Your Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. You agree to these policies by virtue of using our website in a way that leads to you providing us with personal information.
State Law & Accompanying Rights
Please understand that you may have additional rights originating from State laws based on where you live. These State-based rights may augment, strengthen, or otherwise complement any privacy rights you have inherently or under Federal law. Our policy is to comply fully with the privacy policies of every jurisdiction in which we operate. Accordingly, you are free to use our contact information to reach us at any time to assert any State rights.
Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, our website will never collect or maintain information from those we actually know are under 18, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 18.
Under our Terms of Service and Conditions of Use, children under 18 are not allowed to use our website and access our services. It is not our intention to offer products or services to minors.
Google Analytics
TDS USA uses Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the site. The tool uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of this website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.
We will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personally Identifiable Information of visitors to our site. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Other Collection of Personal Information
When visiting our website, the IP address used to access our website may be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer our website, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for internal use such as statistical assessments and website improvement. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Other information may be collected as well, which is typical of most websites. For instance, the source that referred you to our website is generally known. Likewise, your duration on our website, and your destination when you leave our website, can also be tracked. Other common data collected includes the type of operating system you are using and the type of web browser. Again, this is common data collection, and helps ultimately produce a better end-user experience.
Cookies are another common internet practice. Cookies are a key means of improving user experience by allowing us to customize your use of our website. Simple information is transferred to your computer to allow the content and experience to reflect your actions, preferences, and so on. You should assume our website uses cookies, and note that you are free to make adjustments in your web browser to disable these or otherwise receive notification of cookies. Please understand that refusing cookies may cripple some of our website features.
At times, you will be fully aware of information received, as you are the direct source providing it — for instance, when you reply to an email, provide an email address, complete a survey, or request information. Refusing to provide some of this information may lead to us being unable to provide you with the products or services you’ve requested.
Where content may be protected by a username and password, these will almost always be connected with other information related to or connected with you. Usernames and passwords, by their very nature, should be kept private.
Handling of Personal Information
Note that any personal information you provide to others apart from us or our vendors is wholly optional. As an example, you might disclose something in a blog post comment. That “private” information is now “public,” and we have no control over that. In like fashion, sharing information with any other third party not functioning as a service provider to us puts that information beyond our control and becomes subject to the policy that party has in place.
Our primary intention for collecting personal and private information from you is simply to conduct our business. We can use this internally to better serve you. Accordingly, we see no reason to share your personal information with other parties and outside interests unless you have authorized us to do so.
Of course, there are instances where your information is stored with third party service providers, such as email service providers, as they provide industry-leading services. However, you are never required to deal with any such third party directly, they are limited in how they use your information, and they cannot sell or transfer it to others in any way.
Your information may comprise part of an overall whole. This aggregate of information may be used to understand our overall user base, and we may share aggregate information about our website visitors as a whole — not individually — with third parties for various purposes, in our sole discretion.
While we are staunch privacy advocates, there are times when we may be compelled to share data — for instance, in response to legal compulsion, or in cases of suspected illegal activity. In those cases, we reserve the right to share your information, or may simply be compelled to do so by law.
Third Party Advertising
Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, may use cookies to serve ads on this website. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website, including past visits, as well as other websites on the internet.
To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy. Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms is subject to Google’s own privacy policies.
Other third party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track user activity on this website. Our website has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third party advertisers.
Links to Third Party Websites
We have included links on this website for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these websites may differ from our own.
Comments Policy
By posting on our website, you agree to the following ground rules:
- You may comment without registering, and may post anonymously, though we don’t recommend it.
- You may post follow-up questions. Others are likely thinking similarly, and addressing everyone at once is more useful than email.
- You may disagree with us — we welcome respectful debate.
- TDS USA reserves the right to delete comments that are off-topic, libelous, defamatory, abusive, harassing, threatening, profane, pornographic, offensive, false, misleading, or that violate intellectual property laws or constitute spam.
- You retain ownership of your comments. We do not own them and disclaim any liability that may result from them.
- You grant TDS USA a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, use, transmit, display, publish, reproduce, and distribute your comments in any format.
Change Notice
The contents of this page can and will change over time. Accordingly, this page could read differently as of your very next visit. These changes are necessitated, and carried out by TDS USA, in order to protect you and our website. If this page is important to you, you should check back frequently as no other notice of changed content will be provided either before or after the change takes effect.
Copyright Notice
The legal notices and administrative pages on this website have been diligently drafted by an attorney. We at TDS USA have paid to license the use of these legal notices for your protection and ours. This material may not be used in any way for any reason and unauthorized use is policed via Copyscape to detect violators.
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions about the contents of this page, or simply wish to reach us for any other reason, you may do so via our contact page or by emailing info@tdsusa.net.