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YKEES respects and protects the privacy of the individuals that use Ykees's metasearch and multisearch services. Individually identifiable information about you is not willfully disclosed to any third party without first receiving your permission, as explained in this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy").
Anonymous User Information
YKEES collects some anonymous information each time you visit YKEES Web site so we can improve the overall quality of your online experience. We collect your IP address, referral data, and browser and platform type. You do not have to register with YKEES before we can collect this anonymous information.
The YKEES Web site do not require you to share information that identifies you personally, such as your name or e-mail address, in order for you to use the YKEES Web site. The Ykees Web site assign an anonymous ID number to your requests and links the following additional data to that number: the date and time you visited the YKEES Web site, your search terms, and the links upon which you choose to click. Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information. YKEES analyzes the information to examine trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Cookies
Upon your first visit to YKEES, YKEES sends a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a piece of data that identifies you as a unique user. YKEES uses cookies to improve the quality of our service and to understand our user base more. YKEES does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. YKEES will not disclose its cookies to third parties except as required by a valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Be aware, however, that some parts of the YKEES Web site may not function properly if you refuse cookies.
Individual User Information
From time-to-time the YKEES Web site request information from you that may identify you personally in addition to the anonymous information described above. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name, e-mail address), and demographic information (such as age, gender, occupation, and household income). YKEES will not use or disclose your individual user information except as described in this privacy policy.
YKEES collects individual user information when you register for newsletter and a free user on YKEES Web site. The individual user information may be collected and stored by a third party partner (ListPower.com). This partner will store your individual user information on their servers for a period of time and respects your privacy. This partner does not sell, rent or give any identifiable personal information regarding its members to any third party unless the member has subscribed to such services on his/her own. More information about Privacy Statement of this partner.
Contact Ykees
If you contact YKEES, we may keep a record of that correspondence and we may collect your e-mail address.
Tell-A-Friend
If you elect to use our referral service for informing a friend about any of our sites, we ask you for your friend's name and e-mail address. YKEES will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit the YKEES Web site. YKEES does not store the information related to your friends and the one-time e-mail sent pursuant to your input will be our only contact with that person for such input.
Third Party Information Gathering
The YKEES Web site include content and ads from third parties that may perform user activity tracking other than that described herein. For more information about each third party content provider, cookies, and how to "opt-out", please refer to such third party advertiser's privacy policy.
The YKEES Web site contain links to other sites on the Web. Please be aware that YKEES is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Sharing
Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a criminal investigation, a court order, or legal process served on our Web site. We may also share your personal information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of YKEES 's or such YKEES Web site's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
YKEES Web site may use third party service providers to serve ads and e-mails on our behalf. These companies may use technologies to measure the effectiveness of ads and e-mails and use information about your visits to the YKEES Web site so that we can provide a better search experience to you. For this purpose, we may also provide these third party service providers anonymous information about your site navigation.
Your consent and changes to the Privacy Policy
By using the YKEES Web site, you consent to the collection and use of your information as we have outlined in this policy and to our Terms of use. YKEES may decide to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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