Welcome to Online guards. Keeping your non-public personal information secure and confidential is our top priority. Please take a moment to read the Online guards Customer Privacy Policy carefully to learn how we handle your personal information.
This policy may change from time to time. Please check this policy each time you use our web site in order to have the most current information on this topic.
Registration:
In order to use Online guards Identity Protection service ("ID Monitor service"), users must first complete the activation of an account on this Web site. To activate an account, users are required to provide: Full name, address, valid email address and a valid phone number.
Profile Information:
In addition, activated users may provide additional information in the member’s area, such as your 16 digit credit card numbers only. Online guards do not need expiry date, CVV2 code or social security number to monitor your identity as a part of our monitoring service. Online guards will comply with Cardholder Data and PCI Data Security Standards.
Cookies & Log Files:
Like most Web sites, uses cookies and web log files to track usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer and allows us to recognize you as a user when you return to the Online guards website or web application using the same computer and web browser. You may set your browser to inform you when cookies are being placed on your computer and therefore, you have the opportunity to decide whether to accept a cookie. If your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use the areas of our Web site for members or activated users. Cookies and log file data are used to enhance and/or customize your experience on the web site.
One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you’ve logged in to your Online guards account. The next time you visit the Online guards Web site or Online guards web application, the persistent cookie will allow the Online guards service to recognize you as a previous visitor or user. In order to access or change any of your private information (like a credit card number), you may be required to log in again with your password even if your computer contains a persistent cookie. Additionally, if you log out of the member-only areas of the Online guards Web site, you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in.
Another type of cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the Online guards Web site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser. Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the Online guards Web site or web application Online guards automatically receives the URL of the Web site from which you came and the Web site to which you are going when you leave www.onlineguards.com. Online guards also receives the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, but Online guards does not generally link this information to personally identifiable information in any way.
Children:
The Online guards web site, the Online guards services are intended for use solely by adults, 18 years of age and older. Children are not eligible to use our service and should not submit any personal information to us. If you are under the age of 18, please refrain from using the Online guards web site, the Online guards services. If you are an adult and believe your child, or any other minor, has submitted personal information through this web site, please contact us by selecting “Contact Us” at .
Information Use:
ID Monitor is online monitoring service that prevents Identity theft and Identity fraud. Online guards collect certain types of information in order to operate and improve our service for you and other users. Online guards is the sole owner of the information collected on this site.
Online guards Communications:
Online guards will communicate with you through email, phone and notices posted on this web site. These include a series of welcome, verification, Red alerts, billing and newsletter emails that are part of our services, and also help to inform new users about various features of Online guards services. Please be aware that as long as you are a registered member of Online guards you will receive certain emails related to the proper functioning of your account. Online guards may send promotional information about Online guards products and services, however, users may “opt out” of receiving such information. To opt-out of receiving all promotional emails, please send a request to members [at] onlineguards.com.
Customized Content:
Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customize your experience on the web site.
Sharing Information
Sharing Information with Affiliates:
Online guards may share any information it collects with its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties:
Online guards take the privacy of our users extremely seriously. As a result, except as provided herein, Online guards will never sell, rent, or intentionally provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties for their marketing purposes. Online guards may share your personally identifiable information with third party service providers engaged by Online guards to provide services to Online guards. For instance, Online guards may use a credit card processing company to bill users for subscription fees. These third parties are not permitted to retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information. Online guards may share your name with third parties who have paid for your product license.
Online guards may share your personally identifiable information with a third party in connection with a change of control, merger or sale of Online guards or substantially all of its assets.
Online guards may share your personally identifiable information with a third party in connection any request by law enforcement, when Online guards believes there may be misuse of Online guards services, to investigate a possible crime, when Online guards has a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court or agency order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on Online guards or one of its third party service providers, to exercise Online guards’s legal rights, and/or to defend against legal claims. |
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Legal Disclaimer:
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
Accessing and Changing Your Account Information
You can review the personal information you provide us and, unless otherwise indicated, make any desired changes to the information that Online guards retains in its custody and control, or to the settings for your Online guards account, at any time by logging in to your account on the Online guards web site and editing the information on your Profile page. You can also close your account by sending us an email and request that Online guards remove your personal information from our database.
