This
privacy policy covers how we treat personal information
that we collect and receive. We do not intend to collect
any personal information from children under 13 unless
we believe such collection to be permitted by law. Please
see below for our policy with respect to children under
13.
General
We
gather user information to provide you with a customized
experience on our site. Your user information helps us
tailor the content, services, goods and advertising to
your current and future needs. For this reason, we may
ask you to register or to provide personal information
when you post comments, enter a contest, order products,
subscribe to a newsletter and/or visit certain areas of
our site. If you choose not to register you may not have
access to areas that require personal identification.
If
you register with our site or purchase products from us,
from time to time we may e-mail you with messages about
our services or third party products and services we believe
may be of interest to you, such as new products, features,
services, special offers and updated information. The
newsletters may contain code that enables our database
to track your usage of the newsletters, including whether
the e-mail was opened and/or what links (if any) were
clicked. We will combine that information with other information
we have about you and may use that information to improve
your site experience and/or provide customized e-mail
communications to you. In addition, if you register with
our site or purchase products you may automatically receive
e-mails confirming your registration and/or purchase and
providing you with necessary information relating to the
access or use of your registration and/or purchase. With
the exception of the e-mails described in the preceding
sentence which are necessary to provide customer support
and deliver products and services to you, you may opt-out
of receiving e-mail from us as described below.
Use
of Information
When
you register, we ask for your e-mail address, a unique
nickname selected by you and other information. Once you
are a registered user you can update your profile and
may be able to provide additional preferential information.
We
may use an order form for users to request information,
products and services. For that order form, we collect
a user's contact information (e-mail address) and necessary
financial information to process the order (i.e. credit
card number). Contact information from the order (including
e-mail) may be used to deliver digital products and information.
We may use third parties to accept and process orders
and credit card purchases for merchandise and products,
including software.
We
may occasionally present a special contest or promotion
that is sponsored by another company. To qualify for entry
in that contest or promotion, we may ask you to provide
personal information. If we plan to share that information
with the sponsor(s) or with others, we will provide a
statement to that effect in the contest or promotion terms.
All
communication on the Internet takes place between pairs
of IP Addresses. Our Web servers will log the IP address
that any connection is made from. We may use these IP
addresses to help diagnose technical problems or prevent
abuse of our systems or other site users. Your IP address
may also be used to gather aggregate demographic data
and target advertisements accordingly.
Your
browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you
with notice when a cookie is sent. A "cookie?is a
small line of text that is stored with your Web browser
for record-keeping purposes and to help us provide better
service to you. We use cookies to save your password (in
an encrypted format) on your machine so you don't have
to re-enter it each time you visit our site. We also use
cookies to deliver content specific to your interests
and track your downloads and purchases from our site.
We
use companies [Google ( Google.com ), Amazon ( Amazon.com)]
to serve the advertisements on some of our pages. These
companies and advertisers may place and access their cookies
on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies
is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours. We
may use your information or allow advertisers or companies
that serve advertisements access to your information to
determine which advertisements you will see. This information
may include your demographic information, geographic location,
what content you access on our site, how you rate various
content, language contained in your comments and other
information.
Our
site contains links, including banner and other ads, to
other Websites. We are not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such Websites. Our site may
also link to Websites that feature our trademarks and
names along with trademarks and names of other companies.
You should look at the privacy policy on that co-branded
Website, as the co-branded Website may not be under our
control. Applications you use or download from our site
may contain third party digital rights management systems
("DRMS? which may allow for communication between
your software and the third party and utilize security
features (e.g., preventing distribution of or access to
the applications in the event of unauthorized use). These
DRMS are subject to their own license agreements and you
agree that we shall not be responsible for any loss or
damage of any sort relating to the use of the DRMS or
your dealings with such third parties. The applications
may also contain DRMS produced by us which allow for communication
between the applications you use or download and our systems
and which collect information describing your computer
system in order to prevent illegal or unauthorized use
of the applications.
For
reasons such as improving member experience and providing
customized communications to our users, we may receive
information about you from third party sources and our
web logs and add it to the information that we have received
from you. Web logs automatically record anything a web
server sees, which may include e-mail addresses you enter
into a form or pages viewed by a user at a particular
IP address.
Information
Sharing
We
will not share your personally identifiable information
with third parties, aside from entities that perform services
for us, such as fulfilling orders or processing payment,
that either are bound to comply with our privacy policy
or have privacy policies that protect your information
unless you have "opted-in?to such sharing. If you
have previously opted-in to such sharing under a prior
privacy policy version, you are still considered to have
opted-in under this privacy policy. As stated, and whether
or not you have opted-in, we may use third parties to
accept and process orders for merchandise and products,
including software, and such third parties may get access
to your personal information for the purposes of providing
services or products to you on our behalf. In addition,
if you opt-out, we may share that information with third
parties who send e-mails on our behalf so that they do
not e-mail you.
