Privacy and You at MURL
At MURL, we strive to provide excellent service to our members and business partners, while building long-lasting relationships. To help us deliver the best and most secure service we can, we occasionally collect user information when you visit our site. We know you take your privacy seriously. So do we. We respect your privacy and the security of the data you store with us. This Privacy Policy discloses our information-gathering and dissemination practices.
When you visit MURL, you may be providing information to MURL about your visit on two different levels:
- Personal information you knowingly give us.
- Anonymous statistical information collected as you use our site.
The Information That We Collect
Information You Knowingly Provide
Our site's registration form requires you to give us your email address, zip code and country. We use this information to help personalize our service.
We also use contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company and to keep you informed of products or services in which you might be interested. Contact information is also used to reach you, when necessary, regarding issues concerning the use of our service. To stop receiving future communication from us, select Preferences, then Newsletter. From the drop-down menu, select No thanks or Yes, please send me updates. Your answer will determine if you receive email from us.
From time to time, we may ask you for additional personal or organizational information in order to access certain features or to take advantage of promotional offers. This information may include your name, address, phone number and other similar information.
By using our Public Bookmark features, you can make your URLs and the related Titles and Descriptions you have assigned available to anyone to whom you provide your Username. We will not publish your Username or any other personally identifiable information to others. It is possible that others can view your Public bookmark information if they can determine your Username. You should avoid placing information in Public bookmarks that you do not wish to be viewed by others. Disclosure of your email address or other personally identifiable information in this manner may result in your receiving unsolicited email or "spam".
Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this information two ways. First, we use it to tune and expand our data infrastructure. This allows us to increase speed and improve the reliability of our service. Second, because we are advertising supported, we use the information to help us deliver advertising that is more meaningful to you.
Other Information
IP Addresses
We use your IP address and Domain Name (your computer's unique network identifier) for system administration purposes. This allows us to diagnose problems with our servers and to enhance the performance of our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you within our system and to gather broad demographic information.
Cookies
We use cookies to help us to deliver information specific to your interest and to maintain your login information during a single session. In addition, we may use cookies to save your password so that (if you choose) you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. You can learn more about Cookies by reading our Cookie Policy. Click on About, then click on Cookie Policy.
Broad Statistical Information
As you browse the site, MURL's computers collect information about your visit (not about you personally). Examples of the types of statistics we log include:
- How many people visit our site
- Which pages people visit on our site
- From which domains our visitors come (e.g., "domain.com" or "domain.net")
- where they go when they leave
- Which browsers are used to visit our site
We use these statistics to improve our Web site, to monitor its performance, and to make the site easier for you and other visitors to use.
How We Handle This Information
Sharing of Information
We never share the information you provide with any third parties unless we are required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on MURL; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of MURL; or (3) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of its members or the public.
MURL does not provide or sell names, contacts, or other personally identifiable information collected from our users to third parties.
Statistical and demographic data about our users may be shared with advertisers or partners on an aggregate basis (e.g., as part of a larger set of user statistics).
Information Security
We have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of information under our control.
Links to Other Sites
The MURL Web site contains links and banner ads with links to other Web sites. Please be aware that our privacy policy does not apply to those sites.
Changes to This Policy
Notification of Changes
If at some point in the future, there is a change to our information usage practices that affect your personal information, we will notify you by email of the relevant changes. At the time of this message, you will be able to opt-out of this information usage by sending a message to the following email: OptOut@murl.com. Also, you should periodically check this posted privacy statement for changes.
Correcting and Updating Your Personal Information
You can correct or update your personal information, through the Preferences area of our Web site. Click on User Info to edit your personal information.
You may unsubscribe from MURL by sending an email containing your request with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. If you so request, your account as well as all personal information will be deleted from our database. We will send an email confirming the deletion of your account if you provide us with a valid email address.
Questions and Concerns
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact:
aolsen@MURL.com