Although Online guards must maintain certain personally identifiable information in order to administer the Online guards system and services, resolve potential disputes, comply with official investigations or proceedings and enforce Online guards’s agreements, that information will be maintained for limited purposes, and for the time period required under applicable law or Online guards’s then current internal data retention policies.
Security:
Online guards utilize a wide range of advanced technologies for Internet including multi-factor authentication, data encryption, and database data encryption.
When you attempt to access secure areas of onlineguards.com or sign into the Online guards Members login, Online guards will authenticate you with Online guards Protection technology.
Online guards protects your information over the Internet by using a secure Web server, which allows your Web browser programs (Netscape Navigator/Communicator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Fire fox, etc.) to interact with Online guards's Web server via an encrypted session. Online guards use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection that provides an encrypted connection between your computer and Online guards. The 128 bit encrypted connection scrambles ordinary text or data into cyphertext to safeguard your information as it is transmitted over the Internet. The information is decrypted, or put back into a readable format, when it reaches its intended destination.
In addition, your sensitive personal information, such as your password, are encrypted and stored in a database the data cannot be unencrypted under any circumstances, and can only be used to verify the validity of the information once the correct information is provided.
Online guards associates with each user a unique user name (your email address) and password that must be entered each time a user signs in. onlineguards.com issue a session "cookie" only to record encrypted authentication information for the duration of a specific session. The session "cookie" does not include the user name or password of the user. Neither onlineguards.com nor the Online guards Members Login use "cookies" to store other confidential user and session information
In addition, onlineguards.com and the Online guards Members Login are hosted in a secure server environment that employs state-of-the-art firewall and other advanced technology to prevent interference or access from outside and unauthorized inside intruders.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, there is always some element of risk involved in sending personal information on-line. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, IN CONNECTION WITH THE ONLINE GUARDS SERVICE, INFORMATION SHALL BE TRANSMITTED OVER LOCAL EXCHANGE, INTEREXCHANGE AND INTERNET BACKBONE CARRIER LINES AND THROUGH ROUTERS, SWITCHES AND OTHER DEVICES OWNED, MAINTAINED, AND SERVICED BY THIRD PARTY LOCAL EXCHANGE AND LONG DISTANCE CARRIERS, UTILITIES, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND OTHERS, ALL OF WHICH ARE BEYOND CONTROL AND JURISDICTION OF ONLINE GUARDS. ACCORDINGLY, ONLINE GUARDS ASSUMES NO LIABILITY FOR OR RELATING TO THE DELAY, FAILURE, INTERRUPTION OR CORRUPTION OF ANY DATA OR OTHER INFORMATION TRANSMITTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ONLINE GUARDS SERVICE. ONLINE GUARDS FURTHER MAKES NO WARRANTY AND ASSUMES NO LIABILITY REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY, RELIABILITY, OR SUITABILITY OF ANY INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER OR DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE SERVICES.
ONLINE GUARDS MAKES NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE SECURITY OF USER’S DATA COMMUNICATIONS, OR THAT THIRD PARTIES WILL NOT GAIN UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR MONITOR USERS’ COMPUTER(S) OR ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS. YOU AGREE THAT ONLINE GUARDS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SUCH ACCESS.
Third Party Website Links
Users will find advertising or other contents on our sites that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. In many cases, the links represent cooperative projects or are mutual links established with persons or entities connected with our sites. Although we initially visit the sites or services that are so linked, we do not control the contents or links that appear on these sites. In addition, these sites or services, including their contents and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies, or no policy (policies) at all. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party sites or services before providing any of them with your personal information.
Contact us
If, after reviewing this policy, you have any questions or concerns regarding how your personal information is used or maintained, please contact us by email at privacy [at] onlineguards.com.
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS:
By using the Online guards website, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use Online guards website or its services. |
