SearchRamp.com Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy covers the SearchRamp.com treatment of personal information that is recorded when you submit your site for inclusion in our database.

Our privacy policy does not apply to the practices of other companies advertised, or otherwise listed, on the SearchRamp.com web site, nor does it extend to people that SearchRamp.com does not employ or manage.

At SearchRamp.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit SearchRamp.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties. The SearchRamp.com Web site is owned and operated by IcoLogic, Inc.

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us though our Contact Page

Voluntary Submission

SearchRamp.com does not collect personally identifying information about any individual web site user except when knowingly provided by such individual. For example, when a visitor comes to SearchRamp.com to read an article, we do not ask for nor do we collect personally identifiable information. 

Search Engine / Web Site Directory

When a person submits a URL to be evaluated and possibly added to our search index and/or our directory of web sites, we require the person to include an email address to receive a confirmation email when the URL has been added to our database.  You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still utilize most of the SearchRamp.com Web site, but you may be unable to access certain options and services.

Each SearchRamp.com search engine listing allows for an email address to be associated with it, which is provided by the person who submits the URL for listing at the time of submission. SearchRamp is part of a network of search engine and directory web sites and these search engines exchange listing information to give the user more exposure for their web site.  These network search engine and directory web sites may also receive the email address submitted along with the listing URL and may use this email address for business contact purposes

Cookies

A cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to your computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. SearchRamp.com uses cookies solely to track user traffic patterns throughout the SearchRamp.com Web site. We use this data on an anonymous basis and we do not correlate this information with personal data of any user.

Most Web site browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However, if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our Web site, you may not be able to use certain features of the site.

We also use third party advertisements on SearchRamp.com to help support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and various browser options you may have installed on your web browser. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited.

Log Files & Browser Level Information

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP address, your Internet Service Provider, the web browser you used to visit our site, the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site. If available, we may also record referral information to determine how you were referred to our site from external web sites.

Use of Information

Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience on our Web site. We achieve this goal by, among other things, providing interactive communications such as our welcome email, and developing future products and services based on your interests. To develop content targeted to your interests, we use aggregated user information to determine which areas of our Web site users prefer based upon traffic to those areas.

SearchRamp.com derives the majority of its revenue from advertising. In order to attract and retain advertisers we may use the aggregated, anonymous information that we gather to describe our services to partners and to assist our advertisers and sponsors to better understand our audience. We do not disclose personally identifying information about our users to these parties.

SearchRamp.com may also disclose information about our users when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is required by law.

Web Form contact information is monitored on SearchRamp to help detect and deter unwanted email messages.

When you are on an area of SearchRamp.com and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with SearchRamp.com as well as business partners and vendors providing hosting and other services for SearchRamp.com. If you do not want your information to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer of your information by not using that particular service. These parties, as well as advertisers who contract directly with a third-party service to serve their advertisements, may set their own cookies.

In addition, any personally identifiable information provided by our users as part of an advertiser promotion online may be provided directly to advertisers.

Please be aware that SearchRamp.com sponsors, advertisers or Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those parties and Web sites linked to SearchRamp.com are not covered by this privacy statement. SearchRamp.com users should also be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas or bulletin boards, that information may be collected by others and may result in unsolicited messages from others.

Kids under 13: Do not send any information about yourself to us, including information such as your name, address, or e-mail address. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us though our Contact Page

This statement may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.

Definitions:

IP address: Every computer connected to the Internet has a numeric address called an “IP address." This may or may not correspond uniquely to a particular computer. In some cases, IP addresses can be resolved to domain names, which may indicate a site visitor's Internet service provider, employer, university, etc. As part of its database analysis SearchRamp.com resolves IP addresses to domain names.

Browser type: A user’s browser is a software program running on a computer that allows users to access documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers can be either text or graphic. They read HTML coded pages that reside on a server and interpret the coding into what the user sees as Web pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer are examples of Web browsers. Browser type typically discloses hardware platform, operating system, and browser software and version.

Referrer: The referrer is the URI of the Internet resource or page that causes a browser to request a page or image from SearchRamp.com servers.