Because protecting your privacy is very important to Hostwaves, we operate our web site under the following guidelines to safeguard your personally identifiable information:

Hostwaves policies and procedures for handling customer information have been created with the understanding that Internet technologies are still evolving and that Internet business methods are continuing to evolve to meet the needs and opportunities of the changing technologies. As a result, Hostwaves policies and procedures are subject to change.

• What Personal Information does Hostwaves collect?
• Data Security
• How is customer information used?
• Modification of customer information
• Will Hostwaves ever send me direct mailings?
• How do I protect my Personal Information in public forums?
• What about privacy on sites that Hostwaves links to?
• Disclosure of customer information and communications

What Personal Information does Hostwaves collect?

In the course of serving its customers, Hostwaves acquires, stores and transmits customer communications and information that customers may regard as private or sensitive. Some of this information - such as the customer’s name, address, telephone number, and credit card data - is provided to Hostwaves by its customers in order to establish service. Other information - such as the customer’s account status, choice of services, and customer logs - is created and maintained by Hostwaves in the normal course of providing service. Hostwaves also uses cookies, which are small pieces of information that a web site can store in a designated file on a user’s computer for various reasons. In addition, Hostwaves may store customers’ electronic mail and other communications as a necessary incident to the transmission and delivery of those communications.

Data Security

Hostwaves will protect the confidentiality of its customers’ information, account information and personal communications to the fullest extent possible and consistent with the law and the legitimate interests of Hostwaves, its partners, its employees and other customers of Hostwaves services. To protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of information that is collected from customers, Hostwaves has appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures in place.

How is customer information used?

Hostwaves may share customer information with selected partners, for example, to provide customers with information about products which might be of interest to the customer or to enable the customer to take advantage of special partner programs. Hostwaves may also use customer information to provide its customers with system information or information about new or upgraded products.

Modification of customer information.

Customers may modify their personal information by logging a Help Desk ticket to make the request.

Domain name customers, who have registered a domain name with Hostwaves and wish to change the Technical Contact from Hostwaves to another company or change any other registration information, should be able to do so by logging into their Directi account at http://admin.domain.hostwaves.com or http://domain.hostwaves.com. Hostwaves provides all customers with full access to their domain account by sending them their own username and password. It is important to note that customer domain name registration information is made publicly available in the registry of domain names. In the event you lose your Directi password, you can log a Help Desk ticket and we will re-send the password to the email address on the domain registration record. In the event you lose your password and the email address on record with Directi is no longer valid, a direct request to Directi is required, therefore it is important to keep your Directi email address current as well as your email address with Hostwaves.

Will Hostwaves ever send me direct mailings?

From time to time, Hostwaves may send its customers information about various products and services that may be of interest. We will not send you information of this type without specifically allowing you to "opt out" of such mailings. You can opt out by sending an e-mail to support@Hostwaves.com, however by doing so, you may miss important communication regarding your service.

In addition, if you are a Hostwaves reseller, Hostwaves and/or its partners and advertisers may from time to time send you newsletters, promotional material, and other mailings. You can opt out by sending an e-mail to billing@Hostwaves.com

How do I protect my Personal Information in public forums?

Hostwaves may offer interactive forums, such as message boards and chat. Hostwaves users should be aware that when they voluntarily disclose Personal Information to other users or to third parties on the Hostwaves system, through e-mail, or outside of the Hostwaves system, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other members or third parties. While Hostwaves strives to protect your Personal Information, Hostwaves cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to Hostwaves, and you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information.

What about privacy on sites that Hostwaves links to?

Hostwaves may provide links to its partners and other Internet sites. These sites have separate data and privacy practices independent of Hostwaves, and Hostwaves disclaims any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions.

Disclosure of customer information and communications

Hostwaves will not otherwise disclose its customers’ personal and account information unless Hostwaves has reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, make contact with, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing harm or interfering with the rights or property of Hostwaves, Hostwaves customers, or others, or where Hostwaves has a good faith belief that the law requires such disclosure.

Hostwaves also will not, except for reasons stated below, disclose to third parties the contents of any electronic mail or other electronic communications that Hostwaves stores or transmits for its customers. The circumstances under which Hostwaves will disclose such electronic customer communications are when:

• it is necessary in order to provide service to the customer;
• it is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of Hostwaves and its customers;
• it is required to cooperate with interception orders, warrants, or other legal process that Hostwaves determines in its sole discretion to be valid and enforceable; and
• it is necessary to provide to a law enforcement agency when the contents are inadvertently obtained by Hostwaves and appear to pertain to the commission of a crime.
• Hostwaves disclaims any intention to censor, edit or engage in ongoing review or surveillance of communications stored on or transmitted through its facilities by customers or others. Hostwaves will, however, review, delete or block access to communications that may harm Hostwaves, its customers or third parties. The grounds on which Hostwaves may take such action include, but are not limited to, actual or potential violations of Hostwaves policies.