ineedhits.com -"Driving Visitors (hits) to your web site", FIRST TO EARN TRUSTe
PRIVACY SEAL IN IT'S MARKET
ineedhits.com is the first Search Engine Submission Company to be awarded this
Privacy Seal for its Commitment to Consumer Privacy and Safety.
(1st of February) 2002 - ineedhits.com -"Driving Visitors (hits) to your
web site", today announced that it is the first Search Engine Submission
Company to obtain TRUSTe Certification and Privacy Seal. Today's announcement
demonstrates that ineedhits.com respects its customers by upholding the privacy
protection guidelines pioneered by TRUSTe.
Exemplifying its commitment to consumer privacy and security, ineedhits.com
-"Driving Visitors (hits) to your web site", and it's web properties have
passed TRUSTe's extensive evaluation of its privacy practices and will follow
TRUSTe's stringent requirements of notice, choice, access, security and
redress. Beginning immediately, ineedhits.com will prominently display the
TRUSTe Privacy Seal on its Web site. By clicking on the TRUSTe Privacy Seal,
Web site visitors can easily review the details of the company's privacy and
security policy. The TRUSTe Privacy Seal distinguishes ineedhits.com -"Driving
Visitors (hits) to your web site", as a responsible and trustworthy company
invested in clearly communicating how the company's Web site handles personal
information.
"It gives our client base and new customers a feeling of professionalism and
privacy when they visit ineedhits.com and co-branded partnership sites. The
experience we aim to create is a secure place to purchase services to promote
your web site effectively. We are all about ways of improving our relationships
with our customers," said Rachel O'Brien, Co-CEO of ineedhits.com.
"With TRUSTe it is a testament of how we aim to continue to protect and look
after our customers, with over 440 000 webmasters and thousands signing up each
day, TRUSTe gives our consumer, confidence."
The TRUSTe Privacy Seal is a consumer branded symbol that signifies that a Web
site has posted a privacy statement and, moreover, that the company's
information gathering and dissemination practices address the elements of
notice, choice, access, security and redress outlined in the Federal Trade
Commission's Fair Information Practices. Specifically, TRUSTe's licensees agree
to:
disclose their information gathering and dissemination practices
give consumers choice - through opt-in or opt-out - to limit any secondary uses
of their personal information
provide consumers with access to their personal information to correct any
inaccuracies
ensure that reasonable security mechanisms are being used to protect the data
that is collected
"By becoming a TRUSTe licensee, ineedhits.com gives its customers a clear
signal that it is trustworthy and respects the privacy wishes of the people who
visit its Web sites," said Fran Maier, Executive Director of TRUSTe. "We are
pleased to have ineedhits.com as part of our distinguished roster of
participants in the TRUSTe Privacy Seal program."
ineedhits.com -"Driving Visitors (hits) to your web site" joins TRUSTe's
worldwide licensee base of nearly 2,000 Web sites, with representation from
virtually every vertical segment on the Internet.
About ineedhits.com -"Driving Visitors (hits) to your web site"
ineedhits.com -"Driving Visitors (hits) to your web site" is a leading Web
Promotion Firm, specializing in Web page optimization and Paid Inclusion for
leading Search Engines, (such as Inktomi.com). The company is dedicated to
increasing the quality of spiderable web pages that exist within the global
Internet, through the use of proprietary technologies and human submission
analysts. ineedhits.com is one of the top five leaders in it's niche US market.
With large economies of scale, ineedhits.com's optimization teams analyze web
pages, diagnose the theme and incorporate search behaviour trends to a
customer's web site, ensuring technical and content relevance. The output for
the customer is greater web site exposure and adherence to spam/metadata
guidelines. For the major Search Engines; the ability to optimize the use of
metadata and receive a direct pipeline of quality screened web pages. For users
and target audiences of Search Engines; cleaner and more germane information.
The company has established a strong customer base. With an in depth knowledge
of it's niche market, as well as the potential 'mass market' of consumers
wishing to enhance their web site. Via this potential, Paid Inclusion has
provided us the means to show case not only our niche customer principals and
philosophies, but also show case our range of iFlex Technologies that delivers
and makes up our Paid Inclusion Services.
Founded in 1996, ineedhits.com -"Driving Visitors (hits) to your web site", is
a self-funded, profitable provider of web promotion services, with over 95% of
Customers being US based. Located in Perth, Western Australia, ineedhits.com
believes that there are no geographical boundaries to promotion and adopts a US
mind set in providing its service offerings. To learn more about ineedhits.com,
visit http://www.ineedhits.com and
http://ink.ineedhits.com
About TRUSTe
TRUSTe is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to enabling
individuals and organizations to establish trusting relationships based on
respect for personal identity and information in the evolving networked world.
Founded in 1997, TRUSTe runs an award-winning global privacy seal program. The
TRUSTe seal is currently displayed on all of the Internet's portal sites and
has been rated as the most trust-invoking seal online. Since the summer of
1999, Nielsen//NetRatings has continuously rated TRUSTe as the most visible
symbol on the Internet. Today, TRUSTe maintains the largest privacy seal
program with nearly 2,000 Web sites certified throughout the world.
The TRUSTe coalition of participating companies includes America Online, Intel,
Intuit, the Japan Engineers Federation and Microsoft.
TRUSTe is based in San Jose, CA, with an office in Washington, DC. To learn
more about protecting your privacy online, visit the TRUSTe Web site at
www.truste.org.
