Privacy Policy

Dustin Boling Associates is committed to honoring the privacy of our members and visitors. This privacy policy, part of our overall Terms of Service, covers personally identifiable information shared through Dustin Boling Associates.

Dustin Boling Associates PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated November 30, 2012

Dustin Boling Associates takes your privacy seriously. We will not sell, lease, or exchange your personal data to, or otherwise share your personal data with, third parties in ways other than described in this Privacy Policy. By using Dustin Boling Associates, including services available at the dustinboling.com and dbawp.com domains, you are using a service provided by Dustin Boling Associates (the “Service”) and you agree to be bound by the Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy. Some capitalized terms used in this Privacy Policy and not otherwise defined may be defined in the Terms of Service. This Privacy Policy only addresses activities from our servers.

1. Information Collection & Use

  • Registration
    The Dustin Boling Associates Service requires a login in order to provide you with a personalized account. During our account registration process, we will collect a login name, password, and an email address from you. You must provide all of this information in order to obtain an account. After completing our registration form, you will receive a welcome email describing your new Dustin Boling Associates account, and how to access that account.   You may, at your option, also store your social media credentials as part of your account with our Service.
  • Account Subscriptions
    If you choose to continue service with Dustin Boling Associates via a paid account, Dustin Boling Associates will collect personally identifiable information (credit card number, billing address, phone number) and keep this information on file in our secure server in order to process your recurring invoices. This information is only used to verify credit card authenticity, and issue invoices as per your service agreement. Upon discontinuation of Dustin Boling Associates service, your information will be destroyed on our billing system.
    If we are unable to process your subscription for a given month, this information, along with your account information, may be used to contact you.
  • Tell-A-Friend Tools
    Dustin Boling Associates provides a number of tools that will allow you to promote your website (or articles on your website) over email. Email addresses entered into these forms are not stored in our database, but may be stored in our system logs in text format to assist us in tracking down abusive users (users flooding the system), or using these tools for spamming. We will never contact addresses logged in this manner. The email sent through any of these mechanisms is a one time email only.
  • Hosted websites
    Users hosting websites with Dustin Boling Associates are given tools that may ask you to optionally enter your email address when making comments on their website, or contacting them through their website. Since users on Dustin Boling Associates can manipulate the HTML code on their site directly, there are opportunities available for a malicious user to inject code that would log your information before it reaches our system. In addition, once in our system, website owners will have the opportunity to review and modify any information entered into their website. Since we do not have full control over how members run their individual sites, this privacy policy does not apply to any hosted Dustin Boling Associates website that you do not own. You should check that you trust the owner of a particular website before submitting personally identifiable information on that site.
  • Server Logs
    When accessing web pages on the dustinboling.com and dbawp.com domains, Dustin Boling Associates may log your IP address, access URL, time of access, browser type, and referral URL in order to provide us with internal information regarding site traffic statistics. This information may also be used to identify users who are using the service for spam or other activity that is deemed in conflict with our Terms of Service. This information is used in the aggregate, and is never linked back to any personally identifiable information.

2. Uses of Information

Dustin Boling Associates collects the aforementioned personally identifiable information in order to provide you with a service that allows you to maintain an online presence. Various features in our website management system will, at your discretion, display your name, or adjust the date and time of events based on your locale. The Dustin Boling Associates Website Manager interface will always give you an option before any piece of your personally identifiable information is presented on your website, and situations where information will be published is made clear in various spots in the interface (for example, your name is tied to welcome emails you send out from our system, and notice of this is given to you within the interface for that tool).

Dustin Boling Associates also uses information collected through its Service to send out notifications regarding service related issues (such as maintenance periods, billing problems, account expirations, and other items that may impact service). We do not send contact information unless the matter is deemed urgent, and most communication will occur through your Dustin Boling Associates Website Manager interface.   We also may use your information to send you messages regarding new services or other products from Dustin Boling Associates, but will not share this information with third parties for any marketing purposes.