However,
we may disclose information you provide if required to
do so by law or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure
is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal
process served on us; (2) protect and defend our rights
or property; or (3) act in an emergency to protect someone's
safety.
We
may request demographic information from you (for example,
your age, education level or household income) from time
to time. We will not share that information in a manner
that identifies you as an individual with any other entity,
unless we let you know that at the time of collection
or we have your permission. When we share demographic
information with third parties, we will give them aggregate
information only.
In
the event that we acquired by another company, your personal
information may be part of the assets transferred to the
acquiring party.
Opt-Out
If
you provide us with your e-mail address, and do not opt-out
of receiving e-mail from us, we may e-mail you with information,
including information about selected third parties. If
you do not want to receive information from us, you may
decline to receive it (or "Opt-Out? either when you
provide personal information to us or you may update your
profile. You may also choose to Opt-Out from certain types
of e-mail by following the unsubscribe instructions that
appear on each newsletter. You may also contact us as
provided below. Please note that there might be a brief
delay between when you submit your request to opt-out
and when it is processed and reflected in our systems;
accordingly you might continue to receive e-mails from
us for a few days after you unsubscribe. We maintain records
of those users who opt-out of specific e-mail options
so that we do not e-mail them with respect to those types
of e-mails, and we may share this information with third
parties who send e-mails on our behalf so that they do
not e-mail you; this information may also be contained
in web logs (see above).
Children
Under 13
Our
site is not directed to children under the age of 13.
We assume products purchased through credit card means
are purchased by adults. We respect the privacy of parents
and children and are committed to complying with the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). On those areas
of the sites that ask for age, we do not collect personal
information from individuals who identify themselves as
under the age of 13 except in those limited circumstances
where we believe that such collection is permitted under
COPPA.
If
a parent believes that his or her child has submitted
personal information to we, he or she can contact us via
e-mail or postal mail as listed below. We will promptly
delete the information upon learning that it relates to
a child under the age of 13. Please note that it is possible
some of this information may remain archived in web logs
and back-up archives after we delete the information from
its active database (see above regarding web logs, and
below regarding archived information).
We
believe that parents should supervise their children's
online activities and consider using parental control
tools available from online services and software manufacturers
that help provide a kid-friendly online environment. These
tools can also prevent children from otherwise disclosing
online their name, address and other personal information
without parental permission.
Other
We
have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse
and alteration of the information under our control. These
include a firewall to prevent unauthorized access to our
systems and maintenance of registration information in
a separate database. Although we will exercise reasonable
care in providing secure transmission of information between
your computer and our servers, we cannot ensure or warrant
the security of any information transmitted to us over
the Internet and we accept no liability for any unintentional
disclosure. We will protect the transmission of credit
card information through industry standard, SSL (secure
socket layer) encryption.
We
may offer chat, user reviews, multi-player games, bulletin
board, or other public functions and any posting by you
is considered public information available to other users.
Any posting is governed by our Terms of Use [hyperlink
to this]. You should take care to not use personal information
in your screen name or other information that might be
publicly available to other users.
If
a user elects to use our site for informing a friend about
our site or particular features or content, we ask them
for the friend's name and e-mail address. We will automatically
send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit
our site. We store this information for the sole purpose
of sending this one-time e-mail.
Your
personal information is password-protected, and you should
take appropriate measures to protect the secrecy of your
password. If you use a computer in a public place or share
a computer with others, remember to sign out and close
your browser window when you finish a session with us
in order to prevent others from accessing your personal
information.
We
maintain archives of our web logs, database, and other
systems and information. Please note that it is possible
some of this information may remain archived after we
delete the information from its active database (see above
regarding web logs). We maintain archives for disaster
recovery, legal and other non-marketing purposes.
Profile
You
are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of your profile
by notifying us when you change your address, title, phone
number, or e-mail address. If at any time you wish to
update your information or stop receiving communication
from us, sign in [hyperlink this] and then select 'update
your profile' to change your newsletter preferences.
Contact
Please
address comments or questions regarding this Privacy Policy
to us by using our contact form.
Binding
Agreement
Your
use of our site, including any dispute concerning privacy,
is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
By using our Site, you are accepting the practices set
out in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. We reserve
the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by
posting the changes on this page. Please check the revision
date at the bottom of this page to determine if the statement
has been modified since you last reviewed it. Your continued
use of any portion of our Site following posting of the
updated Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance
of the changes.
Last
Revised 21st October, 2006.
