Privacy Policy

Information collected from members on this site, such as email addresses, is never sold or otherwise redistributed to any third parties. Tracking of user activity on our website is only for internal purposes in order to provide you with the best possible experience.

Optional information such as location, interests, occupation etc is displayed in member profiles for all to see. If you don't wish such information to be public, do not provide it.

We use first party cookies for a variety of purposes. These purposes include keeping you logged in, showing you what you've previously viewed, remembering which page you were just on so you can be redirected back to it, and remembering your timezone. Also remembering your screen resolution, whether you've registered before, which boxes you've closed, whether you've closed the cookie privacy notice, and various other selected preferences. We also use local storage for a few things like saving listings when someone doesn't have an account. None of this will track your identity across websites or tie your real world identity to your account here.

Who we are

• - Our website address is: https://www.whdwebhostingdirectory.net/.

Contacting Us

• - When you contact us via our online form, certain information is passed to us so that we may identify you and reply. Non eof this information is stored and is only contained within the message that you have sent us. Once replied to, that message is deleted and any data with it is unrecoverable.

  Data Passed:

  • - Your Name
  • - Your Email Address
  • - Your IP Address
  • - Your message

Registration and Submissions

• - USER NAME: Required to identify you with your account and will be publically viewable as the owner of any submissions you may make.
• - EMAIL ADDRESS: Your email address will be kept confidential and will never be made available to any person or organisation other than Directory WebSites and will only be used to contact you with regard to your account or listing.
• - LOGIN ID: Required so that you can log into your account and provide an association with any listings you may make. Kept confidential.
• - IP ADDRESS: Collected automatically upon registration and link submissions and is used strictly to prevent spam and robot submissions and will only be made public in the event of attacks or hacking attempts on our service.

Comments

• - When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
• - An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

• - If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

• - If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
• - If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
• - When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
• - If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Third Party Advertising

• - We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Embedded content from other websites

• - Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
• - These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

• - If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

• - If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
• - For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

• - If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
• - You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

• - Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
• - We use a third party analytics tracker to generate statistics about our visitors.
• - This site incorporates Google's reCAPTCHA to prevent automated submissions. reCAPTCHA makes use of cookies, mouse movements and other data to differentiate humans from robots, and this site must share this data with Google to confirm that you're human.

Social Login or Register

• - Signing in with your social networking identity (Google or Facebook) saves you from ever having to remember a username or password and allows a single click login. We only retrieve your email and name and use that to automatically generate an account here if you don't have one yet. If you're not already logged into your social networking account in this web browser they may prompt you to login, but WHD Web Hosting Directory will not see your social networking password and will have no ability to change anything in your social networking account -- it's completely safe, and convenient.

If you don't agree to the use of these cookies, please do not use the website.