Privacy Policy
Search Engine Optimist has a strong commitment to respecting the privacy of all clients and visitors to our website. This policy covers how Search Engine Optimist treats personal information that it collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Search Engine Optimist’ services. “Personal information” is information about you and or your business that is personally identifiable such as your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Search Engine Optimist does not own or control, or to people that Search Engine Optimist does not employ or manage. In particular, Search Engine Optimist has no control over the privacy policies of any vendor or publisher’s website linked through our SEO efforts to ensure good placement in search engines. For example, if an industry site sells a client’s email to a spammer, we cannot be held responsible. That said, Search Engine Optimist will make every effort to protect clients’ information & will use industry best-practices to ensure this.
Search Engine Optimist collects personal information when you register your company with Search Engine Optimist or when you use a credit card. Search Engine Optimist may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
Search Engine Optimist automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Search Engine Optimist’ cookie information, and the page you request.
In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Search Engine Optimist does not intend to record personal information submitted by children younger than 13 years old. Children under 13 years old should submit personally identifiable information to Search Engine Optimist only with the explicit permission of their parent or legal guardian.
Search Engine Optimist will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes.
Search Engine Optimist does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
We provide the information to trusted (publishers) partners who work on behalf of or with Search Engine Optimist under confidentiality agreements. These publishers may use your personal information to help Search Engine Optimist communicate with you about offers from Search Engine Optimist directory advertisers and our marketing (publishing) partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
Search Engine Optimist may occasionally select an especially well-performing client as the subject of a Case Study for our website. In this case, permission will be requested from the client first, and no information that might benefit a competitor will be divulged.
We believe it is necessary to share information 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 Search Engine Optimist’ terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
We transfer information about you if Search Engine Optimist is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Search Engine Optimist will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Search Engine Optimist may set and access Search Engine Optimist’s cookies on your computer.
Search Engine Optimist may update this policy. We will place a prominent notice on our portion of the publisher’s site about significant changes in the way we treat personal information.
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