This privacy policy outlines the manner in which Data Center Frontier collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users to Data Center Frontier website and subscribers to our newsletters.
Committed to Safe Guarding Your Privacy Data Center Frontier is committed to safeguarding the information users entrust to Data Center Frontier and believes every user should know how Data Center Frontier utilizes the information collected.
Information We Collect Data Center Frontier may collect personally identifiable information (including demographic and biographic information) from users in a variety of ways, such as when you register for a newsletter, white paper, webinar, RSS Feeds or events. Data Center Frontier may also collect information about how users use our Website, for example, by tracking the number of pages viewed. We may use “cookies” to track how users use our website. A cookie is a piece of software that a web server can store on the users’ PC to identify the user should they visit the web site again. While not all of the information that we collect from users is personally identifiable, it may be associated with personally identifiable information that users provide us through our website. We currently use third party ad software to serve ads on our site. The cookies received with banner ads served by this software are used to collect and build anonymous behavioral profiles by these companies to deliver targeted ads and tracking referrals.
How this Information May be Used Data Center Frontier and its trusted business partners may use personally identifiable information collected through the website to contact users regarding relevant products and services, and otherwise to enhance the users’ experience. Data Center Frontier may also use information collected through our website for research regarding the effectiveness of the website, advertising and sales efforts of Data Center Frontier, its trusted business partners.
Disclosure of Information/Consent to Use
Data Center Frontier may disclose information collected from users when we have your consent, to provide you with any offering you have requested or authorized, or as and for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. Data Center Frontier may disclose information collected, including personally identifying information, if a) the disclosure is necessary or useful to our provision of services or operation of the website; b) we believe in good-faith that the disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect our rights, interests, or property; c) we are acting in good faith protect your safety or the safety of others, or to investigate fraud; d) we believe in good faith that the disclosure is necessary to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; or e) a third party acquires us or the website, in which case your information will likely be among the assets transferred. By using the Data Center Frontier website, you expressly grant Data Center Frontier and its vendors and business partners consent to use of your information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Controlling Your Personal Data
You can make choices about the collection and use of your data by Data Center Frontier. You have a variety of tools to control the data collected by cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. For example, you can use controls in your internet browser to limit how the websites you visit are able to use cookies and to withdraw your consent by clearing or blocking cookies. You can also refuse to accept cookies in any pop-up box contained on the website. If you block the use of cookies, you may still gain access to some of the Data Center Frontier website, but you may not be able to conduct certain types of activities.
You can control the use of your personal data by “opting out” or “unsubscribing” on any emails, messages or pages where that option is provided for you.
In addition, if you want to access or control personal data that is not available via the tools above, you can contact Data Center Frontier at privacy@datacenterfrontier.com
Maintaining and Safeguarding Information
We utilize industry standard information technology security to keep users’ information secure. Notwithstanding, as effective as our reasonable security measures may be, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases and cannot guarantee that personally identifiable information supplied to us will not be intercepted or accessed.
We also attempt to have privacy protection controls in place with our vendors and business partners in order to ensure that users’ personal information is protected from unauthorized access or disclosure. All third-party’s use and sharing of your information will be subject to such provider’s privacy and consent policies. One such provider we use is Google. For Google’s privacy policies and user consent policy go to https://policies.google.com. By use of Data Center Frontier’s website, you expressly consent to Google’s privacy policies and, if you are a user located in the EEA and/or UK, to Google’s EU User Consent Policy found at http://policies.google.com.
Though we endeavor to use generally accepted industry vendors and business partners, we are not responsible for any third-party’s use or sharing of your information. Additional vendors and business partners we use that may collect, receive and/or use your information are listed at the end of this policy along with a link to their respective privacy and user consent policies. We encourage you to review each one carefully.
All of our employees must abide by our privacy policy. Only authorized employees are permitted to access users’ personally identifiable information. If an employee violates our privacy policies, he or she will be subject to our disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Nevertheless, Data Center Frontier cannot guarantee that users’ information will be completely secure.
Linked Sites and Third-Party Use of Information
Other websites that you visit, including any such sites linked from or to our website (such as websites of licensors, if any), may have separate privacy policies or no policy at all. Other websites may use personally identifiable information differently than our policy permits so we strongly encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party site before you provide your personally identifiable information thereon. You agree that we are not responsible for the unauthorized third-party use of your information.
How to Update Your Information
It is important that we keep only the most accurate, up-to-date information about you in our records. Therefore, if you believe that our records contain information that needs to be updated, you can email us at privacy@datacenterfrontier.com to correct or update your contact information. You may also email us at privacy@datacenterfrontier.com to remove your name, telephone, postal and email addresses from lists that we maintain for the purpose of sending out notices or updates, or to request that we refrain from disclosing your personally identifiable information to third parties.
Interest Enhanced Advertising
Data Center Frontier uses advanced ad serving technology to offer interest-based advertising. This platform uses unique cookies to identify and collect data such as web browser type, browsing habits etc. and to store that data for advertising purposes. The data we collect with this targeting is considered non-personally identifiable information. This data is information that cannot be used to identify, contact or locate a particular individual or entity. We use this data in order to deliver you more relevant advertising and to enhance your experience.
Revisions to Privacy Policy
This is the current policy regarding the usage of personally identifying information and data collected by Data Center Frontier. We re-evaluate this policy on an ongoing basis based on changes in applicable law, requirements of our vendors and business partners, best practices, and feedback from the industry and our users. Data Center Frontier may change this privacy policy at any time by posting the updated policy on our website. If there are any changes to the use of personally identifiable information that is different from that which was stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by posting a clear notice of such on our website.
Vendors and Business Partners
See the list below for links to the privacy policies and user consent policies that may be applicable to you and the data collected in connection with your visits to Data Center Frontier:
Partner / Privacy Policy
Google / https://policies.google.com
Broadstreet / https://broadstreetads.com/privacy-policy
Flexitive / https://app.flexitive.com/signup/privacy
Questions Users may direct questions concerning this Privacy Policy by email to: privacy@datacenterfrontier.com
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