Privacy commitment
Consent
Information collected
Disclosure of personal information
Correction and updating of personal data/privacy support
How we protect information
How you can help us protect your information
Log files
Cookies
Privacy commitment
Openad.net is owned by OpenAd AG and operated by OpenAd UK Ltd. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time, so please check it periodically.
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Consent
Your use of Openad.net signifies that you consent to us collecting and using personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
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Information collected
- What information do we collect?
We ask you for some personal information when you register and when a member places an order for an idea. We require your name, email address, country of residence and tax number (if you are VAT registered).
We may from time to time ask you for further information in order to update our records or for particular purposes. We will always inform you of how we intend to use any further information acquired from you.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence and incorporate the information it contains into our database.
If you would like to revise any information you have provided to us, or feel that what we currently have on record is incorrect, you may update the information by entering the revised data yourself. Where this is not possible, please email customers@openad.net
- How and why do we use personal information?
You will need to provide us with personal details that allow us to process and meet orders, calculate prices, notify you of the status of your order, and keep you informed of any updates or changes to the website.
We may use your personal details to communicate with you by email, fax or telephone, for record-keeping purposes, in order to run your account (if applicable), for technical administration of the website, for research and development, and for customer administration.
We may occasionally request information from you as part of surveys and promotions. Your participation is entirely voluntary. We may also ask you whether you would like to receive promotional emails and mailings from us about our other products and services. You are under no obligation to receive such information.
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Disclosure of personal information
If you license creative material through OpenAd.net, we will disclose your name and email address to the individual or company that created the material. If there is reasonable suspicion that copyright or any other intellectual property right has been infringed by an OpenAd.net member, we will disclose to the author of the material the computer log of members that browsed the material in question prior to the infringement taking place.
If we are requested by the police or by a regulatory or government authority to provide information concerning your activities while using the site, we shall do so. We will also disclose your personal data if we are compelled to do so by law.
It is possible that we, our subsidiaries, joint ventures or any combination of such could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such an event occur, we would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide products and services. You will receive notice of such an event, and we will require the new combined entity to follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
We will only pass on your details to other companies if you have indicated that you would like to receive further information from them.
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Correction and updating of personal data/privacy support
If your personal data changes, we will endeavour to correct, update or remove the data as quickly as possible. This can be done by emailing us at customers@openad.net. You may also email customers@openad.net if you have any any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy.
Under the Data Protection Act, you are entitled to a copy of the personal data held by us upon payment of a fee.
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How we protect information
You acknowledge that the internet is not a 100% secure medium for communication. However, we do take every precaution to protect any information you send to us and we send to you.
We are not responsible for any damage which you or others may suffer as a result of loss of confidentiality of such information, but we do take every precaution to protect your information. All personal information is stored on a server in a secure environment. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific task are granted access to data that identifies you personally. We hold regular security reviews to ensure that the site remains safe and secure.
Your account profile is password-protected to prevent others from viewing your personal information. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password(s) and/or any account information. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone else.
You will be asked to transmit credit card and/or bank account information in order to complete a purchase. Every time we ask for a credit card number, it will be transmitted in an encrypted format using industry-standard SSL (secure socket layer) encryption or similar technology.
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How you can help us protect your information
Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online in non-protected environments, e.g. on message boards, through email or in chatrooms, that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information that is accessible to the public online, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties.
Remember to sign out of your account and close the browser window when you have finished; this is to prevent others from accessing your information, and is doubly important if you share your computer with other people or use a computer in a public place such as a library or internet cafe. We cannot ensure or guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or that comes to you from our online products or services – you send and receive this information at your own risk. Once we receive your data, we make every effort to ensure its security and integrity on our systems.
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Log files
Every time someone visits OpenAd.net, a log file is generated on our computer. This contains information such as the user's IP (Internet Protocol) address, how long the user spent on the site and which parts of the site the user viewed. We also collect this information to help us diagnose problems and administer our systems, to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit site use (e.g. where users are connecting from, what ISPs are being used, etc).
We do not normally link IP addresses to anything that identifies you personally, which means that you remain anonymous even though we include your IP address in our aggregate information. However, we can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our terms and conditions, or to protect our services and other users.
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Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on and retrieved from your computer by websites for record-keeping purposes. Cookies are a common feature on most major websites.
OpenAd.net gathers the following user information:
- the IP address for site administration (statistics)
- the email address (necessary for registration and membership purposes)
- data provided by the user.
OpenAd applies a session cookie for users at the beginning of a session. For auto login users, OpenAd applies a permanent cookie for uniform identification.
OpenAd will take all reasonable steps to ensure that data unintentionally provided by a user is not accessible to third parties or the public. Such data will be transmitted only when this is required by law or in a good faith, as follows:
- before a court and other requirements of government bodies
- for the necessary protection of the rights and property of OpenAd.net.
OpenAd.net uses cookies in a variety of ways:
- They are the simplest way of tracking user trends and patterns (e.g. how many people use different parts of the website), which helps us to understand more fully which parts of our service users find valuable and which parts need improvement.
- We use cookies to recognise you when you visit the website and to save you time when logging in. We also use them to keep track of your personal preferences so that you do not have to keep reminding us of them.
- Cookies may be used to help match advertising to particular interests. Some of the advertising displayed on the website may be provided by third-party companies and may contain additional cookies belonging to our advertisers. These cookies will not contain any information that identifies you personally.
Most computers are set up to accept cookies automatically. However, you can change your browser settings to refuse cookies or to be alerted when a cookie is being sent (which allows you to choose whether or not to accept it). Unfortunately, if you choose to refuse cookies on OpenAd.net, some parts of site may be slower or may not function properly.
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