At AllFireAlarms.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit AllFireAlarms.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties. That is our promise.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums. Cookies are like a sort of ID pass that one uses on a temporary basis when visiting any website.
We also use third party advertisements on AllFireAlarms.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick cookies
Google uses a DoubleClick cookie, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about flower arrangement, you may see flower arrangement advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about swimming).
This DoubleClick cookie uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
Controlling your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways: If or whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, you will always be given the opportunity to unsubscribe or be removed from any mailings or marketing. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by emailing us at admin@allfirealarms.com.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your explicit permission or are required by law to do so. However, unless you filled up a form and gave your information, it is most unlikely that any of your personal information would even be collected by us, apart from non-personally identifiable information via the use of cookies, as already explained above.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you or if you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, or if you have any questions, please contact us at admin@allfirealarms.com. We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time.