HostWebsites is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) explains our practices for our site, hostwebsites.io (“Site”) and the hostwebsites.io vps management platform. You can visit most pages of the Site without giving us any information about yourself, but sometimes we do need information to provide services that you request. By using this Site or any products or services provided through the Site, you expressly consent to the use and disclosure of information as described in this Privacy Policy.

HostWebsites reserves the right to revise, modify, add, or remove provisions to this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will update the Effective Date to note the date of such changes. HostWebsites encourages you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THE TERMS BELOW, YOU SHOULD NOT USE THIS SITE OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED BY HostWebsites AT THIS SITE.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Personal Information

HostWebsites will ask you for certain “Personal Information” when you complete registration or product information request forms on the Site, including but not limited to your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card information. You can always choose not to provide us with the requested information, however, you may not be able to complete the transaction or use our products or services if you do not provide the information requested.

Non-Personal Information

HostWebsites may collect non-personally identifiable information from you such as the type of browser you use, your operating system, the screen resolution of your browser, your ISP, your IP address, which pages you view on the Site and the time and duration of your visits to the Site (collectively, “Non-Personal Information”). HostWebsites may associate Non-Personal Information with Personal Information if you register with the Site.

User Communications

If you communicate with us, we may collect information relating to that communication whether it takes the form of email, fax, letter, forum posting, blog comments, testimonials or any other form of communication between you and HostWebsites or Submitted by you to the Site (collectively, “User Communications”).

Server Information

If you use one of our software products such as HostWebsites, cloud vps management platform, we may collect certain information concerning such software and concerning the server upon which the software operates. This information includes: (a) the licensed or unlicensed status of the software; (b) the source from which the license for the software was obtained (i.e., HostWebsites or a HostWebsites affiliate); or (c) information about the server upon which the software is installed including (i) the public IP address, (ii) the operating system and (iii) the use of any virtualization technologies on such server ((a) through (c) collectively, “Server Information”). Additionally, “Server Information” may also include information collected from you by HostWebsites in the event that you request technical support services including without limitation, IP addresses, usernames, and passwords necessary to login to SSH, the root directory of the server upon which you installed the HostWebsites software and any affected accounts including email accounts, control panel accounts, MySQL accounts, CMS accounts and other accounts.

USE AND STORAGE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION

HostWebsites may use Personal Information to create and authenticate your account, to respond to your requests, to provide you with customer and technical support, or to provide you with information regarding our products, services, partners, and company. You may update your Personal Information with us at any time, but we may maintain records of any Personal Information you disclose to us indefinitely, unless otherwise requested as outlined below.

We may use User Communications in the same ways we use Personal Information. If you communicate with us for a particular purpose, we may use your User Communications for that purpose. For example, if you contact us for technical support, we may use your communications to provide technical support to you. We may maintain records of User Communications you transmit to us indefinitely, unless otherwise requested as outlined below.

HostWebsites may use Non-Personal Information to maintain, evaluate, improve and provide our Site, the Services and any other HostWebsites products and services. We may retain Non-Personal Information indefinitely.

We may use Server Information to provide you with technical support services and to maintain, evaluate, improve and provide HostWebsites products and services. We may also use such information to investigate unlicensed (and therefore unauthorized) uses of our software. HostWebsites may maintain Server Information indefinitely, with the exception of usernames, passwords, and other login information given in connection with support service requests. Such login information will be purged when the ticket is closed.

DISCLOSURE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION

HostWebsites will only disclose Personal Information to third parties if acting under a good faith belief that such action is necessary, including but not limited to: (a) to resolve disputes, investigate problems, or comply with laws or regulations; (b) to enforce our Terms of Service; (c) to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of our company or our users; or (d) in the event of a merger, acquisition or sale of all or substantially all HostWebsites assets. Other than this limited activity, we do not share, sell, or rent any personal information to third parties.

You will receive notice in the form of modifications to this Policy when information about you might go to third parties other than as described in this Policy, and you always have the opportunity to contact us as set forth below if you do not wish your information to go to third parties.

HostWebsites cannot be responsible for protecting your information if you share such information in publicly available sections of the Site such as the user forums, blog comments, or testimonials section. You should use your own judgment in disclosing this information on the Site.

USE OF COOKIES

“Cookies” are small pieces of information that your browser stores on your computer on behalf of a website that you have visited. Cookies may be used in order to complete transactions on our site. You can always choose not to accept cookies with the settings of your web browser, however, you may not be able to complete these transactions if you do not accept cookies.

SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use reasonable security methods to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. No data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure. While we try to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

HostWebsites uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect sensitive data.

In the event that HostWebsites becomes aware of a security breach, unauthorized disclosure or inadvertent disclosure concerning your information, you agree that HostWebsites may notify you of such an event using the Personal Information previously provided.

You are responsible for maintaining your account’s security.

GDPR STATEMENT

HostWebsites values your users’ privacy. Although our software does not directly collect any personally identifiable information from visitors to your site, HostWebsites may still be considered a data processor, as user information may be temporarily cached and/or logged, as outlined in this document.

Servers

The hostwebsites.io platform, and related software may record IP addresses as a part of normal logging. An access log and an error log may record visitor IP addresses and URL visited. The logs are stored locally on the system where HostWebsites server software is installed and are not transferred to or accessed by HostWebsites employees in any way, except as necessary in providing routine technical support if you request it. This logging may be turned off through configuration. It is up to individual server administrators to come up with their own schedule for removing such logs from the file system.

Support Services

Sometimes, when you request technical support, HostWebsites may ask for login credentials to various areas of your site. You may refuse to share such credentials, however refusal may impact HostWebsites’s ability to provide the requested support services.

Upon completion of a support ticket, HostWebsites immediately deletes all login credentials you may have shared.

Any user data encountered by HostWebsites is kept strictly confidential. We never provide your support ticket information to any third party without your explicit consent.

CONTACT US

If you would like to update information that you have voluntarily provided to us, stop receiving information from us, or exercise any of the rights granted to you under Privacy Laws, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, please e-mail: info@hostwebsites.io