer connections and send you emails or surveys.
- Providers of security, risk management, and compliance: To guarantee the security and reliability of our services.
- Providers of recruiting support: To help us with recruitment-related tasks and services.
We have rigorous agreements with these third parties and any subcontractors they may engage in making sure they only use your personal information as necessary to deliver the services we have committed to provide and do not share, use, or keep it for any other reason.
Furthermore, in the following situations, we may provide your information to third parties:
- Business Transactions: Your information may be one of the transferred assets if we sell, buy, merge with, partner with, or get acquired by another firm or business entity, or if we sell or transfer some or all our assets. We will make sure that your personal information is still safeguarded and used by our Privacy Policy in such circumstances.
- Legal Requirements: To comply with legal obligations, such as to answer to court orders, legal processes, or government demands, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Host Lint, its users, or others, we may need to disclose your personal information.
6. Advertisements:
We strive to give you relevant, helpful advertisements that improve your overall experience. To achieve this, we may use your data submitted to us in your Account Settings or data obtained through cookie technology. It helps us to customize ads and match them to your interests on our website and other platforms. This process, which uses previously acquired data to select the most pertinent advertisements for you, is known as ad personalization. These details could include past search terms, browsing history, websites visited, demographic data, and location.
For example, when you visit our advertising partner's platform or website, they might identify that you used our website builder to register a domain and establish a website because you are a Host Lint customer and display an advertisement for our most recent campaign for website security. On the other hand, if you have previously purchased our website security product, we may opt out of sending you future ads as they will not be relevant to you.
It is significant to highlight that we do not sell your data to third parties. The data we share with our advertising partners is delivered securely and never used in any other way. The information we share is also encrypted and hashed to prevent direct identification of you from occurring.
Please sign into your Account and go to "Account Settings" to adjust your options for audience-based ad personalization. Go to our Cookie Policy and select "Manage Settings" if you want to manage activity-based ad personalization. If you choose not to have your advertising personalized, you might still see ads, but they might be less relevant to your interests.
7. Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data
Please email us at [email protected] if you would like a copy of the personal information, we have about you or if you think that the information, we have about you is inaccurate. Within one month, we will respond to inquiries about copies of, or updates to, your data. We will let you know if it will take longer if the request is complicated or if you have submitted multiple requests, it may take longer, and we will inform you accordingly. Except when your request is unreasonable, repetitive, or excessive, a reasonable fee may be charged for requesting a copy of your data or exercising your rights.
You can always revoke your consent if you have provided it to us to use your personal information. In certain cases, you might be allowed a machine-readable copy of your data.
Except for certain legal exceptions, you have the right to request the deletion or limitation of your data. In response to your request, we will, as appropriate, inform you of these exclusions. Moreover, you have the right to object to the use of your personal information for a particular purpose.
When technically possible, we will comply with your request for your data to be automatically provided to you or another party in a standard, machine-readable format once it has been processed with your consent or to execute a contract.
- Non-Discrimination.
We appreciate and value your right to privacy. We will not treat you inappropriately if you claim your right to privacy. It means that unless as provided by applicable legislation, we will not:
- deny you access to products or services.
- Charge you various amounts for products or services, including by providing discounts or other rewards or by enforcing penalties.
- provide you with goods or services of a higher standard.
- Imply or imply that if you exercise your privacy rights, you might get different goods or services at a different price, rate, level, or quality.
9. Changes to this policy.
If we alter our privacy policy, we will provide an update here. If the changes are significant, we might additionally send an email with updated information to each registered user. If needed by law, we will request your consent or provide you with the choice not to have your data used for any future purposes.
Contact Us:
Affected parties may submit questions or complaints regarding our services or the website's content to the email address provided here within 30 (Thirty) days of the date of initial publication.
Email: [email protected]
Address: 1270 Crabb River Rd, Suite 600-68, Richmond, TX ,77469
We appreciate your trust and have an opportunity to address any concerns you may have about privacy. You can be confident that we are committed to protecting your personal information and offering clear and efficient support in responding to any privacy-related questions and issues.