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Privacy Policy
Purpose and Scope
This
policy discloses what information we gather about you when you visit
use
, or buy products directly from us. It describes how we use that
information and how you can control it.
Information
Gathers and Tracks
collects two kinds of
information about users: 1) data that users volunteer by signing up to
receive news and product information, subscribing to mailing lists or
email delivery of our information systems, completing surveys,
submitting information from our desktop tools or buying directly from
us; and 2) aggregated tracking data we may collect when users interact
with our Website or service interfaces.
Personal Information
We
use the personal information you provide voluntarily to send information
you have requested and to fulfill requests, for site and tool
personalisation and for statistical purposes. The specific use of your
personal information varies, depending on how you contact us:
When you subscribe to
mailing
lists to receive news
and product information, you must provide an email address. We use that
email address to send the requested information. We never sell or rent
your email address that you provide when subscribing to our lists.
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When you post information to public mailing lists or message bases,
this information will be visible to the public. Moreover,
mailing lists may be archived by third-party sites over which
has no control, and your email address can be found from their
archives.
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When you choose to share information with us, for example through
our desktop tools or Website, we may report on that submission in
anonymous statistical form, as well as use that information for site
or content personalisation.
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When you order products, subscribe to our services, or request
information from us that depends upon your technology use, we record
the technologies you're using in order to provide the service. Where
that service may in part be provided through a partner, we will
share your information with the partner in anonymous form. Our
partner relationships provide equivalent privacy protection for such
information as provided by this policy itself. We may also add you
to our mailing lists and will contact you with - related
issues now and then.
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may from time to time offer certain programs with limited
participation, for example closed beta programs. When you
participate in such programs, we may require additional information
to permit selection of participants. In addition, we will contact
participants to collect program feedback periodically. These
communications are not promotional in nature.
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Where we may use third parties in fulfilling some of our services,
we share only the information necessary to fulfill the service, and
our partner agreements provide equivalent privacy protection for
such information as provided by this policy itself.
- We
only release identifiable personal information when we believe that
release is appropriate to comply with the law, or to protect the
rights, property or safety of our users or others. This may
include exchanging information with other companies and
organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Aggregated Tracking
Information
We may
analyse visitors' use of our sites and tools by tracking information
such as downloads, page views, traffic flow, search terms and
click-through. We use this information to improve our products and
sites. We may also share or publish this anonymous traffic and
demographic information in aggregate form. We do not share or publish
any information that can identify an individual user.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to
analyse trends, administer the site, track user movement and gather
broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not
linked to personally identifiable information.
Cookies and
Advertising
A cookie is a small
data file that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your
Web browser when you visit our sites. Cookies enable our systems to
recognise your computer, so that we can provide you with personalized
information and features. We may use cookies to help track user traffic
patterns. This information is not linked to personally identifiable
information. We use this anonymous data to improve our products and
sites.
We may use an outside
advertising company to display advertisements on our site. These
advertisements may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts
of our Website, cookies received with banner or other ads are collected
by these advertising companies, and we do not have access to or control
over this information.
You can
set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies or to block
cookies. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use certain site
features or functions.
Links
This site may contain
links to other sites. is not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of other Websites.
Surveys
We may run surveys on
our site in which we ask our users for contact information (such as
their email address). We may, with permission, use the contact
information from the entry form to ask follow-up questions. Users may
opt out of receiving future mailings. (See the choice and opt-out
section below.)
Security
This site has security
measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of
the information under our control. All the data regarding users, their
computers' system information and benchmark results are stored on a
server. This server is located in a locked and guarded space, and only
authorised
personnel
have access to the database containing given usernames and passwords.
Notification of
Changes
If we
change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on . If we
decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different
from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by
email. Users will be able to opt out of any new use of their personal
information.
Choice and Opt-Out
Our site provides
users the opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from us and
from our partners at the point where we request information about the
user.
This site gives users
the following options for removing their information from our database,
so that they no longer receive future communications or access to our
other services:
You can unsubscribe
from any of our mailing lists through your login profile at:
You can unsubscribe
from any email subscription to blogs, message bases, bug tracking
systems and so forth through your access to that system.
You can send email to
, stating your request.
You can reply to any
unwanted communications that you receive, stating your request.
Contacting the Website
If you
have any questions or comments about this privacy statement, the
practices of this site or your dealings with this Website, you can
contact
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