Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At W3Designs we have a few fundamental principles:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
In our products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team. Nic Myers Holdings LLC dba W3Designs. (“W3Designs”) operates several websites and applications including W3Designs.net, PassportPhotoApp.com. It is W3Designs’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website and application operators, W3Designs collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. W3Designs’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how W3Designs’s visitors use its website. From time to time, W3Designs may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

W3Designs also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments or reviews on our products. W3Designs only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to W3Designs’s websites choose to interact with W3Designs in ways that require W3Designs to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that W3Designs gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a account to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with W3Designs are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, W3Designs collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with W3Designs. W3Designs does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

W3Designs may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, W3Designs may monitor the most popular listings on our products. W3Designs may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, W3Designs does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

W3Designs discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on W3Designs’s behalf or to provide services available at W3Designs’s websites or applications, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using W3Designs’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. W3Designs will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, W3Designs discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when W3Designs believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of W3Designs, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an W3Designs website and have supplied your email address, W3Designs may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with W3Designs and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. W3Designs takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. W3Designs uses cookies to help W3Designs identify and track visitors, their usage of W3Designs website, and their website access preferences. W3Designs visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using W3Designs’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of W3Designs’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If W3Designs, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that W3Designs goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of W3Designs may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by W3Designs and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, W3Designs may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in W3Designs’s sole discretion. W3Designs encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Note: This privacy policy is released under the Creative Commons Sharealike License. Special thanks toAutomattic.