Your Privacy
Online privacy is something to be concerned about. Visiting a site infected by badware could pose a risk to your computer and your data. Your email address may be hijacked by spammers.
Have you been getting more spam lately? Analysists report that spam accounts for up to 75% of the 75 billion emails sent each day, and spam levels are growing exponentially — up %100 from last year. Unfortunately spam hackers are getting more sophisticated in the techniques they employ.
What to do?
- Be super-ultra-careful when giving out your primary email address, use it only in the most important circumstances.
- Create 3 main email addresses, i.e.: max-security, med-security, min-security. Also "sacrificial" email addresses and accounts, e.g.; nospam@yahoo.com (see Protection Tricks sidebar for more ideas).
- Use high-quality passwords (minimum combination of 8 letters, numbers, and special characters). IMPORTANT: Change your passwords regularly.
- How to create AND remember crazy-hard passwords
- GOOGLE Password Tips
Identity Theft
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P3P for websites
Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a standardized specification for describing a websites' privacy policy, written in XML. As a page loads, the browser reads the XML file and compares it with the users' privacy preferences. P3P provides a simple automated way for site visitors to screen a website privacy policy. P3P Toolbox.org
Privacy Policy
We respect and protect your privacy.
- For clients; the contact information you provide to us will only be used to support our business relationship.
- For visitors; you are welcome to visit techpub.biz without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information.
Information Collection
eDsign Service is the sole owner of the information collected on the techpub.biz website. We collect information from our users with several forms on our website ONLY if users fill in and submit the form. We store any profile information that we collect in an off-line database.
Log Files
Like most standard website servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
Legal Disclaimer. Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website.
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We do not sell or share aggregated demographic information with other companies.
Business Transitions
In the event eDsign Service goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users' personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. Registered users will be notified via email prior to a change of ownership or control of their personal information.
Links
This website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we, eDsign Service, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. All of our users information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. All employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our users' information is protected.
Correcting / Updating / Deleting / Deactivating Personal Information
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code, phone, email or postal address), or if a user no longer wishes to receive email communication from us, we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate users' personally identifiable information. This can be done by phone; (715) 779-3966, emailing us, or by postal mail: eDsign Service, 34785 Fire Tower Road, Bayfield, WI 54814.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. However, if users have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated their account, then they will not be contacted, nor will their personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a notice on our website notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post a notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
Protection Tricks
- Bypass Registration
Are you tired of typing your name, address, email and hobbies every time you want to read an online newspaper? At bugmenot just type in the site name you want to access and get a pre-made username and password. - Faux Inbox
When a website requires that you provide an email address that must be confirmed by replying, use Mailinator to create a temporary one. You make up an email address that ends with @mailinator.com. Use the temporary email address to register then forget about it, all emails are deleted within a few hours. - Shopping
Google Checkout™ makes online shopping faster, more convenient and more secure. - Disposable Credit Card
Citibank allows its cardholders to create one-time-use Virtual Account Numbers. When you use Virtual Account Numbers to make a purchase, a substitute number is generated which protects your real number. - Hide Your IP address
If your computer has a static IP address, any site you visit can track your activity there, and hackers can use it to break into your machine. Use Anonymizer to create a random, rotating IP. - Turn Off email HTML
Turn off "display HTML" in your email preferences. Spammers can insert special HTML code into the body of an email that will tell them whether you've read a message or how long you spent reading it.