Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 12, 2015
Introduction
The owners and operators of HDwallpapers.net take your online privacy seriously. This statement governs information collected by our servers and the limited ways in which that information is used.
Information Collected Upon Registration
By creating an account, you are volunteering certain information about yourself that will be stored on our servers. This data includes at a minimum a username, password, a valid email address and your country name. Additional information may optionally be added by you to your account profile. Your profile information is public and may appear on our web site, with the exception of your email address and password.
Please note that when you create an Account, your profile page will display your Account user name and certain statistics regarding your own use of the Services, including but not limited to, the date you became an Account holder, the materials you posted, downloaded or favourited.
Additional Information
Your full user name and your photo, if you decide to upload one, are displayed to people on the HDwallpapers.net Site. Once a member, you may provide additional information in the profile section, including but not limited to your bio, your location, as well as your personal web site, if you have one. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional.
Personally Identified Data
We strongly discourage users from entering their phone number, physical address, or other sensitive information in user profiles, comments, or other areas of the site. Furthermore, we request that minors and any individuals with limited decision making ability not create an account on this site without the approval and supervision of a guardian.
We make a reasonable attempt to monitor for cases where users post personally identifiable information about other individuals to public portions of the web site and remove the offending material.
Cookies
Like many websites, we also use "cookie" technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve the Site and our Service.
What are cookies?A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is downloaded on to your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used by many websites and can do a number of things, eg remembering your preferences, recording what you have put in your shopping basket, and counting the number of people looking at a website.
For a more detailed explanation, see the types of cookies below:
How can I control my cookies?You can use your web browser to:
- delete all cookies
- block all cookies
- allow all cookies
- block third-party cookies
- clear all cookies when you close the browser
- open a 'private browsing' session
- install add-ons and plug-ins to extend browser functionality
- Internet Explorer cookies information
- Chrome cookies information
- Firefox cookies information
- Safari cookies information
- Opera cookies information
Third-party Advertisers
The Services may include the use of ad banner partners for the serving and/or targeting of ads, promotions, and other marketing messages. These ads may be provided, in some cases, by a third party ad service provider. The ad service provider may place or utilize their own unique cookie on your browser, and may use non-personally identifiable information about your visit to our sites, such as the number of times you have viewed the ad. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies for interest based advertising, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
HDwallpapers.net is not responsible for the collection of these cookies and is not responsible for the actions of the ad service providers. We does not sponsor, endorse or guarantee any products or services advertised by third parties on its site.
To EU Users: Please read our disclosure notice as part of our compliance to the EU user consent policy:
We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. For more information on how Google uses data when you use our partner’ sites or apps, visit this link: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
Our 3rd party advertisers include Google Adsense, Criteo, Lijit (Sovrn), and several affiliate networks (see below). These services may use cookies to help them tailor ads to individual interests, and we have no access to or control over these cookies as they are served by a third party. Below are additional details about each service:
a. Google AdSense (Google Inc.):
Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google Inc. This service uses the “Doubleclick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Application and User behaviour concerning ads, products and services offered.
Users may decide to disable all the Doubleclick Cookies by clicking on: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout.
Personal Data collected: Cookie and Usage data.
Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
b. Criteo (Criteo SA):
Criteo is an advertising service provided by Criteo SA. specializes in ad retargeting.
Personal Data collected: Cookie and Usage data.
Place of processing: France – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
c. Lijit (Sovrn Holdings)
Lijit is a third party advertising vendor with the following policies:
Personal Data collected: Cookie and Usage data.
Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to help analyze the performance of our website. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies” to help analyze how users use the website. Cookies also give us insight into demographic and interest data. None of the data acquired is personally identifiable. We do not combine personally identifiable information we obtain through other methods with data from Google Analytics.
You can prevent Google Analytics from using cookies by installing the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On. To understand how Google uses data when you use partner sites, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.
Facebook-Plugins (Like-Button, Comments)
Our pages integrate plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. You can recognize Facebook-plugins by the Facebook-Logo or the addition "Facebook Social Plugin" or the "Like-Button" ("Like") on our pages. You can find an overview of Facebook-plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
When visiting our pages, the plugin establishes a connection between your browser and the Facebook-server. Thereby Facebook gains information on the fact that you visited our site by your IP-address. If you interact with the plugins, e. g. you click on the Facebook "Like-Button" or enter a comment, while being logged on to your Facebook-Account, you link the contents of our pages to your Facebook-profile. Thereby Facebook can correlate your visit of our site with your user account. We point out that we as provider of the pages do not have any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data as well as no knowledge of its usage by Facebook. You can find more information on that issue in the privacy policy of Facebook at http://facebook.com/policy.php
If you do not want to have Facebook correlate your visit on our site with your Facebook-account, please log out from your Facebook-account.
Log Data
When you visit the Site, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website ("Log Data" ). This information may include your internet protocal (IP) address, which in many cases can be translated to an affiliation (such as your work, school, or internet service provider), or a geographical location. We do not associate your IP address with any other personally identifiable information to identify you personally, except in case of violation of the Terms of Service.
Links to Other Sites
HDwallpapers.net Website may contain links to websites and services provided by third parties. Any Personal Information you provide on third-party websites or services is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party’s policies governing privacy and security.
Personal Data Protection
HDwallpapers.net does not share or sell personally identifiable data to third parties such as spammers or direct marketers. We respect your privacy.
Security of Information
Your information is stored on servers located in the United States. A combination of encryption techniques and authentication procedures is used to maintain the security of your online session and to protect your account and our systems from unauthorized access. Please be aware, however, that no method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing information is completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of any information.
Our Policy Towards Children
We do not intend that children under 13 years old will use our Services. We do not solicit or knowingly collect information from children under 13 years old, nor will we accept registration from them.
Special Note to International Users
HDwallpapers.net Website is hosted in the United States. If you access or use HDwallpapers.net or the Website from the European Union, or any other region outside of the United States, the laws governing data collection and use may differ from the United States law. Please note that you are transferring your personal data outside of those jurisdictions to the United States. The United States does not have the same data protection laws as the European Union and other regions. By providing Personal Information under this Privacy Policy, you consent to the use of Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the transfer of your Personal Information to the United States.
Data Retention and Availability
The data submitted to and generated by this web site may be copied to additional machines for redundancy and backup purposes.
Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy
Although most changes are likely to be minor, HDwallpapers.net may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in HDwallpapers.net sole discretion. We 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.
Privacy Questions / Feedback
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please Contact Us.