Information collected through our service logs is used only to identify potential cases of abuse and establish statistical information regarding website traffic. This statistical information is not aggregated in such a way that would identify any particular user of the system.

Dustin Boling Associates is the sole owner of information collected on www.dustinboling.com. Your information is never shared, leased or given to any third parties in ways other than disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

3. Information Security

We store all user information in secure databases protected via a variety of industry-standard access controls. Secure passwords, SSL encryption, disk-based encryption, firewalls, and other measures are in place that helps us to protect your data. This data is accessed only for the purposes specified in this privacy statement.

If you have any questions about security on our website, you can review our hosting FAQ or send us a support request using our support system.

4. Access to Personally Identifiable Information

  • Changing Information
    All information that Dustin Boling Associates stores related to your account, including any subscription billing information, is accessible through your Dustin Boling Associates Website Manager interface. You may use this interface to adjust your information at any time, and we encourage you to keep this information up to date so that your customer service requests and billing processes operate efficiently.
  • Removing Information
    To remove your personally identifiable information from our system, submit your account for deactivation. Your personal information will be removed immediately, though your actual login name will remain reserved on our system until re-collection. If you wish to only remove your billing subscription information, cancel your paid account. Both of these removals can be accessed through your Dustin Boling Associates Website Manager interface.

5. Communications from Dustin Boling Associates

  • Service-related Announcements We will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
  • Other Messages
    We may also send you messages from time to time about new features or services that we will offer to our users.   You may opt-out of these communications at any time by clicking on the link at the bottom of our communications to you, or by changing your preferences in your profile.
  • Customer Service
    Upon issuing a customer support request to Dustin Boling Associates, we may use your information and email address to contact you regarding your inquiry.

6. Information Sharing and Disclosure

  • Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
    We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. This information contains statistics related to traffic and the geographic location of our customers.    We also may share aggregated user information with third parties who help us to analyze our user base to improve the Service.
    We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
  • Personally Identifiable Information
    Dustin Boling Associates employs third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf.   Examples include credit card processing, email service providers, analyzing data, providing customer service.   These service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for any other purposes.
    In the event of a business transfer or sale by Dustin Boling Associates, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the commitments made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy (unless, of course, you consent otherwise).
    We may release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Terms of Service; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Dustin Boling Associates, our users, or others.  This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
    Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

7. Log Files

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

8. Cookies

Like most websites, we use small bits of data called cookies stored on users’ computers to simulate a continuous connection. Cookies let us ‘remember’ information about your preferences and passwords and allow you to move within our Service without reintroducing yourself. Members who disable cookies will not be able to use the Service, as they are required to maintain your login to our service within a browser session. Disabling cookies does not prevent you from accessing websites published under our system, though some features of those sites may be degraded.

These cookies can be tied back to personally identifiable information only in the event that you are logged in to our Service. If you are logged in to our Service, the cookies on your computer will uniquely identify your account within our system.

This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Dustin Boling Associates only.

9. Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms/Member Websites

If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, or on any Dustin Boling Associates member website, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Certain information, such as your name and IP address are logged by our system when posting messages, and are made available to the owner of the website you are posting on. These items may be displayed to readers of the site you are posting on, depending on the settings of that particular site. If you would not like to have these details disclosed, refrain from posting messages to any Dustin Boling Associates bulletin board or chat room.

10. Links to Other Sites

This Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Dustin Boling Associates Please be aware that we, Dustin Boling Associates, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by this Website.

11. Business Transitions

In the event Dustin Boling Associates goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

12. Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website.

13. Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.   We will not materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice within your Dustin Boling Associates Website Manager interface.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us by using our support system.

Dustin Boling Associates is located at:
Dustin Boling Associates 369 San Miguel, Suite 125, Newport Beach, CA 92660

All correspondence should be sent to:
Dustin Boling Associates ([email protected])  369 San Miguel, Suite 125, Newport Beach, CA 92660