Privacy Policy

What information are you collecting and how are you collecting it?

Every computer connected to the Internet is given a domain name and a set of numbers that serve as that computers œInternet Protocol IP address. When a visitor requests a page from any Web site within the Aquatic Network, our Web servers automatically recognize that visitors domain name and IP address. The domain name and IP address reveal nothing personal about you other than the IP address from which you have accessed our site. We use this information to examine our traffic in aggregate, and to investigate misuse of the Aquatic Network, its users, or to cooperate with law enforcement. See also Will you disclose the information you collect to outside third parties? We do not collect and evaluate this information for specific individuals. Our Web servers do not automatically record e-mail addresses of the visitors.

What are cookies?

From time to time, Aquatic or its advertisers may send a cookie to your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your Internet browser from a Web server and stored on your computers hard drive. A cookie cant read data off of your computer hard disk or read cookie files created by other Web sites. Cookies do not damage your system. We use cookies to identify which areas of Aquatics Network you have visited or customized, so the next time you visit; those pages may be readily accessible. Our advertisers may also use cookies to ascertain how many times youve seen an advertisement. Our advertisers and we may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you see on our site. You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your Internet browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our Site and other Web sites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.

What information do you collect when I register for something?

Aquatic offers access to some services that require registration. We may use your registration contact information to send notification to you of Aquatic products and services by e-mail and/or postal mail. We also may share that information with our clients. Our clients may send you promotional material that is related to the topic of the service for which you registered. We may also use your IP address internally and share it with third parties. See Will you disclose the information that you collect to outside third parties?

What other information do you request?

We may also request your e-mail address or mailing address for the purposes of conducting a survey or to provide additional services (for example, subscriptions to e-mail newsletters, announcement lists or information about conferences and trade shows). Whenever we request the identity of a visitor, we will clearly indicate the purpose of the inquiry before the information is requested. We maintain a strict No-Spam policy that means that we do not sell, rent, or otherwise give your e-mail address to a third-party, without your consent or as permitted by this Privacy Policy.

We may from time to time send e-mail announcing new Aquatic products and services. Except as stated above, Aquatic will not send you e-mail that you have not agreed to receive. If you choose to supply your postal address in an online form, you may receive postal mailings from other third party companies.

When you sign up for a Aquatic discussion forum, your name or alias is recorded solely for purposes of maintaining your own account within the forums. This information is not used to monitor your activity within a forum, nor is it used to identify you outside the Aquatic Network.

When you register for a contest or other promotion, we may ask for your name, address, and e-mail address so we can administer the contest and notify winners.

When you use co-branded services, or those provided by a third party, within the Aquatic Network, your information may be passed to the co-brand or third party provider and their use of your information is subject to their applicable privacy policies.

What information do you collect when I purchase something?

No purchases are possible on deepseaaquatics.net. When you follow a link to any third party provider, you have exited deepseaaquatic.net. The third party may request your name, e-mail address, mailing address, credit card number and expiration date. This allows third party providers, to process and fulfill your order and to notify you of your order status. Credit card and e-mail information is not retained by deepseaaquatics.net and thereby can not be shared or sold to third parties.

Wherever Aquatic collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.

Will you disclose the information you collect to outside parties?

deepseaaquatics will disclose personal information and/or an IP address, when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities and conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on deepseaaquatics
• Protect and defend the rights or property of deepseaaquatics.net and related properties, or visitors to deepseaaquatics.net and related properties,
• Identify persons who may be violating the law, the deepseaaquatics legal notice and Web site User Agreement, the rights of third parties, or otherwise misusing the deepseaaquatics.net or its related properties,
• Fulfill a user’s order or request.

deepseaaquatics uses all reasonable precautions to keep the information disclosed to us secure. deepseaaquatics reserves the right to transfer all such information in connection with the sale of all or part of deepseaaquatics capital stock or assets. Furthermore, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive the information. We are not responsible for such third party privacy policies or how they treat information about their users see below, What else should I know about my privacy when online? See What information do you collect when I register for something?

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When the website permits user comments on blog posts and visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitors 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 if provided 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.

What else should I know about my privacy online?

deepseaaquatics contains many hyperlinks to third party Web sites. deepseaaquatics may also contains advertisements of third parties. deepseaaquatics is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third party Web sites or advertisers. deepseaaquatics does not share any of the individual personal information you provide with the third parties to which deepseaaquatics links, except as stated elsewhere within this Privacy Policy, although deepseaaquatics may share general, aggregate data with such third parties (such as how many people use our site). Please check with those Web sites to determine their privacy policy.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online – for example through e-mail, discussion lists, or elsewhere – that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the condidentialty of your personal information. Ensure you are careful and vigilant and responsible whenever you’re online.