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The Washington, DC Registry is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of this web site. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.
This policy will let you know:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you
- What cookies are and how they are used
- How your information is used
- Who is collecting your information
- With whom your information may be shared
- What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information
- How you can access, update or delete your information
- The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information
- How The Washington, DC Registry protects children's privacy
- What else you should know about your online privacy
What personally identifiable information is collected from you
The Washington, DC Registry collects information in several ways from different parts of our web site.
Some personal information is gathered when you register for certain features of our site, such as the classifieds section, the free home page creator, and possibly other sections. During registration, we ask for your name and email address. The system may also ask for your street address, city, state/province, zip/postal code, country, telephone number, and the URL of your web site, although only fields that are marked with an asterisk (*) on the registration field are required. This information is used solely to assist you in navigating the system by automatically filling in certain forms with your information so that you don't have to continually re-enter it. Once you register you are no longer anonymous to The Washington, DC Registry - you have a username and are able to take full advantage of the many offerings of The Washington, DC Registry.
In addition to registration we may ask you for personal information at other times, including (but not limited to) when you place ads or take advantage of the other features of the site. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
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What cookies are and how they are used
As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, The Washington, DC Registry may use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Several features of this web site require that you accept cookies in order to work properly. (See "What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information" for more information on cookies.)
Generally, we use cookies for the following purposes:
(1) To identify and label all "new" ads in the classifieds section since your last visit to the site.
(2) Optionally to permanently save your password for the classifieds section on your computer so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site.
(3) To enable you to "checklist" ads in the classifieds section that you want to mark for future retrieval and viewing.
Advertising networks that serve ads onto this web site may also use their own cookies.
We may also collect IP addresses for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers.
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How your information is used
The primary goal of The Washington, DC Registry in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience and to assist your navigation throughout this web site.
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Who is collecting your information
When you are asked for personal information on this web site, you are sharing that information with The Washington, DC Registry alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. However, some activities will, by their very nature, result in your personal information being revealed to other users. For example, when you enter personal information on the ad posting form in the classifieds section, this information will generally be included in your ad, unless specifically stated otherwise.
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With whom your information may be shared
As a general rule, The Washington, DC Registry will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Please see the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for each of our products and services for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared.
The Washington, DC Registry may disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the Terms of Service of The Washington, DC Registry or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the rights or property of The Washington, DC Registry, other users of The Washington, DC Registry, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. The Washington, DC Registry may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.
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What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information
If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still use most of the features of our site, but you will not be able to access areas or use features that require registration.
You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those services of our site that require registration in order to participate. These services include the identification of new ads in the classifieds section that have been posted since your last visit, auto-fillin of the logon form for the classifieds, and the Checklist feature of the classifieds. You can still use most of the features of our site even if you do not accept cookies.
The Washington, DC Registry does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service.
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How you can access, update or delete your information
We will provide you with the means to ensure that your personal information is correct and current. You may edit or delete your user profile for the classifieds section at any time by clicking on the "My Profile" link or graphic provided by the system once you are logged in. Once you have logged onto the system during a given session, wherever you go on that particular classifieds program demo, your information will stay with you until or unless you click on the "Logoff" link, which is accessible from within the "My Profile" screen.
If you are a previously registered user of the classifieds and you have lost or forgotten your password, you may obtain it by email by using our "Forgot Password" feature. Click the button on any login page to request that your password be emailed to you. We cannot provide your password by any other means.
Your account can be deleted, but doing so will result in not being able to access any of the features of the program that require user registration.
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The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information
Other than the administrator of this web site or other authorized personnel of The Washington, DC Registry, you are the only person who has access to your personal information. Your user registration is password-protected to prevent unauthorized access.
We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. The Washington, DC Registry will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. As an extra security precaution, you may want to logoff once you have completed a session in the classifieds section. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, The Washington, DC Registry cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
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How The Washington, DC Registry protects children's privacy
The Washington, DC Registry is a general audience web site. Children should always ask a parent for permission before sending personal information to anyone online. The Washington, DC Registry does not share personal information about users under the age of 13 with third parties and we do not sell or rent personal information about any of our users, regardless of age. In addition, The Washington, DC Registry will not send any direct email offers to users who indicate they are under the age of 13.
As a result of the new Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the United States, we are required to prohibit children under 13 who reside in the U.S. from posting messages, posting ads, creating personal home pages, or using any of the other features of our site that require them to submit information via forms. This is due to the onerous reporting and verification requirements that this new law places on web sites that allow children under 13 to submit information via forms. Since we do not have the large, dedicated staff that would be necessary to comply with these requirements, our only option in order to remain in compliance with the law is to prohibit all children under 13 who reside in the U.S. from posting any information via forms on our web site. Therefore, children under 13 should not submit any information via forms on our web site, and if you submit such information, you warrant that you are over the age of 13 and not subject to COPPA.
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What else you should know about your online privacy
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example in ads that you post or through email - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.
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