privacy policy

RouteRank Ltd („routeRANK“) takes your privacy seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to learn more about routeRANK’s use of your personal identifying information that routeRANK collects when you visit its website at www.routerank.com (this „Website“). routeRANK reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you. You are therefore responsible for regularly reviewing this Privacy Policy.

What this Privacy Policy covers

This Privacy Policy covers routeRANK’s treatment of personal identifying information (including, but not limited to, name and e-mail addresses, as well as travelers preferences) that routeRANK collects when you are on this Website and when you use services on this Website. This Privacy Policy also covers routeRANK’s treatment of any personal identifying information that routeRANK’s business partners share with routeRANK unless otherwise stated.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of any companies or legal entities that routeRANK does not own or control or to any persons that routeRANK does not employ.

Information Collection and Use

routeRANK does not collect personal identifying information when you access this Website homepage and browse this Website without disclosing your personal data (except cookies; see below under „cookies“).

routeRANK collects personal identifying information when you register on this Website, when you use certain products or services on the Website and when you enter promotions, sweepstakes or similar services sponsored by routeRANK or its business partners. routeRANK may also receive personal identifying information from its business partners.

When you register routeRANK asks for your name, e-mail address, and some other personal information. Once you register with routeRANK and/or sign in to our goods or services, you are not anonymous to routeRANK.

routeRANK also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your Internet Protocol address (IP address), which identifies your computer, routeRANK’s cookies information and the page you requested.

routeRANK uses information collected for three general purposes: for technical administration of the Website, for research and development to achieve and maintain a high service level and for customer information (to customise the content you see, to fulfil your request for certain products and services).

Information Sharing and Disclosure

routeRANK does not collect personal identifying information when you access this Website homepage and browse this Website without disclosing your personal data (except cookies; see below under „cookies“).

routeRANK may send personal identifying information about you to third parties when:

  • routeRANK has your consent to share the information;
  • routeRANK needs to share your information to provide the good or service you have requested;
  • routeRANK needs to send the information to third parties who work on behalf of routeRANK to provide a product or service to you (unless otherwise stated so, these third parties do not have any rights to use the personal identifying information routeRANK provides to them beyond what is necessary to provide a product or service to you);
  • routeRANK responds to courts or authorities; or
  • routeRANK finds that your actions on the Website violate this Website Terms and Conditions of Use or any other routeRANK’s guidelines or rules applicable for specific services.

Cookies

routeRANK may set and access routeRANK’s cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a website’s computer and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

routeRANK uses its own cookies for number of purposes, mainly to:

  • access your information when you „sign in“, so that we can provide you with customized content;
  • keep track of preferences you specify while you are using routeRANK services.
  • estimate and report our total audience size and traffic;
  • conduct research and development to improve this Website contents and services and achieve and maintain a high service level.

routeRANK may allows third parties that are presenting promotions or researching users response to advertisement on some of our pages to set and access their own cookies on your computer. Third parties‘ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not to this one.

Access to your personal identifying Information

routeRANK gives you the ability to access your personal identifying information by sending us an e-mail including in the title of the e-mail the reference to personal identifying information at info@routerank.com.

routeRANK allows you to challenge the data that it holds about you and you may have such data rectified, amended or completed.

Security

If you communicate with routeRANK by e-mail, you should note that the secrecy of Internet e-mail is uncertain. By sending sensitive or confidential e-mail messages or information which are not encrypted you accept the risk of such uncertainty and possible lack of confidentiality over the Internet.

routeRANK has however implemented appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security procedures to help protect the personal information provided (as firewalls and intrusion detection systems, among others).

External Links

If any part of this Website links you to other websites, those websites do not operate under this Privacy Policy. It is therefore recommended to examine the privacy statements posted on those other websites.

Privacy Compliance

routeRANK is subject to Swiss data protection laws when collecting and processing personal identifying information.

Jurisdiction

Any dispute related to the collecting and processing of personal identifying information shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Questions or Suggestions

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, please send an e-mail to info@routerank.com.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of November 1, 2008.