Privacy Policy
Privacy of Personal Information
For users which signup to our website to submit articles to our online directory the data provided will be stored on a local, secure database. This data is only made available to Rank Higher and is only available internally on the network. To comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 we allow authors to delete their account to prevent their data and information being held longer than is needed to. Authors can only delete their account once they have logged in. All login information for authors is encrypted with the one-way MD5 hash algorithm to ensure further security. Rank Higher will never ask for your login information such as usernames and passwords. It is the author's responsibility to ensure their username and password are kept personally secure, the author should also ensure their personal details are kept up-to-date to ensure the validity of our data.
IP Addresses
The IP address used to access this website is stored within our database when you use one of our free SEO tools. We do this to ensure that visitors are not abusing or spamming our website to ensure the reliability of our website for other users. Your IP address is stored for a period of one hour whenever a free SEO tool is accessed and will be removed after this period. Within this one hour timeframe you are allowed upto 20 queries using our SEO tools, after this limit your browser will be redirected to our SPAM information page.
Cookies
Cookies are stored on the client's computer when sessions are used on our website. The cookie contains no personal information and only contains the session ID. The web server operating on our website stores the session information temporarily during the client's visit to our website. The cookie is removed upon ending the session of our website, which is automatically done upon leaving our website.
Newsletter
Subscribers to our newsletter will receive a weekly newsletter in their inbox containing hints, tips and tricks focusing on web development, internet marketing and search engine optimisation. Subscribers will have the ability to remove their e-mail address from our newsletter database. Anyone who uses the free online SEO tools and provides their e-mail address will automatically be subscribed to our weekly newsletter. Rank Higher reserves the right to remove any e-mail addresses from the database. The newsletter database is kept secure on our website and is only accessible internally. Rank Higher will from time-to-time place both graphical and textual advertisements within it's weekly newsletter. Rank Higher reserves the right to change the frequency of when the newsletter is distributed to the subscribers. At present, the subscription list for the newsletter is small, but as our website grows we will increase the frequency of when the newsletter is sent, possibly from weekly to daily. If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy or the terms and conditions for the use of website please do not hesitate to contact us using our website contact form.
