Privacy Policy
Accidents.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm's commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for Accidents.com and its web services.
How does Accidents.com use registration information? By submitting your information to us:
- The advertiser that sponsored the offer that you opted in to receive may contact you by e-mail, telephone, and/or physical adress.
- Our registration forms require users to give us contact information (e.g., name, e-mail address, phone number, and physical address) and demographic information (e.g., gender, age, household net worth, insurance carrier). We use this information from the registration form to contact users according to their requests, and to further fulfill requests, as well as to send our users information about our website and its services.
- Profile data is also collected during registration. We use this data to tailor the user's experience at a Accidents.com' website, displaying content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. This information is shared with the advertiser that sponsored the offer that you opted in to receive, or similar offers.
We do not disclose your private online communications.
- We do not provide your navigation to and from Accidents.com' websites to our advertisers; we do however use it internally to improve our service to you and our advertisers.
- We use secure technology, privacy protection controls, and restrictions on employee access in order to safeguard your personal information.
- We will advise you if and when changes to this policy are made by posting a notice on our website(s) with the date of the new policy.
- As a registered member of our services, you will receive an email with the new Privacy Policy.
How can you Opt-Out of this service?
- Accidents.com provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving further communications from us at any time by emailing us at . Please put Unsubscribe in the subject line and body of the email. You must email us from the address under which you registered under in order for unsubscribe to work.
- You can also click here to unsubscribe.
Does Accidents.com share personal information?
- We share users' information only with the Accidents.com partners from which the user has requested information from (i.e., if a user requests information about energy investing, we share your information with the sponsor (advertiser) of that offer).
- From time to time, we share aggregated data regarding the users of our services (for example, information such as the percentage of our users that are investors, or that users who choose one type of service request a related service a certain percentage of the time). Some of this data may include the data obtained as described in the "cookies" section, but no personally identifiable information is included in these types of statistics.
- Accidents.com may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating Accidents.com's Terms of Use.
- The same policy applies in cases where we believe an individual may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Accidents.com's rights or property, other Accidents.com users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
- Accidents.com may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services. Accidents.com may also display entity names as part of the registration process to facilitate an individual registrant's affiliation with the correct entity.
Disclosure on Accidents.com Offers
All Accidents.com offers are subject to participation by the partner (provider), product availability, and any applicable state or federal laws that govern such offers. Any offers shown are reasonable facsimiles, and participating partners (providers) reserve the right to withdraw offer, substitute another product, or modify offer at their sole discretion.
How does Accidents.com use cookies and the IP address information?
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information.
We use cookies for application functions, login purposes and to deliver content on our Web site that is specific to your interests, but we do not use information from cookies for any marketing purposes, nor do we make that information available to third parties.
The cookie does not track any personal information about you, provide us with any way to contact you, or extract any information from your computer.
We hope you will want the better service that cookies provide, but you may set your browser to refuse cookies. However, by doing so, you will not be able to successfully use this or many other web services.
How does Accidents.com work with other companies and how do these relationships affect user privacy?
- Accidents.com offers may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
- Certain products and services marketed through Accidents.com are made available by affiliate companies with which Accidents.com has a relationship. To obtain these products and services you may be required to visit another company's Web site or a site they share with Accidents.com. When ordering, registering for, or purchasing products or services from these alliances, you will be entering into an agreement with that company, and not with Accidents.com. In these cases, this privacy policy does not apply; instead, the privacy policy of the company providing the goods or services will apply.
We urge you to read and understand our affiliates' policies before entering into agreements with them. We are committed to partnering with companies that share our privacy concerns. Accidents.com, however, cannot control the way these partners collect or use information.
If you have questions about our affiliates' privacy policies or the privacy policies of these other sites, we encourage you to contact them directly.
How does Accidents.com secure information entered by visitors?
We use industry-standard technology to keep your personal information and information you have entered into our site as secure as possible. We also have put in place privacy protection control systems designed to ensure that your personal data remain safe and private.
Each and every Accidents.com employee servicing the website is obligated to abide by this privacy policy. Employees who violate our privacy policies are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.
Only authorized Accidents.com employees or technology partners servicing the website are permitted to have access to your personal information, and such access is limited by need.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Accidents.com may amend this policy from time to time.
Last updated: July 15, 2008
