At MacFreelancer, we recognize the privacy needs of our Customers. You should be able to choose what information you want to share and decide what will happen to that information once it has been shared. Protecting your personal information is vitally important. Please read the following Privacy Policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our service. This policy may change from time to time without notice so please check back periodically. We hope this will increase your awareness about online privacy.
Collected Information
The only way our service can work is by your freely releasing private information about you. If you choose to post a project on MacFreelancer or subscribe as a Developer with us, we will ask you to provide certain personal information, such as your name, physical and electronic mail ("e-mail") addresses, phone number, domain name and other information that by itself, or in combination with other information, may be identifiable to you as a specific individual. We will also ask for financial information, such as account or credit card numbers, and demographic information, such as your zip code.
Please be aware that information practices of other Internet access partners, advertisers, and web sites linked to MacFreelancer are not governed by this Privacy Policy. What these other sites do with that information is governed by the privacy policy for that site and not this policy. You are encouraged to review the privacy policy on any site you visit.
Submitting Information
It is illegal to knowingly register to this service posing as an alias, or fraudulently posting projects as someone else. Anyone who has registered with bogus credentials will be banned from MacFreelancer entirely, with all information turned over to the law enforcement in their locale.
MacFreelancer will bring legal action to any Developer who attempts to fraudulently register and use a stolen credit card to the full extent of the law.
Information Requests
You may be able to request information regarding our service, including technical support and Customer Service, by using online forms. We may ask that you provide certain contact information to allow us to fulfill your request and to send you information about MacFreelancer.
Security
Ordering online for a MacFreelancer service is secure and convenient. Our ordering process is protected by the Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") protocol, which encrypts your information and confirms the identity of the MacFreelancer server before completing your transaction. Netscape Navigator 2.0 + (or better) and Internet Explorer 3.0+ (or better) support the SSL protocol. We recommend you use the latest browsers to ensure that you are protected by advances in security technology.
Children's Guidelines
Although MacFreelancer is not geared towards children, MacFreelancer nonetheless attempts to protect children. MacFreelancer must, however, rely on the information provided to us by visitors to our sites. As a result, it is impossible for us to guarantee with absolute certainty that the information collected and utilized by MacFreelancer is not derived from a child.
Disclosure
MacFreelancer will not sell, rent, trade, or disclose individual Customer information to any third parties or outside companies. If we have reason to believe that someone is violating MacFreelancer's policies, causing injury to, or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the rights or property of MacFreelancer, other MacFreelancer users, may disclose the necessary account information the law requires to identify, contact or bring legal action or for any other administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary.
Use of Information
The use of an individual's e-mail address is necessary to keep our Customers well informed of maintenance issues, escalated critical issues and problem resolutions that may arise with your MacFreelancer Service. We may also use e-mail addresses to provide our Customers with informative newsletters about MacFreelancer or MacScripter.
We like to keep our Customers informed via e-mail and other means. Sometimes MacFreelancer uses personal and demographic information to help us determine which MacFreelancer products and Services are most likely to be of interest to you or help diagnose problems with our servers or administration of our sites. We also use demographic information to gather general interest in our products, to help in the analysis of product usage, purchasing, and target markets.
Please note that MacFreelancer does provide information to outside companies (such as a credit card processing company) who perform certain functions on our behalf for billing purposes. We will not permit those companies to use the gathered information for other than the stated purpose.
Correct/Update
If you would like to change or modify information you have previously provided to us, please contact us.
Cookies
Some of the websites we host place small bits of text or "cookies" onto your computer's hard drive. Cookies enable us to deliver content specific to your interests and keep track of your password so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit our web sites. After you accept a cookie, it is passed from your browser to our servers each time you request a page. This cookie consists of a unique token that anonymously identifies to the server so that you can more easily access the features of the MacFreelancer Service. Please note that you may configure your web browser to warn you before you accept a cookie.
Customer E-mails
MacFreelancer will not read or disclose e-mail content to others unless required by law or deemed necessary to operate our service.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about MacFreelancer's privacy policy or the privacy practices of our web sites, please contact us
Changes to the Privacy Policy
In the event our Privacy Policy needs to be modified, those changes will be reflected in the next revision of this Privacy Policy which will be posted on the MacFreelancer web site. Please check back often to review any revisions.
